Disclaimer

LEX Africa makes no warranties, representations, undertakings, statements, or guarantees with regard to the LEX Africa website (this website) and/or any information contained therein. Any errors or omissions in all or any of the information contained on this website shall not result in any liability for LEX Africa and/or any of its officers, employees, representatives, agents, and/or members. The information has been prepared by both internal and external sources in good faith and is believed to be accurate at the time that it was placed on this website.

Neither LEX Africa nor any of its officers, employees, representatives, agents, and/or members shall be responsible for any loss, liability, damage, and/or expense (whether direct, indirect, or consequential) that may be suffered and/or incurred by any user of this website and/or the third party and which directly or indirectly arises out of any access or use of the website and/or any information contained on and/or accessed through this website.

This disclaimer is governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa.

Terms and conditions

This is the website of LEX Africa. The address of LEX Africa for correspondence relating to this website is:

The Central, 96 Rivonia Road, Sandton, 2196

Private Bag 10015, Sandton, 2146

Docex 111, Sandton

All communications regarding this website should be addressed to lexenquiries@werksmans.com

Use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

The content and design of the website pages are subject to copyright owned by LEX Africa or used under license from third party copyright owners. You are welcome to print pages for your personal use but no part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted for any other purpose.

From time to time this website may feature content related to the law and legal developments. Such content is intended to provide general guidance only and should not be regarded as a substitute for taking legal advice in relation to your particular circumstances.

LEX Africa has its offices in Johannesburg and alliances with law firms in Africa. However, content related to the law and legal developments featured on this Web site is based upon the laws of South Africa unless otherwise expressly stated.

From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided in order to enhance the interest of other featured content and are not intended to signify that LEX Africa endorses or otherwise has any responsibility for the content of the linked website.

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of the website are subject to the laws of South Africa. Any dispute arising out of the use or publication of this website is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.

This website is made available for public viewing on the basis that LEX Africa excludes to the extent lawfully permitted all liability whatsoever for any loss or damage howsoever arising out of the use of this website or reliance upon the content of this website.

LEX Africa is regulated by the Law Society of South Africa and authorized by the Society to conduct investment business. The members are solicitors or registered foreign attorneys.

Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

• LEX Africa (“LEX Africa“, “we“, “us“, “our“) manages and operates https://lexafrica.digitalhumanitydev.co.za/ (“the website“). We respect your privacy and are committed to protect it in all respects with a view to offer the best and most enriching experience to you (“you“, “your“).
• This Policy explains how we protect and use your personal information. Personal information for purposes of this policy means information as defined in terms of section 1 of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA“) and includes, but is not limited to, any information which identifies you, such as your name, address, contact numbers, email addresses, user names, city and country.

CONSENT

• By using the website and by providing us with personal information (in terms of the opt-in subscription process), you hereby explicitly and unambiguously consent to the processing of your personal information as further described in the policy by LEX Africa.
• You understand that LEX Africa holds and processes certain personal information about which includes your first and last name, company, job title, email, city and country.
• You hereby authorize LEX Africa to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer such data as may be required for the administration of the website and offering services and/or products to you which includes, inter alia, monthly newsletters, holiday cards, events and other news relating to the alliance.
• You may withdraw consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link contained in the footer of any email, on the website or by sending an email to avallabh@werksmans.com.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

• We may collect or obtain personal information about you –
• directly from you;
• when you subscribe via the LEX Africa website;
• in the course of our relationship with you; and
• when you visit and/or interact with our website and/or our social media platforms.
• In addition to the above, we may also collect personal information about you from, inter alia, your communications, and interactions with us, including but not limited to, your attendance at our events, subscription to our newsletters, and other mailing interactions with you during the course of our digital marketing campaigns.

TYPE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

• To operate the website and avail certain services and/or products to you, we require you to provide us with certain personal information. The personal information we require includes your first and last name, company, job title, email, city and country, attendance records at our events, information relating to your visits on our website (via Google Analytics).
• LEX Africa may use your personal information in the distribution of monthly newsletters, holiday cards, events, religious cards (based on religious holidays in certain countries) and other news relating to the alliance to you. In addition, we may also use your personal information to improve our website, your experience therein and generally our offering by, for example, monitoring your browsing habits and your attendance at our events.

COOKIES

The website makes use of “cookies” to automatically collect information and data through the standard operation of the Internet servers. “Cookies” are small text files a website can use (and which we may use) to recognise repeat users, facilitate the user’s on-going access to and use of a website and allow a website to track usage behaviour and compile aggregate data that will allow the website operator to improve the functionality of the website and its content, and to display more focused advertising to a user by way of third party tools. The type of information collected by cookies is not used to personally identify you. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature. Please note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features available on our Website, and thus if you disable the cookies on your browser you may not be able to use those features, and your access to our Website will therefore be limited.

