This Privacy Policy is the official privacy policy of HANSA Affiliated and group companies including Diamond Motors Limited, HANSA Engineering Limited (Kenya), HANSA Limited (Zambia), HANSA Management Services Pvt Ltd (India) and HANSA Mining Services Pvt Ltd (South Africa) (“HANSA”) and it applies to all personal information collected by HANSA. In this policy we explain how and why we collect your personal information, how we use it, and what controls you have over our use of it.

HANSA is committed to complying with all applicable laws governing privacy of personal information by businesses and to protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you deal with us.

Links

Our website may contain links to other websites and those third party websites may collect personal information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other businesses or the content of websites that are linked to our website. HANSA encourages users to be aware when they leave the site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Security and storage

HANSA places importance on the security of all information associated with our shareholders and contractors. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control.

Personal information is de-identified or destroyed securely when no longer required by us.

HANSA retains the information you provide to us including your contact details to enable us to verify details and to retain adequate records for legal and possible accounting purposes. This information is held on secure servers in controlled facilities.
Information stored within our computer systems can only be accessed by those entrusted with authority and computer network password sanctions.
No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect user's personal information, HANSA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to it or from its online system, and users do so at their own risk. Once HANSA receives your transmission, it makes every effort to ensure its security on its systems.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for keeping your passwords and/or account information secret. You should be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

Access to and correction of personal information

HANSA is committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information about our shareholders, contractors and web-site users.
So long as your request for your personal information is in accordance with the accepted privacy principles, then we will give you access to that information through our Designated Officer. To contact the Designated Officer, please email info@hansa-global.com.
Inaccurate information will be corrected upon receiving advice to this effect from you. To ensure confidentiality, details of your personal information will be passed on to you only if we are satisfied that the information relates to you.
If we refuse to provide you with access or correct the personal information held about you by us, then we will provide reasons for such refusal.

Complaints

In case of any complaints about our Privacy Policy or the collection, use or safe disposal or destruction of your personal information, your complaints should be directed in the first instance to us via email to info@hansa-global.com.
We will investigate your complaint and attempt to resolve any breach that might have occurred in relation to the collection, use or destruction of personal information held by us about you. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of this procedure, then you may request that an independent person investigate your complaint at your cost.

Transfer of information overseas

We may transfer personal information we have collected about you to someone other than you in a foreign country only if such transfer is permitted by Tanzanian privacy law or any other relevant law in any country where HANSA operates.

Cookies

When you visit the HANSA site to read, browse or download information, our system will record/log your IP address (the address which identifies your computer on the internet and which is automatically recognized by our web server), date and time of your visit to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. This information will only be used for the purpose of site analysis and to help us offer you improved online service. We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the site from which you linked to our websites. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our Web Sites.

Changes to Privacy Policy

HANSA reserves its rights to make changes at any time to its Privacy Policy. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Contacting us

If you require further information regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact the Designated Officer at info@hansa-global.com.

Acceptance

You accept that your use of this site includes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

Use of information collected and disclosure of personal information to others

We may use or disclose personal information held about an individual for the primary purpose for which it is collected (e. g. provision of information to shareholders, including record-keeping and technical maintenance). We may also use such information for a purpose related to the primary purpose of collection and where it would reasonably be expected by you that we would use the information in such a way. This information is only disclosed to persons outside our business in the circumstances set out in this policy or as otherwise notified to you at the time of collection of the information.
In addition, we are permitted to use or disclose personal information held about you:
Where you have consented to the use or disclosure;
Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious, immediate threat to someone's health or safety or the public's health or safety;
Where we reasonably suspect that unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in and the use or disclosure is a necessary part of our investigation or in reporting the matter to the relevant authorities;
Where such use or disclosure is required under or authorised by law (for example, to comply with a subpoena, a warrant or other order of a court or legal process); and
Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes or wrongdoings or the preparation for, conduct of, proceedings before any court or tribunal or the implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal by or on behalf of an enforcement body.

Collection of information

Some information provided to us by contractors and other third parties might be considered private or personal. Without these details we would not be able to carry on our business. We will only collect such personal information if it is necessary for one of our functions or activities.
In particular, personal information is collected from people in the following situations by HANSA:
If you contact HANSA, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
When you submit your email address to our website mailing list.
At or before the time the personal information is collected by us we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of who we are, the fact that you are able to gain access to the information held about you, the purpose of the collection, the type(s) of organizations to which we usually disclose the information collected about you, any laws requiring the collection of the information and the main consequences for you if all or part of the information is not collected.