General Terms of Use
This document states the General Terms of Use under which the website may be used which are located at https://www.hlb.co.za. Please do not use the website if you do not agree to be bound by these terms and conditions of use.
This service is being strictly provided for personal use. The information being made available via the website is non-contractual and may be changed without the giving of any prior notice. The contents on this website are protected by copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights under national and International laws. Unauthorised use of information may violate the Intellectual Property Rights of HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated or other third parties.
The information and material provided on the website may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of the information or about the results to be obtained from using the Website and the information. Under no circumstances may the information accessible on the website be regarded as a consultation or advice of any kind.
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated may not under any circumstances be held liable for losses of any kind related to the consultation or use of the website by its users. In this respect you hereby agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated, any of their officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, costs, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use or misuse of the material, the Website or your breach of these Terms of Use.
This Website is based in South Africa. HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated makes no claims that the materials are appropriate. Access to the materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Website from outside of South Africa you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. The construction, validity and performance of these General Terms of Use shall be governed in all respects by South African law, and the Parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the South African Courts.
Personal data may be collected from visitors during their use of the site when they fill in the Contact Us forms provided on the site, mainly when they are requesting to be contacted, or when a complaint is being made. HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated reserves the right to terminate your use of the website if any of the General Terms of Use are breached.
Disclaimer
HLB International is a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity, and as such HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated has no liability for the acts and omissions of any other member. HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated is limited liability companies constituted and registered under the South African Laws which co-ordinates the international activities of the HLB International network but does not provide, supervise or manage professional services to clients. Accordingly, these South African registered companies have no liability for the acts and omissions of any member of the HLB International network, and vice versa and expressly disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to fitness for particular purposes and warranties of satisfactory quality.
In no event will these companies be liable for the acts and/or omissions of any member of the HLB International network, or for any direct, special, incidental, or consequential damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information or other pecuniary loss) arising directly or indirectly from the use of (or failure to use) or reliance on the content of this Website or any third party website, or from your use of any member’s services and/or products. Any reference to a member’s services or products should not be taken as an endorsement.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains personal data is used and collected. It also explains your rights under the law relating to your personal data. Personal data is any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
For the purposes of this privacy policy and reference being made to HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated shall be taken to refer to the HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated entities as indicated below:
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated
Block B Bradford House, 12 Bradford Road,
Bedfordview, Johannesburg, 2007, South Africa.
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated is the Data Controller for the collection and processing of this data. HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated as Data Controller is committed to protecting your privacy. In this respect, any personal information communicated to HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated is kept within its own records in accordance with mainly the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) including any other laws relating to privacy.
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated will not collect any personal information unless you provide it voluntarily or unless we are legally required to obtain it mainly in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001 (‘FICA’) in aggregate with the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (‘POCA’) and any other Anti-Money Laundering (‘AML’) Laws and Regulations of South Africa or any other local or international law. HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated will process personal data only and insofar as is necessary to provide one or more Services you have requested or otherwise with your consent.
What Personal Data does HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated collect?
The information we collect from you from this website may include the following:
Should you decide to communicate with us using the Contact Us Form on this website, you will be asked to provide: your Name and Surname, the Company Name, your City/Town, your Country, your Email address and your message to us. Moreover, information about your device (phone or laptop) with which you browsed our website as per our Cookies policy.
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated may also collect further information from you from time to time during the course of our relationship to ensure our continued adherence with the applicable legislation.
Why does HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated collect this data?
Personal information provided may be used for the following purposes:
1. establishing a client relationship with you;
2. to respond to your enquiries or comments submitted through the website
3. for legal and regulatory compliance purposes, including when necessary: to respond to governmental or regulatory entities requests, to comply with our legal obligations under current Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Regulations and current local and international tax Laws, in relation to the exchange and automatic forwarding of tax related information, to identify misuse of our systems and any fraud or other illegal or unlawful activity or any other activity which is or may be contrary to our legal and regulatory compliance obligations.
Retention of your personal data
Personal data will be retained for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out above and in accordance with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Sharing of your personal data
If you request information or assistance we may share your personal information with appropriate companies who are members of the HLB International network. Without prejudice to the foregoing, we will ensure that personal information provided by you to HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated will not result in any breach of POPIA and all re-enactments thereof and subsequent amendments thereto.
From time to time, upon being instructed to do so by the Client, HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated may need to disclose personal or other data pertaining to the Client to third parties engaged to perform services on the Client’s behalf when corresponding with banks, legal advisors, lawyers, accountants and such.
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated may also disclose your personal data when obliged to do so in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation.
Your Rights
Under the POPIA, you have the following rights, which HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated will always strive to uphold:
1. The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data.
2. The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
3. The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete.
4. The right for erasure of your personal data.
5. The right to restrict or prevent the processing of your personal data.
6. The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
7. The right to data portability meaning that you can ask us for a copy of your personal data held by us to re-use with another service or business.
Security
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated will endeavour to ensure that adequate and reliable security measures are in place to protect personal data from being lost, misused or illegally accessed.
Links to other websites
This website may contain links to websites maintained by members of the HLB International network or other third parties. Such links are only provided for your own convenience. In light of this, the privacy policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites which are not controlled by us. We are not responsible for the collection or use of your personal information from these third-party websites.
HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated accepts no liability for the content of such websites and thus, encourages you to read the privacy policies on the other websites you visit.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If there are any changes to the Privacy Policy, HLB Barnett Chown Incorporated will replace this page with an updated version. Therefore, it is in one’s own interest to check the “Privacy Notice” page in order to be aware of any changes which may occur from time to time.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer who may be contacted here:
The Information Regulator (South Africa)
33 Hoofd Street
Forum III, 3rd Floor Braampark
Braamfontein, Johannesburg
Mr Marks Thibela
Chief Executive Officer
Cell No. +27 (0) 82 746 4173
[email protected]
This Private Policy was last updated in 2013.