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Privacy policy for appload
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This privacy policy describes how appload collects and uses the personal information you provide to appload. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. appload is committed to protecting the privacy of users of its website and services.

All your personal information collected will be used to help make your visit to our site as productive and enjoyable as possible. For applications, web services, and other works produced by appload, the information collected will be done to improve the experience and optimize results. It may also be used in other products developed by the company, as well as studies. Note that the company does not intend to collect personal information. where information is collected, it will be anonymously where no personal or login information is explicitly requested.

Ensuring the confidentiality of the personal data of our website users is vital for appload.

To better inform you of our policy concerning user privacy, we have adopted the following terms, which adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) 4 of 2013, and the Personal Data Protection Act of October 26, 1998 (Law No. 67/98).

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

appload processes Personal Information in a manner that is reasonable, adequate, relevant, non-excessive, and purpose-specific. For you to access and use our website, we collect and process some Personal Information. When you become a registered user, we have to collect and process your Personal Information to render our services to you.

When you register to use our website, we may collect the following Personal Information:

  • Name and surname.
  • Email address.
  • Physical address.
  • Mobile phone number.
  • Date of birth.

You warrant that the information you have provided is accurate, current, true, and correct and that does not impersonate or misrepresent any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with anyone or anything.

When you access our website, whether or not you are a registered user, appload processes some of your Personal Information. Depending on how you access and use our website, we may receive:

  • Log information, through online identifiers, including information on how, when and for how long you use our website and other services, the content you view and search queries you submit and the time of your visit, and which pages you visited within our website.
  • Information about the equipment you use to access or use our website, including the type of device you are using, how you access our website, your browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), or operating system, your IP (Internet Protocol) address, and your ISP (Internet Service Provider), such as TVCabo, Vodacom, or other.
  • The geographic location from which you accessed our website, including your device's global positioning system signal and information about nearby wifi networks and cell towers. We get this information when you use location-enabled services.
  • Other information about you from third parties, such as social media.

USE OF THE INFORMATION

appload uses the personal information collected in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was intended to be used:

  • Enable your use of the websites and services.
  • Respond to your inquiries.
  • Improve features and website content.
  • Allowing further customization of the Site according to the User's preferences and making it easier to use.
  • Verify your identity and the information you provide.
  • To enable us to enforce AppLoad's Terms and Conditions.
  • Aggregate form, to track and analyze site usage.

COOKIE DOUBLECLICK DART

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website.

With the DART cookie, Google can display ads based on visits the reader has made to other websites on the Internet.

Users can disable the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ads and Content Network Privacy Policy.

COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

We use cookies to store information such as your personal preferences when you visit our website. This may include a simple popup, or a link to various services we provide, such as forums.

Além disso, também utilizamos publicidade de terceiros no nosso website para suportar os custos de manutenção. Alguns destes anunciantes podem utilizar tecnologias tais como cookies e/ou web beacons quando anunciam no nosso website, o que fará com que estes anunciantes (tais como o Google através do Google AdSense) também recebam as suas informações pessoais, tais como o seu endereço IP, o seu ISP, o seu browser, etc. Esta função é geralmente utilizada para segmentação geográfica (mostrando publicidade de Lisboa apenas aos leitores de Lisboa, por exemplo) ou para exibir publicidade dirigida a um tipo de utilizador (tal como mostrar publicidade de restaurantIn addition, we also use third-party advertising on our website to support maintenance costs. Some of these advertisers may use technologies such as cookies and/or web beacons when they advertise on our website, which will make these advertisers (such as Google through Google AdSense) also receive your personal information, such as your IP address, your ISP, your browser, etc. This function is generally used for geotargeting (showing Lisbon advertising only to readers from Lisbon for example) or displaying advertising targeted to a type of user (such as showing restaurant advertising to a user who visits cooking sites regularly, for example).e a um utilizador que visita regularmente sítios de culinária, por exemplo).

You have the power to turn off your cookies, in your browser options, or by making changes to Anti-Virus program tools, such as Norton Internet Security. However, this may change the way you interact with our website or other websites. This may or may not affect your ability to log in to programs, sites, or forums on our and other networks.

HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA

We do not sell your Personal Information to third parties for their marketing or any other purposes.

