Privacy Policy
1. INTRODUCTION
We, Redirect Mall ("we”, or "us”, "our”) are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your personal information or personal data. This Policy ("Policy”) explains how we process your personal data, which means, in relation to your personal data, various activities including collecting, receiving, recording, storing, updating, using, transferring or erasing.
This Policy applies to any and all interactions with us where we process personal data including your use of any of our websites or mobile applications, or engaging with us telephonically or in person and forms part of our website and mobile application terms and conditions. By visiting or using any of our websites or mobile applications, you agree to the terms of this Policy as updated from time to time. We will let you know of any material changes to the Policy.
2. SCOPE
This Policy applies to all data subjects (persons, whether a natural or juristic person, to whom personal data relates) ("you”, "your”), whose personal data we collect, regardless of the country where you live or work, as we are a multi-national retailer.
This Policy applies to all personal data, whether it was provided to us through our websites, mobile applications or through any other form of communications with you such as email, telephone, or otherwise ("Channels”), through or by third parties or tools that collect personal data.
3. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE collect?
3.1. Personal data means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person, including: information relating to race, gender, marital status, ethnicity or social origin, age, disability (mostly as required by labor and credit laws); an identifiable number, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, identification number, location information, online identifier; biometric information; personal preferences, views or personal opinions; correspondence of a private or confidential nature; and a name if it appears with other personal data relating to you or if disclosing your name itself will reveal information about you.
3.2 The personal data we collect about you is dependent on:
a. the transaction you are completing,
b. the reason you are communicating with us and
c. the Channel used to communicate with us.
d. personal data may include your: name, contact information including e-mail address, postal address, physical address, primary and secondary telephone numbers, date of birth; employment history, criminal history, ethnic origin, language, (these specifically relate to employment applications); gender, age, financial information (as required by law, relating to financial services and credit products and services), biometric information (in order for us to identify you when you phone us), billing information, additional information which we are required or permitted by applicable legislation to collect and process, as well as information you elect to share publicly, including on social media and customer forums.
3.3. Personal data excludes:
• information that has been made anonymous so that it does not identify a specific person;
• permanently de-identified information that does not relate or cannot be traced back to you specifically; and
• Non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by us.
4. ACCEPTANCE
a. You must accept all the terms of this Policy when you order any of our products or, register for, or use the website, application or any of our services. By accepting this Policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of its terms.
b. Legal capacity: The age requirement for engaging with our platforms is 18 years of age. To the extent required by applicable law, users under the age of 18 years of age must obtain parental or guardian consent. We will afford the same level of protection to all personal data processed, regardless of the age of the person the personal data pertains to.
5. WHEN DO WE collect YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We collect your personal data when you:
- voluntarily provide us with information when you interact with us, for example when you send us online enquiries, or you subscribe to or consent to receiving newsletters or other communications from us;
- browse, visit or participate in our various platforms;
- register an online profile on our websites or apps to purchase our products;
- purchase, return, exchange or enquire about products and service from us;
- agree to the terms and conditions of credit applications and other products and services that contain provisions dealing with the use or disclosure of your personal data;
- make general enquiries, lodge complaints, and communicate with us;
- apply for vacancies on our Careers portal by submitting your CV and thereafter should you be employed as an associate of Redirect Mall;
- Participate in any of our events.
From time to time we collect your personal data from trusted third parties, in which case we will ensure that you have provided your consent for your personal data to be disclosed to us.
We do not collect or retain your bank card details used to purchase products or services. This information is collected by financial institutions that have their own privacy policies. You are advised to never respond to emails that seem to be from us requesting bank card details as this request is most likely fraudulent and should be reported to us immediately.
- Cookies
We do not collect your personal data when using cookies about when and how you use our websites, apps or when you click on an advert of ours that is contained on another website. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device when you use it. Cookies hold information such as the identity of the computer or device you used to access our Channels, your server address, domain name, the time and date that you visited our Channels, pages, product and documentation that you accessed or viewed and which internet browser you used. We do this so that we can:
- provide you with more personalized service, communication and products by better understanding your browsing and purchasing behavior;
- track, count and analyse website visits and usage data;
- understand product preferences and popularity; and
- Improve our websites and your online shopping experience.
- Your internet browser generally accepts cookies automatically, but you can often change this setting to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies manually. However, no longer accepting cookies or deleting them will prevent you from accessing certain aspects of our website where cookies are necessary.
- Third-party services ; We use trusted third-party services including Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze our users’ usage. To prevent your personal data from being used by Google Analytics you can install an opt-out browser add-on).
Most web browsers can be adjusted to inform you when a cookie has been sent to you and provide you with the opportunity to refuse that cookie. Refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude you from using, or negatively impact, the display or function of our websites or certain areas or features of our websites. You may only send us your own personal data or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do so.
