Privacy Policy

We aim to keep your personal information safe and sound.

This Privacy Policy explains the information we collect on this site, including when you use any of our services via mobile or web.

By visiting this site, you agree to these practices.

What personal information do we get from you?

TG’s Tornado collects all the information that you provide us with, such as your name, email address, gender, phone number etc.

How do we get this information?

We get information through all the interactions we have with you, including:

Completion of forms

  • By completing online forms (including call back requests), take part in surveys, post on our message boards, post any blogs or enter any competitions or prize draws download information such as white papers or other publications or participate in any other interactive areas that appear on our website or within our application or service. We will also collect your information where you only partially complete and/or abandon any information inputted into our website and/or other online forms and may use this information to contact you to remind you to complete any outstanding information and/or for marketing purposes.

Comments

  • When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Embedded content from other websites

  • Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Media

  • If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Social Media

  • By interacting with us on social media channels, whether in public comments, or private inbox messages

Email and Telephonic engagement

  • By interacting with us on a normal email platform or calling us

We may also collect information from other sources as explained in more detail below:

Cookies

  • 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).

Web Beacons

  • 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.

Google Analytics

Why do we need this data?

We require personal information and technical data to allow us to

  • Provide you with personalised content and other services
  • Track your orders or quote requests
  • Conduct Data-driven analysis such as website usage and interaction to provide you with more effective outreach and performance on various platforms
  • Provide advanced analytics and reporting on your campaigns

What will we use this data for?

We will only use this data for:

  • Contacting you about our services and sharing marketing information
  • Improving our website
  • Delivering out personalised services to you

How will we protect your information?

We will do everything we can to make sure your personal information is protected  and as such we will:

  • Not share your information with any 3rd party without your express consent unless we are required to do so by law.
  • Keep your information confidential at all times
  • Give you access to view your data and keep it updated at all times
  • Notify you should there be any unauthorised use of your data
  • We will not sell your information to any party without your express consent

You have a right to access your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. To do this, simply contact us and specify what information you would like. We will take all reasonable steps to confirm your identity before providing details of your personal information. Please note that any such access request may be subject to a payment of a legally allowable fee.

We may change this policy from time to time

We may update this policy without notice to you so please do check back often to keep informed of the latest changes.

If you have any questions please mail us on : tornadodev@absamail.co.za