Alumni Energy Investments is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Alumni Energy Investments Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Alumni Energy Investments website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Alumni Energy Investments collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Alumni Energy Investments also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your post code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Alumni Energy Investments. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Alumni Energy Investments for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Alumni Energy Investments Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Alumni Energy Investments public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Alumni Energy Investments does not read any of your private online communications.

Alumni Energy Investments encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Alumni Energy Investments so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Alumni Energy Investments is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Alumni Energy Investments and Alumni Energy Investments family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Alumni Energy Investments collects and uses your personal information to operate the Alumni Energy Investments Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Alumni Energy Investments also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Alumni Energy Investments and its affiliates. Alumni Energy Investments may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Alumni Energy Investments does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Alumni Energy Investments may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Alumni Energy Investments may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Alumni Energy Investments, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Alumni Energy Investments does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Alumni Energy Investments keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Alumni Energy Investments, in order to determine what Alumni Energy Investments services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Alumni Energy Investments to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Alumni Energy Investments Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Alumni Energy Investments or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Alumni Energy Investments; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Alumni Energy Investments, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Alumni Energy Investments website uses “cookies” to help personalize and improve your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on the hard disk of your computer or other device by a Web page server when you visit the Alumni Energy Investments website. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

We analytical cookies on the Alumni Energy Investments website. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. We call these ‘first party’ cookies.

All the first party cookies used on this site are session cookies. This means that they expire at the end of the browser session and are not stored on your computer longer term.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline or delete cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline or block cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Alumni Energy Investments services or Web sites you visit.

Even if you do not click on “I accept” in the cookie notice, you may still receive some cookies from the Alumni Energy Investments website unless you have blocked cookies on your Web browser.

Further information about cookies, including how to delete or block them, can be found at: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Security of your Personal Information

Alumni Energy Investments secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Alumni Energy Investments secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Alumni Energy Investments will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Alumni Energy Investments encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Alumni Energy Investments is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Alumni Energy Investments welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Alumni Energy Investments has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Alumni Energy Investments at info@alumnienergy.co.za. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.