Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive respects the privacy needs and concerns of our customers. Any personal information, such as your name, address, email address or phone number that you provide is extremely important to us. To earn your trust, we respect your privacy in handling Personal Information relating to you and your transactions with us. This Privacy Statement describes the Personal Information we gather about you, what we do with it, the safeguards we have in place to protect it, and how you can control our use of it. By visiting or using the Sites, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Statement, and you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement.
When you provide Personal Information to us via any of our channels, you are consenting to the manner in which Steve Stavs or Made To Thrive will collect, use, disclose, and otherwise manage your Personal Information, as set out below.
Who May Use the Site
The Site is not intended or designed to attract users under the age of 18. We do not collect Personal Information from any person we know to be under the age of 18. If you are under 18, we ask that you not send us any Personal Information.
The Site is intended for users from South Africa and those not governed by privacy policies of other countries. Do not send us information unless you consent to the application of South African law and to the use and disclosure of your information consistent with this Privacy Statement.
Personal Information
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you or is reasonably linked to you. The personal information we collect may include contact and payment information like your name, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, and credit or debit card information. When you ask us to ship an order, we may collect information you provide us such as the name, address, and phone number of the recipients. For certain transactions, we may be required to collect information to comply with legal requirements.
“Non-Personal Information” is anonymous information is that information we collect that is not traceable to any individual person or computer. We utilise this data to analyse trends and understand customer needs while shopping and interacting on our site so that we can provide a better user experience. For example, we may use cookies, web beacons, log files and other technologies to collect information about visitors to our Website, and interactions with our online advertisements and offerings.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive use your information to offer and provide our products and services, and to support our core business functions. These include order or service fulfilment, internal business processes, marketing, authentication, fraud prevention, and legal functions. Some examples include, but are not limited to:
- Purchasing, ordering, returning, exchanging or requesting certain information about our products, and communicating with you about these activities;
- Registering or servicing your account;
- Contacting us via telephone
- Visiting, registering (creating an account), or servicing your account with our Site or participating in another feature of our Site, such as our opt-in, refer a friend program, affiliate program, coaching services and inner circle ;
- Entering into a contest, sweepstakes, promotion, or responding to one of our surveys;
- Sending you information about our products, services, and promotions;
- Submitting a Steve Stavs or Made To Thrive related story, product testimonial, rating or review, or other user-generated content that may be posted on the site;
- Providing customer service and alert you to product information, including recalls;
- Providing us with comments or suggestions; or
- Otherwise submitting personal information to us along with any related content of the communication.
We may collect and store the following personally identifiable information:
- Email address, physical contact information, and shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;
- Clicks and page information such as the address (or URL) of the website that you came from before visiting our site, which pages you visit on our site, which browser you used to view our site and any search terms you have entered on our site;
- Customer service history including dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us;
- Other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
- Information you choose to provide through the linking of devices where you are actively choosing to share personal information, including health information, to interact with an application or program we host on our site;
- Information you choose to allow us access to through social media channels;
- Information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data.
We may also collect Personal Information about you from our Service Providers who provide us with e-commerce related services related to the Sites.
When you return previously purchased merchandise or request a refund or exchange, you may be asked to give your name, address, phone number and provide information that identifies you, such as your credit card or debit card. We collect this information to help prevent fraud.
Site Registration
Registration is an optional OR required service provided by our Sites. You do not have to register to browse on our Sites, but you do have to register to purchase products on our Sites. When you register, you are asked for information such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, a password that you select, and your interests, if you choose to register them. Your registration information may be used to help make your online shopping quicker and easier, by pre-filling certain parts of your shopping information. When you register you will have the opportunity to sign up for future marketing information from Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive.
Contests, Questions, or Surveys
When you ask a question, participate in a survey, enter one of our contests or sweepstakes, or participate in a Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive sponsored event through our Sites, we may collect your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. We use this information to administer your participation in such contests, sweepstakes, or events. At the time you are entering a contest, sweepstakes, or event, we may ask your permission to send you future marketing information from Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive.
Other Uses of Personal Information
Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive also uses Personal Information, including information provided to us from our Service Providers, to continually assess and improve the products and services we offer. To serve you better, we may combine the Personal Information that you give us with publicly available information and information we receive from or cross- reference with our marketing partners and others. We use that combined information to enhance and personalise your shopping experience with us, to communicate with you about our products and events that may be of interest to you, and for other promotional purposes.
Promotional Information and Marketing Materials
We would like to inform you of products and services, sales, and special offers that might benefit you. When you register online or participate in a survey, you will have the opportunity to sign up for e-mails about our products, services, sales and special offers. We may also send you mail, email, or call you with information about our product and service offerings if you have provided us with your name and address, email address or phone numbers. If you would like to stop receiving such promotional information from Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive, please see the “Privacy Preferences/Opt-Out” section of this Privacy Statement.
Access to Personal Information by Companies that Work with or on Behalf of Steve Stavs and Made To Thrive
Some of our operations, such as our electronic commerce, may be managed by Service Providers who are unaffiliated companies. These companies may share Personal Information with their affiliates and service providers whom they engage to perform services related to our Sites or the operation of our business. Examples of these services include payment processing and authorisation, fraud protection and credit risk reduction, product customisation, order fulfilment and shipping, marketing and promotional material distribution, Web site evaluation, data analysis and, where applicable, data cleansing. These companies may have access to your Personal Information on a confidential basis only to the extent necessary to perform their functions. In no event will we authorise these companies to use your Personal Information for any reason other than to provide you with those specific services.
