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Privacy Statement

Your data orbits within a secure perimeter. This document outlines how Neuron Networks collects, processes, and protects your personal information across all transmission channels.

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Introduction

Neuron Networks understand the importance of protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Statement describes how Neuron Networks collects and uses your personal data, who we share it with, and your choices and rights in relation to your personal data.

It applies to personal data that we collect from you during your interactions with us, whether online, including through our websites (including mobile sites) and social media sites ("Sites"), mobile applications ("Apps") (collectively "Online Services") that link to this Privacy Statement, in writing or orally, or personal data that we may collect offline or receive from third parties.

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Personal Data We Collect

Personal data is any information that identifies you as an individual or relates to you as an identifiable individual.

Depending on how you interact with us, personal data we collect may include:

Your name
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
Log-in and account information for authentication purposes and account access
Your gender
Social media account information

We may also collect other information that does not personally identify you. Such other information includes browser and device information, website and application usage data, IP addresses, demographic information such as marketing preferences, geographic location, primary language, and information collected through cookies and other technologies or information that has been anonymised or aggregated. If we link this information with your personal data, we will treat that linked information as personal data.

You can choose not to provide personal data to us when requested. However, if this is necessary to provide you with our solutions and services, access to our Online Services, or to perform administrative functions, we may be unable to do these things.

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Sensitive Personal Data

We do not collect sensitive personal data about you, e.g. information relating to your health, religion, political beliefs, or sexual orientation and ask that you do not send or provide this information to us.

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How We Collect Your Personal Data

We may collect your personal data from you in a variety of ways when you interact with us, including:

Online Services Interaction

We collect personal data when you place orders for our solutions and services, you create an account with us, we process your orders and payment transactions, perform administrative and business functions, market our solutions and services to you and when you register for our events, workshops and seminars or subscribe to our mailing lists and newsletters.

Communication

We collect personal data when we respond to your inquiries and requests, obtain feedback from you about our solutions and services or you apply for employment with us.

Third Party Sources

We collect personal data from third parties, including public databases, social media sites, business partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities and third parties that provide list enhancement or similar services.

When you use our Online Services, we may, and third parties we engage may automatically collect data, including personal data through use of cookies and similar technologies. For more information, see the "Cookies and Similar Technologies" section below.

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Use of Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data to:

Core Operations

Enable you to effectively use and to improve our solution and services
Perform administrative and business functions and internal reporting
Send administrative information to you
Obtain feedback from you about our services and solutions
Respond to your inquiries and fulfil requests by you
Assess the performance of our Online Services
Inform you about and provide you with our services and solutions
Update our records and keep contact details up to date

Business Interests

Provide you with marketing materials and to personalise your experience
Send marketing communications to you
Provide you with a more personalised experience when you interact with us
Enable you to subscribe to our newsletters and mailing lists
Enable you to register for Neuron Networks' events, workshops and seminars

We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with our legal obligations, or for our legitimate business interests.

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Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement:

With our affiliates for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement.
Neuron Networks is the party responsible for the management of jointly used personal data.
With business partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities.
With service providers to provide operational services or facilitate transactions on our behalf.
Where you consent to the sharing of your personal data.
In connection with, any joint venture, merger, sale of company assets, consolidation or restructuring.
We may share your personal data in response to a request for information by a competent authority.
In accordance with, or required by any applicable law, regulation or legal process.
Where necessary to comply with judicial proceedings, court orders or government orders.
To protect the rights, property or safety of Neuron Networks, its business partners.
To protect the rights of you, or others, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Any third parties with whom we share personal data are contractually required to implement appropriate data protection and security measures to protect personal data and are not permitted to use personal data for any purpose other than the purpose for which they are provided with or given access to personal data.

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Security of Your Personal Data

Neuron Networks is committed to protecting your personal data from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised access or disclosure by using a combination of physical, administrative and technical safeguards and contractually requiring that third parties to whom we disclose your personal data do the same.

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Cookies and Similar Technologies

When you access our Online Services, we may use cookies (small text files containing a unique ID number which are placed on your PC or device) and similar technologies including scripts, embedded web links, web beacons, Local Shared Objects (flash cookies) and Local Storage (HTML 5). We use cookies to assist us with activities such as:

Enabling you to sign in to our Online Services
Authenticating you
Keeping track of information you have provided to us
Improving your browsing experience
Customising our interactions with you
Storing and managing your preferences and settings
Compiling statistical data
Analysing the performance and usability of our Online Services
Measuring traffic patterns for our Online Services
Determining which areas of our Online Services have been visited

These technologies collect information that your browser sends to our Online Services including your browser type, information about your IP address (a unique identifier assigned to your computer or device which allows your PC or device to communicate over the Internet), together with the date, time and duration of your visit, the pages you view and the links you click.

Our Online Services may also contain web beacons or similar technologies from third party analytics providers, through which they collect information about your activities across our Online Services to help us compile aggregated statistics.

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Direct Marketing

We may send you direct marketing communications about our solutions and services. You can choose whether you wish to receive marketing communications from us by email, SMS, post and phone. You may opt out of receiving marketing materials from us at any time and manage your communication preferences by:

Sending an email to @neuronnetworks.co.za
Including your details and a description of the marketing material you no longer wish to receive from us
We will comply with your request as soon as is reasonably practicable

If you opt out of receiving marketing related communications from us, we may still send you administrative messages as part of your ongoing use of our solutions and services, which you will be unable to opt out of.

We do not provide your personal data to unaffiliated third parties for direct marketing purposes or sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make personal data commercially available to any third party.

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Retaining Your Personal Data

We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected unless a longer retention period is required to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, protect our assets, or enforce agreements. The criteria we use to determine retention periods include whether:

We are under a legal, contractual or other obligation to retain personal data, or as part of an investigation or for litigation purposes.
Personal data is needed to maintain accurate business and financial records.
There are automated means to enable you to access and delete your personal data at any time.
The personal data is sensitive personal data in which event we will generally retain this for a shorter period of time.
You have consented to us retaining your personal data for a longer retention period, in which case, we will retain personal data in line with your consent.
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Updates to This Privacy Statement

We may update this Privacy Statement at any time. We encourage you to regularly review this Privacy Statement to stay informed about our privacy practices.

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How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about how your personal data is handled by Neuron Networks, you have a privacy concern or you wish to make a request or a complaint relating to your personal data, please contact us.