If you do not disable “cookies”, you are deemed to consent to our use of any personal information collected using those cookies, subject to the provisions of this clause. For more information about our Cookies, kindly visit our Cookies Policy.

LINK TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The website may include links to other websites – that of the members of LEX Africa. Such websites are governed by their own privacy policies. Once you leave our servers, use of information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the responsible party of the site you are visiting. That privacy policy may differ from that of LEX Africa. It is your responsibility to understand the privacy policies of such websites.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

• We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your Personal Information that is in our possession against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, in accordance with applicable law.
• These security measures include reviews of our storage, databases, data collection, processing practices, and security measures. All information obtained by LEX Africa is stored on dedicated servers within the borders of South Africa. The server is secured behind a firewall and access to the server is password protected and strictly limited.
• Where there are reasonable grounds to believe that your personal information that is in our possession has been accessed or acquired by any unauthorized person, we will notify you and the relevant regulator, unless a public body responsible for detection, prevention, or investigation of offenses or the relevant regulator informs us that notifying you will impede a criminal investigation.
• The internet is an open system, as such, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will implement all reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information that is in our possession, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted using the internet and we cannot be held liable for any loss of privacy occurring during the course of such transmission.

ALTERATION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

• The Personal Information provided to LEX Africa should be accurate, complete and up-to-date. Should Personal Information change, the onus is on the provider of such personal information to notify LEX Africa of the change and provide LEX Africa with the accurate data subject to any requirement, law, or rule for such personal information to be retained by us.
• Prior to the amendment, correction, or removal of the user’s personal information, we require the user to identify themselves and to identify the personal information requested to be amended, corrected, or removed. A request for the amendment, correction, or removal of personal information may be declined if the process of the request is unreasonably repetitive, requires disproportionate technical effort, jeopardizes the privacy of others, or would be impractical.
• The services of access and correction of personal information are done free of charge, except to the extent that it would require a disproportionate effort. Once personal information is deleted, residual copies of the information may take a period of time before they are deleted from our servers and may remain in our backup systems.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

• The personal information you provide to us is securely stored on our InterAction platform indefinitely until either one of the following happens –
• you unsubscribe from LEX Africa communications via the unsubscribe button on our mailer or they email us requesting removal from communications;
• we receive an auto response email from you advising that you are no longer part of the company you worked for;
• your details appear in a ‘bounce back management’ folder on InterAction after an email is dispatched; and
• you unsubscribe via Werksmans communications.
• Upon the happening of one of the above, we will promptly return or destroy any and all of your personal information in our possession or control, save for that which we are legally obliged to retain.
• In addition to the above, We may also retain your personal information to the extent and duration that we have a legitimate interest to process your personal information.

COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES

• Any complaints or concerns with regards to content or to report any contraventions of laws or breach of these terms may be directed to our information officer –

via post:

Private Bag 10015

Sandton

2146

Docex 111 Sandton

via email: Celeste Oates

coates@werksmans.com

• If we do not manage to resolve your complaint you may also lodge a complaint to the office of the Information Regulator of South Africa at https://www.justice.gov.za/inforeg/.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy may be amended from time to time to accommodate future changes as necessary without notice to you. The future updates and changes will be consistent with the policy under which the personal information was collected. It is your responsibility to ensure to check our website from time to time to view the updated privacy policy.

Cookie Policy

INTRODUCTION

To improve our Website for all users, we use “cookies” and similar technologies (“cookies“) to understand the user’s individual interests using the identified device.

WHAT ARE COOKIES

This Website makes use of “cookies” to automatically collect information and data through the standard operation of the Internet servers. “Cookies” are small text files a website can use (and which we may use) to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user’s on-going access to and use of a website and allow a website to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow the website operator to improve the functionality of the website and its content, and to display more focused advertising to a user by way of third-party tools.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allow you to deny or accept the cookie feature. Please note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features available on our Website, and thus if you disable the cookies on your browser you may not be able to use those features, and your access to our Website will therefore be limited

WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE

There are four types of cookies that LEX Africa utilizes, each providing different functionality. These are –

• Essential Cookies: Help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like navigation, login and access to secure areas of the website. Our website cannot function without these cookies.
• Functionality Cookies: Enable us to remember information that changes the way the website behaves, for example, your preferred language.
• Performance Cookies: Help us to understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. These cookies also help us provide accurate reading statistics for our publishers.
• Advertising Cookies: These are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant.

OPTING OUT

To opt-out of cookies, kindly activate the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Website.

THIRD PARTIES

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control.