Terms of Service

If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms, do not access, use or contribute to the RightAngle HR website.

RightAngle HR may change these terms occasionally, so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of this site will be considered acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website.

III. DISCLAIMER

Care is taken to ensure that the information included on this website is accurate, but inaccuracies may need to be corrected. If you discover any information which you believe to be inaccurate, please email info@rightanglehr.co.za.

Please note that the views represented on this site by members of the public or members, through articles, letters, comments, etc., do not necessarily reflect those of RightAngle HR or its representatives.

There are some links from this website to sites maintained by other groups. These links are provided purely to help you and in good faith. The presence of a link does not imply that RightAngle HR endorses or supports these groups, nor does the absence of a group imply that RightAngle HR does not support it. Likewise, RightAngle HR does not necessarily endorse all literature and materials produced by companies with links with  RightAngle HR.

RightAngle HR cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss caused by any omission or inaccuracy in the materials, members’ direct/ indirect actions on this site, or in linked sites/pages, however caused.

IV. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

You agree, to the maximum extent allowed by law, to hold harmless and to indemnify the RightAngle HR and any affiliates from and against any and all liabilities, expenses (including legal fees) and damages arising out of claims resulting from your use of the website, including, without limitation, however arising, any claims alleging facts that if true would constitute a breach by you of these terms. Of course, if you are dissatisfied with any of the website material or with any of these terms, you can stop using the website.

Any comment, analysis, or service rendered is the professional view of the writer. It is indemnified against any claims, demands, actions, costs or charges that may arise against such a person either solely or in contribution to it. The analysis is by no means presented as an indisputable fact.

RightAngle HR shall not be liable for any claims, losses, injuries, penalties, damages, costs or expenses arising from the use of, or inability to use, the website or its content, or any action taken or omitted by such user.

RightAngle HR (Pty) Ltd (hereafter referred to as RightAngle HR) is committed to the privacy of our customers and their data. Our Privacy Policy applies to all RightAngle HR’s website and Social Media users.

RightAngle HR adheres to the following policies regarding your privacy.

1. Information Collected:
   When you enter the RightAngle HR Website, We automatically collect information such as your browser type and IP address. In addition, to offer you meaningful products and services and for the reasons outlined in this policy, We collect information about you, including Personally Identifiable Information, from the following sources:
   1. Information We Collect Directly From You:
      The type of information that we collect directly from you depends on your interaction with our Site and Services. When you complete an application or other forms on the Site and/or Software, we collect information directly from you. We also collect information that you send us via any medium, including, but not limited to, email, telephone, and social media interaction; or
   2. Information We Collect Automatically:
      If you use a mobile device platform to access the RightAngle HR Website Services or communicate with RightAngle HR, information transmitted from your mobile device; or
   3. Information We Purchase:
      Information purchased from third parties.
   4. Registration:
      RightAngle HR may request information from you during the registration process, including, but not limited to, name, surname, email address, phone number, and/or social media profile information and authorisation. RightAngle HR may request other information from you during or after the registration process that RightAngle HR uses to provide better and more customised services to users. You acknowledge that this information is personal to you, and by creating an account on RightAngle HR, you may allow others, including RightAngle HR, to identify you and enable RightAngle HR to use your information.
   5. Customer Service:
      We collect information when you interact with RightAngle HR’s customer service in order to accurately categorise and respond to customer inquiries and investigate breaches of our terms.
   6. Protection of Personal Information Act:
      This Privacy Policy and conduct with regard to the processing of personal information is in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act.
      For the purposes of this clause, the following words/phrases, will have the meanings assigned to them below, unless the context indicates otherwise:
      • “PERSONAL INFORMATION” means information relating to you, including but not limited to – Information relating to 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 the birth of yourself; Information relating to the education or the medical, financial, criminal or employment history of yourself; any identifying number, symbol, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, location information, online identifier or the other particular assignment to yourself; the biometric information of yourself; your opinions, views or preferences of yourself; correspondence sent by yourself that is implicitly or explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further correspondence that would reveal information about the contents of the original correspondence; the views or opinions of another individual about yourself; and you’re name if it appears with other personal information relating to yourself or if the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about yourself.
      • “PROCESS OR PROCESSING” means any operation or activity or any set of operations, whether or not by automatic means, concerning personal information, including – the collection, receipt, recording, organisation, collation storage, updating or modification, retrieval, alternation, consultation or use; dissemination by means of transmission, distribution or making available in any other form; or merging, linking, as well as restriction, degradation, erasure or destruction of information. 
      • “PROCESSING PURPOSE” means to operate and improve the site, provide users with the service and other products and services that a user may request or that a user has expressed interest in, facilitate subscription processing, reviews and analysis, evaluate user interest and needs in order to improve the service and make available other offers, products or services, provide customer support, communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to users through email or other means, such as special offers announcements and marketing materials, to send users reminders of technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages, services bulletins, or marketing, to provide advertisements to users through email messages and to manage our everyday business needs such as site administration, management, fulfilment, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of use or to comply with relevant laws.
       

