Welcome to our website. The information displayed on our website is provided for general information purposes only and no person shall have any claim of any nature whatsoever arising out of, or in connection with, the contents of this website against LifeShine Wellness Centre and/or any of its directors and/or employees. By viewing this website, you acknowledge that you have read and accept the following Protection of Personal Information (POPI)disclaimer.

We at Lifeshine Wellness Centre respect your right to privacy and we shall take all reasonable measures to protect the personal information of users.

Where we refer to “personal information”, it means “personal information” as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (“POPI“), and “personal data” as per the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“theGDPR“). Personal information refers to information that identifies or relates specifically to you, for example, includes information like a name, age, gender, identity number, location information, an online identifier or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that person. Where applicable, this privacy policy applies in addition to any other agreement that you have entered into with us.The GDPR and POPI Acts are available online at
www.gov.za/documents/acts.


PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT
LifeShine Wellness Centre (hereafter referred to as “LifeShine”) respects the privacy of all users who visit in our websites or communicate electronically with us. The Privacy Policy therefore provides an explanation on how Lifeshine gathers and disseminate information for all LifeShine websites:

INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY BY LIFESHINE
Generally, you can visit our websites without explicitly telling us who you are or revealing any personal identifiable information about yourself. We do, however, record your IP address, browser type, pages visited and other such information. Log files are used to analyse website usage and may be kept in an aggregated and anonymised form for historical records. The broad demographic information gathered about our visitors help us assess our target audience, and to determine which external sites are most effective in referring patients and visitors to us. This helps us to align our content to the needs of our audiences. Lifeshine does not share the collected information with any other organisation for commercial purposes.

INFORMATION COLLECTED MANUALLY BY LIFESHINE
You may come across registration forms that require you to provide us with personal identifiable information (like your name, surname, email address, contact numbers, and postal or work address), and perhaps some additional information. The collected information may be shared within Lifeshine as a whole unless otherwise stipulated during the collection process. The collected information on our website may be stored and processed outside your country (if outside South Africa) and by using Lifeshine’s website or links contained therein, you consent to any such transfers being made outside your country.

USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY LIFESHINE
The information provided by you is used to get in contact with you in response to a query from you, to improve Lifeshine websites, provide access to booking/scheduling information, online store access or, in case of a conference or webinar, to register you as a participant. No personal information submitted by you will be shared or made public without your prior consent or unless required to do so by law.

COOKIES
Some of our websites may use cookies to store any preferences you may have expressed. Cookies are like tokens for a specific web page that the web server stores on your computer. The next time you visit us, your computer will pass the cookie back to our server and thus keep track of your preferences. This will allow our websites to personalise your online experience. Your browser can be set to warn you whether a cookie should be accepted or declined. Alternatively, you may disable cookies altogether, in which case you may not be able to visit these specific pages.Further information about cookies may be found at: www.allaboutcookies.org.

SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.EXTERNAL LINKSSome websites contain links to other sites.  LifeShine is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. One you leave our websites, we cannot guarantee the protection and privacy of your personal identifiable information collected by these sites. These links are provided just as a convenience and do not imply endorsement by LifeShine.

DATA PROTECTION
The Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPI Act) has been promulgated and implemented on 1 July 2020. All personal identifiable information provided by you shall be treated in accordance with this statute and only used for academic and academic administration purposes, as indicated in Lifeshine Privacy Policy. Should you have any query regarding Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 issues, please contact us at Lifeshine.

CONSENT
By using Lifeshine websites, you give consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy Statement.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT
Lifeshine reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy Statement. Any changes made to the Privacy Policy Statement will be posted on this page. Lifeshine encourages you to periodically review the Privacy Policy Statement to be informed of how Lifeshine manages the collected information.

DISCLAIMER
It is the policy of  LifeShine to abide by and follow any rule of common or statutory law. Page content posted via links on our web pages, partners and external organisations to  LifeShine’s websites reflect their own opinions, interests, and activities; they do not implicitly or explicitly represent official policies or positions of  LifeShine. Individual content maintainers assume responsibility and liability for the content of their pages.  LifeShine does not aggressively review, censor or control the contents of these pages, nor does it assume responsibility for any links that you may follow from them. For further assistance, contact info@lifeshine.co.za.