The ASISA Foundation, with registered address at Bridge House, Boundary Terraces, 1 Mariendahl Lane, Newlands, 7700 ("Foundation") is a trust with Master's Reference number IT3400/2012 and a non-profit organisation with registration number 125-121 NPO. The Foundation is also approved as a public benefit organisation.
We at the Foundation respect and are committed to ensuring the privacy of the persons we deal with and that that their personal information is collected and used appropriately, lawfully and transparently.
This Privacy Notice sets out briefly how we use your personal information in accordance with the law, especially the Protection of Personal Information Act ("POPIA").
In this Privacy Notice, "Personal Information" has the meaning given to it in POPIA and basically means any personal information that identifies or relates to a natural and legal person.
If you provide Personal Information to us about another person, you must inform that person about this Privacy Notice and get their permission (where possible) for sharing their Personal Information with us.
It is important that you read this Privacy Notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing Personal Information about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your information. This Privacy Notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
The Foundation is a "responsible party" under POPIA and, as such, is responsible for the Personal Information we have about you and is registered with the South African Information Regulator.
We have appointed an Information Officer who is responsible for overseeing the Foundation's compliance with POPIA. If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or any of the Foundation's privacy practices, please contact our Information Officer using the details set out below.
Name: Koovi Moodley
Email address: kmoodley@asisa.org.za
Landline: 010 276 0970
This version was last updated in July 2025.
This Privacy Notice does not form part of any contract to provide our services. We may update this Privacy Notice at any time.
It is important that the Personal Information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Personal Information changes during your relationship with us.
Our website and social media platforms may contain links to third party websites and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share information about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
To provide our services and run our business, we may collect, use and disclose your Personal Information. Where we do this, we rely on one or more of the following reasons for processing your Personal Information:
The exact Personal Information we collect from you depends on the circumstances, for example what you have asked us to do or what we are contracted to do for you. This may include:
If you visit our website, we generally collect information that is not used to personally identify you, but is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the website and the web pages viewed, browser and device information, website and application usage data, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies. We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. If you do not wish to accept cookies you can adjust your internet browser settings to refuse the cookies.
We will tell you when the Personal Information we ask for is mandatory or voluntary. If you do not provide us with mandatory information, we may not be able to provide you with our services or give effect to your requests.
We may collect special (sensitive) categories of Personal Information about you. This may include your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data and any criminal convictions and offences. Please note we do not generally collect special Personal Information unless you have agreed, you provide it to us in connection with the services we are providing to you, it is necessary to exercise your or our rights in, or is required by, law or it is public information.
We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
We use different methods to collect Personal Information from and about you including through:
We will only collect and use your Personal Information for specific and lawful purposes, for example to:
We may share Personal Information about you with certain third parties, but only for the purposes collected, where you have consented or where it is otherwise lawful. These third parties include:
Given the nature of our business and information technology infrastructure, your Personal Information may be transferred to other countries for processing. We will only transfer your Personal Information abroad if it is permitted under POPIA, for example where the other country provides an adequate level of legal protection of your Personal Information, or you have consented to such transfer.
We strive to continuously provide you with the best service and improve our offerings. We would like to keep you informed about our other programmes, or those of our business partners, which may be of particular interest to you.
You may opt out at any time if you don't want to receive any communications of this nature by contacting us at info@asisafoundation.org.za.
We keep your Personal Information only as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected or as required by law or to meet regulatory or legislative requirements or as otherwise permitted by law.
When your Personal Information is no longer required, we securely disposed of it.
Cookies are small pieces of data, that act as a tracking file, sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser while the user is browsing. Please note that some parts of our website may not function fully if you disallow cookies. Cookies do not personally identify you, but rather your browser. The cookies simply operate as a unique identifier, which help us to know what our users find interesting and useful in this website. We do not link this information back to other information that you have provided to us, unless required by law or you have agreed. We do not store any Personal Information inside cookies. We may engage third party services from time to time for website monitoring, reporting and analysis purposes. Those services may also use cookies and gather anonymous web usage information (as described above) through this website. Note that we do not use cookies for tracking purposes.
We do not currently make decisions about you that do not involve human input and are only based on automated means. However, should this position change, for example, if we start using automated decision making to assess your eligibility for our programmes, we will only use automated decision making if it is lawful for us to do so and we have notified you.
We use appropriate technical and physical security measures to keep your Personal Information safe. When we provide your Personal Information to a third party or use a third party to collect Personal Information on our behalf, we will choose the third party carefully and require the third party to use appropriate security measures to keep your Personal Information confidential and secure.
You have a number of rights under POPIA in connection with our use of your Personal Information. These rights include:
Physical address: JD House, 27 Stiemens Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2001
Postal address: P.O Box 31533, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017
Complaints email: complaints.IR@justice.gov.za
General enquiries email: inforeg@justice.gov.za.
Please bear in mind that if you erase or suspend our use of your Personal Information or if you object or withdraw consent, this may affect our ability to carry out the tasks mentioned above for your benefit.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights set out above, please contact us at info@asisafoundation.org.za.
