Robust Marketing values your Privacy
This Privacy Statement of Robust Marketing Partners, (“Robust Marketing” “we” “us” or “our”) outlines how your personally identifiable information and other personal data (your “user information”) will be collected, used, and shared in connection with your access to and/or use of Robust Marketing.co.za and any content, features, services, or other offerings that Robust Marketing may provide in connection therewith (collectively, the “Website”). This Privacy Statement also describes your choices and rights regarding the use, access and correction or deletion of your user information. By using the Website, you consent to the use of your user information in accordance with this Privacy Statement. If you are located in the EU, you will also be asked to provide clear and unequivocal affirmative consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of your user information via cookies and similar technologies. The Website is owned and operated by Robust Marketing.
Notice to EU Individuals: this Privacy Statement and its enumerated policies are intended to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) and provide appropriate protection and care with respect to the treatment of your user information in accordance with the GDPR.
SUMMARY
To enhance, personalize, and support your experience on the Website, among other things, we collect, use, and share your user information. For example, we use aggregated information to develop content targeted to user interests and to generally improve the Website’s user experience. As detailed below, your user information may also be used by Robust Marketing and its partners to tailor content and ads, provide social media features (e.g., features that allow you to share content directly to your preferred social media platform), track your preferences, analyze traffic, and provide similar services and content. Robust Marketing is committed to your privacy and will not share any user information with any third party without your consent, except as outlined in this Privacy Statement or as permitted by law. If you have any requests, comments, or questions about this Privacy Statement or your user information, please contact us in the manner provided below.
WHAT THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT COVERS
This Privacy Statement covers the Website. While you may encounter links on the Website to other websites, such as those relating to our third party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners, please note that these websites are not covered by this Privacy Statement (unless otherwise noted on such site, which may be the case if, for example, the site is also owned and operated by Robust Marketing).
This Privacy Statement does not apply to the activities of Robust Marketing third party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners that may collect your user information while accessing or using such third party’s services in connection with your use of our Website (e.g. social media and sharing services). The privacy and information practices of those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Statement. To learn more about such third-party policies, we encourage you to read and review the privacy statements of each third-party service that you may choose to use in connection with the Website. This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected by us.
As a general reminder, please think carefully before you decide to put anything on the internet. For example, if you voluntarily disclose user information in chat areas or bulletin boards (e.g., comments sections), that information could be seen and used by others, and may result in unsolicited messages from others. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information or other user information you may choose to submit in these public forums. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, please contact us as provided below. In some cases, we may not be able to remove personal information voluntarily disclosed by you in such forums for legal retention purposes or technical limitations (e.g., the data may not be searchable), in which case, we will notify you if we are unable to do so.
GATHERING OF INFORMATION
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We collect user information when you use the Website. Sometimes you may submit it to us yourself, other times it may be collected automatically. You can manage and change your preferences as outlined below.
Information Collected
When you use the Website, your user information may be collected, used, and shared in a variety of manners. As detailed below, the type of user information collected may vary based on how it was gathered, but may include, among other things, your name, email address, and other information that you voluntarily submit (e.g., when setting up an account or submitting a registration or application on the Website, you may submit your contact information, social media account handles, and/or professional information), information automatically collected about your usage of the Website (e.g., the content that you choose to view), and information about you that our third party partners may share with us if such third party partners have previously received your consent to do so.
Voluntary Submission
Robust Marketing may collect user information that is voluntarily provided by you or with your permission. For example, we may ask you for information, such as your email address, when you register to become a member of the Website or register for a Robust Marketing-produced live event. You may also provide information to Robust Marketing in other contexts, including, for example, on your member profile page and public profile URL, to enter into a contest, or promotion, or to apply for consideration in connection with a Robust Marketing list or similar accolade. In the event you order something from the Website, we may request additional personal information, such as your address, telephone number and credit card information, in order to complete the purchase. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Website, but you may be unable to access certain options and services. When you register or become a member of the Website or provide information to Robust Marketing in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information. We also supplement the data you provide to us with data from data append services such as public or social graph data in order to better serve you with content or promotions.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small data file that is written to your computer’s hard drive by your web browser. A cookie file can contain and/or automatically collect information, such as a user identification code or IP address, that a website will use to track the pages and number of times you have visited. The data read from these cookies may be linked to personally identifying (PII) and non-personally identifying (non-PII) information.
We use cookies and similar technologies on the Website to personalize and optimize your browsing experience and the Website by:
- providing you tailored content and advertisements (see below for more information),
- enabling social media features,
- safeguarding against spam and malware,
- analyzing trends, traffic, and user behavior,
- administering the Website,
- gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole,
- tracking web and advertising analytics throughout the Website and its affiliate websites,
- remembering your preferences and voluntarily-submitted information (e.g. custom video playlists, preferences, job title, story ratings, membership status),
- performing location-related functionalities and analytics,
- participating in market research (e.g., website ratings), and
- educating ourselves about how we can continue to improve the Website and its various elements.
