Privacy Policy

  1. Introduction

    1. Lepsta Inc. is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to our website.
    2. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how your information will be treated. This policy may vary from time to time so please check it regularly.
    3. We recognise the importance of protecting your privacy in respect of your personal information (as defined in Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013) collected by us when you use our products and services.

    4. You are not required to provide any personal information on the public areas of this website.

      However, you may choose to do so:

      1. When you register for an account, create or modify your profile, set preferences, sign-up for or make purchases through the website For example, you may provide your contact information and, in some cases, billing information, when you register to use our products and services. You also have the option of adding a name, profile photo, job title, and other details to your profile information to be included in our service data.

        In this regard, we keep track of your preferences when you select settings within the Services.

      2. By the content you provide through our products and services. The Services include the Lepsta platform you use, where we collect and store content that you post, send, receive and share. This content includes any information about you that you may choose to include. Examples of content we collect and store include your code repositories, information regarding code conflicts, and any feedback you provide to us. Content also includes the files and links you upload to the platform.

        Isn't this supposed to say: “ If you use a server or data centre version of the Services, that we do not host, we do not store, transmit, receive or collect information about you (including your content), except in limited cases, where permitted by your administration:wherein we collect feedback you provide directly to us through the product you use and, where we collect content using analytics techniques that hash, filter or otherwise scrub the information to exclude information that might identify you or your organization.

      3. By the content you provide through our other websites that include social media or social networking websites operated by us. For example, you provide content to us when you provide feedback or when you participate in any interactive features, surveys, contests, promotions, sweepstakes, activities or events.
      4. By providing payment Information. In this regard, we collect payment and billing information when you register for certain paid Services. For example, we require you to designate a billing representative, including name and contact information, upon registration. You might also provide payment information, such as payment card details, which we collect via secure payment processing services.
    5. In adopting this privacy policy, we wish to balance our legitimate business interests and your reasonable expectation of privacy. Accordingly, we will take appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational steps to prevent unauthorised access to, or disclosure of your personal information.

    6. By continuing to use this website:

      1. You agree that we may "collect, collate, process and/or store" your personal information (as defined in POPI) ("process") for, amongst other things, (i) To provide the Services and personaliseyour experience, (ii) for research and development, (iii) To communicate with you about the Services (iv) To market, promote and drive engagement with the Services, (v) for customer support.
    7. Where there are reasonable grounds to believe that your personal information has been accessed or acquired by any unauthorised person, we will notify the relevant regulator and you, unless a public body responsible for detection, prevention or investigation of offencesor the relevant regulator informs us that notifying you will impede a criminal investigation. When we notify you thatyour personal information has been accessed or acquired, we will provide you with sufficient information to allow you to take protective measures against the potential consequences of the compromise.

  2. Types of Personal Information We Process

    1. The types of personal information that we may process includes information necessary for our legitimate business interest and the categories of personal information defined in POPI. This may include (amongst other things):

      1. Your name and surname, e-mail and physical addresses, postal address, contact information, and the pages of the website viewed by you.

      We will limit the types of personal information we process to only that to which you consent and which is necessary for our legitimate business interests.

  3. How We Share Information We Collect

    You consent that we may disclose your personal information to approved third party providers (as referred to below in 3.3) where necessary.

  4. You agree that once your information has been de-identified, i.e.: delete any information that identifies you, personal information may be shared under the following circumstances:

    1. To ouragents, advisers, service providers, suppliers, and service users.
    2. To monitor web traffic: web servers serving the website automatically collect information about pages you visit. This information is used for internal review, to tailor information to individual visitors and for traffic audits;
    3. For statistics purposes: we may perform statistical analyses in order to measure interest in the various areas of the website (for product development purposes);
    4. To government and law enforcement agencies, where the law requires that we disclose your personal information to a party, and where we have reason to believe that a disclosure of personal information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against a party who may be in breach of the Privacy Policy or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.

  5. Your Rights

    1. You have the right to request that we correct, destroy or delete any of your personal information that we have processed in accordance with this policy. The personal information that you may request us to correct, destroy or delete is personal information that has been processed that is inaccurate, irrelevant, excessive, out of date, incomplete, misleading, obtained unlawfully or that we are no longer authorised to retain.

    2. You have the right to withdraw your consent for us to process your personal information at any time. The withdrawal of your consent can only be made by you on the condition that:

      1. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the processing of your personal information before the withdrawal of your consent; or
      2. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the processing of your personal information if the processing is in compliance with an obligation imposed by law on us; or
      3. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the processing of your personal information where such processing is necessary for the proper performance of a public law duty by a public body;
      4. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the processing of your personal information as required to finalise the performance of a contract in which you are a party; or
      5. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the processing of your personal information as required to protect your legitimate interests or our own legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party to whom the information is supplied.
    3. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information at any time, on reasonable grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is required by law.
    4. You can make the objection if the processing of your personal information is not necessary for the proper performance of a public law duty by a public body; or if the processing of your personal information is not necessary to pursue your legitimate interests; our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party to which the information is supplied.
    5. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, at any time, if the processing is for purposes of direct marketing other than direct marketing by means of unsolicited electronic communications and you have not given your consent for that processing.
    6. You have the right not to have your personal information processed for purposes of direct marketing by means of unsolicited electronic communications from third parties unknown to you.
    7. You have the right not to be subjected to a decision which is based solely on the basis of the automated processing of your personal information intended to provide a profile of you.

    8. Decisions that you may not be subjected to are decisions that result in legal consequences for you or affect you to a substantial degree:

      1. Without being for the execution of a contract that you have received performance for; or
      2. Decisions made that are not in terms of law or of a code of conduct that specifies what appropriate measure must be taken to protect your legitimate interests.
    9. You have the right to submit a complaint to the Information Regulator regarding an alleged interference with the protection of personal information processed in accordance with this policy. The Information Regulator's contact details will be published by the Government in due course in terms of POPI.
    10. You have the right to institute civil proceedings regarding an alleged interference with the protection of your personal information processed in accordance with these Terms.

  6. Contact Us

    1. Your information is controlled by Lepsta Pty Ltd and Lepsta Inc. If you have questions or concerns about how your information is handled, please direct your inquiry to Lepsta Pty Ltd.