Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is very important to The Yards and thus takes the compliance with privacy protection laws very seriously.

Below, we will inform you of the details on how, to what extent and the purpose of the collection and use of personal data by The Yards.

Collection and processing of personal data when using website

When visiting our website https://theyardsco.za the following data is collected, processed and used:

  • ip address (temporary)
  • date and time of the use of website
  • requested internet address (url)
  • type of internet browser
  • date, time and content of error message (if applicable)

The above-mentioned data is stored solely to identify and troubleshoot technical errors or misuse of the above-mentioned website and services of The Yards should they occur. An analysis of the data mentioned for the creation of personal user profiles does not take place.

Personal data

The Yards is entitled to collect and process anonymous user information for demographic purposes and to use such information for statistical, trend-recognition, quality assurance and market research purposes and to pass on such anonymous data to third parties.

Cookies

During a visit to the https://theyards.co.za website so-called cookies are used. Cookies are small text files that are sent to the user’s browser and stored on the computer to save them as an anonymous identifier. Through the use of cookies, the visitor can be identified as an authorized user during the visit to the https://theyards.co.za website.

This is necessary to avoid entries already made on some applications do not need to be submitted again. A cookie contains only information supplied by a server and/or entered on request by the user (e.G. Domain, path, expiry date, cookie name and value). Personal data is not collected by cookies. A cookie cannot spy on a hard disk.

If you wish, you can restrict the storage of all cookies through your web browser general or decide yourself whether you want to allow storage or not. The rejection of cookies can result in some pages not being displayed correctly.

Google Analytics

We also use google analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google inc. (1600 amphitheatre parkway, mountain view, ca 94043, usa; „Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies, which enable an analysis of how you use The Yards websites. The information collected by the cookie about your use of The Yards websites is transmitted to a google server in the us and stored there.

The Yards uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeip()” so that ip addresses transmitted to google are first truncated and further processed on servers located in Europe to prevent them being used to identify any particular individual directly.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, for compiling reports on website activity for us and for providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google may also forward this information to third parties if it is required to do so by law or if third parties process this data on its behalf. Under no circumstances will google associate your ip address with any other data held by google. You can prevent the installation of the google analytics cookie on your computer by adjusting your browser accordingly; however, we must point out that, in this case, not all functions of our website may be available to you in their full capacity. You may object to the collection and storage of data for google analytics at any time with effect for the future by using a google browser plug-in (available at https://tools.Google.Com/dlpage/gaoptout?Hl=en.

Right to amend this policy

The Yards reserves the right to amend this privacy policy at any time.