Cookies fall into the subcategories below.
Essential Cookies. Certain cookies are used for specific purposes that are essential to your secure use and navigation of the Website. Without them, Robust Marketing may not be able to provide core Website functions and features to you, and the Website would not operate as well as you or Robust Marketing would like. These cookies collect and use information such as your server preferences, single-session data and corresponding identifier, web beacons and log files (detailed below), and other credential-related information. For EU individuals, essential cookies also help inform Robust Marketing whether you require, or have already been served, an affirmative consent request in connection with the GDPR. Essential cookies include analytics cookies, which provide us data that allows Robust Marketing to better understand its users and improve the Website based on what we have learned from that data.
Preference Cookies. Other cookies are used to collect and process information about your preferences and similar choices in connection with the Website in order to optimize your browsing experience (e.g., various local preference settings; which geographically-customized version of the Website and related content you may prefer (e.g., Robust Marketing US, Robust Marketing Asia, Robust Marketing Europe). Preference cookies include social media cookies, which collect information about your social media usage and other data you may have provided in connection with such usage (if you access the Website through a social media website or mobile application, you may have social media cookies). If you wish to modify or change your social media cookies, please visit and review the settings on your applicable social media account(s).
Advertising Cookies. In the event that Robust Marketing may choose to include advertisements from time to time to help support the Website and further tailor your experience, Robust Marketing and its advertising partners (and/or their third-party analytics providers) also use cookies on the Website to personalize the content and advertisements you may be shown. Such advertisements use cookies to provide you targeted advertisements that may be more consistent with your interests than non-targeted advertisements. Certain Robust Marketing advertising partners may also use cookies to monitor or track the performance of their advertising content, including native advertising content (e.g., BrandVoice). Robust Marketing does not provide user information to advertising partners except in connection with the Website or as required by law.
If you would like to manage your cookie preferences or learn more information about this practice and your right to decline (or opt-out of) cookies placed by some or all of these companies, please click here.
We encourage you to consider keeping your cookies enabled, as if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Website, you may not be able to use or benefit from certain features of the Website, particularly the features that are designed to personalize your experience. To learn more about the use of cookies in online advertising including how to manage or delete them click here.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but generally allow users to modify their browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, to accept cookies only from certain websites, and/or to refuse all cookies.
WEB BEACONS
Robust Marketing may use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our Website in order to recognize users, assess traffic patterns, identify preferred content and measure Website engagement. We may also include web beacons in our email messages, including newsletters, in order to count how many email messages have been opened.
Robust Marketing and its partners (including advertising partners) also use web beacons to collect various data provided by your browser while you are on our Website and elsewhere (i.e., outside of the Website) where we may be acting as a 3rd party. This data is collected in the aggregate but may include or be associated with other non-PII or PII that users have voluntarily submitted.
LOG FILES
The Website’s web and ad servers log information about a user’s IP address, browser type and the current URL the user is requesting. This information is always provided by a user’s browser and automatically logged by most websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Website.
USE OF YOUR INFROMATION
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Our primary goal in collecting, using, and sharing user information is to enhance your experience on the Website, support the Website, and improve its features, performance, and other elements. Your user information may be used for the purposes outlined below. We will not use your user information without a valid legal basis to do so.
To Target Content And Advertising
To develop and provide content and advertising to you that is targeted to your interests, we use the analytics collected by the systems described above to determine which areas of our Website you prefer based upon the frequency of your visits and engagement with those areas. We may make reasonable assumptions based on your browser provided data to target relevant content and advertising to you on our Website and elsewhere where we may be acting as a 3rd party. We may also make reasonable geographic and demographic assumptions based on your presented IP address to target relevant content and advertising.
To Provide Interactive Communications From The Website
To enhance your experience, we may provide you with interactive communications, such as notifications of activity by topic or contributor to the email address that you provide to us. Such interactive communications are provided only to those users who have expressly provided us with their permission to receive them as part of their user profile.
From time to time we may provide emails highlighting new offerings, products or promotions on the Website to those users who have expressly provided us with their permission to send such communications as part of their user profile.
To Provide Communications From Third Parties
We respect the privacy of our users and will not disclose or distribute our user list to any third party, nor will we permit anyone else to do so. However, we do make available for rental our list of those registrants who have expressly provided us with their permission to receive third party offers as part of their user profile. In those cases, your email address will be transferred to the third party. You can remove your consent to this use or modify your related user information by contacting Robust Marketing as indicated below.
SHARE OF INFORMATION
You may be requested to voluntarily provide certain user information during your use of the Website. If you choose to do so, that user information may be shared with Robust Marketing and business partners and vendors providing hosting and other services for Robust Marketing.
Robust Marketing may use third parties to provide credit card processing, email service providers and hosting services on the Website. When you sign up for such services, we will share your user information only as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your user information for any other purpose. With respect to credit card processing, we do not collect, store, or process any credit card information. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of your information by not using that particular service.
