Exemplar’s (Pty) Ltd Privacy Policy

We respect and take steps to protect your privacy at Exemplar. We strive to make our site a safe environment for everyone who visits and uses our services. We are committed to providing you the best possible online service and experience as well as the best products and services.

This policy addresses our practices with respect to our website, but does not address the practices of any website we link to (including the merchants and content providers we link to). This policy is incorporated into, and subject to the terms of, our User Agreement.

How We Use Information collected

We use information which you provide us to keep track of our services you have signed up to receive. We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the site, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms and Conditions. We may also use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our site's content and layout. We do this in an attempt to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users' needs. We may also use personally identifiable information about you to deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted banners and promotions.

We use your email address to contact you regarding administrative notices or latest news from time to time. In such cases you can opt out of future mailers by editing your preferences within your Exemplar account. This information is included at the bottom of these outgoing emails.

Protection of Database Information

Any information sent to Exemplar for text messaging and or storage purposes will remain the property of the account holder. We at Exemplar will at no time collect or redistribute this information without your consent, except where legally required by law to do so. This is with particular reference to any database, numbers and/or recipient details that you may deliver to us, or store on our databases.

Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. We do aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to personally identify you. Before you use the service you should evaluate whether you will accept the terms and conditions of the third party service, and give Exemplar the right to pass your information on to that third party. In addition, we must comply with court orders, information requests from government agencies and regulators and other legal and regulatory processes that may require the disclosure of your personally-identifiable information.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use SSL encryption technology to protect the transfer of your information.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will you send advertising text messages to my cell phone, without my consent? No, we will not send you unwanted advertising text messages. We may initiate a program whereby we send advertising text messages to cell phones. However, this will be an opt-in based service. You will decide if, and when you want to receive advertising on your cell phone.

I am getting spammed on my cell phone. What's happening?

We allow visitors and members to send text messages to friends, family, colleagues, using the Exemplar Interface. The Exemplar Interface conditions of use forbid spamming to cell phone users and several software filters are in place to block spammers. However, we cannot guarantee that no spamming will ever occur. You have the possibility to block your phone from receiving any message from Exemplar or Exemplar members by clicking on the ''anti-spam' link on the home page.

Reviewing/Changing Your Information

If at any time you would like to change any information in your account, Login from the home page. Here you can change or update your information. You must click preferences to maintain new changes.

Limits on Our Abilities

Although your privacy is very important to us, due to the existing legal and technical environment, we cannot ensure that your personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties in ways not described in this policy. Additionally, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to private entities, law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to address or resolve inquiries or problems. This will not be done for commercial purposes or gain from Exemplar as such.

You acknowledge that acceptance of this privacy policy is a condition to your use of our services and you agree to be bound by all of its terms and conditions. Although your privacy is very important to us, due to the existing legal and technical environment, we cannot ensure that your personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to third parties in ways.