Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to all personal information collected by ELSA (“Everything Local SA”).
ELSA recognizes the importance of your privacy, and that you have a right to control how your personal information is collected and used. ELSA knows that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take that seriously. Unless you directly give us consent to do otherwise, ELSA will only use your personal information as set out below.

• Collection of Information
To use our services, you need to Sign up on ELSA website account. We require you to provide some information when you create an account.
You may request deletion of that data by contacting us.
We collect personal information about you when:

  1. information about you is posted (registering business listing or public user account) on ELSA website, either by you or by a third party.
  2. when you log into ELSA website or otherwise submit your personal information.
  3. when you use ELSA website, in which case our system automatically collects information relating to your visit to the website, such as your IP address.

ELSA website will not rent, sell, or share information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies. Any other data collected on the site is purely for the purpose of running the site and communicating with you, it will not be shared, rented or sold.

• Third Party Content
In addition, we may collect your personal information when you have given your consent to another party who holds personal information about you to allow us access to that personal information.
The type of information that we collect from you may include the following: your name, phone number, address, email address, company position/ title, cookies, personal information that you include in your business profile or personal information that you email/ send via email on ELSA website.

• Cookies
When you enter the ELSA website, we will use cookies. Cookies are tiny text files that identify your computer to our server. These cookies do not allow us access to your computer nor store any details relating to you or your credit cards. They are used to record the areas of the site that you have visited and for how long, which provides us with useful usage information that helps us make ELSA website more accessible to our users in line with their needs. The use of cookies helps us to improve the quality of service that we provide.

• Using and Disclosing Your Personal Information
Our purpose in collecting information about you is to provide you with a better service experience with content and advertising that is more relevant to your interests and create a business information database and associated content for use as part of ELSA business. While ELSA website database is designed to operate as a business directory, it is possible that personal information may be included in the business information database.
ELSA will not use or disclose any information about you without your consent, unless:

  1. the use or disclosure is for one of the purposes described above or otherwise permitted by this policy.
  2. it is required or permitted by law (including by relevant privacy laws).
  3. we believe it necessary to provide you with a service which you have requested.
  4. to protect the rights, property or personal safety of another ELSA website user, any member of the public or ELSA; or
  5. any of the assets and/or operations of ELSA are being transferred to another party.
    If you do not provide requested information, ELSA may not be able to provide you with access to or full use of sections of the ELSA website.

• Disclosing Information
Sometimes, the activities described above require us to share your personal information with other organisations. The types of situations in which ELSA usually discloses personal information, and the types of organisations to which such disclosure is usually made, include the following:

  1. The business information database is available via the internet to any member of the public. It is also disclosed to other entities with whom ELSA has a business relationship.
  2. ELSA discloses personal information to its service providers, advisers and other entities with whom ELSA has a business relationship, in the course of operating the ELSA website and in the course of delivering the ELSA services.

• Marketing
ELSA may contact you at any email or other address or contact details which we have collected or obtained in order to:

  1. contact you about your business profile or other content such as reviews which you have posted on ELSA website.
  2. provide you with updated information about ELSA website.
  3. provide you with other information about other products or services which you may like.
    If you are receiving promotional information from ELSA website and no longer wish to receive this information, you may remove your name from our list by contacting us and asking to be removed from our mailing list.
    Emails sent through ELSA website, enquiries and replies are once-off emails. ELSA will not distribute your email address to any third party nor use them for anything other than their intended purpose.

• Access to the Information We Keep

  1. If, at any time, you wish to change personal information that is inaccurate or outdated, please contact us. If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please let us know in the same manner as referred to above. We will take all reasonable steps to change or delete information in response to your request. If there is a reason that we cannot make that change or deletion, we will inform you of such a reason.
  2. ELSA will endeavor to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we have about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. You should note that the internet is not a secure method of transmitting information and, as such, ELSA is not responsible for the security of any information sent or received over the internet.

• Third Party Websites
The ELSA website contains links to websites that are not operated by ELSA website and the contact details for many businesses not operated by ELSA. These linked sites and profiled businesses are not under the control of ELSA, and ELSA is not responsible for the conduct of those businesses. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website or to any other company, we recommend that you go through the Terms and Conditions / Privacy Policy of those organisations.

• Changes to this Privacy Policy
ELSA may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Business Listing or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us.