Privacy Policy

Our website URL is: https://sassastatus.net.za/ and our first priority is to provide accurate solutions for our visitors.

When our visitors leave a comment on our website, we collect the data from comments and from IP addresses to decrease spamming or bot involvement.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash), may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload the images to the website, you should avoid uploading the images with embedded location data (EXIF – GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website so be assured while uploading any data.

If you leave a comment on our website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for 1 year.

If you visit our login page, we’ll set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data, or media, and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we’ll also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for 2 days, and screen options cookies last for 1 year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for 2 weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Suppose you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 24 hours.

Articles on this site may include some embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other relevant websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect your data, use cookies, may embed extra third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your connection or intent with the embedded content, it may happen only if you’ve an account and are logged in to that website.

If you request for a password reset, your IP address will be included in reset email.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained obviously. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users have right to see, edit, or delete their data at any time (except they cannot change their username) from the website. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If you’ve an account on our website, or you left comments, you can request us to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you on our website, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request to erase your personal data we hold about you. This doesn’t include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service or may be manually checked by our administrator.