Privacy Policy
 
We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of the users of this website.
This privacy policy will advise you about how we protect your personally identifiable information, and about what choices you have concerning our use of such information. Please read this policy carefully. We may need to change this policy from time to time in order to address new issues and reflect changes on this site. We will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone. Please refer back to this policy regularly.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please send an email to: info@owla.co.za or contact us at: +27(0)16 366-9000.
 
Scope of Privacy Policy
 
This policy applies to your use of all of this site, which is owned or operated by The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation (the “site”). Unless we say otherwise, all references to this site in this policy include this site. This policy does not apply to your use of other sites to which this site may link. This policy covers only information collected on this site and does not cover any information collected offline by us.
 
Personally Identifiable Information
 
We may request personally identifiable information from you (such as your name, street address, telephone number, email address, and/or any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of you) in connection with activities, services or resources we make available on this site. In all of these cases, we will collect personally identifiable information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will reasonably endeavor to ensure that we will never intentionally disclose any personally identifiable information about you as an individual user to any third party without having received your permission (through opting in or other procedures), except as provided for herein, or otherwise as permitted or required under law. Use of personally identifiable information provided in connection with Submissions, as defined in the Terms and Conditions of this site, will be governed by the Terms and Conditions of Submission set forth in the Terms of Use of this site.
 
If you do provide us with personally identifiable information for any of these activities, we may use it to conduct the activity. We may also use cookie technology and web beacons (discussed in detail below) to improve your experience of these activities, including to remember your preferences, customize the content or authenticate your access to your personal information. In addition, in the event your personally identifiable information is requested as part of our outreach efforts, such personally identifiable information may be added to your profile.
 
We have the following exceptions to these policies: We will release specific information about you or your account to the extent required by applicable laws, rules and regulations including to comply with any valid legal inquiry or process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute or court order. We will also release specific information in special cases, such as if there is an attempted breach of the security of this site, or a physical or property threat to you or others. We may also transfer user information, including personally identifiable information, in connection with a transfer of the The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation’s assets to another entity or other fundamental corporate change.
 
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
 
We may collect non-personally identifiable information through the use of:
 
• “Cookie” technology: A “cookie” is an element of data that a website can send to your
   browser, which may then store it on your system.
• “IP address tracking”: An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you
   are on the Internet. When you request pages from this site, our servers log your IP address.
• “Web beacons”: A web beacon, or “clear gif”, is a small graphic image on a web page or web-
   based document that a website can use to determine information about a user.
 
Non-personally identifiable information might include the browser you use, the type of computer, technical information about your means of connection to this site, such as the operating systems and the Internet service providers utilized, and other similar information. Our systems may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit and search terms you utilize on this site and about the links you may select from within this site to other areas of the web or elsewhere online.
 
We use such information to administer the site and, in the aggregate, to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on this site. This way we know which areas of this site are favorites of our users, which areas need improvement, and what technologies are being used so that we may continually improve this site.
 
We may share this aggregate statistical information with our partners, suppliers and other third parties, but we will not share any individual names, personal navigational or other personal information.
 
Further, we may contract with a third party web analytics provider to help manage and optimize this site. We use this service to help us research how visitors use this site. To do this, we use web beacons and cookie technology on this site. The type of information we collect includes the number of hits a web page receives, type of browser used, and number of times a visitor makes a donation. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors. Although this third-party provider logs the information coming from this site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used.
 


 

 
Privacy of Children
 
We understand that young people need special safeguards and privacy protection. We realize that they may not understand all the provisions of our policy or be able to make thoughtful decisions about the choices that are made available to our adult users. We strongly urge all parents to participate in their children’s exploration of the Internet and any online services, and to teach their children about protecting their personal information while online.
 
The site is not directed to children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are under 13 you should not use or enter information on this site.
 
We may, at our discretion, require users under 18 to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian to view certain content, and we may limit access to certain content to users above a specified age. You agree to abide by any such restrictions, and not to help anyone avoid these restrictions.
 
Links To Other Sites
 
We do not control the contents or links that appear on these sites. In addition, these sites or services, including their contents and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy (policies) at all. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party sites or services before providing any of them with your personal information.
 
Security Policy
 
Protecting your privacy and your information is a top priority. We have taken careful measures to secure both your information and our physical premises. We exercise great care in providing safe transmission of your information from your PC to our servers (unless sent by a means outside of our control, such as email).
 
Access To/Correction of Information
 
If you would like to review any personal information we have retained about you in our database, please send us an email request for this information at info@owla.co.za. To help us address your request, please specify which information you wish to review. Once you have reviewed this information, at your request we will correct personal information about you that you state is erroneous. To request such a correction, please send an email to info@owla.co.za. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our databases and servers although we will always make reasonable efforts to do so upon your request.
  
Unsubscribe
 
If you choose to receive information from us, you can change your mind later. If at any time you would like to stop receiving such information or opt-out of a feature, you may unsubscribe to emails by clicking the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of each email, or you may contact us. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our databases and servers although we will always make reasonable efforts to do so upon your request.
 
Consent to Transfer
 
The site is operated in the South Africa. If you are located outside of South Africa, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to South Africa. By using our website, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.
 
As described in this Privacy Policy, we will collect personally identifiable information only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. Use of personally identifiable information provided in connection with Submissions, as defined in the Terms of Use of this site, will be governed by the Terms and Conditions of Submission set forth in the Terms of Use of this site.
 
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please send an email to: info@owla.co.za or contact us at: +27(0)16 366-9000.
 
Your Acceptance of These Terms
 
By using this site, you signify your acceptance of our privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.
 
(Last modified on 1 September 2010)