Privacy Policy

History Makers Digital is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and complying with your choices. Both personal and non-personal information collected is safeguarded according to the highest privacy and data protection standards adopted worldwide. We have always had a robust and effective data protection program in place which complies with existing law and abides by the data protection principles. However, we recognize our obligations in updating and expanding this program to meet the demands of the GDPR and the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.

Our Commitment:

  • We use state-of-the-art security measures to protect your information from unauthorized users.
  • Your information will not be shared, rented or sold to any third party.
  • Give you the possibility to control the information that you shared with us (opt-out)

History Makers Digital is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under the GDPR.

Article 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall be:

  1. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals.
  2. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;
  3. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
  4. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;
  5. kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organizational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and
  6. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures.”

  1. Notice

We will clearly inform you when information that personally identifies you (“personal information”) is asked for and you will have the choice to provide it or not. Generally, this information is requested when you [install/download/subscribe] to product updates, newsletters or other online services.

  1. Usage

      We collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • verifying account registrations, including conducting fraud, security, “Know Your Customer” and anti-money laundering checks in order to approve your Seller account;
  • verifying your eligibility as a blogger or influencer;
  • setting up / administering accounts, including providing log-in IDs and setting up payment / transaction accounts;
  • providing customer service support, such as responding to your queries, feedback and managing claims and/or disputes;
  • providing/supporting general services, facilitating communication, processing transactions and payments and providing logistics and delivery services;
  • verifying your identity and purchases in connection with product warranty or other after-sales claims;
  • assessing and monitoring account security and transaction risks of users, such as detecting and preventing fraud, money laundering and other security incidents;
  • sending and serving tailored marketing and advertising that we believe will be of interest to you based on the ways in which you use the site, your browsing records, and order history;
  • conducting research and analytics to ensure the security of our website, to improve the content and layout of the site, and to improve our product offerings and services;

We may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.

We collect your email when you register in order to send you informational communications about our offers, such as their purpose and the best use you can make of them. We also collect your email to send you our promotional offers.

We may also collect your name, language, currency, operating system, document searched and country information for a better experience with History Makers Digital products/services.

We also contact the phone number that is provided if we suspect that the cardholder’s debit or credit card information has been compromised, i.e. used in a fraudulent way

If you are our client, we may ask you to provide:

  • contact information including: name; address; phone number; email address;
  • information about the your business (if applicable) including corporate registration, business licenses (if applicable), tax or similar information;
  • purchase and/or payment information including: credit card or similar payment information that you intend to purchase with; billing and delivery address;
  • information about your purchases including: the goods purchased and how many;
  • information about and/or to support complaints made in connection with the Site or goods and/or services purchased via the Site;
  • ID (such as a passport) for identification verification in certain circumstances, when you apply for after-sales services.
  • If you attend one of our industry events or other functions, contact details such as user name, address, phone number, fax number and email address.
  • If you choose to provide us with any additional information, such as in response to questionnaires for market research / analytics. This may include marital status, nationality, gender, date and/or year of birth, annual income, monthly spending and user preferences. If you prefer not to provide such information, the use of our services and products will not be affected.

Information That We Collect Automatically:

If you are a client or prospective client we will automatically collect:

  • A copy of any correspondence with us, including any verification information we ask for, if you contact us for any reason (such as our customer service department chat service, telephone or email).
  • Details of transactions and communications over the website, including the types and specifications of the goods sold and purchased, pricing and delivery information, any dispute records, communications between us over our site and any information disclosed in any discussion forum.
  • Details of site buying and browsing activities, for these purposes we will automatically collect information from your device. In some jurisdictions, including countries in the European Economic Area and the UK, this information may be considered as personal information under applicable data protection laws. Specifically, this collected information may include IP addresses, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), browsing patterns and details of how you have interacted with our Site and the goods and services available on it. In addition, we gather information about the Site and visitors to the Site, including browser software, operating system, software and hardware attributes, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further under our Cookies Where we are required by applicable law, we will seek your prior consent to the collection of information using cookies and similar tracking technologies. We also may derive or collect inferences about you based on your buying and browsing activity information and other information we have collected about you.

Cookie Policy:

We Use Cookies, Like many online service providers, History Makers Digital uses cookies for the purpose of facilitating your use of History Makers Digital’s Sites and to find out how History Makers Digital’s service may be improved. History Makers Digital use cookies and other technologies to collect and analyse information about you and your usage of History Makers Digital’s site to test, analyse, deliver, and personalize History Makers Digital’s content and the experiences you receive.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by your browser when you visit a website. You can find out more about cookies by visiting allaboutcookies.org.

Use of your Information:

History Makers Digital uses customer information to personalise its service and make communications more relevant to individual customers via mail, email, telephone, fax or in person. This includes direct marketing activities like promotional offers, news and information about Products and services that History Makers Digital think will be of interest to customers. History Makers Digital also contacts customers to obtain feedback that will help improve its Products and services and for operational reasons. Customers may occasionally also receive very carefully selected and relevant third party communications done in conjunction with ourselves.

