Who we are

Fire Fighting Equipment & Safety Suppliers Association of Zambia: Our website address is: http://ffessaz.org.

1. Privacy Policy and Notice
The FFESSAZ collects, processes, and uses personal data, particularly data voluntarily submitted by you or in connection to your membership . Your Data is collected, processed, and used in accordance with Zambia’s Personal Information Protection Act.

1.1 Personal Data
As part of your membership, we will require that you provide your name, email address, and other information and we may also collect other personal information during the course of your membership, all necessary to help us provide our membership services to you. Uses of your Data for such services include but are not limited to marketing our events and services, publishing our Membership Directory, the FFESSAZ website, and on the FFESSAZ social media accounts, improving our services, and informing you about new FFESSAZ or third party services, upcoming offers, and events. You acknowledge that your Data may be used by us or third-parties performing services for us, so as to provide you with these and other membership services as well as for the overall operation of the FFESSAZ. Third-parties may include a subcontractor, professional or other service provider, another affiliated Chamber, or a member.

We will use some of your Data submitted as part of the Membership Application Form in the online and print versions of our Membership Directory. This Data includes your name,title, company, company address, telephone number, fax number, and email address.

The FFESSAZ will retain your Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purpose of providing membership services to you and for a reasonable period thereafter, to otherwise comply with this Privacy Policy, and/or until such time as you request its deletion, whichever occurs first.

1.2 Protecting Your Privacy
The FFESSAZ will not sell or lease your Data. It will only be provided to a third-party so as to facilitate the provision of membership services or services to the FFESSAZ. It will not otherwise be shared without your prior written consent, except to comply with the order of any court of law or governmental department acting within its jurisdiction or powers, or to otherwise comply with the laws of Zambia.

Data may be transferred by the FFESSAZ to such a third-party overseas provided that, in any such case, either there are laws in force in that country or such companies/parties are bound by contractual terms, which are substantially similar to, or serve the same purposes as, Zambia laws governing the protection of your Data.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.