PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY:

WESSA is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at mike.denison@wessa.co.za if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy is a part of our Terms and Conditions; by agreeing to Terms and Conditions you also agree to this Policy. In the event of collision of terms used in Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, the latter shall prevail.

● Definitions used in this Policy

● How we use your Personal Data

● Data protection principles we follow

● What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data

● What Personal Data we gather about you

● Who else has access to your Personal Data

● How we secure your data

● Information about cookies

● How you can view and delete your personal info we store on this website

● Contact information

Definitions

● Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

● Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.

● Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.

● Child – a natural person under 13 years of age.

● We/us (either capitalized or not) – Skill-ex.co.za

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in to:

● Provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.

● enhance your customer experience;

● fulfil an obligation under law or contract;

● We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

● On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

● to identify you;

● to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product;

● to communicate either for sales or invoicing;

● On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

● to send you personalized offers* (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);

● to administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided;

● to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction;

● As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.

● With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

● to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);

● for other purposes we have asked your consent for;

● We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law, but not longer than one year.

● We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

● the link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;

● the further Processing would not harm your interests and

● there would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.

● We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

● Who else can access your Personal Data

● We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience. We share your data with:

● Our processing partners: None

● Our business partners: None

● Connected third parties: Google Analytics

● We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following:

● Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request.

● Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered.

● Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose.

● Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed.

● We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data.

● We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data

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What rights you have regarding your Personal Data

● Data Subject’s rights

● The Data Subject has the following rights:

● Right to information – meaning you have the right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.

● Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.

● Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.

● Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.

● Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.

● Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.

● Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.

● Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.

● Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.

● Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.

● Right to withdraw consent – you have the right to withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

● Personal Data we gather: Information you have provided us with

● This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and email address.

● Information automatically collected about you

● This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

● Information from our partners

● We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds. See the list of our partners here.

● Publicly available information

● We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Children:

● We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

● Cookies and other technologies we use

● We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyze customer behavior, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalize and enhance your experience with us.

● A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes

● Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.

● Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and email in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.

● Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services

● Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

● You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

● We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Contact Information

Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions regarding Processing your Personal Data, your rights regarding your Personal Data or this Privacy Policy, contact us at mike.denison@wessa.co.za.

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Website terms and conditions

Last revised on: 10th November 2020

1. Introduction

These Website Terms And Conditions (these “Terms” or these “Website Terms And Conditions”) contained herein on this webpage, shall govern the use of this website by any natural person or juristic entity (“You”, “Your”), which shall included all pages within this website (collectively referred to herein below as this “Website”). These Terms shall apply to Your use of this Website and by accessing and using this Website, You expressly consent to and accept all terms and conditions contained herein in full. You may not use this Website if you have any objection to any of these Website Terms And Conditions.

2. Intellectual Property Rights

Other than Your Content, which you may have opted to include on this Website, under these Terms, WESSA and/or its licensors own all rights to the intellectual property and material contained in this Website, and all such rights are reserved. You are granted a limited license only, subject to the restrictions provided in these Terms, for purposes of viewing the material contained on this Website.

3. Restrictions

You are expressly and emphatically restricted from all of the following:

1. publishing any Website material in any media;

2. selling, sublicensing and/or otherwise commercializing any Website material;

3. publicly performing and/or showing any Website material;

4. using this Website in any way that is, or may be, damaging to this Website;

5. using this Website in any way that impacts user access to this Website;

6. using this Website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in a way that causes, or may cause, harm to the Website, or to any person or business entity;

7. engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this Website, or while using this Website;

8. using this Website to engage in any advertising or marketing;

Certain areas of this Website are restricted from access by you and WESSA may further restrict access by you to any areas of this Website, at any time, in its sole and absolute discretion. Any user ID and password you may have for this Website are confidential and you must maintain confidentiality of such information.

4. Your Content

In these Website Terms And Conditions, “Your Content” shall be defined as any audio, video, text, images or other material you choose to upload or have displayed on this Website.

With respect to Your Content, by displaying it, you grant WESSA a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media.

Your Content must be your own and must not infringe on any the intellectual property rights of any third party. WESSA reserves the right to remove any of Your Content from this Website at any time, and for any reason, without notice.

5. Use of Service

The Use of Service is defined as the rules a person or organization must observe in order to use this website and its related services.

You agree that by utilizing and/or accessing the Service you will not:

(a) post, transmit, sell, share or otherwise make available unsolicited commercial email or “spam”. This includes, without limitation, unethical marketing, advertising, or any other practice that is in any way connected with “spam”, such as (i) sending mass email to recipients who have not requested email from you or with a fake return address, (ii) promoting a site with inappropriate links, titles, descriptions, or (iii) promoting your site by posting multiple submissions in public forums that are identical;

(b) use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” “offline readers,” etc., that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Service servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional online web browser;

(c) post, transmit, sell, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

(d) interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;

(e) harm, stalk, harass or otherwise violate the rights of others in any way in your use of the Service;

(f) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a WESSA official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;

(g) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, national or international law;

(h) promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals;

(i) exceed the scope of any WESSA service or product for which you have registered; by, for example, accessing and using the tools that you do not have a right to use, or deleting, adding to, or otherwise changing the comments or content of other persons;

(j) collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including, account names, from the Service;

(k) promote or use any hate speech;

(l) not use any inappropriate language that could be considered as sexually inappropriate, or promote or incite any sexual discrimination;

(m) not use any inappropriate language that could be considered as racially inappropriate, or promote or incite any racial discrimination;

(n) not share or transmit any pronography or offensive content or imagery on the site;

(m) use any Website, applications and Services that are offered and available to you if you are under the age of 13. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18 years, your parent or legal guardian has provided consent to you accessing and making use of the Website, including registering an account.

