PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. We are required by law to obtain your consent if we want/need to process your personal information.

2. We need to process your info so that we can execute and manage the Comics’ Choice Comedy Awards and all the associated and necessary promotion, events, prizes, competitions, publicity, content creation, filming and any and all other marketing and communication activity related to the Awards. Therefore, without your consent we shall retain your data indefinitely, and you shall not be able to request data from our site due to authentication issues unless you first provide consent.

3. Data shall be retained until you submit a Data Deletion Request. When you submit a Data Deletion Request the data shall be deleted after September 1, 2023. To ensure that everybody has a fair and equal opportunity to cast their votes, we shall only delete data after the Competition ends.

4. None of the parties concerned shall store your information for the purposes of marketing and as such you will not receive marketing material from us.

5. Any of the parties above shall only be allowed to market through the channels selected.

RESPONSIBLE PARTIES THAT ARE REQUESTING CONSENT

1. Comics’ Choice Comedy Awards.

2. JUDGIFY and XNEELO are contracted to perform the required request/s being any of the services listed in section A.2 above.

3. Furthermore JUDGIFY and ONE-EYED JACK reserve the right to manage your data on your behalf. The services offered by the above manage Consent or any related services as listed on our website is brought to you for your convenience. If you withdraw consent from our services, you will need to manually provide your consent to https://comicschoice.com/ if they facilitate it.

WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY

1. The responsible parties mentioned in section (B) above are committed to protecting your privacy and recognize that they needs to comply with statutory requirements in collecting, processing, and distributing personal information. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides that everyone has the right to privacy and the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) includes the right to protection against unlawful collection, retention, dissemination and use of personal information. In terms of section 18 of POPIA, if personal information is collected, the above parties, as responsible parties, must take reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the data subject is made aware of the information being collected.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH POPIA, THE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES HEREWITH PROCESS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

1. TYPE OF INFORMATION: Full names, public names, cell phone numbers, third party details (managers/clients), agency name, social media links, social media handles, social media following, content links and ID Numbers for POPIA Purposes.

2. NATURE OF INFORMATION: Personal Information to process any of the services mentioned in section A2.

3. PURPOSE: Required for the purposes of performing a task as requested by the data subject.

4. SOURCE: Both supplied by DATA SUBJECT and third parties.

5. VOLUNTARILY/MANDATORY: The data is mandatory since we are unable to fulfil our services without it. User data is required in order for the Awards to view submissions and judge the work of the registered entrants.

6. LEGAL REQUIREMENT: Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 | POPIA – https://popia.co.za/.

7. CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENT: Without this information we are not able to process your order.

8. CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO PROVIDE: According to POPIA, no one is allowed to hold the data of any DATA SUBJECT without their consent, and that when held it should be held only for as long as it is required. We shall retain your data indefinitely, and you shall not be able to request data from our site due to authentication issues unless you first provide consent.

9. CROSS BORDER TRANSFER: Users may have managers who reside outside the borders of South Africa. The countries may or may not comply with POPIA.

10. RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: Any of the parties mentioned in Section B, their employees or contractors may have access to the information you provide.

11. ACCESS AND RIGHT TO AMEND: The data subject has the right to access information about them, held by Comics’ Choice Comedy Awards / One-Eyed Jack / Judgify. The data subject also has the right to request that their data or for the data to be updated. Click on the link at the bottom of our website page to request your data.

12. RIGHTS TO OBJECT: The data subject has the right to object to the use of his/her/its data. Please take note that if we do delete your data/account that you will no longer be able to engage with our company unless registering a new profile and providing consent again. Click on the link at the bottom of our website page to request the deletion of your data.

13. COMPLAINTS: Complaints regarding the use of Personal Information may be directed to the INFORMATION REGULATOR. Follow this link for details.

14. SERVICE LEVEL COMMUNICATION: In order to provide our services, we might need to get into contact with you. We make use of the following communication modes: Telephone, Email

15. MARKETING COMMUNICATION: We would like to send you updates on specials and promotions or just general news. We make use of the following communication modes: Telephone, Email

16. Consent to providing information to 3rd parties such as sponsors and event partners for the purposes of marketing, competitions and other activity related to and necessary for the execution of the Awards. Since we make use of some social Media tools, the authors of the tools may or may not also track your actions on our website.

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