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Cookie Policy (ZA)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on August 7, 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of South Africa.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.techtradersa.co.za (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Advertising cookies

On this website we use advertising cookies, enabling us to gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a profile we create based on your behavior on https://www.techtradersa.co.za. With these cookies you, as website visitor, are linked to a unique ID but these cookies will not profile your behavior and interests to serve personalized ads.

Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place these.

5.4 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

5.5 Social media

On our website, we have included content from Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram are located in the United States.

6. Placed cookies

WooCommerce — Functional

Consent to service woocommerce

Usage: We use WooCommerce for webshop management. Read more about WooCommerce

Sharing data: This data is not shared with third parties.

Functional

Cartflows — Purpose pending investigation

Consent to service cartflows

Usage: We use Cartflows for webshop management. Read more about Cartflows

Sharing data: This data is not shared with third parties.

Purpose pending investigation

WordPress — Functional

Consent to service wordpress

Usage: We use WordPress for website development. Read more about WordPress

Sharing data: This data is not shared with third parties.

Functional

Sourcebuster JS — Statistics

Consent to service sourcebuster-js

Usage: We use Sourcebuster JS for visitor tracking. Read more about Sourcebuster JS

Sharing data: This data is not shared with third parties.

Statistics

Google Fonts — Marketing

Consent to service google-fonts

Usage: We use Google Fonts for display of webfonts. Read more about Google Fonts

Sharing data: For more information, please read the Google Fonts Privacy Statement.

Marketing

Google Maps — Marketing

Consent to service google-maps

Usage: We use Google Maps for maps display. Read more about Google Maps

Sharing data: For more information, please read the Google Maps Privacy Statement.

Marketing

YouTube — Marketing

Consent to service youtube

Usage: We use YouTube for video display. Read more about YouTube

Sharing data: For more information, please read the YouTube Privacy Statement.

Marketing

LiveChat — Functional, Marketing

Consent to service livechat

Usage: We use LiveChat for chat support. Read more about LiveChat

Sharing data: For more information, please read the LiveChat Privacy Statement.

Functional

Marketing

Facebook — Marketing, Functional

Consent to service facebook

Usage: We use Facebook for display of recent social posts and/or social share buttons. Read more about Facebook

Sharing data: For more information, please read the Facebook Privacy Statement.

Marketing

Functional

WhatsApp — Functional

Consent to service whatsapp

Usage: We use WhatsApp for chat support. Read more about WhatsApp

Sharing data: For more information, please read the WhatsApp Privacy Statement.

Functional

TikTok — Marketing, Functional

Consent to service tiktok

Usage: We use TikTok for video display. Read more about TikTok

Sharing data: For more information, please read the TikTok Privacy Statement.

Marketing

Functional

Purpose pending investigation

Miscellaneous — Purpose pending investigation

Consent to service miscellaneous

Usage:

Sharing data: Sharing of data is pending investigation

Purpose pending investigation

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

We have received a privacy signal from your browser. For this reason we have set your privacy settings on this website to strictly necessary. If you want to have full functionality, please consider excluding https://www.techtradersa.co.za from your privacy settings.

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the Information Regulator South Africa: P.O Box 31533, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017 Complaints email: complaints.IR@justice.gov.za

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

 Website: https://www.techtradersa.co.za Email: support@techtrader.co.za Phone number: 082 690 9933