Who we are

We are Co-Foundry, founded 2014 in South Africa.
Address: 261 Surrey Avenue, Randburg, South Africa
Our website address is: https://co-foundry.co.za.

Commitment

Co-Foundry is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and manage your personal data when you use our website and services.

Information We Collect

We may collect various types of information from you, including:

  • Personal Information: such as your name, email address, phone number, and other contact details or information provided voluntarily by you when you interact with our website or services.
  • Usage Data: information about your browsing activity on our website, including IP addresses, browser type, referring pages/services, and operating system.
  • Cookies: we may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience on our website and analyze usage patterns.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information collected for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our services.
  • To communicate with you and respond to your inquiries.
  • To personalize your experience and improve our website.
  • To analyze usage trends and optimize our marketing efforts.

Data Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:

  • With service providers and business partners who assist us in promotion &/ delivering our services.
  • When required by law or to protect our legal rights.
  • In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Request a copy, update, or delete your personal information.
  • Object to the processing of your data.
  • Withdraw consent for data processing where applicable.

External Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these websites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of your jurisdiction, including but not limited to the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your country.

Children’s Privacy

Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors without parental consent. Whenever noticed, we immediately erase such data from our systems.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the effective date will be updated accordingly.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or data practices, please contact us

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.

Media

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

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Third-party vendors, such as Google, use cookies to collect information about users’ browsing behavior and serve personalized ads. These cookies may track users’ past visits to our website and other sites on the Internet.

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.

Password Reset

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Using our contact forms, you voluntarily provide us information about you for purposes of communicating with you, to provide services, to give offers, promotions, advertisements and other.
We retain this data in our selected database(s) & system(s) until you explicitly request the deletion of it in writing. We will however keep information that is required by law, legal, administrative and service purposes.

What rights you have over your account’s data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Remarketing and Online Advertising

We may utilize remarketing and similar audience features to advertise online. This involves showing tailored advertisements to users who have previously visited our website.

Third-Party Advertisers

Our advertisements may be displayed on various websites across the Internet by third-party vendors, including Google, Linkedin and others. These vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on visitors’ past interactions with our website.

Opting Out of Third Party Cookie Usage

Users can opt out of Google’s (and other 3rd Party Vendor’s) use of cookies for advertising purposes by visiting Google’s Ads Settings (or the appropriate 3rd party vendor’s support centers).

Use of LinkedIn Lead Generation Forms

We may utilize LinkedIn Lead Generation Forms on our company page to gather information from LinkedIn members who interact with our content. By submitting information through these forms, users consent to the collection and processing of their data as described in this privacy policy.

LinkedIn Form Data Handling

  • LinkedIn reserves the right to refuse any custom questions within the Lead Gen Forms at its discretion.
  • The Form Data collected will generally be available to us or an authorized third party through LinkedIn for a period of 90 days.
  • We are responsible for promptly obtaining a copy of and storing the Form Data on our behalf.

Use and Sharing of LinkedIn Form Data

  • We may use the Form Data collected from LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms, subject to the privacy policy linked to the Lead Gen Forms, the reasonable privacy expectations of LinkedIn members, applicable laws, and the scope of consents obtained through the Lead Gen Forms.
  • We may share Form Data with a third party acting on our behalf, such as a service provider, provided that we ensure their compliance with LinkedIn’s Service Terms and limit their use of Form Data on our behalf.
  • Under no circumstances will we sell Form Data, nor will we use Form Data in any unlawful manner, such as unlawful discrimination.
  • If any LinkedIn member requests to opt-out of our communications or have their Form Data deleted, we will promptly honor such requests.