Privacy Policy
Empower Media (Pty) Ltd ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we gather, store, process, and protect your information in full alignment with South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013 ("POPIA").
1. Who We Are (Data Regulator)
Our designated Information Officer oversee data processes. If you wish to reach us with reference to data safety, please use the following contacts:
Business Entity: Empower Media (Pty) Ltd
Registration Number: 2018/342981/07
Office Location: 142 West Street, Sandown, Sandton, 2196, South Africa
Telephone Number: +27 11 884 1020
Email Address: [email protected]
2. Scope of Policy
This document applies to all digital visitors of our platform (empowermedia.co.za), subscribers to our daily news packs, and individuals submitting inquiries through our digital channels. It governs all personal information as categorized and protected under POPIA guidelines.
3. Categories of Personal Data We Gather
We receive and treat several groups of user data through our interactions with you:
- Direct Information: Specifically collected through form submissions, including your full name, direct corporate email address, contact telephone, and message notes.
- Automated Indicators: Collected through technical cookie trackers, including your unique IP address, general country location, browser style, tracking indicators, and total view time on our platform.
- Third-Party Feeds: Gathered from registered analytic partners and programmatic marketing systems when studying regional traffic trends.
4. Purposes & Legal Framework Under POPIA
| Reason for Collecting Data | Data Type Used | POPIA Law Base |
|---|---|---|
| Providing daily active news feeds | Email, Name | Section 11(1)(b) - Execution of Agreement |
| Answering legal inquiries of users | Name, Phone, Email | Section 11(1)(f) - Legitimate Business Benefit |
| Analyzing platform performance | IP address, Analytics Cookies | Section 11(1)(a) - Written Permission |
| Displaying legal ads | Third-party ad cookies | Section 11(1)(a) - Written Permission |
5. Cookie Preferences & Google Consent Mode v2
We operate modern cookie systems designed alongside Google Consent Mode v2 (advanced parameters). Analytical and marketing trackers remain disabled ("denied") until you provide explicit opt-in choice on our consent panel. Standard system cookies require no opt-in to host high-speed news retrieval.
6. Sharing Your Information
We strongly commit to never trade, rent, or lease your gathered indicators to third-party brokers. We only share information with:
- Partnered developers hosting our backend systems.
- National regulators or police bodies when mandated under local legal orders.
- Professional tax and business consultants audited under POPIA compliance.
7. Global Data Relocation
Since we host portions of our server setups on global cloud setups, your information may sit in servers outside South Africa. In all instances, we utilize modern Standard Contractual Clauses equivalent to POPIA rules to lock downstream security standards.
8. Data Holding Retention Period
We hold personal entries for exactly as long as needed to satisfy our contractual editorial tasks or until you ask us to clear your accounts from our live database.
9. Individual Rights of the User
Under POPIA, all South African citizens possess extensive legal controls regarding personal entries. You hold the right to:
- Inspect and ask for duplicate records of our stored entries about you.
- Instruct us to change or rectify faulty, biased, or incomplete details.
- Object at any time to the continued processing of your elements.
- Submit formal issues regarding our methods with the Information Regulator of South Africa.
Information Regulator SA: JD House, 27 Stiemens Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2001 • Email: [email protected]
10. Safety Protections
We implement rigid SSL-encrypted layers, internal user audits, and offline firewalls to protect against potential leaks or unauthorized breaches.
11. Child Protection Standards
Our news portal is not designed for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly host records of minors without consent from a verified guardian.
12. External Website Connections
Our articles may frame hyperlinks to external commercial outlets. We maintain no responsibility for the external privacy architectures of exterior sites.
13. Policies Modernization
We reserve the right to modify these clauses to mirror changing security standards. All modifications are immediately visible here.