PRIVACY POLICY
At ThiBe Seeds we recognize that privacy is very important. We promise to respect your contact preferences and to protect your private information. This Privacy Policy describes the information that is collected, how it is used, and with whom it might be shared. This Privacy Policy applies to all the services and products offered by thibeseeds.com.na
Please read carefully the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use before you use our website, our tools, or our services and before conducting any type of transaction with us. By using any of our services, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy and you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use.
Data Collection
Our servers automatically record each visitor’s domain name and IP address. We do not collect e-mail addresses unless the visitor registers to our service, communicates with us via e-mail, or leaves a comment to our blog and forums. If you decide to register for our service, you are required to enter your email address, your username, and your password. Entering your full name, company, job title, and other information is not mandatory during registration, but you are obliged to complete your profile with all your valid information before using our services.
We do not store your credit card information or other sensitive data on our servers. ThiBe Seeds uses the services of the most secure payment gateway to provide safe and secure payment procedures. Your credit card information is never transmitted via our website since the payment gateway is responsible for collecting, storing, and encrypting your data. All the information that is collected is used for products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, and research.
ThiBe Seeds does not share your email address or other personally-identifying information with any third parties, except our service providers, such as credit-card payment processors, performing services on our behalf. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
Cookies & Tracking Information
When your browser visits our website, a cookie is created on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. The cookies are required in order to become a member of our service since they facilitate access to our website and improve the user experience.
We use cookies to record current session information, encrypted users’ login information, provide services, and compile analytics about our users. In addition, we may collect information about your browser type, your default language, the date-time of your visit, and similar information which helps us track users’ movements around our website and understand the trends.
At ThiBe Seeds we do our best to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.
Data Protection and Security
We do not sell your Personal Information to anyone for any purpose. We maintain information about you in our business records while you are a customer, or until it not needed for business, tax, or legal purposes. We have implemented encryption or other appropriate security controls to protect Personal Information when stored by ThiBe Seeds. All the passwords in our web service are hashed by using the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function. Both ThiBe Seeds and our third-party hosting vendors do the best to protect the personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (in reviews and discussion areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name (not your email address) as displayed to other users when you send comments or messages through our Blog/Forums and other users can contact you through messages and comments.
We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send marketing messages unless you have opted in to receive such messages. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major website changes, updates on Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy, alerting you to messages from other members or for customer service purposes).
We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the website and to create new features, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analysing user preferences and trends. When you post a comment or message, your ThiBe Seeds ID or username that you are posting under is visible to other users. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. ThiBe Seeds does not rent or sell your personal information.
ThiBe Seeds will not share personal information about you with other people or other companies without your consent except to provide products or services you’ve requested and in the following circumstances: ThiBe Seeds may be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas, warrants, court orders or legal process or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. It may be necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or act regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, including without limitation, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of Use or as otherwise permitted or required by law. ThiBe Seeds may share demographic information with business partners, such as “30% of users who regularly use ThiBe Seeds are between 40 and 45″ or similar. No personally identifiable information will ever be used without your permission.
We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with laws or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
ThiBe Seeds reserves the right to use the business name, logo, and comments of its Registrants, Members, and Customers in marketing documents, in the ThiBe Seeds website, and in other marketing and promotional activities. At any time, the Registrants, Members, and Customers of the Service can send a written notice to withdraw this authorization.
ThiBe Seeds also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that ThiBe Seeds believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Member Agreement, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site and to protect the rights, property or personal safety of ThiBe Seeds, our users or others.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be revised periodically. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Notice in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the ThiBe Seeds websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Notice and any future revisions.
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in a case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data that is used as anonymous unique identifiers. They are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device’s internal memory.
This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
To facilitate our Service.
To provide the Service on our behalf.
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are required not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites do not belong by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. In the case we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
At ThiBe Seeds CC quality is our priority. ThiBe Seeds aspire to be leading player in the agriculture industry in Namibia and Southern Africa
Address: ThiBe Seeds CC, P.O. Box 90, Erf 1072, Buchi Buchi Centre, Katima Mulilo
Email: info@thibe.com