NPI (The National Productivity Institute referred to in this document as the “Company,” “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and undertakes to protect any personal information entrusted to it. Generally, you may visit our Site without giving us any information about yourself. However, there are times when we may need to obtain information from you in order to provide certain services. Below we describe how we gather and use data. The amount of information Resource Investor gathers on you and how it is used depends on the services you choose. As a result, not all of the information below may be relevant to you. If you are not comfortable with any of the practices or policies described in our privacy policy, we ask that you discontinue use of our Site. Our privacy policy may be revised from time to time, so please revisit this page frequently to remain fully informed of our latest practices and policies.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Company collects, records, retains and uses your personal information only for legitimate business purposes; including (i) to administer, support, improve and obtain feedback on our services; (ii) to comply with applicable laws, enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements; and to protect the rights or property of the Company, our users and others; (iii) to assess what Company products and services may be of interest to individuals to personalize our service and marketing; (iv) to solicit your opinions about our services or to introduce new services; and/or (v) for quality control, regulatory, and monitoring purposes.

WHEN WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

To Third Parties

Except as expressly set forth in our Terms of Use with respect to Submissions provided via the Forum, the Comments or the Letters to the Editor Service, the Company does not disclose, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties. However, we do aggregate certain user data to create profiles of “typical” users, which aggregate data may be disclosed to applicable third parties. In addition, any information submitted in connection with any sweepstakes, contests, games or surveys may be disclosed to applicable third parties. We will also disclose information when required to do so by law or in response to a request from a law enforcement agency or authority.

To Others in Your Own Organization

If you use any of our services through your employer, then we may pass certain information to your employer regarding your use of such services where your employer has a legitimate reason to receive such information, as determined by us in our sole discretion. Similarly, if you are the point contact person in your organization for a service, we may pass your contact details to those in your organization for this purpose.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Information Collected Through Our Services:

If you choose to register for any of our services, including any sweepstakes, contests, games or surveys, the Company will gather information from the registration process. We collect information about your use of our services, such as generic types of data accessed, times and volume of use of the services and traffic data. Traffic data includes logs, details of networks, data and systems accessed, details of the sender and recipients of messages sent over our services, times and location of log on or access, duration of sessions, clickstream and similar usage or system data. Traffic data may sometimes be traceable to or related to not just companies but named individuals. Before you register with Resource Investor, we do not gather any personally identifiable information about you.

Information Collected Through Cookies

In order to personalize and enhance your experience on our Site, we may also collect information through “cookies.” Cookies are small strings of text sent by our Site to your browser and then stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies enable Resource Investor to collect information about how our services are used. Until you have registered with Resource Investor, the cookie will only track general usage patterns and technical information about your computer type and will not be used to identify you individually. After registration, cookies will be used to collect information on an aggregate basis, to track the readership of stories and usage of our products, to analyze traffic patterns on our sites and to provide anonymous reporting of usage. You can turn off the ability to receive cookies by adjusting the browser in your computer. However, you should note that if you do so, it might materially distort the quality of service and data you receive. Therefore, you do so at your own risk.

Information Collected Through Advertising

Where advertising is served on the Site, there may be cookies used to collect technical information and generic usage information. However, third party advertisers will not be able to relate such information to you as an individual without your prior consent. However, please note that by interacting with an advertiser, you are thereby providing consent to data collection by that advertiser.

Information Collected Through Digital Signatures/Certificates

If the product you are using has digital certificates/certificate signatures, then your name and related details may be displayed as part of any certificate issued to you. It will be seen by those to whom your certificate or signature is presented or who rely on your certificate or signature. Your details may also need to be entered into a related status directory of certificates issued.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We provide various security safeguards to protect your information. We use industry-accepted technology to protect your data from disclosure to unauthorized third parties. Our server is also protected by a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to any information we may store. Although these measures are typically effective, use of the Internet and related computer systems are inherently vulnerable to unauthorized access or “hacking.” No guarantee can be given to ensure that information you provide to us will not be accessed by unauthorized persons.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our Site may offer links to other websites, which may have information policies and practices different from ours. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party sites.

Interception of mail

The Company may intercept some mail and email addressed to individuals at the Company. The reasons we may do this include (i) security of the Company, its staff and others, (ii) detection and prevention of crime, (iii) to identify correct recipients, or (iv) to make sure mail is dealt with during staff absence. In the case of emails, we may reject, delay or remove content from emails which have a nature, content or attachments which, in our sole discretion, may (x) disrupt our systems or pose security issues such as viruses, or (y) be offensive, unwanted or constitute spam. In certain circumstances, this may result in "innocent" emails being affected.

CONSENT

By using this Site, you consent to our collection and use of any personal information you choose to provide to us. We reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter or update our privacy policy, and any such modifications, alterations or updates will be effective upon posting.

PRIVACY QUESTIONS

If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at mailto:info@npi.co.za. You may also view your personal information at any time by logging in to your account page.