Privacy Policy Kontos & Associates understands the need for your privacy and in providing you with an online experience does so with the knowledge that protecting your privacy is paramount. Based on this assertion of privacy, Kontos & Associates takes the requisite safeguards to control its web site and the manner in which data is secured. By using the Kontos & Associates web site, you are providing an informed consent to the data practices as set out in this statement.

The online experience entails Kontos & Associates collecting personal information including, inter alia, names, addresses, telephone numbers, identity numbers and other data of a personal nature. In addition, collection may also extend to anonymous demographic data such as age, gender, race, religion, preferences, occupation, hobbies, likes and dislikes.

By the easy nature of the online experience, there are certain computer related aspects which will be instinctively and without enquiry from Kontos & Associates become exposed. These include, inter alia, web site addresses, times that data is generated/ delivered, mail addresses, related information and domain details. Kontos & Associates will automatically have access to this information to provide the requisite service and to ensure it has and retains appropriate record.

Kontos & Associates is compelled to alert you to the risks of disclosing personal, sensitive and/or confidential data by way of its public forum. Such risks include, inter alia, this data being retrieved and utilised by other persons.

Since Kontos & Associates is not in control or responsible for the privacy controls or other content on web sites other than those of its own web site, it is strongly recommended that discretion, caution and reservation are exercised before linking to another web site. It is in fact, suggested that you consider the privacy controls of any other web site before linking thereto/ therein.

By your opting in and accepting the conditions of our Privacy Policy, Kontos & Associates is hereby authorised to operate its web site and deliver the services you have requested. Kontos & Associates may also utilise your personal information to bring to your attention the array of services, products and expertise it offers. In addition, Kontos & Associates may contact you with a view to obtaining feedback relating to your experiences with Kontos & Associates and to promote its services, products and expertise.

Kontos & Associates will treat all the details it secures via its web site as confidential and will not disseminate, divulge or distribute your personal information to third parties. Kontos & Associates may contact you with a view to introduce you to services, products and expertise available on offer by one of its external business associates. Your personal information will not be made available to these external business associates unless you consent thereto. Kontos & Associates may, however, be compelled to disclose your personal information, without notice or consent, if it is required to do so by Law.

Circumstances may dictate that Kontos & Associates share data with trusted persons or entities intimately involved in providing inter alia, support and maintenance services. Whilst such persons or entities may have contact with you to give or use your information to bring effect to the services to be rendered, they will be prohibited from using your personal data for any other reason.

Kontos & Associates will monitor the links to and from its own web site which its customers may visit to identify content which is popular and which may facilitate inter alia, the services required to focus on the sites so as to evaluate where it should direct its communication and advertising campaign.

The Kontos & Associates web site makes provisions for the use of “cookies” which facilitates a personal online experience. A cookie is a text file placed on your hard drive by a web page server for your ease of convenience. Its privacy function is to tell the web server of your revisiting the Kontos & Associates web site and ensuring your personal and/or customized information is easily accessible. The cookie is assigned to you only and can only be read by a web server in which it was issued. It cannot run programs and there is no risk that it will have a virus attached to it. Whilst most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you do have the choice to accept or decline it.

Provision has been made for Kontos & Associates to protect and secure your personal information on computer services from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. In circumstances when personal information is transmitted to another web site, the servers have been programmed to protect such information though the use of encryption.

Kontos & Associates will from time to time review its Privacy Policy statement in order to ensure that it is updated and to take cognizance of for instance, its status at such time and the reaction or non-reaction from its customers. Kontos & Associates recommends that its customers through their own accord, viosit the web site to remain informed of any changes at periodic intervals.

Kontos & Associate invites you to make contact and express your views if you hold the view that there has been non-compliance with this Privacy Policy statement. Contact should be made by email to kontos@kontosattorneys.co.za. On consideration of any alleged non-compliance, Kontos & Associates will determine the steps to be taken for rectification, if warranted.