      By using the services and by accepting the application of our Privacy Policy, you agree to the following:

      • that we may PROCESS your PERSONAL INFORMATION for the PROCESSING PURPOSES;
      • that all PERSONAL INFORMATION of yourself was given directly to us by you;
      • you are aware of, and understand the PROCESSING PURPOSE;
      • that the records of your PERSONAL INFORMATION may be retained by us, even after the PROCESSING PURPOSE has been met, which retention is subject to the following:
        • PERSONAL INFORMATION shall not be processed in any manner other than for storage purposes by us; and
        • if the PROCESSING PURPOSE is revived for any reason whatsoever, you give your consent that we may PROCESS your PERSONAL INFORMATION for the PROCESSING PURPOSE until such time that the PROCESSING PURPOSE is met. In this event, the provisions of clause six will be once again applicable.
      • that you will provide us with updated PERSONAL INFORMATION in the event that any such information changes;
      • that you are aware of our identity, as well as our physical address;
      • that the supply of PERSONAL INFORMATION us is mandatory, and if such information is not supplied, we shall not supply any services to you whatsoever;
      • that you are aware that you may at any time object to the PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION in Terms of the Protection of Information Act;
      • that you are aware that you may lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator in terms of the Protection of Information Act at any time.
   7. Using Third-Party Services And Visiting Third-Party Sites:
      Information you provide to third-party sites/websites through the RightAngle HR Website Services are not within the control of RightAngle HR, and you can provide such information at your own risk. The terms and conditions of use and the privacy policies of those websites you provide information to through the RightAngle HR Website Services will depend on how they use such information. RightAngle HR will collect any information you share with a third-party site through the Service. RightAngle HR will use such information in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
   8. Information Collected Automatically
      Use of Cookies. The Site may send a cookie to your computer. Cookies allow us to recognise you as a user when you return to RightAngle HR website using the same computer and web browser and to monitor how you use the Site. We use Cookies to identify which areas of our site you have visited, so the next time you visit the site, those pages may be readily accessible. We may also use this information to personalise better the content you see on the Site. We also use cookies to automatically capture activity on the Site, such as where you click, how you scroll through the Site, or what fields you enter text into (without seeing the actual text you enter). Most browser software can be set to reject Cookies. However, if you reject our Cookies, certain functionality on the Site may not work correctly or at all. For example, we may allow authorised third parties to place or recognise a unique cookie on your browser. RightAngle HR does not store unencrypted personally identifiable information in the Cookies. By accepting the terms set out in our Privacy Policy and/or by making use of our services, you herewith with specifically provide your consent and approval of the use of cookies on our site, and you further agree, that all personal information collected in such a manner may be used for the processing purpose.
   9. Web Beacons
   10. RightAngle HR also may use web beacons, pixels, anonymous ad network tags, and cookies to collect information about your use of the Site and the websites of selected sponsors and advertisers, to collect anonymised, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers, and to collect data related to your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information collected by Web Beacons also allows us to monitor how many people open our emails statistically and for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our Web Beacons are not used to track your activity outside of the RightAngle HR Website or the websites of our sponsors. However, because your web browser requests advertisements and Web Beacons directly from ad network servers, these networks can view, edit or set their own Cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site. If you are a non-registered Visitor to the Site, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons.