- Recording Calls; we may monitor and record any telephone calls that occur between Redirect Mall and yourself, including any to our call centers. We record calls to improve our service delivery, have a recording of your details to update them and or to meet any regulatory requirement.
6. WHY DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
a. Processing includes gathering your personal data, disclosing it as stipulated in clause 7 below, and combining it with other personal information. We collect and process your personal data DATA to: -
- provide our goods and services to you, for example apparel, household goods, insurance and mobile products
- communicate with you regarding new product features, personalized products, services, offers and events that we think may be of interest to you;
- analyze, develop, continually improve and enhance the use, functionality and performance of our websites and apps, products and services to manage the security of our sites, networks and systems;
- comply with applicable laws, including our obligations to make disclosures to authorities, regulators and government bodies; and
- Engage in our legitimate business, related interests, and legal purposes, including but not limited to detecting and preventing fraud and conducting our business as a fashion-value retailer.
c. Transferring your personal data; Your personal data will be processed mainly in United Kingdom where our support center is located, however certain personal data may be transferred to countries outside of United Kingdom, for example where we make use of cloud based software services, in which case we will ensure that the necessary security measures are in place relating to the processing and storage of your personal data
7. WHEN WILL WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
a. We may provide access to or share some of your personal data, when necessary and for the reasons that it was provided or collected, to:
- our associates, other divisions or companies within the group of companies to which we belong, so as to provide joint content and services like registration for transactions and customer support, to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies;
- our merchandise suppliers, service providers, auditors, constants and agents if they are required under contract to process it for us or to provide services for or to us, including product deliveries and returns, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, distribution and courier companies, information hosting, communication providers, development and administration, information technology and related infrastructure services, technical support and other support services relating to our legitimate business interests and our contractual obligations to you (our contracts dictate that these merchandise suppliers or service providers only use your information in connection with the goods they supply or services they perform for us and not for their own benefit);
- credit bureaus to report account information, as permitted by law;
- banking partners as required by credit card association rules for inclusion on their list of terminated merchants (in the event that you utilize the services to receive payments and you meet their criteria); and
- Other third parties who provide us with relevant services where appropriate.
b. Change of ownership; we may share personal data with third parties in the event of a re-organization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other type of sale of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock.
c. Regulators and law enforcement ; We may provide access to or share your personal data as required by law, court order or other lawful reasons, where we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to government requests, including public and government authorities.
When we share or provide access to your personal data with third parties, they are contractually restricted from using or disclosing your personal data except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements.
d. No selling; we will not sell your personal data. No personal data will be disclosed to anyone except as provided for in this Policy.
8. JUSTIFICATION FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION IF YOU ARE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU)
To communicate with you and to attend to your requests, processing of your personal data is required, and we have a legitimate business interest in processing your personal data
- to process transactions with customers, suppliers, job applicants, donors and investors;
- to action purchases, returns and applications,
- to fulfil an obligation where we have entered into a contract with you;
- to process personal data in relation to marketing and promotional activities based on your consent when your personal data was collected;
- pursuant to our legitimate business interest to market and promote our products and services;
- to analyze, develop, improve and optimize our Channels, products and services, and to maintain the security of our sites, networks and systems;
- to comply with applicable laws, or
- to process your opt-out instruction.
9. ACCURATE AND UP TO DATE
We will try to keep the personal data we collect as accurate, complete and up to date as is necessary for the purposes defined in this Policy. From time to time we may request you to update your personal data.
10. STORAGE, RETENTION AND DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
a. We will keep your personal data for different periods of time depending on the use or purpose your personal data was provided or collected for, as well as your preferences regarding marketing, recruitment and other correspondence.
b. We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this Policy unless:
- retention of the personal data is required or authorized by law; order
- you have consented to the retention of the personal data.
c. We will safely delete or destroy personal data which we are no longer required or not permitted to retain, or for which we do not have your consent.
11. SECURING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take the security of personal data very seriously and always do our best to comply with applicable data protection laws. We secure the integrity and confidentiality of your personal data that is in our possession and under our control by taking the appropriate reasonable technical and organizational measures to prevent loss, damage, unauthorized destruction, unlawful access, or unlawful processing of your personal data. We authorize access to personal data only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities. In doing so we have due regard to generally accepted industry information security practices and procedures.
12. YOUR RIGHTS
You have the following rights in respect of your personal data that we process:
- you may enquire from us (at no cost) whether we hold your personal data, (we will only provide you with this information when you provide us with adequate proof of your identity);
- where necessary, request the correction or deletion of your personal data;
- object to, restrict or limit the processing of your personal data;
- Object to using your personal data for purposes of direct marketing.
You can exercise any of your rights listed above by sending an email to
. If you want to change your email preferences, you can do so by selecting the preference settings on the most recent email that you received from us. Where we have reasonable doubt as to the identity of the person making an enquiry we may request additional information to confirm the identity of the person, such as an identity document, including a national Identity card, driver’s license or passport.
