Privacy Notice

1. Who we are

Anna-Marie van Rooyen, practising as Anna-Marie van Rooyen Attorney, of Farm Disselboompan, Sannieshof, North West Province, South Africa, is the "Responsible Party" for the personal information collected through this website, as that term is defined in POPIA.

2. What we collect

We only collect personal information you choose to give us through this website:

• Contact form: your name, email address, phone number (if provided) and the content of your message.
• Newsletter signup: your email address.
• Standard web server logs: basic technical information (such as IP address and browser type) automatically recorded by our hosting provider for security and technical purposes. This website does not use tracking or advertising cookies.

3. Why we collect it

We use your personal information to:

• respond to your enquiry and communicate with you;
• provide legal services, once a mandate has been confirmed in writing;
• send the newsletter, only to those who have asked to receive it; and
• comply with our legal, regulatory and professional obligations (for example, obligations under FICA where we act for you on a relevant matter).

We process your information on the basis of your consent (contact form and newsletter), and, where you become a client, on the basis of the legal services agreement between us and our legal obligations as an attorney.

4. Sharing your information

We do not sell or rent your personal information. We only share it with third parties where necessary to carry out your instructions (for example, the Deeds Office, a bank, or another party's attorney in a transaction), where required by law or regulation, or where you have separately consented.

5. Retention

We keep contact form enquiries only for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with them. Where a client mandate is established, records are retained for the periods required by our professional and legal obligations as an attorney. Newsletter email addresses are kept until you unsubscribe.

6. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against loss, unauthorised access, and misuse.

7. Your rights

Under POPIA, you have the right to:

• ask us to confirm what personal information we hold about you, and to access it;
• ask us to correct or delete personal information that is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or unlawfully obtained;
• object to the processing of your personal information, on reasonable grounds;
• withdraw your consent at any time, including by unsubscribing from the newsletter (see below); and
• lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator (South Africa) if you believe your information has been mishandled — see inforegulator.org.za or email complaints.IR@justice.gov.za.

8. Newsletter and unsubscribing

You choose to join our newsletter by submitting your email address on our Contact page. You may withdraw that consent and unsubscribe at any time — by following the unsubscribe instruction included in every newsletter email, or by emailing info@vanrooyenlaw.co.za with "unsubscribe" — and you will be removed from the list within a few business days. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdrew it.

9. Children

This website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

10. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice from time to time; the current version will always be published on this page.

11. Contact us

For any question about this notice, or to exercise any of your rights above, contact info@vanrooyenlaw.co.za or +27 72 675 1108.