Privacy Policy

This is the privacy notice of Vini Italia (Pty) Limited, (“Vini Italia”), a South African company with Registration number 2015/445336/07 and with its principle place of business situated at 78 Corlett Drive, Birnam, Johannesburg, 2196. In this policy, the words “we” or “us” refers to Vini Italia.

Audience

This policy applies to any person/s who visits our website or a person who has requested products from us. This Website and the services we offer are intended for the sale of products and services to adults. Therefore, Vini Italia do not intentionally collect the personal data of persons under the age of 18. If you access the services of this website, you are declaring that you are of age. This is a statement to tell you our policy about all information that we record about you. It covers both information that could identify you and information that could not. We are committed to protecting your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our web site are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and/or will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. It complies with the South African law, specifically the Protection of Personal Information Act No 4 of 2013, If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us by emailing info@vinitalia.co.za Except as set out below, we do not share, sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected by us. By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.

Personal Information

Personal information includes:
  • Certain information that we collect automatically when you visit our website, included but not limited to;
  • Name and surname;
  • E-mail address;
  • Contact details
  • Company name, registration number, VAT number;
  • Postal and street address;

What Information We Collect From You, What We Use It For And Who We Share It With

When you order products from our website, we collect personal information from you including but not limited to your name, telephone number and physical address. This information is used to fulfil your order and this information is made available to our employees and agents to complete your order. Should you contact Vini Italia requesting information or in order to purchase products, your personal information is stored on a secured server. Your personal information is not used for marketing or advertising and will not be distributed to third parties without your prior consent. Where you register to receive notifications and/or advertisements, we will collect your personal information, including your name and e-mail address. We use this information to provide you with the information you require and provide related information to you and this information is provided to our employees and third parties that may be involved in distributing the notifications and advertisements. Where you choose to apply for a position through our company or at an organisation we work closely with by submitting your CV to us, based on information received through our website and your CV, the personal information we collect from you includes but is not limited to your name, date of birth, gender, Identity Number and passport number and any other personal information that you disclose in your CV. We forward this information on to an entity that we work closely with and they will either notify you of suitable vacancies or consider your application for a vacancy. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all the above mentioned information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose other than what is stated above. We shall not under any circumstances, divulge your details to any person who is not an employee or contractor of ours and who does not need to know the information you have provided us with, either generally or specifically. You may only send us your own personal information or the information of another person where you have their permission to do so.

Use

We may use your personal information to fulfil our obligations to you. Such obligations include providing you with products, advising you of specials and current advertisements, inviting you to events. We may send administrative messages and email updates to you about the website and Vini Italia activities.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive through your web browser when you visit any web site. They are widely used to make web sites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Like all other users of cookies, we may request the return of information from your computer when your browser requests a web page from our server. Cookies enable our web server to identify you to us, and to track your actions and the pages that you visit while you use our website. The cookies we use may last for a single visit to our site (they are deleted from your computer when you close your browser) or may remain on your computer until you delete them or until a defined period of time has passed. Although your browser software enables you to disable cookies, we recommend that you allow the use of cookies to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. If you prevent their use, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website. Here are the ways we use cookies:
  • to allow essential parts of our website to operate for you.
  • to collect information about how visitors use our website. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited.
  • to store your personal information so that you do not have to provide it afresh when you visit the website next time.

Complaints

When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and, if we do, what that information is. We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person.

Security

We take the security of personal information very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. All personal information is protected on our server and are password protected. Only Vini Italia senior IT technicians and our IT service provider have open access to this information. Our website further makes use of (insert) in order to establish an encrypted link between our website and a website user. We treat your personal information in a confidential manner and will only share such information with the individuals who require same in order to provide the services/requests of the person who provided the personal information. This Site may contain links to or from other websites or platforms. Please be aware that Vini Italia is not responsible for the privacy practices of other platforms. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information collected on this platform.

Disclosure To Government And Their Agencies

We may disclose personal information if required:
  • by a subpoena or court order;
  • to comply with any law;
  • to protect the safety of any individual or the general public; and
  • to prevent violation of our customer relationship terms.

No Selling

We will not sell personal information. No personal information will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this privacy policy.

Compliance With The Law

This confidentiality policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your country, we should like to hear from you.

Review Or Update Personally Identifiable Information

At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you by contacting us. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information

We only keep your information for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which we collected the data unless:
  • retention is required or authorised by law; and
  • you have consented to the retention of the information.
  • Personal information when destroyed, will be in accordance with applicable legislation including the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPI”).

Changes

  • We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this web page. If you continue using the website following our change of terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted the changed terms. We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice on the website.
  • If you have any question regarding the privacy policy, please contact us through the contact page.
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