Our Commitment to you

Yuppie Gadgets takes our commitment to your privacy seriously, and we treat any information you provide us with care. By visiting the www.yuppiegadgets.com website you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in our Privacy Policy. Yuppie Gadgets is committed to protecting your privacy and promises only to use information collected about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy below:

Who We Are

Any personal information provided to or gathered bywww.yuppiegadgets.com is controlled by Yuppie Gadgets (PTY) Ltd (“Yuppie Gadgets”, “We”, “Us), a company registered in South Africa (Reg. No. 2015/079743/07), with a registered office at CHANLUK ON COLUMBUS, 46 Columbus Crescent, Rivergate Cape Town, South Africa.

What Information We Collect

When you place an Order or otherwise interact with the www.yuppiegadgets.com website, we may ask you for certain information and you may submit personal data to Us (for example your name, phone number, postal address, email address). We may also record which products you are interested in and which products you purchase as well as customer traffic patterns and site use.

Website usage information may be collected using “cookies” which allows us to collect standard internet visitor usage information.

Some examples of how information may be collected by us:

•    Information You Provide Us: we receive and store information that you submit when using our website or that you provide us in any other way (for example by email or telephone). This information may be provided when ordering from us (via our website or by telephone); searching our website; entering competitions; accessing your account; querying order status; or by submitting text/photo/video reviews of us and our products.
•    Information Automatically Provided: we receive, process and store certain information whenever you interact with our website. Like many websites, we use “cookies” (see below) and obtain certain information automatically when your Web browser accesses the www.yuppiegadgets.com website. Information automatically received by us includes the IP address that your computer uses to connect to the internet; your computer, browser, operating system and internet connection details; purchase history (which we may aggregate with other shoppers to form the “Yuppie Gadgets Top 10”); clickstream/path analysis of your journey through our website; products you searched for.
•    Email Communications: to help us make our email newsletter more useful and interesting for our customers we attempt to receive a confirmation when you open and click on email newsletters from www.yuppiegadgets.com (if your email software/service supports this option). If you no longer wish to receive email newsletters, please notify us using the links provided in each newsletter.
•    Telephone Calls: From time to time we monitor and record telephone calls for training purposes and to improve the quality of our service to you.

How We Use This Information

  •  Information is kept securely in accordance with our internal security policy and may be used to:
  • Process and deliver your Order;
  • Provide Customer Support services to you;
  • Provide you with an up to date, efficient, and reliable service;
  • Help prevent fraud;
  • Verify your age, in the event you are purchasing age-restricted;
  • Open and run your Yuppie Gadgets customer account;
  • Administer prize draws;
  • Provide a more personal shopping experience.
  • By making an Order and/or submitting your data to us you agree to this use.

Data Security

Your safety is guaranteed because www.www.yuppiegadgets.com uses the latest security measures to protect your details when you shop with us. Our credit card submission pages are hosted on a secure server provided by PayU, South Africa’s leading online payment service provider. All sensitive data submitted online through the secure server conforms to international 256 bit SSL3 encryption requirements.

Disclosure of information

We may disclose your personal information to our service providers who are involved in the delivery of products or services to you. We have agreements in place to ensure that they comply with the privacy requirements as required by the Protection of Personal Information Act.

We may also disclose your information:

  • Where we have a duty or a right to disclose in terms of law or industry codes;
  • Where we believe it is necessary to protect our rights.
  • We may for marketing purposes disclose or transfer your personal information to our agencies.
  • It may be necessary for us to disclose or transfer your personal information to suppliers, affiliates, partners or agents in order to provide you with our services.
  • We will obviously need to disclose your personal information to employees of ours who require it to do their jobs. We make sure they are aware of and take their confidentiality obligations seriously. They are contractually bound to keep all confidential information confidential.
  • There may be situations where the law requires us to disclose your personal information. In all other situations, we will not disclose your personal information without notifying you and enabling you to object.

Information Security

We are legally obliged to provide adequate protection for the personal information we hold and to stop unauthorized access and use of personal information. We will, on an on-going basis, continue to review our security controls and related processes to ensure that your personal information remains secure.

Our security policies and procedures cover:

  • Physical security;
  • Computer and network security;
  • Access to personal information;
  • Secure communications;
  • Security in contracting out activities or functions;
  • Retention and disposal of information;
  • Acceptable usage of personal information;
  • Governance and regulatory issues;
  • Monitoring access and usage of private information;
  • Investigating and reacting to security incidents.

When we contract with third parties, we impose appropriate security, privacy and confidentiality obligations on them to ensure that personal information that we remain responsible for, is kept secure.

We will ensure that anyone to whom we pass your personal information agrees to treat your information with the same level of protection as we are obliged to.

Your Rights: Access to information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. To do this, simply contact us at the numbers/addresses as provided on our website and specify what information you require.  We will need a copy of your ID document to confirm your identity before providing details of your personal information.

Please note that any such access request may be subject to a payment of a legally allowable fee.   

Correction of your information

You have the right to ask us to update, correct or delete your personal information. We will require a copy of your ID document to confirm your identity before making changes to personal information we may hold about you. We would appreciate it if you would keep your personal information accurate.

Definition of personal information

According to the Act ‘‘personal information’’ means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person, and where it is applicable, an identifiable, existing juristic person.  Further to the POPI Act, COR Concepts also includes the following items as personal information:

  • All addresses including residential, postal and email addresses.
  • Change of name – for which we require copies of the marriage certificate or official change of name document issued by the Department of Home Affairs.

How to contact us

If you have any queries about this notice; you need further information about our privacy practices; wish to withdraw consent; exercise preferences or access or correct your personal information, please contact us at the numbers/addresses listed on our website.