Privacy Policy

GDPR Terms & Conditions

Who we are

We are Style Authority, owners of the styleauthority.co.za website.

You can find more information about us, including our full address, on our website https://styleauthority.co.za/.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When you leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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

Contact forms

Information submitted through the contact forms on our site are sent to our company email, hosted by Hetzner. Hetzner adheres to the EU “Privacy Shield” policy and you can find more information about this here.

While we keep these submissions for customer service purposes they are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.

Cookies

Our site uses the following cookies:

• Google Analytics cookies – these are set for monitoring and tracking visitors behavior on the site. Google analytics’ privacy policy.
• Mailchimp – This is used to capture cookies of all Rafflecopter competition entries.
• All In One Security & Firewall plugin – this is used by the Limit login attempts plugin to provide brute force security in logins by monitoring user cookies. Privacy Policy can be seen here.
• SEO plugin tracking (TBC).

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content, like YouTube videos (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en), for example. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged-in to that website.

Analytics

In addition to Google Analytics, we are using the following statistics on our site for performance and monitoring:

• Affiliate performance statistics – statistics regarding our affiliates
• Installer statistics – statistics regarding the number of plugin installations of our products in clients, also includes the site info like PHP version, WordPress version used, etc.
• Compatibility plugin statistics – statistics regarding our clients compatible/incompatible themes/plugins with our products.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. However, some data is transferred and/or stored with third-party services we use, like cloud-based services and payment processors. This is done as a way to provide you with a better overall service and user experience.

Here are the services we use to make our own service better for you:

• Mailchimp – We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking below to subscribe, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here. View Mailchimp privacy practices here: www.mailchimp.com/legal

Who can see my personal information

If you are not a registered client in our site, there is no personal information we have or can see about you.

How long we retain your data

If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

How we protect your data and what data breach procedures we have in place

We protect customer data with the following site features:

• We are entirely using SSL/HTTPS throughout all our sites. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so personal identifiable information is never captured by third parties without authorization.

What rights you have over your data

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being our customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).

For these requests, please contact hello@styleauthority.co.za