We may provide or make your Personal Information available to:

  • Our employees, the staff of the companies in the AppLoad Group, and/or third-party service providers enable them to assist us to interact with you via our website.
  • Law enforcement, government officials, fraud detection agencies, or other third parties when the disclosure of Personal Information is necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability or financial loss, to report or support the investigation into suspected illegal activity.
  • Third parties (such as a potential purchaser and its professional advisors) in the event of any reorganization, merger, consolation, sale, joint venture, or other disposition of any or all of our assets.
  • Our service providers (under contract with us) help with parts of our business operations (fraud prevention, marketing, public relations, technology services, etc). However, our contracts dictate that these service providers may only use your Personal Information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their benefit or any other purpose, and must treat such information as confidential information.

Please note that other Users i.e Transporters / Shippers you may contract with have their respective privacy policies, and although AppLoads Terms and Conditions do not allow the other transacting party to use your information for anything other than as authorized by you, Appload is not responsible for their actions, including their data protection practices. If you provide personal data to any of those third parties or allow us to share personal data with them, that data is governed by their privacy policies.

SECURING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We protect your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure through the use of passwords, physical security measures, managerial measures, and in connection with credit card information for use of the Application encryption through our third-party service providers. We nonetheless recognize that third parties may obtain access to information through unlawful actions, and thus do not promise that your information will always remain private, despite our efforts and the importance we place on maintaining your privacy. In addition, we do not claim any responsibility for information collected by or from websites linking to or from appload.

If we discover or are notified of a security breach where personal information is at risk, we will notify you electronically if we have your email address. If you do not wish to be notified via email in the event of a breach, please contact us at

info@apploadafrica.com

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services or required by law. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at

info@apploadafrica.com

We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

OPT OUT FROM DIRECT MARKETING

You have the right to request us not to contact you for purposes of direct marketing by any form of electronic communication such as automatic calling machines, email, and/or SMS notifications by "opting out" of any direct marketing communications we may send to you.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

Having provided adequate proof of your identity, you have the right to:

  • View, correct, and/or amend the Personal Information we process. Please note that as a registered user, you can do this through your user account for the Personal Information reflected therein.
  • Request a record or description of your Personal Information. appload may charge a fee to provide you with this record of your Personal Information. Where requests to access and amend your Personal Information are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive appload may charge an additional administrative fee or refuse the request.
  • Request to have your Personal Information corrected, destroyed, or deleted. Please note that you can stop being a registered user by canceling your account. In this instance, appload will only retain your Personal Information subject to any legislative requirement and/or our internal retention policy.
  • We comply with your requests upon receipt unless we have a credible reason why we cannot comply.
  • We indicate where, if we cannot agree whether to correct or delete your Personal Information as requested, a correction or deletion was requested but was not made.
  • Inform you if reasonably practicable, should we change your Personal Information and this has an impact on decisions about you.
  • Notify you of the action taken by us because of your request.
  • Notify you of unauthorized access to your Personal Information.
  • Provide you with reasonable evidence of our compliance with our obligations under this Privacy Policy on reasonable notice and request.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

appload has links to other sites, which, in our view, may contain useful information/tools for our visitors. Our privacy policy is not applied to third-party sites, so if you visit another site from ours, you should read its privacy policy.

NOTIFICATION OF PRIVACY CHANGES

The use of appload presupposes acceptance of this Privacy Agreement and you are informed that the content of this website appload is protected by the Copyright Law (Law 4/90). The appload team reserves the right to change this agreement without prior notice. Therefore, we recommend that you consult our privacy policy regularly so that you are always up to date.

FOR SOUTH AFRICAN USERS

In addition to the above clauses stated herein, the following terms are also applicable to South African Users only.

If you have any complaints about this Privacy Policy or our compliance with this Privacy Policy you can complain to the Information Regulator. The contact details of the Information Regulator are available on its website at:

SENDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE SOUTH AFRICA

We may transfer certain Personal Information outside the geographic borders of South Africa to Users for purposes set out above headed Why we process your Personal Information, including for data storage and backup purposes to ensure the integrity of our systems.

When we transfer your Personal Information outside of the geographic borders of South Africa, we will ensure that we do so following the requirements for lawful transfer outside of South Africa as set out in POPI.

By accessing and using our Platforms, you consent to us transferring your Personal Information outside of South Africa as set out in POPI.

CONTACT US

If you have any inquiries about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at

info@apploadafrica.com