1. Privacy Policy
- Who we are: Our website address is: https://thenetworking.co.za.
- What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
- Comments: When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and your browser’s user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
- Media: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
- Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year. If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, several cookies are set to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser, which expires after one day.
- Embedded content from other websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content.
- How long we retain your data: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically. For users who register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
- What rights you have over your data: If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
- Where we send your data: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
2. Email Disclaimer
Email messages contain information from The Network Computer Services that may be confidential or privileged. The Network Computer Services holds copyright in these messages. Any review, disclosure, copying, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received an email message in error, please erase it and notify the sender.
Agreements, conclusions, and other information in an email message not related to the official business of The Network Computer Services, shall be understood as neither given, nor endorsed, nor authorized by it. Please advise the sender immediately if you or your employer are dissatisfied with the use of electronic mail for communications of this kind. Although care was taken to transmit an email message free of damaging code, The Network Computer Services and the sender do not make any warranties in this regard and cannot be held liable for any loss or damages incurred by the recipient.