By registering and making use of the Surgo Learning Academy’s site and services you understand and agree that all information provided, whether personal or otherwise, may be used and processed by the “owner” of this website, and such use may include providing statistical information to third party institutions.

Further by continuing to register you specifically agree that the Company will use such information provided by you, irrespective of the nature of such information.

Surgo shall take all reasonable measures to protect the personal information of users and for the purpose of this disclaimer “personal information” shall be defined as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act, Act 2 of 2000 (“PAIA”) and the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013 (“POPI”).

The PAIA and POPI Acts are available online at www.gov.za/documents/acts.

As per the POPI Act personal information refers to information that identifies or relates specifically to you as a person or data subject, for example, your name, age, gender, identity number and your email address.

We respect your right to privacy and therefore aim to ensure that we comply with the legal requirement of the POPI Act which regulates the manner in which we collect, process, store, share and destroy any personal information which you have provided to us.

It is confirmed that by submitting information to Surgo, irrespective as to how such information is submitted, you consent to the collection, collation, processing, and storing of such information and the use and disclosure of such information in accordance with these terms and conditions.

Why we collect Personal Information:

We collect personal information in order to liaise with you telephonically, via our website or email so that we may:

1.Respond to any query or comment received from you;

2. Inform you of new offers;
3. Enable us to process, validate and verify information and requests for the supply of goods and/or services;
4. For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information;
5. Generally, to improve your experience with our service;
6. Provide a recruitment and language assessment platform for South Africans and;
7. Store your information in our recruitment database to be contacted for any future work opportunities

Processing of Information

We will share your personal information:

1. In order to comply with applicable law or with legal process served on our company;
2. In order to protect and defend the rights or property of our company

Security Measures

We will:

1. Treat your personal information as strictly confidential;
2. Take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that your personal information is kept secure and is protected against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction or damage, alteration, disclosure, or access;
3. Promptly notify you if we become aware of any unauthorized use, disclosure, or processing of your personal information;
4. We will not retain your personal information longer than the period for which it was originally required, unless we are required by law to do so, or you consent to us retaining such information for a longer period.

ALTHOUGH WE TAKE THE AFOREMENTIONED PRECAUTIONS IN PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, WE SHALL HOWEVER NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE, HOWSOEVER

ARISING, SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF THE DISCLOSURE OF SUCH INFORMATION IF OUTSIDE OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.

Your rights

You have the right at any time to:

1. Rectify the Personal Information collected by us;
2. Object to the processing of Personal Information (subject to legislation);
3. Request the return or destruction of Personal Information (subject to legislation);
4. Lodge a complaint with the company.