David Saint Privacy Policy

6.1 Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

6.2 We also store your personal information on our computer systems to allow us to give you ongoing customer experience related to your association with David Saint as a Travel Companion,  purchase of Travel Bucks™, and all related services as a travel company.

6.3 All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com or other suppliers and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

6.4. We also share your personal information with local and international travel Suppliers in order to facilitate your bookings and provide the luxury holiday and lifestyle packages you select from the Travel Bag. These local and international Suppliers include hotels, tour operators, airlines and other Suppliers that manage or provide components of your booked travel arrangements. In this case the following applies:

• The personal information shared will be limited to what is strictly necessary to confirm and provide the requested services, including but not limited to your name, contact details, passport or VISA information, booking preferences, and any specific requirements you have disclosed.

• This sharing is essential for the performance of the contract between you and David Saint (as per POPIA Section 72(1)(c)). By proceeding with a booking, you acknowledge and agree that such sharing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested.

• David Saint undertakes to select Suppliers with utmost care and will strive to ensure that these Suppliers are also committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws, such  POPIA and the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), and their own privacy policies. 

6.5 David Saint is committed to protecting your personal information and implements reasonable technical and organisational security safeguards

to prevent loss, damage, unauthorised

destruction, an unlawful access to or processing of your personal information. These safeguards include, but are not limited to firewalls, data encryption, and access controls.

6.6 As David Saint operates globally and uses robust international cloud services, your personal information may be transferred to, and stored on, servers located outside the Republic of South Africa. This is primarily due to our use of Wix.com as our primary website hosting and e-commerce platform. Wix.com is a global company that may store and process data on servers located in various countries, including but no limited to the United States, Europe, and Israel.

6.7 David Saint understands its obligations under Section 72 of POPIA regarding the transfer of personal information outside South Africa. We ensure that any such transfer complies with these requirements, primarily on the following grounds:

• ​We rely on Wix.com's robust data protection policies, security measures, and compliance with internationally recognized data protection laws, such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which are deemed to provide an adequate level of protection similar to or exceeding POPIA. Wix.com provides various data processing agreements and privacy commitments to ensure data security and compliance.

• The transfer is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations to you, the Data Subject. Our ability to provide website functionality,  process transactions,  host your account,  and deliver our services fundamentally relies on the global infrastructure provided by Wix.com and similar Suppliers.

• By using our website and services,  you implicitly consent to the transfer of your personal information to Wix.com's global servers as necessary for the provision of the services. Where explicit consent is required, it will be obtained.

• David Saint diligently assesses its service providers.  We rely on Wix.com publicly stated commitments to data privacy and security, which include:

       i) Operating a secure, global infrastructure.

      ii) Implementing industry-standards security measures (including encryption, firewalls, and access                         controls.

       iii) Adherence to data processing agreements that uphold privacy principles.

• David Saint remains responsible for ensuring that your personal information, even when transferred outside of South Africa, continues to be in accordance with this Privacy Policy and POPIA. We undertake to use all reasonable efforts to ensure that all third-parties, including Wix.com, process your personal information in a manner that is consistent with the principles of data protection as enshrined in POPIA.

6.8 In the unlikely event of data breach, David Saint undertakes to notify you and the Information Regulator of South Africa as required by POPIA, should there be reasonable grounds to believe that your personal information has been accessed or acquired by an unauthorised person.

6.9 David Saint will retain your personalinformation only for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by law. Once the purpose is complete​  or legal retention periods expire, your personal information will be securely deleted.

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