PRIVACY POLICY

1.2.1. Competent person means any person who is legally competent to consent to any action or decision being taken in respect of any matter concerning a child (i.e., the child’s legal guardian)

 

1.2.2. Consent means any voluntary, specific, and informed expression of will in terms of which permission is given for the processing of personal information.

 

1.2.3. Data subject means the person to whom personal information relates.

 

1.2.4. Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

 

1.2.5. Direct marketing means to approach a data subject, either in person, by mail or electronic communication, for the direct or indirect purpose of:

• promoting, or offering to supply, in the ordinary course of business, any goods or services to the data subject,

• requesting the data subject to make a donation of any kind and for any reason.

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1.2.6. Electronic communication means any text, voice, sound, image, or message, sent over an electronic communications network, which is stored in the network or in the recipient's terminal equipment, until it is collected by the recipient.

 

1.2.7 Filing system means any structured set of personal information, whether centralised, decentralised, or dispersed, on a functional or geographical, basis, which is accessible according to specific criteria.

1.2.8.  Information officer of, or in relation to, a:

• public body means an information officer or deputy information officer, as contemplated in terms of section 1 or 17 of the PAIA.

• private body means the head of a private body, as contemplated in section 1 of the PAIA.

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1.2.9. Operator means a person who processes personal information for a responsible party in terms of a contract or mandate, without coming under the direct authority of that party. Which in the case of this practice is Wanda Human.

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1.2.10. Person means a natural person or a juristic person.

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1.2.11. Personal information means information about an identifiable, living, natural person, and, where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including, but not limited to:

• information about the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language, and birth of the person

• information relating to the educational, medical, financial, criminal or employment history of the person

• any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier, or other particular assignment to the person

• the biometric information of the person

• the personal opinions, views or preferences of the person

• correspondence sent by the person that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature, or further correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence

• the views or opinions of another individual about the person

• the name of the person if it appears with other personal information about the person or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the person

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1.2.12. Private body means:

• a natural person who carries or has carried on any trade, business, or profession but only in the capacity as a natural person.

• a partnership which carries or has carried on any trade, business, or profession.

• any former or existing juristic person but excludes a public body.

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1.2.13. Processing means any operation or activity or any set of operations, whether or not by automatic means, pertaining to personal information, including:

• the collection, receipt, recording, organisation, collation, storage, updating or modification, retrieval, alteration, consultation, or use.

• dissemination by means of transmission, distribution, or making available in any other form.

• merging, linking, restriction, degradation, erasure, or destruction of information.

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1.2.14. Public body means:

• any department of state or administration in the national or provincial sphere of government, or any municipality in the local sphere of government.

• any other functionary or institution when:

  • exercising a power or performing a duty in terms of the Constitution or a provincial constitution.

  • exercising a public power or performing a public function in terms of any legislation.

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1.2.15. Public record means a record that is accessible in the public domain and which is in the possession of, or under the control of, a public body, whether or not it was created by that public body.

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1.2.16. Record means any recorded information:

• regardless of form or medium, including:

  • writing on any material.

  • information produced, recorded or stored by means of any tape-recorder, computer equipment, whether hardware, or software or both, or other device, and any material subsequently derived from information produced, recorded or stored.

  • label, marking or other writing that identifies or describes anything of which it forms part or to which it is attached, by any means.

  • book, map, plan, graph or drawing.

  • photograph, film, negative, tape or other device, in which one (1) or more visual images are embodied to be capable, with or without the aid of some other equipment, of being reproduced.

• in the possession or under the control of a responsible party.

• whether or not it was created by a responsible party

• regardless of when it came into existence.

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1.2.17. Regulator means the Information Regulator, established in terms of section 39 of the POPI Act

 

1.2.18. Re-identify and re-identified, in relation to personal information of a data subject, means to resurrect any information that has been de-identified that:

• identifies the data subject,

• can be used or manipulated by a reasonably foreseeable method to identify the data subject,

• can be linked by a reasonably foreseeable method to other information that identifies the data subject.

 

1.2.19. Responsible party means a public or private body, or any other person which, alone or in conjunction with others, determines the purpose of and means for processing personal information.

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1.2.20. Restriction means to withhold or restrict from circulation, use or publication, any personal information that forms part of a filing system but not to delete or destroy the information.

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1.2.21. Service means the website www.drcarpenter.co.za

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1.2.22. Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Therapist. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Therapist to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Therapist, to perform services related to the Service.
   

1.2.23. Special personal information means personal information, as referred to in section 26 of the POPI Act:

• religious or philosophical beliefs, race or ethnic origin, trade union membership, political persuasion, health, sex life or biometric information of a data subject,

• criminal behaviour of a data subject, to the extent that the information relates to:

  • alleged commission by a data subject of any offence,

  • proceedings about any offence allegedly committed by a data subject or the disposal of those proceedings.

1.2.25. Therapist (referred to as "the Therapist") means Dr Darren Carpenter.

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1.2.26. Unique identifier means any identifier that is assigned to a data subject and is used by a responsible party for the purposes of the operations of that responsible party and that uniquely identifies that data subject for that responsible party.

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1.2.27. Website means www.drcarpenter.co.za

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1.2.28. You means the individual accessing or using the Service
 

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