2. Log files, IP Addresses And Information About Your Computer And Mobile Device:
   Due to the communications standards on the internet, when you visit the RightAngle HR Website, we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave the RightAngle HR website. RightAngle HR also receives the internet protocol (“IP”) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, email patterns, your mobile device (including your UDID or Vendor Identification) and mobile operating system (if you are accessing the RightAngle HR Website using a mobile device), as well as the name of your ISP or your mobile carrier. RightAngle HR may also receive location data passed to it from third-party services or GPS-enabled devices that you have enabled. Also, as described above in Section 1.D. RightAngle HR receives information when you access third-party web pages through the RightAngle HR Website Services. The link between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties without your permission, except as described in Section 8. (“When We May Disclose your Information”) below.

3. Do-Not-Track
   Currently, our systems do not recognise browser “do-not-track” requests. You may, however, disable certain tracking as discussed in this Privacy Policy (e.g., by disabling Cookies or using ‘private’ browsing modes).

4. Exemptions From Privacy Policy
   Our Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may send to RightAngle HR by email or instant messaging programs (i.e. AOL, Yahoo, etc.), as email and instant messages are not recognised as secure communication forms. As such, we request that you do not send any information which you consider private to us by email or instant message. Furthermore, our Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you post from the RightAngle HR Website Services/Software to other websites (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, etc.), due to the public nature of such postings.

5. Use Of Personally Identifiable Information
   • RightAngle HR uses and/or intends to use Personally Identifiable Information to:
   • Operate and improve the RightAngle HR Website;
   • Provide Users with the Website Services and other products and services that a user may request or that a user has expressed interest in;
   • Facilitate subscription processing, reviews and analysis;
   • Evaluate user interest and needs in order to improve the RightAngle HR Website Services and make available other offers, products or services;
   • Evaluate the types of offers, products or services that we make available to users and potential users;
   • Track use of the RightAngle HR Website Services;
   • Provide customer support;
   • Communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to users through email or other means, such as special offers, announcements, and marketing materials;
   • Send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages, service bulletins, or marketing;
   • Provide advertisements to you through email messages; and
   • Manage our everyday business needs such as Website administration, forum management, fulfilment, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of Use, or to comply with the law.

6. Links/Postings To Other Sites
   The RightAngle HR Website and/or Software may contain links to other websites. RightAngle HR is not responsible for the actions, practices, or content of such websites linked to or from the RightAngle HR Website and/or Software. You understand that such websites may have their own legal documents to which you must agree before using and that we have no control over these legal documents. As always, you understand that it is your responsibility to verify your legal use of a website as well as the use of information from the website with the corresponding website owner.

7. Market Research
   Through email invitations, RightAngle HR may conduct online research surveys to gather feedback about the RightAngle HR Website and opinions on important issues. When participating in a survey, we may ask you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally Identifiable Information is used for research purposes and not for sales solicitations. Personal Identifiable Information collected through market research will be used only by RightAngle HR. It will not be given or sold to a third party without your consent or as this Privacy Policy permits.

8. Use Of Aggregate Data
   RightAngle HR may combine information you provide through the Site with information from other users to create aggregate data that may be disclosed to third parties. Aggregate information does not contain your personal contact information.

9. 9. When We May Disclose Your Information, we do not share Personally Identifiable Information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may disclose your information, including Personally Identifiable Information, for the following purposes:
   10. 1. We may share Personally Identifiable Information with our contractors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, including, but not limited to, the operation of the RightAngle HR Website technology, marketing services, and other related services. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by such contractors and service providers is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for RightAngle HR. We also contractually require that.
       2. We may share Personally Identifiable Information we collect, as permitted by law, with companies such as credit reporting agencies, or servicing and processing companies, or when required or advised to do so in response to a valid legal requirement to release this information, such as a state or federal law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court order; or (2) in special cases, such as in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property, or defend or assert legal rights, to defend ourselves in litigation. If we cannot disclose your personally identifiable information to a third party, we will try to let you know unless we violate the law or court order.
       3. Finally, RightAngle HR may provide content and services to you through websites other than our own. RightAngle HR will not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these 3rd party websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose on such sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

If you request that we refrain from sharing your personal data with a third party, that request may result in your inability to use some or all of RightAngle HR Website Services. If your access to the RightAngle HR Website Services is terminated based upon your request that we do not share your personal data with a third party and that request results in your inability to use some or all of the RightAngle HR Website Services, your resulting inability to use the RightAngle HR Website Services shall not be a basis for a refund or to avoid charges for the RightAngle HR Website Services that you previously agreed to.

