1.1 Thank you for visiting the (http://www.nandos.co.za) website (the "Website"). Nando’s is registered as (Chickenland (Pty) Ltd), (“Nando’s”, "we", "us" or "our") and is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
1.2 This Privacy Policy, together with our Website terms and conditions available at (http://www.nandos.co.za/terms-conditions), sets out the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be used, stored and processed by us ("Collect"). Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Data (as defined below) and how we will treat it.
1.3 In adopting this Privacy Policy, we wish to balance our legitimate business interests and your reasonable expectation of privacy. Accordingly, we will take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access to, or disclosure of your Personal Data. However, we do not guarantee that your Personal Data shall be 100% secure.
1.4 By continuing to use the Website, you agree to the terms and conditions set out in this Privacy Policy. You agree that we may Collect Personal Data for the purposes of providing you with access to our Website and for any of the purposes listed in clause 3 below.
2.1 The types of Personal Data that we may Collect includes information necessary for our legitimate business interests. This may include personal information which contains identifiable information such as (amongst other things) your first and last name, screen name, email address, postal address, physical address, telephone number, date of birth, details about your telephone device (e.g. mobile phone) and your telephone service provider and information related to providing products and services ("Personal Data").
2.2 We may also Collect other information, including your interests, preferences, purchasing behaviour, transactional information, geographical location and demographics (e.g., age, gender, and income information). We may, on occasion, combine Personal Data we receive online with other records (such as those from telephone and direct purchases) to develop a customer profile relating to you.
2.3 We will attempt to limit the types of Personal Data we Collect to only that to which you consent (for example, in the context of online registration, competitions, message boards, surveys, polls, games, SMS, MMS and other mobile services).
2.4 When you visit our Website, our web server also automatically records the name of your ISP (Internet Service Provider), the website from which you visit us, the pages on our sites you visit and in what sequence, and the date and length of your visit. This information is aggregate and anonymous data and does not identify you specifically. However, you acknowledge that this data may be able to be used to identify you if it is aggregated with other Personal Data that you supply to us.
2.5 Nando’s will not collect, use or disclose sensitive information (such as information about racial or ethnic origins or political or religious beliefs) except with your specific consent or in the circumstances permitted by law.
2.6 Nando’s may collect your credit card information when you provide it to make a purchase via the Website, where allowed. In such cases, Nando’s may need to provide this information to a third party in order to process payment. Nando’s will not use your credit card information for any other purpose. Any third parties that are granted access to your credit card information will only be granted such access to the extent needed to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. Nando’s will use its best endeavours to ensure that all credit card information is stored securely.
3.1 We may use your Personal Data to:
3.1.1 provide services or products you request (e.g. send you by email or other electronic means our newsletters or other products or services in which you express an interest);
3.1.2 allow you to participate in recreational activities on the Website (e.g. participate in our message boards), to organise or carry out promotional activities, games or promotional events;
3.1.3 inform you of changes made to our Website;
3.1.4 inform you of products, services, promotions, offers and competitions which you may find interesting, subject to clause 6 below;
3.1.5 respond to any queries you may have;
3.1.6 develop a more direct relationship with you for the purposes described in this section;
3.1.7 develop an online customer profile;
3.1.8 understand general customer trends and patterns so we can develop and support existing and ongoing marketing strategies for our products and services; and
3.1.9 for security, administrative and legal purposes.
3.2 Where you choose to receive mobile services and content via SMS, MMS and other mobile services, we use this information to deliver such mobile services and content to you, to carry out market research, to track sales data and to plan other promotional activities which may be of interest to you.
4.1 We, our third party service providers and our partners may send "cookies" to your computer or use similar technologies to enhance your online experience at our Website and across the Internet. "Cookies" are files that can identify you as a unique customer and store your personal preferences as product preferences to tells us which site pages you have visited and in what order. We use cookies and other technical information to personalise your visit to the Website, to analyse traffic on the Website and to track user trends, patterns and selections for authorised download and for technical reasons connected with your use of our site. Cookies can either be permanent (i.e. they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e. they last only until you close your browser).
4.2 We may also use "web beacons" that monitor your use of our Website. Web beacons (or web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the web beacons appears, the time the page containing the web beacon was viewed, the types of browser that fetched the web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, web beacons let us know whether you received and opened our email. On their own, cookies or web beacons do not contain or reveal any Personal Data. However, if you choose to provide us with Personal Data, it can be linked to the anonymous data stored in the cookies and/or web beacons. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. However, if you prefer, you may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other website. Additionally, by setting your web browser to display HTML emails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some web beacons. However, please note that certain areas of our Website can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices.
4.3 From time to time we may implement additional features including remarketing with Google Analytics to place ads on other sites you may visit after visiting our site, Google Display Network Impression Reporting to report how people’s interactions with our ads relate to their visits to our site, DoubleClick Platform integrations to help optimize our online advertising efforts, or Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to analyze information about our site visitors’ interests. These tools help us to better understand your interests and how to provide you with more relevant online advertising. We and third party vendors, including Google, may use first and third party cookies together to optimize and serve ads tailored to you based, for example, on what parts of our site you viewed. To opt out of Google Analytics cookies please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To opt out of DoubleClick cookies please visit https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin. For more information about your cookies options visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed.
5.1 If at any time our Website offers any chat rooms, message boards, blogs, newsgroups or forums, etc., we Collect the information that you disclose. Such information will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please note that we are not responsible for other parties' use of the Personal Data which you make available to such third parties through any chat room, message board, blog, newsgroup or forums, etc. on our Website.
6.1 If we obtain your prior consent, we may use your Personal Data for the purposes of:
6.1.1 direct marketing of our own products and services and on behalf of other companies within Nando’s; and
6.1.2 direct marketing of products and services on behalf of selected third parties, if you have agreed to your details being passed onto third parties.
