1. We are a private South African company that provides compliance training solutions and tools. | Compliance Online (‘us’ ‘our’ or ‘we’) is a South African company that provides compliance training solutions and tools to the employees of our clients to raise awareness about South African laws and other regulatory requirements relevant to the client. Our details are:
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2. What is Policy Passport and how does it work? | Policy Passport is an online document monitoring and tracking tool that allows you to monitor and track whether your employees read, understand and acknowledge your corporate policies, standard business operating and other procedures or any other document. This is what is included:
Some disclaimers We cannot guarantee that an employee has actually read and understood a document – that will depend on how well the document is written and the effort an employee is willing to make. We also do not give legal or any other advice on whether or not the particular document complies with the law or any industry standards. It is your responsibility to:
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3. This is a fixed term subscription to Policy Passport. | This is a 12-month subscription to Policy Passport. When your 12-month period is coming to an end, you will be asked whether you want to renew for another 12 months. Once you have committed to a 12-month subscription, you still have the option to cancel the contract by giving us 2 months’ notice via email to support@complianceonline.co.za within the 12 month subscription period. If you have paid us in advance, you will receive a refund of any fees paid in advance. Any discounts applicable to the period for which you used Policy Passport will be forfeited and deducted from the amount owed to you should you cancel within the 12-month subscription period. If we do not hear anything from you at the end of your 12-month subscription period, your subscription will renew automatically, but you will be able to cancel it by giving us 2 months’ notice by sending us an email to support@complianceonline.co.za. |
4. What does Policy Passport cost? | We charge a set-up fee when you sign up for Policy Password for the first time. This fee will depend on the size and complexity of the business. From the second year of your subscription and onwards we charge an annual licence fee. We also charge a monthly administrative fee that is fixed for the 12-month subscription period. We will provide you with a quote for all of these fees. |
5. Policy Passport platform and the content (apart from your documents) on the platform is our intellectual property. | Policy Passport platform and the content (apart from your documents) on the platform is our intellectual property. You have just been given a licence to use it for the duration of this agreement. We will hold you responsible We take breaches of our intellectual property rights very seriously, because it took a great deal of skill, time and effort to develop the tool. This means that we will hold you responsible if you or your employees use Policy Passport for any unauthorised purpose. You are not allowed to sub-licence, copy, amend, publish or sell our intellectual property. |
6. We need your employees’ information. We will treat the information with respect. | You must provide us with relevant, accurate and updated employee data (name, surname and either their ID or employee number, their business unit or department and email address). We use this information to enrol them on our system, to send them alerts and to ensure that their details are not duplicated on our system. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information You must ensure that the information you provide to us is accurate and updated when it changes. While we will alert you if we receive delivery failures, we will not verify whether your employees receive the notifications. We will treat their personal information with respect. Please read our privacy statement for more information. The information is also protected by the Protection of Personal Information Act. This means that, because we are processing personal information on your behalf, we will:
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7. We have implemented reasonable security measures based on the sensitivity of the information we hold. | We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and security breaches, but no system is perfect and we cannot guarantee that we will never experience a breach of any of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards. If something should happen, we have taken steps to minimise the threat to your privacy. We do not share detailed reports of our security assessments and audits. We do however make general security reports available of our infrastructure and service providers subject to their terms and conditions. We allow our clients to perform independent verification and assessments of the security measures we have in place. All assessments and reporting are for your own account. |
8. These are not the only rules that apply to you and your employees when you use Policy Passport and our website. | In addition to these terms, you should make sure that you and your employees have read the following terms:
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9. These terms may change from time to time. | We will update these Terms and Conditions from time to time. You will be subject to that version of these Terms and Conditions that is applicable at the time you looked at this Website. Older versions of these Terms and Conditions and the dates on which they were effective are available on request. |
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