SSCA Privacy Policy
2019-07-16

The privacy of visitors to our SSCA website is important to us. We are committed to safeguarding any personal information you may provide to us. This policy explains what we will do with your personal information.

Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

Personal information we may collect

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

All site visitors:

  • information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  • information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
  • information that you enter while using the services on our website;
  • information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
  • any other personal information that you send to us.

Registered users:

  • information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
  • information that you enter when you create a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and contact information (such as a mailing address, phone number, or contact email);
  • information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
  • information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy

How we use your personal information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

We may use your personal information in the following ways, which represent our legitimate interests in providing access to content and services through our site:

  • administering our website;
  • personalizing our website for you;
  • enabling your use of the services available on our website;
  • sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  • dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
  • keeping our website secure and prevent fraud; and
  • other uses.

Disclosing your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our members, agents or officers as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
  • to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section.

Retaining personal information

This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. In particular, we generally retain contact data submitted through our site indefinitely to allow us to follow up as appropriate with queries or other submissions in the future.

Notwithstanding the other provisions, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
  • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the Internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.

(Registered users) You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

  • the payment of a fee; and
  • the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information

Please let us know (via our  “Contact Us” page) if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies, and you may choose to configure your browser settings accordingly. You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. However, deleting or refusing to accept cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including ours.

We use Google Analytics on our website to:

  • recognize a computer when a user visits the website;
  • track users as they navigate the website;
  • improve the website’s usability;
  • analyze the use of the website;
  • administer the website; and
  • prevent fraud and improve the security of the website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies, and you may choose to configure your browser settings accordingly. You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. However, deleting or refusing to accept cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including ours.