Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is important to Hardware Distribution SA (Pty) Ltd (“Hardware”). We keep your personal information confidential and comply with POPIA in South Africa. Helping you to understand the Hardware Distribution Customer Privacy Policy ensures that we can provide you with a better service.
Why do we collect personal information?
How do we collect personal information?
When do we disclose personal information?
How do we protect your personal information?
Hardware Distribution safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures.
Hardware Group uses industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all web pages where personal information is required. To make purchases from Hardware Distribution, you must use an SSL-enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later, or Internet Explorer. This protects the confidentiality of your personal and/or credit card information while it is transmitted over the Internet.
Access to your personal information
Collecting other types of information
When you browse Hardware Distribution’s website, you are able to do so anonymously. We do not collect personal information when you browse. Your browser, however, does automatically tell us the type of computer and operating system you are using.
In various emails we send to you, we might use include a link to a “landing page”. When you click on a link in the email, you may pass through a landing page before arriving at your destination. We then track this to help us determine your interest in a particular area and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications.
Hardware Distribution uses cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide features such the storage of items in your Shopping Basket between visits.
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Hardware Distribution’s most innovative and useful features and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.
Our commitment to privacy
We respect your personal information and it is confidential, we communicate these privacy guidelines to every Hardware Distribution employee.
Hardware Group’s website contains links to other sites. Hardware Distribution does not share your personal information with these websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices.
The Hardware Distribution Customer Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time.