African Oxygen Limited (“Afrox”) and
its affiliated companies (“The Linde Group”),
shares your concern about the protection of your
personal information and is committed to safeguarding
your privacy online. This is our policy regarding
the privacy of information we collect on the Site.
Please read it carefully to understand how your
personal information will be treated.
By visiting the Site you are accepting the General
Terms and Conditions of Usage including the terms
set out in this Privacy Policy and are consenting
to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We review our privacy practices from time to time.
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be made
in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of
Usage.
The Afrox website may contain links to or from
other sites, however Afrox can make no guarantee
in respect of the privacy policies of these other
websites and Afrox is in no way responsible for
the content, security or privacy practices employed
by these other sites. Afrox thus recommends that
you read the privacy statements for each website
that you may visit.
Collection
Afrox will collect personal information in a fair
and lawful manner, and not in an unreasonably intrusive
way. Afrox may collect information as a result
of your participation in any promotions or competitions
offered by our website, as well as from information
you may provide when giving Afrox feedback in respect
of the site.
The Information We Gather
Our sole purpose in gathering information about
users is to provide the Services efficiently and
effectively. We gather two types of information
about users:
1. Tracking Information
Tracking information is information that is collected
about every visitor to the Site, and is automatically
gathered using "cookies". A "cookie" is
a computer (text) file that is sent to a visitor's
Web browser, by a Web server, in order to remember
certain information. Per-session cookies are used
on the Site to store information within a session.
Per-session cookies are cached (stored in memory)
and are only available while you are on the Site.
They do not permanently record data and are not
stored on your computer's hard drive. If per-session
cookies were not used, moving around the web site
would be a much slower process. Persistent cookies
are used on the Site to store information that
allows us to conduct online surveys and record
whether you have expressed a preference not to
take part in such surveys, in which case you will
not be asked again. Persistent cookies are stored
on your hard drive for a length of time set by
the Site administrator. You can set your browser
to detect and reject cookies. Your Web browser
may provide instructions on how to do this.
2. Personal Information
Personal information is information that relates
to an identifiable individual. Examples of personal
information include your name, e-mail address,
employment history, and other contact details.
We limit the collection of personal information
to what we need to know for the purpose of delivering
the Services.
In certain circumstances, such as submitting your
C.V./resume, you may be providing information classed
as “sensitive personal data”. By providing
this information you will be consenting to the
data being used for the specific purpose for which
it was provided and for monitoring purposes. Such
data will not be used for any other purpose without
obtaining your prior consent.
Use of the Information
1. Tracking Information
We use tracking information in aggregate form
in order to improve your online experience by building
high-quality, useful online Services. We do this
by conducting online surveys, performing statistical
analyses of users’ activities, and by measuring
demographics and interest regarding specific areas
of the Site.
We may engage other organisations to analyse our
Site traffic on our behalf. Whenever we contract
with outside organisations we hold them accountable
to protect personal information by adopting reasonable
security measures, and restrict their use to the
provision of the services Afrox has requested.
2. Personal Information
We may use the personal information you provice
in a number of ways, including:
- Registration details - Your contact details
and other data that you supply as part of the
registration process are stored by us to enable
you to access the Services on the Site and to
provide you with the information you have requested.
- Recruitment - As part of the recruitment process
on the Site, when you complete your profile,
including your C.V./resume, personal information
(including “sensitive personal data”)
will be made available for searching, viewing
or downloading from the Site by authorised Afrox
staff or their agents for the purpose of recruitment
and selection.
- Information on Afrox’s Products and Services – Your
contact details will be used to provide you with
the communications and the information you have
requested. We may wish to use your contact details
to provide you with meaningful information in
future. You will be given choices about receiving
such communications from us and your preferences
will be respected. You may at any time opt out
of receiving such communications by providing
us with notice.
- To collect, analyse, report and respond to
users’ feedback.
- To customise various aspects of the Site to
your preferences.
- To pre-complete online forms on the Site. For
example, if you have provided an address once,
the site computers may automatically fill in
that information on an online form on future
occasions. This is simply a convenience - no
information is released to anyone unless you
authorise its release, such as by clicking a "Submit" button.
- As may be necessary to support the operation
of the Site, which may include, account maintenance,
record keeping and research purposes.
- To prevent or detect fraud or abuse of the
Site.
You hereby consent to the use by Afrox of the
personal information that you have provided to
Afrox for establishing your credit rating and to
Afrox disclosing such information to credit control
companies, banks and other institutions involved
in rating credit.
We will hold your personal information for as
long as is necessary in order to provide the relevant
Service, monitor the Service over a reasonable
time period or as may be reasonable given the circumstances
in which the information is provided.
Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Information
We will not sell, trade or lease the personal
information you entrust to us.
In connection with the uses described above we
may disclose your personal information to other
companies within The Linde Group of companies.
The Linde Group operates the Personal Data Policy,
which sets out global and consistent standards
for protecting the personal data in our care.
In connection with the uses described above we
may disclose your personal information to data
processors, agents, sub-contractors and other organisations
that provide services to The Linde Group. For example,
emailing information, carrying out research or
analysing feedback on our behalf. Whenever we contract
with outside organisations we hold them accountable
to protect personal information by adopting reasonable
security measures, and restrict their use to the
provision of the services The Linde Group has requested.
We will not otherwise disclose any personal information
to any third parties, except when we believe in
good faith that the law requires it, or to respond
to an emergency. We reserve the right to transfer
any such information to a third party in the event
that we sell or otherwise transfer substantially
all of the business of The Linde Group.
The Linde Group is an international organisation
with operations worldwide. In connection with the
uses described above and for business and operational
reasons, we may transfer the personal information
you have provided to any country in which The Linde
Group operates which includes more than 50 countries
across Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Pacific
and Africa. This may include countries where adequate
data protection / privacy legislation does not
exist. Our global approach to data protection requires
the same high standards of security and protection
for personal information in all geographies. We
will ensure to the best of our endeavours that
procedures and contracts are in place to protect
your personal information.
Changing Personal Information
We recognise that some of the information that
we collect from you during registration will change
from time to time. You can change information you
have previously provided to us at any time by providing
us with written notice of any changes via the “Contact
Us” facility.
Inactivating Personal Information
In respect of any recruitment activities conducted
via the Site, by selecting the Inactive Profile
Option you will inactivate your user profile. This
means you will no longer be able to login to the
career centre and your status will automatically
be changed to "Candidate Withdrew" on
all open jobs you have submitted your profile for.
Your profile will remain in the database for archive
and reporting purposes for a period of 4 years
but will be removed from the active candidates
list.
After a period of 4 years your data will be deleted
from the database.
Security
We use reasonable security methods to protect
the data that is provided to us and resides on
our servers. However, no security system is impenetrable.
We cannot guarantee the security of our servers,
nor can we guarantee that information that users
supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted
to us over the Internet.
