1. Privacy Notice

We at Stryde Consulting care about your privacy and we are dedicated to protecting the personal data entrusted to us and this is our plan of action when it comes to protecting your personal data.

The purpose of this notice is to describe the way we process information that can be associated with you and can be used to identify you (personal information).

This policy applies to you if you are:

1. a visitor to our website; or
2. a client who has requested the services that we

2. When do we collect and use your personal information?

• Personal information includes:
  • Identifying information – such as your name, date of birth, or identification number of any kind;
  • Contact information – such as your phone number or email address;
  • Address information – such as your physical or postal address; or
  • Demographic information – such as your gender or marital
  • Professional details – such as job and career history, educational background and professional memberships, published articles
  • Personal data for the purposes of provision of professional services
• Sensitive personal information

We typically do not collect sensitive or special categories of personal data about you. However, depending on the services that you require, we may also collect sensitive personal information, with your consent, including your:

• Financial information – such as your bank account details;
• Sensitive demographic information – such as your race or ethnicity;
• Medical information – such as information about your physical or mental health;
• Criminal information – such as information about your commission or alleged commission of any offence or about any related legal proceedings;
• Employment information – including your membership of a trade union; and
• Child data – although we do not intentionally collect information from individuals under 16 years of age, we may occasionally receive details about children if it is provided to us by our clients in the course of a professional
• Typical examples of when we collect your personal information
• When you contact us on any of our social media platforms, we collect the information included in your message and we use this information to communicate with
• When you sign a service level agreement with us to render monthly retainer services, we collect the information included in the contract and use this information to perform our contractual duties and to contact
• When you instruct us to render ad hoc services to you, we collect your information to perform our contractual duties and to contact
• Our website may contain electronic image requests (called a single-pixel gif or web beacon request) that allow us to count page views and to access cookies. Any electronic image viewed as part of a web page (including an ad banner) can act as a web beacon. Our web beacons do not collect, gather, monitor or share any of your personal information. We merely use them to compile anonymous information about our
• Some of our business partners use their own cookies or widgets on our We have no access to, or control over them. Information collected by any of those cookies or widgets is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it, and not by us.
• Purpose for which we collect your personal information
• Contractual obligation purposes – such as personal data in order to perform our contractual obligations;
• Marketing purposes – such as pursuing lawful related marketing activities;
• Legal purposes – such as handling claims, complying with regulations, or pursuing good
• We may share your personal information with the following service providers
• We use service providers whom we trust and who have implemented the necessary data protection measures. These service providers will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we have sent it to We use service providers to:
• provide IT support and infrastructure
• maintain our website;
• deliver accounting services;
• maintain and facilitate our invoicing to clients;
• to assist with the delivery of professional HR/IR and POPIA
• Our website is operated by Robot Commerce (Pty) Ltd, having its seat and registered address at Cnr Mutual Road & Rivonia Blvd, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
• For accounting and invoicing purposes, we use intuit (Quickbooks). They have put the requisite measures in place to ensure that our personal information remains protected. You are most welcome to read their privacy and security statement here: https://www.intuit.com/privacy/
• We use Microsoft 365 to do our work and we store all our information, including our clients’ information, on OneDrive. Microsoft stores all of their data in the EU and they provide adequate level of protection of personal information that is stored with them. You are most welcome to read their privacy statement       here: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en- us/privacystatement.
• We may need to disclose personal information to our employees that require the personal information to do their These include our responsible management, human resources, accounting, audit, compliance, information technology, or other personnel.
• We will not sell personal No personal information will be disclosed to anyone except as provided in this notice.

3. Acceptance of this notice

• You must accept all the terms of this notice when you request our services. If you do not agree with anything in this policy, then you may not request our services.
• By accepting this policy, you are deemed to have read, understood, accepted, and agreed to be bound by all of it
• You may only send us your own personal information or the information of another data subject where you have their permission to do

4. Changes

• We may change the terms of this policy at any time by updating this web We will notify you of any changes by placing a notice in a prominent place on the website or by sending you an email detailing the changes that we have made and indicating the date that they were last updated.
• If you do not agree with the changes, your use of the website and our services will If you continue to use the website or services following notification of a change to the terms, the changed terms will apply to you and you will be deemed to have accepted those updated terms.

5. Data Protection

We recognise the seriousness of data and privacy protection and will endeavour to, at all times, ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws. Our hosting company will host our website in a secure server environment that uses a firewall and other advanced security measures to prevent interference or access from outside intruders.

6. Retention of your personal information

• We will only retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes explicitly set out in this notice, unless:
• retention of the record is required or authorised by law; or
• you have consented to the retention of the record
• During the period of retention, we will continue to abide by the undertakings in this notice and will not share or sell your personal information.

7. Objection, Correction, Updating and deletion

You may choose to object, correct, update or delete the personal information you have submitted to us by sending an email to info@strydeconsult.co.za. The relevant forms are attached hereto for your ease of reference.

8. Warranties

We are not responsible for, give no warranties, nor make any representations in respect of the privacy policies or practices of linked or any third-party websites.

9. Enquiries

If you have any questions or concerns arising from this notice or the way in which we handle personal information, please contact us at info@strydeconsult.co.za.

10. Availability of this policy

A copy of this policy can be requested from the Information Officer and the policy is also published on the Company website at https://strydeconsult.co.za/