6.2 You are entitled to request that we desist from using your Personal Data for the purposes of direct marketing, and we will provide you with the necessary functionality for you to do so with ease, each time we market to you.
7.1 Although absolute security cannot be guaranteed on the Internet, we have in place up-to-date, reasonable technical and organisational security measures to protect your Personal Data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, misuse, destruction or against unauthorised disclosure or access to the information we Collect online.
7.2 While we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Data you provide us, we will continue to maintain and improve these security measures over time in line with legal and technological developments.
8.1 We store your Personal Data. We may also or alternatively store your Personal Data on and transfer your Personal Data to a central database located in Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). If the location of the central database is located in a country that does not have substantially similar laws which provide for the protection of personal data, we will take the necessary steps to ensure that your Personal Data is adequately protected in that jurisdiction.
8.2 Your information will not be stored for longer than is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
9.1 Nando’s entities: We may share your Personal Data with other entities within Nando’s (including those based overseas) that have agreed to be bound by this Privacy Policy. It is possible that we, or one of our divisions or affiliates, could merge with, be sold to or be acquired by a third party. To the extent legally permissible and in accordance with the conditions of this Privacy Policy, we may share your Personal Data with any successor entity.
9.2 Third parties: We may disclose Personal Data about you to other third parties to comply with applicable laws and regulations. We also reserve the right to disclose such Personal Data to third parties where a complaint arises concerning your use of our Website and where we believe, in our sole discretion, that your use of our Website is inconsistent with the Privacy Policy. We also share information about users of this Website in an anonymous or aggregate form with third parties including advertisers and business partners, to understand customer trends and patterns and manage and improve our business relationships. We provide your Personal Data to third party processors to administer and process for the purposes notified to you in this Privacy Policy, and we may also share such details with third parties (such as auditors or legal advisors) to obtain professional advice. Any such processing will be governed by an agreement in the form required by law, preserving any and all of your statutory data protection rights.
9.3 Overseas recipients: Nando’s may share Personal Data with entities that are based overseas (“Overseas Recipients”). Nando’s cannot guarantee that any such Overseas Recipients will comply fully with the Nando's privacy principles in relation to your Personal Data. Notwithstanding the aforegoing, Nando’s undertakes to take all reasonable steps to ensure that any such Overseas Recipients are bound by terms and conditions substantially similar to those contained in this Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the Website, you acknowledge and consent in respect of the aforementioned transfer of your Personal Data to any such Overseas Recipients on these terms as permitted by the Nando's privacy principles and agree not to hold Nando’s liable in this regard.
9.4 Links, advertisers, third party sponsors & ad-servers: Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not covered by this Privacy Policy and where information practices may be different from ours. Users should consult the other sites' privacy policies on such third party sites before submitting any Personal Data, as we are not responsible for and have no control over Personal Data that is submitted to, or collected by, these third-party sites. On this Website, we sometimes offer content or programmes that are sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties (e.g. competitions or promotions). These third parties can obtain Personal Data that you voluntarily submit to them to make use of the offer. We are not responsible for the collection and use of your Personal Data by these third parties. However, you will be informed, at the point of collection of such personally identifiable information, if these third parties will obtain such information, how it will be processed and to whom it will be transferred. On our Website, third parties may present or serve advertisements, provide us with data collection, reporting and ad response measurement, as well as assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. These third parties may view, edit, or set their own cookies. The use of these technologies by such third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
10.1 To see the Personal Data we have collected through this Website that relates to you, to cancel it and/or to correct or update this Personal Data, please email us at [email protected]. In addition, we will always give you the opportunity to update your preferences regarding our use of your Personal Data.
10.2 To protect your privacy and security we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access. If you have any additional questions about Personal Data we hold about you, please contact us at or visit (http://www.nandos.co.za/contact).
11.1 Nando's has a "Find Yourself" Facebook application that will access information from users' Facebook accounts once they give us permission to do so. Once permission is granted, the application accesses a user's name, gender, birthday, locale, email address and spice result. To find out more details about the "Find Yourself" Facebook application, please visit our Website. If the "Find Yourself" Facebook application is not available in your country, this clause 11.3 will not apply to you.
12.1 This Website is accessible to children under the age of 18.
12.2 We require children to consult with their parents before providing Personal Data. We also encourage parents to supervise their children's online activities by, for example, adopting parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from disclosing online their name, address, and other Personal Data without parental permission.
12.3 We encourage parents to talk to their children about the use of the Internet and information they disclose to websites.
13.1 From time to time, we may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect company initiatives, changes in the law or technology or changes in our practices regarding the collection and use of Personal Data. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted on this Website so that you are always informed of the latest version.
13.2 We will not use or disclose Personal Data provided to us pursuant to this Privacy Policy in ways other than the ones described above, without informing you and providing you with the opportunity to consent to such modified conditions concerning the use and disclosure of your Personal Data.
14.1 The contents of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of South African.
14.2 If any provision of this Privacy Policy is judged to be illegal, void or unenforceable due to applicable law or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction it shall be deemed deleted and the continuation in full force and effect of the remainder of the provisions will not be prejudiced unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the substantive purpose of this Privacy Policy is then frustrated, in which case you may contact Nando’s at the address in clause 15 below in order to opt-out of the Privacy Policy.
15.1 If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please feel free to contact us at [email protected]. Any complaints regarding the treatment of Personal Data should also be directed to the above.
16.1 Should you believe that we have utilised your personal information contrary to POPIA, you undertake to first attempt to resolve any concerns with us. If you are not satisfied with such process, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator as: [email protected]
