Privacy Policy

Your Privacy

Snow Stone respects your privacy. This policy serves to protect your privacy and sets out our company policy with regard to your personal information.

Personal Information

While you use this website personal information of yours may be either collected by us or provided by you. Personal information includes any information by which you can be identified and which relates to you as an identifiable individual such as your name, physical and postal addresses, e-mail address, race, sex, age, and internet address of the domain from which you are visiting.

Cookies

While you use this website personal information of yours may be either collected by us or provided by you. Personal information includes any information by which you can be identified and which relates to you as an identifiable individual such as your name, physical and postal addresses, e-mail address, race, sex, age, and internet address of the domain from which you are visiting.

Use of Personal Information

We use your personal information in the ordinary course of our business to provide you with our services and to improve our service to you by analysing it for trends.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We are not in the business of selling personal information and therefore we will not disclose your personal information to anyone except as provided in this policy. We may, for marketing purposes, disclose aggregate statistics (information about the user population in general terms) about your personal information to our advertisers or business partners. It may be necessary for us to disclose personal information to suppliers, affiliates or agents in order to provide you with our services. We do not store credit or debit card numbers. If we sell or transfer our business to a third party purchaser we may transfer your personal information provided the purchaser undertakes to use your personal information in accordance with this policy. We will need to disclose personal information to employees of ours who require such information to do their jobs. There may be situations where the law requires us to disclose your personal information. In all other situations we will not disclose your personal information without giving you notice thereof and an opportunity to indicate that your personal information should not be disclosed.

Security of Personal Information

Whilst we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information we take all reasonable steps or measures to keep it secure by following security policies and rules. Personal Information which you transmit to us is encrypted via a secure socket layer (“SSL”) which is an accepted means of securing electronic information furnished over the internet. Kindly check the lock icon displayed in your browser to verify the existence of SSL and for information relating to our digital certificate. Our server is housed in a physically protected and secure environment and can only be accessed by authorised personnel. We back-up all your personal information on a regular basis.

E- Mail Monitoring

We provide email addresses on the website which enable you to contact us. In order to check for viruses we reserve the right to monitor and inspect all material and information transmitted over our system.

Limitation

We are not responsible for and give no warranties or make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of linked or any third party websites.

Alteration to the Policy

We reserve the right to alter this policy at any time by notifying you. You will be responsible for reviewing any such changes each time you access our website and your continued use of our website after changes have been posted online constitutes your acceptance of this policy as modified by the posted changes.

Applicable Laws and Jurisdiction

This policy shall be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the Republic of South Africa and all disputes, actions and other matters in connection therewith, shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

Enquiries

If you have any questions or concerns arising from this policy or the way in which we are handling your personal information, please contact us on +27 (0)72 878 1598 or email us at info@snowstone.co.za.

Disclaimer

General

This website and the information contained therein is provided “as is” and Snow Stone makes no express or implied representations or warranties with regard thereto. Without limiting the generality of the aforegoing –

Snow Stone does not warrant that the website or information will be error-free or will meet with any particular criteria or performance or quality. Snow Stone expressly disclaims all implied warranties including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, title, fitness for a particular purposes, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy; and

Whilst Snow Stone has taken reasonable measures to ensure the integrity of this website and its contents, no warranty, whether express or implied is given that any files, downloads or applications available via this website are free of viruses, trojans, bombs, time-locks or any other data or code which has the ability to affect the operation of the user’s system.

Risk and Limitation of Liability

The use of this website and the information contained therein is entirely at the user’s own risk and the user assumes full responsibility and risk of loss resulting from the use thereof. Neither Snow Stone, its affiliates, or their shareholders, agents, consultants or employees will be liable for any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, whether in an action arising out of contract, statute, delict or otherwise, relating to the use of this website or the information contained therein.

Severability

If any of the foregoing is not fully enforceable for any reason, the remainder shall nonetheless continue to apply.

Applicable Law

Any dispute or purported dispute arising out of this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the Republic of South Africa and all disputes, actions and other matters relating thereto will be determined in accordance with such law. The parties to any dispute arising out of this website hereby consent and submit to the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Republic of South Africa situated in Johannesburg.

Our founding principle

“Liberty is the right to have basic services, freedom is to have access to such services.”