10. Access, Correction And Deletion Of Personally Identifiable Data
    You may request access to a report of the Personally Identifiable Information we maintain concerning your use of the Service. You can also ask that the Personal Identifiable Information we collected and maintained be corrected or deleted. To make this request, please get in touch with us at info@rightanglehr.co.za. Please be aware that if you request that we delete your Personally Identifiable Information, you may no longer have access to the RightAngle HR Website Services. If your access to the RightAngle HR Website Services is terminated based upon your request that we delete your Personally Identifiable Information, please be advised that your resulting inability to use the RightAngle HR Website Services shall not be a basis for a refund or to avoid charges for the RightAngle HR Website Services that you previously agreed to.

11. Security Policy & User ID/Password
    Our site utilises various information security measures such as internet firewalls, an intrusion detection system, encrypted data transmission, and operating procedures designed to protect your personal data, accounts, passwords, etc. You should protect your user ID and password and NOT share it with anyone. If you believe your user ID and password have been compromised and you have trouble changing your user ID/password on the Site or within the application, please get in touch with our technical support department (info@rightanglehr.co.za).

12. CAN-SPAM Compliance Notice
    We may be able to send periodic promotional or informational emails to you. You can opt out of such communications by following the opt-out instructions in the e-mail. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information that may interest you, we may still send you e-mails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us.

13. Transfer Of Ownership
    If we are acquired by or merged with another company, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, we may transfer the information we have collected from you to the other company. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises of our then-current Privacy Policy.

14. Notice To Residents Of Countries Outside South Africa
    RightAngle HR is headquartered in South Africa. Personally Identifiable Information may be accessed by us or transferred to us in South Africa or to our affiliates, business partners, merchants, or service providers elsewhere in the world. By providing us with Personally Identifiable Information, you consent to this transfer in compliance with applicable law (as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act (“PAIA”), Act 2 of 2000, and as detailed in s 1 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (“ECTA”), Act 25 of 2002 and as detailed in Section 1 of the Protection of Personal Information Act (“POPI”) Act 4 of 2013 (hereinafter referred to “Personal Information”). We will protect the privacy and security of Personally Identifiable Information according to our Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed or stored. See below for additional information about our participation in the Safe Harbor programs.

17. Information And Other Rights, Contact
18. Upon written request, we would happily provide you with information on whether – and if so, which – personal data we store about you. Should your data be incorrect, you may have this rectified immediately. Any such information or modification is free of charge. Moreover, you are entitled to revoke your consent to use data in the future, in whole or in part. Should you desire this, we will delete or block your relevant data; however, doing so may result in your inability to use the RightAngle HR Website Services in whole or in part. To assert such rights, please get in touch with RightAngle HR at info@rightanglehr.co.za.

18. RightAngle HR’s Access To Your Account
    You agree that RightAngle HR can access your account information to respond to your service requests and/or, as necessary, in our sole discretion, provide you with the RightAngle HR Website Services.

19. Your Acceptance Of This Privacy Policy
    This is our entire Privacy Policy, and it supersedes any earlier version. You agree to it when you use the RightAngle HR Website and/or Software. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or by posting a prominent notice on the RightAngle HR Website before the change becomes effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of the RightAngle HR Website Services is your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy. If you don’t accept the terms of this Policy, you can just discontinue using the RightAngle HR Website Services.

20. Questions About This Privacy Policy
    Should you have a privacy question about the RightAngle HR Website and/or Software, please email our customer service department (info@rightanglehr.co.za).

Effective: July 17, 2024

CONTACT

If you have any questions about our Terms and Conditions, please let us know via email: info@rightanglehr.co.za.