Different Types of Cookies

Our website uses cookies for the following purposes:

Access:

We use access cookies to identify subscribers and ensure access to subscription-only pages. You understand you are participating in a public forum and that your submitted content and other personal information will be available to all other users of the Sites, the Community and potentially Third Party Sites;

Fraud prevention:

We use fraud prevention cookies to monitor and prevent suspicious activity and fraudulent traffic.

Functionality:

Functional cookies are used to provide basic functionalities when using History Makers Digital’s Site, such as the possibility to set your preferences or to remember your previous delivery addresses and recipients.

Performance:

We use these cookies to monitor Site performance. This allows us to provide History Makers Digital’s visitors with a high quality experience by quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, History Makers Digital might use performance cookies to track error messages, and to determine improvements to History Makers Digital’s Sites.

Analytics:

We use analytical cookies to optimise History Makers Digital’s service. For example, to optimise the usability of History Makers Digital’s website by AB-testing a new feature, to make the website more user-friendly and to analyse how you use History Makers Digital’s service. History Makers Digital use cookies to help us understand History Makers Digital’s audience and the success of advertising campaigns. History Makers Digital also use analytical cookies to stop bots and malicious behaviour like spam. When History Makers Digital use analytical cookies, this could include third party cookies. These third party analytical cookies process personal information.

Personalization:

We use personal cookies to improve your experience of History Makers Digital’s Products by personalising History Makers Digital’s Sites. For example, History Makers Digital help you to find new content and recommend email alerts based on the topics you read. Where History Makers Digital’s Sites have such functionality, you can manage elements of personalisation in your account. History Makers Digital want to understand what type of device and operating system you are using to show you the best version of the Site. History Makers Digital use cookies to identify your location to display the Products on the Site that are most relevant to your location.

Advertising:

We use advertising cookies for commercial, editorial and promotional purposes. With these cookies, your internet and surfing behaviour can be followed over various domains and websites. Advertising cookies are often placed by third parties. For example, if you read a number of articles on food on other sites, you would see more food-related advertisements as History Makers Digital have inferred that you are interested in this topic. You may also see advertisements for History Makers Digital’s Products and services on other websites if you have previously visited History Makers Digital’s Sites. History Makers Digital use cookies to understand what advertisements you have been shown, or clicked on, and to present you with advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.

History Makers Digital does not have access to or control over (personal data collected via) these cookies or other features that advertisers and third parties may use. Our Privacy & Cookie Policy is therefore not applicable to these cookies, and History Makers Digital refer you to their Privacy Statements to read how they handle your data. History Makers Digital may collect additional information arising from your participation in promotions, events or competitions offered by us and information you provide when giving us feedback or when you complete forms. History Makers Digital make use of various data enhancement services to ensure that customer data is as accurate as possible. History Makers Digital also recruit new customers through collaborative campaigns with third parties.

Some cookies are associated with your account. Other cookies are not tied to your account but are set on a browser or device. There are two broad categories of cookies:

Persistent cookies:

Persistent cookies remain on your device until deleted manually or automatically.

Session cookies:

Session cookies remain on your device until you close your browser when they are automatically deleted.

Our authorised staff and specific third party suppliers serving the direct marketing industry have access to the information for the purposes described above. Tasks of these third party companies and individuals include database and storage management, payment processing, analytics and general improvements of the service. When History Makers Digital cooperate with third parties and they process your personal data on History Makers Digital’s behalf, History Makers Digital make sure your personal data will be handled with the same integrity and security.

History Makers Digital is committed to protecting customer privacy and does not sell or disclose information to anyone for purposes other than as outlined above, unless legally obliged to do so. Customers are afforded the opportunity to easily opt out of any specific communication channel should they wish to.

We disclose/share personal information with the following categories of recipients:

  • Third party partners and service providers and/or affiliates engaged by or working with us to assist us in providing services to you or who otherwise process personal information for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information. Categories of these partners and service providers include:
  • History Makers Business Consulting entities and affiliated companies and/or their designated service providers that work with us to provide processing services such as software, tools, systems and messaging services for purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
  • our business partners (for example, in order for them to provide you with discounts or offers that may interest clients or prospective clients) where you have consented to receiving such information from them if required by applicable data protection laws;
  • marketing and advertising partners, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and providers of analytics services relating to users’ behavior, so that they may tailor the content you see when visiting our Site for analytics and/or advertising purposes. These partners may combine information they collect on our Site with data on their sites and data they collect from other websites or through other sources in order to conduct targeted advertising. The processing activities of these third-party marketing sites are governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy.
  • payment service providers that provide payment processing services. The activities of payment service providers may be governed by their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy;
  • cloud computing or other hosting service providers to provide cloud storage services;
  • warranty service providers to provide product warranty services where requested by a Buyer or Seller;
  • customer service support providers to provide after-sale services or other customer service support;
  • risk control service providers to assess the security of Buyer and Seller accounts and transaction risks; and
  • third party rating / reviewing service providers to carry out reviews of our services with customers if you choose to participate in reviewing or rating Site products and/or services;
  • To our professional advisers, law enforcement agencies, insurers, government and regulatory and other organizations where we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable laws or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or protect your vital interests or those of any other person; or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws.
  • To an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

To any other person with your consent to the disclosure.

