Privacy Policy – Regenerative Systems

Last updated: 18th January 2024

This privacy policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you make use of our services and informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide and improve these services. By using our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • ‘Account’ means a unique user account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
  • ‘Company’ (referred to as either “the company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this document) refers to Regenerative Systems.
  • ‘Cookies’ are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • ‘Country’ refers to: South Africa.
  • ‘Device’ means any device that can access the service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
  • ‘Personal data’ is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • ‘Service’ refers to the website and the services offered therein.
  • ‘Service provider’ refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the service or to assist the Company in analysing how the service is used.
  • ‘Third-party social media service’ refers to any website or social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to use the service.
  • ‘User’ refers to an individual or entity that interacts with a system, device, service, or product. In the context of online platforms, users often create accounts and interact with digital content, services, or communities.
  • ‘Usage data’ refers to data collected automatically, either generated using the service or from the service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • ‘Website’ refers to Regenerative Systems, accessible from: https://courses.rescue.earth/
  • ‘You’ means the individual accessing or using the service, or the Company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you.
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  1. Email address
  2. First name and last name
  3. Phone number
  4. Address, City, Province, Postal code.
  5. Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.
Usage data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique id, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our service. The technologies we use may include:
  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device.
  • You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
  • Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below: Necessary / Essential Cookies
  • Type: Session Cookies
  • Administered by: Us
  • Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
  • Type: Persistent Cookies
  • Administered by: Us
  • Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
  • Type: Persistent Cookies
  • Administered by: Us
  • Purpose: these cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and maintain our Services, including to monitor the usage of our Services.
  2. To manage Your Account; to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The personal data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
  3. For the performance of a contract; the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other contract with the Company through the Service. If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, your credit card data will be stored by PayFast, but only for as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). After the transaction has taken place, the payment gateway closes, and no trace of your banking information is stored by the Company.
  4. PCI Compliance is something Regenerative Systems takes very seriously. We have thus chosen PayFast as our payment gateway.
  5. Visit the PayFast website for full details regarding how your information is handled and protected.
  6. To contact You; to contact you by email, telephonically, SMS, WhatsApp, Messenger or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  7. To provide you with news, events, and general information about the services we offer, in keeping with those that you have already made use of or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  8. To manage your requests; to attend to and manage your requests to us.
  9. For business transfers; we may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, restructuring of or re-organisation of the Company, or sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a similar proceeding, in which personal data held by us about our service users is among the assets transferred.
  10. For other purposes; we may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing, and your user experience.

With your consent, we may share your personal information in the following situations:

  1. With service providers; we may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyse the use of our service.
  2. For business transfers; we may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  3. With affiliates; we may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent Company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other Companies that we control or that are under common administration.
  4. With business partners; we may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
  5. With other users; when you share personal information or otherwise interact with other users in the public domain, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside of the bounds of our personal data protection measures. If You interact with other users or register through a third-party social media service, your contacts on the third-party social media service may see your name, profile, pictures, and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with You and view your profile.
  6. The Company will not sell, trade, barter or disclose personal information to or with any individual or business enterprise except as stipulated in this privacy policy.

Retention of your Personal Data

The Company will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data only to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with legislation), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. The Company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service; or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of your Personal Data

  • Your information, including personal data, is processed at the Company’s operating premises and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to and maintained on data storage servers located outside of your province, country, or other government jurisdictions where the data protection laws may differ from your jurisdiction.
  • Your consent to this privacy policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
  • The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to any organisation or country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of your Personal Data

Business transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to authorised and legitimate requests by public authorities (e.g. A court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose your personal information with impunity when such action is necessary to:

  1. Comply with a legal obligation.
  2. Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company.
  3. Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service.
  4. Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public.
  5. Protect against legal liability.

Security of your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is of the utmost important to us. It must however be noted that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. It is incumbent upon users to take appropriate measures and implement their own data security precautions on their personal devices.

Links to other websites

Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

  • The Company may update the privacy policy as and when required.
  • We will notify You of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.
  • We will advise You via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “last updated” date at the top of this privacy policy.
  • You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes.
  • Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
  • Contact us: If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you may contact us via email.

RSD Course Versions

The pre-alpha version of a lesson is one that has not been peer reviewed yet — however, don’t worry, pre-alpha is good enough to be live! The alpha version is an early version of a peer reviewed lesson that is part of a dedicated evaluation process. The beta version includes almost all of the final content, videos, etc. yet it may still need to be tweaked somewhat.

The first modules of the pre-alpha version of the RSD Course are already live. The reason for making the pre-alpha version live is that we are actively engaging with our ‘early adopter’ crowdfunding students and contributors so that we can build the best course possible. The completed alpha versions of the entire course will be live from the 1st September 2024.

The beta version of the entire RSD Course will hopefully be released by 1st March 2025. The ‘completed & refined’ release of the RSD Course (English) should be available around late-2025. The course will then be translated into other languages — around 10 languages at first, and then more according to demand.