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Privacy Notice

WATTS DIGITAL PTY LTD

We respect your privacy. Please read the full privacy policy because it applies to you.

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Your use of this Site is subject to these terms and by accessing the Site you agree to be bound by them. Our products and services, including our online services, might be subjects to separate terms and conditions which govern their provision and use.

We may change these terms at any time without notice by updating this posting and by continuing to access this Site you accept such changes. The information held on this Site is for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not transmit, modify, copy, or make commercial use of the Site or any part of it without our prior permission. You may download and/or print out all or part of the Site for your own personal, non-commercial use.

While we try to ensure that access to the Site is always available, from time to time. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site or any part of it, without notice. You acknowledge and accept that the Site or any part of it may not be always available.

Nothing contained on the Site constitutes professional or any other type of advice and is not to be relied upon in making an investment or other decision. You should obtain professional advice before making any investment or other decision based on any information on this Site. Unless otherwise provided, we are the owner or licensee of all copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights in and to the Site.

We do not grant you any licence or right to use any of our trademarks or other intellectual property on this Site by virtue of your use of or access to the Site. Where we provide hypertext links to third-party internet websites, such links are not an endorsement by us of any products or services in such websites and we have not verified the truth or accuracy of any content of such websites. You use such links entirely at your own risk and we accept no responsibility or liability for the content, use or availability of such websites.

This Site may also contain material provided by third parties and we accept no responsibility or liability for the accuracy of such material. You are not permitted to link any other website to this Site without obtaining our prior written consent and where we do provide consent, subject to any conditions that we may impose.

Certain pages on the Site allow you to share content via your profile on various social networks and other shared content platforms. When you share content in this manner you also become subject to terms, conditions, and policies of those third parties. You may access most areas of the Site without registering your details with us and without us recording any of your personal information; however certain areas of the Site may require you to register. If you apply to have access to these areas, you are indicating that you have read our privacy statement and are willing for us to deal with your data as set out in that policy.

We reserve the right to monitor all internet communications, including web and email traffic into and out of our domains for the purposes of security, ensuring compliance with these Terms and detecting fraud and other crimes. Although we have taken all reasonable care to ensure that the information provided on this Site is accurate, we give no warranties about the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any information. We accept no liability arising out of, or in connection with your use or inability to use the Site, or in connection with any error, omission, defect, computer virus or system failure, or in connection with the access of, use of, performance of, browsing in or linking to other websites from this Site.

A certificate provided by the administrator maintaining our digital content is sufficient evidence of the version of the content as at a stated date and time. The laws of South Africa govern these Terms and you agree that the South African courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine any matter or dispute in connection with or arising out of this Site. If we do not always exercise all our rights it does not mean that we have given them up and we reserve the right to exercise our rights when and if we decide to do so. You accept that we use cookies (text files containing small amounts of information which your computer or mobile device downloads when you visit a website) on this Site.

For further information about cookies please see our Cookies policy.

This website and its content is copyright of Watts Digital – © Watts Digital 2019. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only.

you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material.

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by Watts Digital and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of Watts Digital. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Watts Digital takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.

At Watts Digital, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. 

Log Files

Like many other Web sites, Watts Digital makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We may place small text files called ‘cookies’ on your device when you visit our website. These files do not contain personal information, but they do contain a personal identifier allowing us to associate your personal information with a certain device.

These files serve several useful purposes for you, including:

• granting you access to age restricted content;

• tailoring our website’s functionality to you personally by letting us remember your preferences;

• improving how our website performs;

• allowing third parties to provide services to our website; and

• helping us deliver targeted advertising where appropriate in compliance with the applicable laws.

Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. However, no longer accepting cookies or deleting them will prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary. Many websites use cookies and you can find out more about them at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Web beacons

Our website may contain electronic image requests (called a single-pixel gif or web beacon request) that allow us to count page views and to access cookies. Any electronic image viewed as part of a web page (including an ad banner) can act as a web beacon. Our web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor, or share any of your personal information. We merely use them to compile anonymous information about our website.

Third party cookies

Some of our business partners or advertisers use their own cookies or widgets on our website. We have no access to or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Watts Digital.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to Watts Digital and other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on Watts Digital send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

Watts Digital has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Watts Digital’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browser’s respective websites.