When you become a customer of ours you will be added to our mailing list. You can also add yourself to our mailing list on our website. We will send you marketing communications about the products and services we offer and other important information. We will include a link on all marketing communications that enables you to unsubscribe or you can contact us to request removal from our mailing list. If you unsubscribe, we may still contact you in other instances such as communications about the products and services we provide to you. In these instances we will contact you directly and not through a mailing list.

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Change of purpose 

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We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. We may also process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
 

5. Disclosures of your personal data
 

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table above (Purposes for which we will use your personal data).

• Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary. 

• External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.

• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy. 

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
 

6. International transfers
 

Some of our third parties, for example cloud hosting providers, may be based outside of South Africa or the EU so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data. Whenever we transfer your personal data internationally, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented: 
 

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.

• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in the EU (or South Africa).  

• Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US. 
   

Please contact us if you want further information on how we transfer your personal data internationally.
 

7. Data security
 

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
 

8. Data retention
 

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
 

9. Your legal rights
 

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. 

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Request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

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Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.

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Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. We may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you. 

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Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information.

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Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: 

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• If you want us to establish the personal data's accuracy.

• Where our use of the personal data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.

• Where you need us to hold the personal data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. 

• You have objected to our use of your personal data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it. 

 

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. This right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you. 

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Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

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If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact Oliver Becker at oliver@metalmanagementsolutions.com. 

 

No fee usually required

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You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

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What we may need from you

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We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data. This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

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Time limit to respond

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We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. 
 

10. Glossary
 

LAWFUL BASIS

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Legitimate interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law. 

Performance of contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.

THIRD PARTIES

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Internal Third Parties

Other companies in the MMS group.
 

External Third Parties

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• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers and accountants in South Africa who provide legal, banking and accounting services.

• The South African Revenue Service and other regulators and authorities in South Africa who may require reporting of information in certain circumstances.

• Service providers listed in the table below: