Ernst & Young South Africa – Privacy Policy
Ernst & Young South Africa, in its position as a trusted business advisor, has established this Internet Privacy Policy in order to ensure that your right to privacy in the Ernst & Young South Africa online environment, is upheld, maintained and protected.
Ernst & Young South Africa is a partnership incorporated under South African law, whose registered office is at Wanderers Office Park, 52 Corlett Drive, Illovo, Johannesburg. Ernst & Young South Africa is a member of Ernst & Young Global Limited ("EYGL") which provides certain support and specialised services to its members. EYGL is a member of Ernst & Young International Limited.
In terms of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, No. 25 of 2002, Ernst & Young South Africa is a Data Controller, that is Ernst & Young electronically collects, collates, processes and stores personal information obtained via the Ernst & Young South Africa web site, ey.com/za, for specified purposes as outlined below.
Data Collection and Purpose
Ernst & Young South Africa will only collect and use personal data voluntarily provided by yourself to this site. You are able to browse this site without disclosing any personal information. Ernst & Young South Africa, for the purposes of this site, will never collect and use information from other sources such as public bodies or private organisations. You may choose to provide Ernst & Young South Africa with limited personal data as required in order to register for certain services. Once registered the information will only be used for the specified service(s).- register for certain updates on selected topics;
- express an interest in working for Ernst & Young South Africa;
- general contact with Ernst & Young South Africa;
- register for events and conferences; and
- participate in online polls and benchmarking surveys.
Disclosure of Information
Personal information held by Ernst & Young South Africa shall be kept confidential, however, Ernst & Young South Africa may disclose such information in the following instances:- at your request or upon your written consent
- if Ernst & Young South Africa is compelled to do so by a court order or any other legal or regulatory requirement;
- if it is in the public interest to do so; and/or
- if it is necessary to protect Ernst & Young South Africa's rights.
Ernst & Young is entitled, however, to make personal information available to:
- other member firms within the EYGL and/or Ernst & Young International Limited Group;
- a third party organisation with which Ernst & Young South Africa has a relationship - see "Third Party Links" below;
- any other person under a duty of confidentiality to eZuza;
- any person to whom eZuza is under an obligation to make disclosure under the requirements of law; and
- lawyers, accountants, auditors, financial regulators and law enforcement bodies when necessary to administer your money or to respond to a legal enquiry or satisfy a legal requirement.
Ernst & Young South Africa does not offer any personal information or data collected or compiled via this site for dissemination or sale to third parties for consumer marketing purposes neither does Ernst & Young South Africa host mailings on behalf of third parties.
Ernst & Young South Africa does not intentionally collect any sensitive information via this web site unless legally required to do so, e.g.. for recruiting purposes. Sensitive information includes race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs (beyond dietary preferences), trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life or criminal records. We would suggest that you do not provide information of this nature but by doing so you will be deemed as providing your explicit consent which will enable Ernst & Young South Africa to use the information for the specified purpose for which it was supplied.
When you choose to participate in benchmarking or online voting the information obtained may be transferred to a third party for research purposes only. In such cases, information that could identify an individual respondent by name is not divulged to such third parties. Further detailed information regarding any transfer of data in these circumstances can be obtained from the relevant registration page.
Ernst & Young Alumni
Any personal data that an alumnus submits to Ernst & Young South Africa will only be used to maintain contact with that alumnus, and will not be disclosed to any third party without the relevant individual's express permission. If at any time an alumnus wishes to be removed from our records, they can do so by notifying Ernst & Young South Africa at
Lynn Dike
Expressing an interest in working for Ernst & Young, or applying for a job
The careers section of the Ernst & Young South Africa website envisions enabling you to register your interest in working for Ernst & Young South Africa or apply for advertised vacancies. If you decide to register, we will assume that, by doing so, you consent to Ernst & Young South Africa using, storing and/or and destroying any personal data you supply for the purpose of considering your application in accordance with our standard recruitment procedures.We may wish to retain your details on file for up to the next 12 months and notify you of any suitable vacancies that arise. You would then have the opportunity to apply for these vacancies if you wished to do so.
We may use your personal data for the purposes of research relating to the improvement of our recruitment and HR policies and practices.
Depending on the nature of your application, it is possible that your personal information may be transferred to a country outside the ambit of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act.
Please do not register if you do not accept these conditions.
Online Surveys
In order to avoid distorting the results of surveys run via this site, due to multiple registration of votes, it may be necessary to identify, with the use of a cookie, limited personal data such as your e-mail address. The information identified by the cookie is not linked to any personal data provided as a result of participating in the study. More comprehensive information will be provided to individuals in the detailed guidance produced for each particular surveys.Third Party Links
The Ernst & Young South Africa website may contain links to or from other sites ("linked sites"), including sites maintained by Ernst & Young International Limited which are not governed by this privacy statement.Ernst & Young South Africa is not responsible for the content or the privacy and security policies employed by linked sites. Ernst & Young South Africa recommends that you always read the privacy and security statements applicable to the linked sites on such sites. Whenever Ernst & Young South Africa commissions service providers to provide support services to Ernst & Young South Africa, Ernst & Young South Africa will bind them to the Ernst & Young South Africa privacy and security statement insofar as they may be required to access Ernst & Young South Africa's customers' information to perform these support services.
Data Amendments and Retention
Information collected from visitors to the site will only be kept in order to provide the required service. Once the service has been completed all information will be retained and/or destroyed in accordance with Ernst & Young South Africa's data retention policies. Should you require your information to be updated, amended or deleted from our records please contact us at Lynn Dike, outlining your requirements.
Security
Ernst & Young South Africa has implemented accepted standards of technical measures and security policies that protects the personal data it has under its control from:- unauthorised access;
- improper use or disclosure;
- unauthorised modification; and
- unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
Measurement on ey.com/za
At Ernst & Young, we have focused on implementing fair information practices that are designed to protect your privacy. We are also keen to understand better what our visitors most appreciate on our site, and the sections and pages they deem of most interest. This will allow us to gear ey.com/za to the preference of our general audience.To this effect, Ernst & Young South Africa uses Sitestat 4.0 of Nedstat on the South Africa part of ey.com to measure and analyse visitor information related to www.ey.com/za. For that purpose, we collect web traffic data and data related to your browser type and PC - on the basis of your IP Address. We will not use that data to identify you personally.
Cookies are also used in this context. "Cookies" is a name for a technology that allows our site to store tokens of information in your browser, to give your browser an identifier used only by our site while you are on our site, but not to identify you. Cookies help us track traffic patterns in the aggregate so that we know what areas of our site users like and do not like based on traffic to those areas. Cookies also help to prevent registration of multiple votes to any polls and surveys that may be run via this site, thus avoiding distorted results. We do not link personal data to the information contained in the cookie to determine or track the identity of any user on ey.com/southafrica. If you do not want to receive a cookie from ey.com or any other site, you have the option of setting your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, allowing you to determine whether to accept it or not. If you would like to know more about Nedstat, and the kind of information that Sitestat 5.0 collects and processes, we refer you to Nedstat's web site and its privacy policy on that web site (www.nedstat.com).
If you have any questions or concerns regarding to our measurement activities and how they impact your privacy while using ey.com/southafrica, please contact us at Lynn Dike.