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The Good Business Journal (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you visit our website or engage with our content and services.
EFFECTIVE DATE: NOV, 2025 04 min
We collect the following types of information:
a. Information You Provide Voluntarily
b. Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, we may collect data automatically through:
c. Third-Party Information
We may receive data from:
Accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). Our legal grounds for processing include your consent, the necessity of processing to provide our services, compliance with legal obligations, and our legitimate business interests as a media platform.
Our services are not intended for children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are under 18, please do not provide any personal information to us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of South Africa. Where such transfers occur, we ensure that adequate safeguards are in place as required by POPIA, such as contractual agreements or the presence of data protection laws that offer an adequate level of protection.
We may use automated tools (such as analytics and advertising platforms) to help us understand user interests and improve our services. These tools may involve limited profiling, but we do not make decisions that have significant legal or similar effects on you solely based on automated processing.
The Good Business Journal uses cookies to:
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy [link if available]
We do not sell or trade your personal data.
We may share information only with:
Some content on our platform may include embedded media or links to third-party websites, which may collect data about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Please review their privacy policies for more information.
We retain your data only for as long as necessary:
This Policy is effective as of November 1 . Your Rights Depending on your location (e.g., South Africa, the EU, the UK, or California), you have the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@goodbusinessjournal.com
We take reasonable and appropriate technical, organizational, and administrative security measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse.
Our site may include links to partner organizations, advertisers, or sponsors. GBJ is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of these third-party sites.
GBJ may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted with a revised “Last Updated” date at the top of the page.
For questions or concerns regarding this policy, or to exercise your rights under POPIA, please contact:
We take the security of your personal information seriously. In the unlikely event of a data breach that may compromise your personal information, we will notify you and the Information Regulator in accordance with the requirements of POPIA. We will also provide information on the nature of the breach, the data affected, and any measures you should take to protect yourself.
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. When personal information is no longer needed, we securely delete or de-identify it. If you would like more information about our specific retention periods for different types of personal information, please contact us.
Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information (such as for marketing communications or the use of certain cookies), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can do this by following the unsubscribe instructions in our communications, changing your cookie preferences in your browser, or contacting us directly.