We have established relationships with other parties and websites to offer you the benefit of products and services which we do not offer. We offer you access to these other parties and their websites either through the use of hyperlinks to these sites from our Site or through offering “co-branded” sites in which both we and other parties share the same uniform resource locator (URL), domain name or pages within a domain name on the Internet. In some cases, you may be required to submit personal information to register or apply for products or services provided by such third parties or co-branded partners. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these third-party sites or co-branded sites. The privacy policies of those other parties may differ from ours, and we have no control over the information that you submit to those third parties. You should read the relevant privacy policy for those third-party sites and co-branded sites before responding to any offers, products or services advertised by those parties.

  1. Consent

When you provide your personal information, you consent that it can be used for the above purposes and that History Makers Digital is an authorized holder of such information. If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still use our website, but you will not be able to receive additional services or access certain areas that require registration. When you activate your account, you are providing your consent to occasionally receive information from us. In each communication from us you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from further communications; alternatively, you may contact us to express your choices at the address provided at the bottom of this page.

  1. Access to your information:

You are entitled to review the personal information you have provided us and ensure that it is always accurate and current. To review or update this information simply enter in the profile area or request that we send you this information.

  1. Security of information:

History Makers Digital is strongly committed to protecting your information and ensuring that your choices are honored. We have taken strong security measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. All sensitive data is stored behind multiple firewalls on secure servers with restricted employee access.

We guarantee that all e-commerce transactions follow the latest security measures and use the best available technologies. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is employed when you place online orders or transmit sensitive information. SSL is one of the safest methods of passing information over the Internet.

  1. Retention of information:

We retain information if it is necessary to provide the services requested by you and others, subject to any legal obligations to further retain such information. Information associated with your account will generally be kept until it is no longer necessary to provide the services or until you ask us to delete it or your account is deleted whichever comes first. Additionally, we may retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the Terms of Use, and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Finally, your data could also be stored for sales statistical purposes.

  1. EU and EEA Users’ Rights:

If you are habitually located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you have the right to access, rectify, download or erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited circumstances. We describe these rights below:

 You have the right to access your personal data and, if necessary, have it amended or deleted or restricted. In certain instances, you may have the right to the portability of your data. You can also ask us to not send marketing communications and not to use your personal data when we carry out profiling for direct marketing purposes. You can opt out of receiving email newsletters and other marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those emails. Transactional account messages will be unaffected if you opt-out from marketing communications.

  1. What we do with the Information you share

Your information is never shared outside the company without your permission. Inside the company, data is stored behind multiple firewalls on secure servers with restricted user access.

When you register to our website, you are asked to provide your contact information, including a valid email address. We use this information to send you updates about History Makers Digital order confirmations and information about our services. When you order from us, we ask for your card number and billing address. We use this information only to bill you for the product(s) you ordered at that time.

We may on occasion require the help of other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, shipping and delivery, customer support and processing event registrations. We will only provide such companies with the information required for them to perform these services; these service providers are bound by strict privacy policies and are prohibited from using your information for any other purpose.

In very rare instances History Makers Digital  may disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on History Makers Digital or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of History Makers Digital and its family of websites and properties; and (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of History Makers Digital, its websites, or the public.

  1. How to opt-out:

We provide users with the opportunity to opt-out from receiving updates on our products, newsletters and other communications from us. You can opt-out by clicking on the link provided in our electronic mailings or by contacting us at the address at the bottom of this page.

  1. Does History Makers Digital privacy policy apply to linked websites?

Our Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected on our site: http://historymakersdigital.com The Site contains links to web sites of third parties. History Makers Digital is not responsible for the actions of these third parties, including their privacy practices and any content posted on their web sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies to learn more about what, why and how they collect and use personal information. History Makers Digital adheres to industry recognized standards to secure any personal information in our possession, and to secure it from unauthorized access and tampering.

However, as is true with all online actions, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions of personal information, or other users of the Site may misuse or abuse your personal information that they may collect from the Site.

History Makers Digital third-party advertising companies to serve our ads on the Site. Please review our Cookie Policy for all details. These third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1×1 pixel. gifs or web beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our website and other websites but will not collect any information which can personally identify you or can be linked to you. This information can include date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, and the IP address. This information can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.

If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may either visit each ad network’s web site individually and opt out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies. Click here for the NAI gateway opt-out site.

This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies’ privacy policies.

  1. Changes to this policy:

If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post these changes here so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use your information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by email.

  1. Enforcement of policy:

If for some reason you believe History Makers Digital has not adhered to these principles, please notify us and we will do our best to promptly make corrections.

  1. Questions or comments:

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us or write us at:

For information about how to contact History Makers Consulting Business please visit our contact page. http://historymakersdigital.com/contact-us/