PRIVACY POLICY
MCH ATTORNEYS INC recognises the importance of protecting your privacy in respect of your Personal Information (as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013). We will not use your personal information for any purposes not mentioned in this Policy without your consent.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
Personal Information is information which identifies or could reasonably be associated with you.
The Personal Information we collect and process may include, but is not limited to, your contact information when you subscribe to seminars and receiving updates, register on our recruitment portal or when you apply for a position through our graduate recruitment portal (such Personal Information may include your name, identity or passport numbers, email address, physical address, telephone numbers, information relating to your occupation, gender, dietary requirements and any documentation required for purposes of recruitment).
Please note that you are not obliged to provide any such Personal Information on the public areas of our Website. We strive to collect only that Personal Information which is necessary for the intended purpose of the collection.
With each visit to our Website, we may automatically collect and store certain information about you. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
• technical information, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address which is used to connect your computer to the Internet, operating system and browser type and platform for system administration; and
• information about your use of our Website including details of your visits such as pages viewed
and the resources that you accessed. Such information includes traffic data, location data
and other communication data.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will only collect, use disclose or otherwise process your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy. We will not retain your Personal Information for longer than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which we collected it, unless there is a lawful basis or legal requirement for us to retain your Personal Information for a longer period.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your Personal Information to our third-party service providers, where necessary. We require that our service providers take appropriate, reasonable, technical and organisational measures to keep your Personal Information secure. In addition, our service providers may not use or disclose Personal Information for any purpose other than providing the services on our behalf. We may also disclose your Personal Information: (i) when such disclosure is necessary to protect the legitimate interests (safety, property or other rights) of MCH Attorneys Inc, our directors, employees, consultants or any other person, or where required or permitted by law or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal obligation.
SAFEGUARDING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will take all appropriate, reasonable, technical and organisational measures to safeguard your Personal Information to prevent loss of, damage to or unauthorised destruction of your Personal Information or unlawful access to or processing of your Personal Information.
HOW TO ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will take reasonable steps to keep your Personal Information accurate and complete. We suggest that you regularly update your Personal Information. You can request access to any of your Personal Information that is held by us at any time and for any purpose, including to request that we correct your Personal Information if it is inaccurate or delete the Personal Information if we are no longer required to retain it by law or for a legitimate purpose. You can also object to the processing of all or part of your personal data subject to any limitations to this right provided in the law. Requests to access Personal Information held on you in accordance with this Policy can be made to mail@mchattorneys.co.za.