If your purchases are being shipped to you, your shipping information will be shared with our delivery service providers (delivery companies we or you select). Our delivery service providers are asked not to use your Personal Information for any purpose other than making the delivery.
Sale of Business
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell, buy, or transfer assets. In such transactions, customer information (which includes your Personal Information) generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the unlikely event that Made To Thrive or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets and is permissible under law.
Disclosures of Personal Information in Legal Proceedings
If Steve Stavs, Made To Thrive or any of our Service Providers is requested by law enforcement officials or judicial authorities to provide Personal Information on individual users, we or the applicable Service Provider may, without your consent, provide such information. In matters involving claims of personal or public safety, we or the applicable Service Provider may provide your Personal Information to appropriate authorities without your consent or court process. we or our Service Providers also will provide your Personal Information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or in litigation involving us, the applicable Service Provider, or otherwise as required by law. We may also disclose Personal Information to assist in debt collection where you owe a debt to us.
Access to Personal Information
You may request access to the Personal Information that we have about you. If you are a registered user with our Sites, you can access your profile information at any time by clicking on the “My Account” link at the top of any page on the Sites on which you registered.
For further instructions on accessing the Personal Information that Steve Stavs or Made To Thrive may have about you, please see the “Contacting Us” section of this Privacy Statement.
Privacy Preferences/Opt-Out
You may change your marketing preferences or remove yourself from our mailing list by clicking on an “unsubscribe” hyperlink contained in promotional emails we send you or by contacting us on our website www.madetothrive.co.za
Additional Information about Our Sites
Visiting Our Site
In general, you can visit our Sites without telling us who you are or providing us with any information. However, we collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all visitors to our Sites and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our Sites. We use this information to monitor and improve our Sites.
Automated Information Collection
We receive and store certain types of information when you interact with our websites, emails, and online advertising. Our purpose is to allow the websites to work correctly, to evaluate use of the website, and to support website analytics and marketing campaigns. Some examples include:
- We may collect technical information such as your internet protocol address, your device operating system and browser type, the address of a referring website, if any, and the path you take through our
- We use “cookies” to recognise you as you use or return to our sites. This is done so that we can provide a continuous and more personalised shopping experience for you. A cookie is a small text file that a website or email may save to your browser and store on your hard drive. Most cookies are “session cookies,” meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive once you sign out from madetothrive.co.za or close your web
We use cookies to provide features and services, such as:
- Allowing you to enter your password less frequently
- Remembering your preferences
- Presenting information that’s targeted to your interests
- Measuring the effectiveness of our sites, services, content, and advertising
- Providing other services and features that are available only through the use of cookies
We may also use web beacons. A “web beacon” is an electronic image placed in the code of a web page. Beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited, an email was opened, or if ad banners on our website and other sites were effective. We use web beacons to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page to another and to improve site performance.
Cookies and Tracer Tags
Our Sites use a technology called “cookies”. A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Sites can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognise you when you return. All pages on our Sites where you are prompted to log in or that are customisable require that you accept cookies. If you have registered with our Sites, these cookies (1) may let us know who you are, (2) are necessary to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver products and personalised services, and (3) will provide us and our Service Providers with information that we will use to personalise our Sites in accordance with your preferences. Cookies are also required to optimise your shopping experience in that they allow you to add multiple items to your shopping basket before checking out. You may set your Web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. However, should you decide not to accept cookies from our Sites, you will limit the functionality we can provide when you visit our Sites.
We also use cookies to improve the performance of our advertising on other websites. Although you may not opt out of receiving online advertisements generally, you may control the collection of data on our site used for targeted www.madetothrive.co.za advertising during your visits to other websites.
Tracer Tags: Our Sites may also use a technology called “tracer tags.” These may also be referred to as “Clear GIFs” or “Web Beacons”. This technology allows us to understand which pages you visit on our Sites. These tracer tags are used to help us optimise and tailor our Sites for you and other future website visitors.
Security of Personal Information
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorised access, use, modification and disclosure of Personal Information in our custody and control. We also are committed to employing reasonable technology in order to protect the security of our Sites. However, even with the best technology, no website is 100% secure. We will take reasonable measures which we believe are appropriate to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction, and, where possible, will ask that any third parties to whom we may transfer such information to take comparable steps to protect that security.
Passwords
To provide you with an increased level of security, online access to your Personal Information is protected with a password you select. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. Steve Stavs or Made To Thrive will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication (including unsolicited correspondence such as letters, phone calls or e-mail messages).
Our Privacy Statement and Outside Links
This Privacy Statement only applies to the Steve Stavs website. Our Sites may include links to the websites of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. These other sites are outside of our control. Please be aware that these websites may collect information about you, and operate according to their own privacy practices which may differ from those contained in our Privacy Statement. Remember to consult that website’s own privacy policy, as once you are outside any of the Sites, any information you submit is no longer in our control.
Privacy Statement Modifications
From time to time we may modify or amend this Privacy Statement in order to comply with new laws or regulations or to reflect future changes in our business practices. Any changes in our policies will be communicated in this page so please check back on occasion. We also may post a notice on our Sites or send an email describing the changes.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our handling of Personal Information, please contact us at Steve Stavs, 4 2nd Street, Parkhurst, 2193. Johannesburg – Attn: Steve Stavs, or e-mail us at connect@stevestavs.com