Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 28, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures regarding collecting, using, and disclosing your information when you use the Service. It also tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information per this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear singular or plural.

Definitions

For this Privacy Policy:

• An account is a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• Affiliate means an entity that controls is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
• Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our” in this agreement) refers to Linchpin Project Management, Unit 5A, 77 De Waal Rd, Diep River, Cape Town, 7800.
• Cookies are small files that a website places on your computer, mobile device, or any other device. They contain details of your browsing history on that Website and are used for many different purposes.
• The country refers to South Africa.
• Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, provide the Service on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Service, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• The Website refers to Linchpin Project Management, accessible from https://linchpin.co.za/.
• You mean the individual accessing or using the Service or the Company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Usage Data
  
  

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may automatically collect certain information, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of your Mobile device, Your Mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browsing you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your Browser sends whenever you visit our Service or access the Service using a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may be unable to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a specific section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary / Essential CookiesType: Session Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies are essential to providing you with services available through the Website and enabling you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance CookiesType: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted cookies on the Website.
• Functionality CookiesType: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember your choices when you use the Website, such as your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Data

Linchpin-PM may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring its usage.
• To manage Your Account: to manage your registration as a Service user. The Personal Data You provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to you as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or any other contract with us through the Service.
• To contact You: We will contact you by email, telephone call, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications, regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• We will provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use your information for different purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.
  
  

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service and to contact You.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or companies that We control or are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
  
  

Retention of Your Data

The Company will retain Your Data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will also retain and use Your Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter time, except when it is used to strengthen the security or improve our Service’s functionality or when we are legally obligated to keep it for extended periods.

Transfer of Your Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to and maintained on computers outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all necessary steps to ensure your data is treated securely under this Privacy Policy. No transfer of Your Data will occur to an organization or a country unless adequate controls exist, including the security of your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data we have collected about You.

Our Service may allow You to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete your information anytime by signing in to Your Account if you have one and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage your personal information. You may also contact us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information you provided.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Data

Business Transactions

Your data may be transferred if the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may disclose Your Data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The CCompanymay disclose Your Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company. Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoings in connection with the Service.
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public.
• Protect against legal liability.
  
  

Security of Your Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and know your child has provided us with Personal Data, don’t hesitate to contact us. Suppose we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent. In that case, we will remove that information from our servers.

If we rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires permission from a parent, we may need Your Parents’ consent before we collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise you to review every site’s privacy policy.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies, or practices.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Policy on this page.

We will notify you via email and a prominent notice on Our Service before the change becomes effective. We will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy become effective when posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: info@linchpin.co.za
• By visiting this page on our Website: https://linchpin.co.za/contact-us/