he Equalizer Group processes (or may process) your Personal Information for the following reasons ("Purposes") and your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to us Processing your Personal Information for such Purposes:
6.1.1
to execute a contract with you for the purpose of rendering the Services;
6.1.2
to carry out actions for the conclusion or performance of our contractual obligations with you, which includes collecting and using your Personal Information for the following purposes:
6.1.2.1
let you register an account with us;
6.1.2.2
to manage our relationship with you;
6.1.2.3
reply when you contact us for support;
6.1.2.4
investigate and resolve your query, complaint or request;
6.1.2.5
process competition entries, survey participation and/or administer a promotional competition you may have entered and deliver your prize if you win.
6.1.3
to share with other entities in the Equalizer Group, and/or those third-party Operators located in South Africa as well as outside of South Africa who have contracted with us, who require such Personal Information to render the Services to you and/or for the operation of the Services, including website hosting, administration, maintenance, development and supply of products associated with the Services.
6.1.4
to meet our contractual obligations with third parties;
6.1.5
to enable any entity within the Equalizer Group and/or any third party Operator to advise you of, or offer to you, any enhanced benefits or new products that becomes available from time to time which you may become entitled to qualify for, provided your consent to receive such communication in accordance with Chapter 8 of POPIA;
6.1.6
where it is in our or your legitimate interest to do so, for example monitor our premises with CCTV cameras to ensure your and our safety.
6.1.7
where we are legally required to collect and process certain Personal Information to comply with relevant laws, for example:
6.1.7.1
to identify and validate the Personal Information provided by you for purposes related to the prevention of financial crime, including sanctions screening, monitoring of anti-money laundering and financing of terrorist activities in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001 (as amended) ("FICA").
6.1.7.2
to report suspicious activity on your account to the relevant authorities in terms of the FICA.
6.1.7.3
to report to other governmental agencies and regulators, for example the South African Revenue Service or the Payment Association of South Africa.
6.1.8
to meet our duties in terms of POPIA to ensure your Personal Information is complete, accurate, not misleading and updated on a regular basis. To enable this, we will always try to obtain this Personal Information from you directly, however, where it is more practicable to do so, we will make use of verifiable independent third-party data sources.
6.1.9
to conduct credit enquiries as to your creditworthiness and perform risk analysis, tracing and any related purposes, which includes Personal Information about your credit history, criminal history, financial history, judgements and default history;
6.1.10
to consider you as a prospective employee/job applicant for purposes of any vacant position(s) within the Equalizer Group;
6.1.11
to combine all your Personal Information for any one or more of the following purposes: perform market, statistical and academic research or to customise our benefits and Services to meet your needs;
6.1.12
where the Equalizer Group is involved in a proposed or actual merger, acquisition or any form of sale of any assets, we may share your Personal Information with the third parties in connection with such transaction. Where any business within the Equalizer Group is sold to another entity as a going concern, you consent to this Privacy Policy being ceded to and applying under the new entity unless specifically stipulated otherwise.
6.1.13
to share with other entities in the Equalizer Group, and/or those third-party Operators located in South Africa as well as outside of South Africa who have contracted with us, who require such Personal Information in relation to investigations of alleged and/or suspected fraud or related criminal activities;
6.1.14
to share on the Equalizer Group websites and other social media for the purpose of providing consumers and the general public with the details of the Equalizer Group clients and/or where to access the services and products of the Equalizer Group.