In addition, if you provide any personally identifiable information via an advertiser promotion, please be aware you are directly providing your personally identifiable information to that advertiser.
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in promotions or surveys on our Website. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you, such as your name and email. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use this personally identifiable information to notify contest winners and award prizes.
We may use a third-party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.
As noted above, you can log in to our Website using sign-in services that bridge your social media login information with the Website. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form. These services give you the option to post information about your activities on this Website to your profile page to share with others within your network. The Website includes social media features, widgets and/or interactive mini-programs that run on our Website. These features are small content modules that users can embed on websites and may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Website, or set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
We may offer widgets that are hosted on the Website. Use of the Robust Marketing.co.za widgets is subject to the Website terms of use, but downloading or embedding these widgets on other websites is not covered by this privacy statement.
Aggregate, Anonymous Information with Advertisers
Robust Marketing may choose to provide advertisements at any time it desires. We may use the aggregated, anonymous information that we gather (and information from third-party market researchers) to describe our services to partners and to assist our advertisers and sponsors to better understand our audience to attract and retain advertisers. We do not disclose personally identifying information about our users to these parties.
We may partner with third-party ad networks to either display advertising on our Website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner(s) uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out or modify your choices by clicking here, or if located in the European Union by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.
AS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO YOU
We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of newsletter mailings, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service. In some instances, these companies may collect information directly from you. In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the external service provider. In all cases, these companies are subject to agreements that require them to maintain the confidentiality of your information and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
IN THE EVENT OF SALE OR BANKRUPTCY
The ownership of the Website may change at some point in the future. Should that occur, we want this Website to be able to maintain a relationship with you. In the event of a sale, merger, public offering, bankruptcy or other change in control of Robust Marketing, your information may be shared with the person or business that owns or controls this Website. Opting out of receiving information from third parties will not affect our right to transfer your information to a new owner, but your choices will continue to be respected regarding the use of your information. You will be notified as described below in “How will I know if the Privacy Statement is changed.
AS REQUIRED BY LAW
Robust Marketing may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law such as to comply with a subpoena or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on Robust Marketing or to protect and defend the rights or property of Robust Marketing.
Notice to EU Individuals: As outlined in this Privacy Statement, Robust Marketing will not process your user information without a lawful basis to do so, as such bases are defined in Article 6 of the GDPR. In general, Robust Marketing will process your user information on the legal bases of consent, contract (if you have entered into an agreement with us and such processing is a necessary part thereof), or legal obligation (as noted above). Robust Marketing may also process certain user information on the basis of the following legitimate interests, provided that such interests are not overridden by your privacy rights and interests: delivering and continuing to develop and improve the Website, learning from your behavior on the Website (e.g., analyzing traffic) to better serve you and other Website users, helping us modify or enhance the Website and its content, receiving insight as to what users do (and don’t) like about our Website or aspects thereof, and providing a stable, consistent, and secure user experience in connection with the Website.
SECURITY
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We care about the protection of your user information and use industry standard safeguards to do so. Of course, it’s important to keep in mind that no data transmission on the Internet is guaranteed to be one hundred percent (100%) secure.
Your information is stored on Robust Marketing servers located in the Global Sphere. We use industry standard physical, electronic, and organizational safeguards to protect your user information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. If you are concerned that your privacy may have been breached, please contact us as provided below.
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
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The Website is intended for people who are at least eighteen (18) years of age.
If you are less than eighteen (18) years old, please do not send any user information to us–including information such as your name, address, or email address. We do not knowingly collect (nor do we wish to collect) any personally identifiable information or other user information from children under the age of eighteen (18). If we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of eighteen (18), we will delete that information from our database and terminate the corresponding account, if any. We encourage you to discuss the Website with your parent or guardian.
CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERS
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Your user information may be transferred to other countries in connection with your use of the Website. If you access or use the Website outside of South Africa, your user information will be transferred to our servers in the designated territory.
Robust Marketing participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. Robust Marketing is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List at https://www.privacyshield.gov/list. Robust Marketing is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under each Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Robust Marketing complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions. With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, Robust Marketing is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and designated Regulatory Authorities Worldwide. In certain situations, Robust Marketing may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request or https://arbitration.co.za/ in South Africa.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website at https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
HOW TO CONTACT US
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Please contact us if you have any questions or requests. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement or how to remove or modify your user information or related consents, please feel free to contact us by email at privacy@Robust Marketing.co.za or the mailing address below. Our mailing address is Robust Marketing (Pty) Ltd, Privacy Team –
52 Hobart Street, Bryanston, South Africa.
HOW WILL I KNOW IF THE PRIVACY STATEMENT IS CHANGED?
If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Note on Translated Version(s): For your convenience, Robust Marketing may make translated versions of this Privacy Statement available on the Website. the terms of the English version of this Privacy Statement will control in all instances if the terms of any such translated version conflict with the terms of the English version.