You understand that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that you consider to be offensive, indecent or objectionable. You acknowledge that WESSA does not pre-screen User Content or Third Party Content. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Third Party Content or Site Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. WESSA reserves the right to deny any user access to the Website where WESSA at its sole opinion believes that the user has or intends on breaching the Website Terms, including removal of any deemed inappropriate comments or information they have shared.

6. No warranties

This Website is provided “as is,” with all faults, and WESSA makes no express or implied representations or warranties of any kind related to this Website or the materials and information contained on this Website or third party websites embedded into or accessed via this Website.. Additionally, nothing contained in this Website shall be construed as providing consult or advice to you.

7. Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances shall WESSA,of its office-bearers or employees, be liable to You for anything arising out of or in any way connected with Your use of this Website, whether such liability is under contract, tort or otherwise, nor shall WESSA, its officer-bearers, or employees be liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this Website.

8. Indemnification

You hereby indemnify, to the fullest extent, WESSA, it’s office-bearers and employees, from and against any and all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) arising out of or in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.

9. Links

On the website we may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other world wide web sites or resources. Because WESSA has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that WESSA is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.You further acknowledge and agree that WESSA shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

10. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render these Terms unenforceable or invalid as a whole, and such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

11. DISCLAIMERS

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

A. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. WESSA, AND ITS OFFICE-BEARERS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES AND AGENTS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, PERFORMANCE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR OF AVAILABILITY OR RESULTS. WESSA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT (I) WESSA WILL MEET YOUR SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS, (II) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (III) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (IV) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH WESSA WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED. WESSA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE IN ANY MANNER FOR ANY USER CONTENT OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR AND HEREBY WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, CAUSES OF ACTION, AND DAMAGES THAT ARISE FROM OR RELATE TO SUCH MATERIAL. WESSA ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, OR ALTERATION OF, USER COMMUNICATIONS. WESSA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION OR OTHER PROBLEMS OF ANY TELEPHONE NETWORK OR SERVICE, COMPUTER SYSTEMS, SERVERS OR PROVIDERS, COMPUTER OR MOBILE PHONE EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, FAILURE OF EMAIL OR PLAYERS ON ACCOUNT OF TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OR TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON THE INTERNET OR AT ANY SITE OR COMBINATION THEREOF, INCLUDING INJURY OR DAMAGE TO A USER’S OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON’S COMPUTER, MOBILE PHONE, OR OTHER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, RELATED TO OR RESULTING FROM USING OR DOWNLOADING MATERIALS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB AND/OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE.

B. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WESSA BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE TO ANY USER CONTENT OR PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH, RESULTING FROM ANYONE’S USE OF THE SERVICE, ANY USER CONTENT POSTED ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, OR ANY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USERS OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE. YOU POST USER CONTENT ON THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

C. ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND, YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

D. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED THROUGH OR FROM WESSA SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS OF USE.

E. WESSA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE ANY AND ALL WESSA AND OTHER WEBSITE CONTENT, SOFTWARE AND OTHER ITEMS USED OR CONTAINED IN OR ON THE SERVICE AND ANY SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE.

F. REFERENCE TO ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, PROCESSES OR OTHER INFORMATION, BY TRADE NAME, TRADEMARK, MANUFACTURER, SUPPLIER OR OTHERWISE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, SPONSORSHIP OR RECOMMENDATION THEREOF, OR ANY AFFILIATION THEREWITH, BY WESSA.

12. Variation of Terms

WESSA is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using this Website You are expected to review such Terms on a regular basis to ensure you understand all terms and conditions governing use of this Website.

13. Assignment

WESSA shall be permitted to assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms without any notification or consent required. However, you shall not be permitted to assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

14. Entire Agreement

These Terms, including any legal notices and disclaimers contained on this Website, constitute the entire agreement between WESSA and you in relation to Your use of this Website, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings with respect thereto.

15. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Africa and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of South Africa and its courts located therein, for the resolution of any disputes.

COOKIES POLICY

Cookies Policies

Cookie Policy to be added to the footer of websites. Copy shared here to be added in the initial popup with link to Cookie Policy. Privacy Policy also covers details around data usage and cookie details.

1.) Cookies Policy – https://skills-ex.africa or https://skills-ex.co.za

Last updated: 10th November

WESSA (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on https://skills-ex.africa or https://skills-ex.co.za (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How WESSA uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don’t collect any personal information.
Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalized features possible. For example, they might remember your name and email in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

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We use cookies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from. By browsing our website, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Link to Cookie Policy.

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2.) Cookies Policy – https://youth-voices.agyi.wessa.org.za/