Cookie Notice

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of data that a Website asks your browser to store on your computer, mobile device and/or other web-enabled device whenever you visit a Website. The cookie, once stored, allows the Website to “remember” your device and your actions or preferences over time.

A cookie is downloaded by your internet browser the first time you visit a Website. The next time you visit that Website with the same device, the cookie and the information in it are sent back to either the Website visited (i.e. first-party cookie) or another Website (i.e. third-party cookie). In this way, a Website can detect that it has already been opened using your browser, and, in some cases, it will then vary the content it shows and/or limit or enable functionality.

Most internet browsers support cookies. You can however set your browser to decline certain types of cookies or specific cookies. Further, you can delete cookies at any time.

We may also use similar browser-based storage technologies, including local storage and session storage. These technologies function in a similar way to cookies and are subject to the same principles set out in this policy. References to cookies in this policy include these similar technologies unless the context requires otherwise.

Where we use cookies to collect personal information, this will be carried out in accordance with our Privacy Statement available on Yobi Code’s Website at www.yobicode.co.za. Please ensure that you read our Privacy Statement to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat such personal information.

2. Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies for a lot of different functions, including to learn how you interact with our content and to generally improve your experience when visiting our Website. For example, some cookies remember your language and other preferences so that you do not have to repeatedly make these choices and/or input these details when you visit our Website.

Cookies can also help to ensure that the advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. In addition, cookies can help us to analyse the use of our Website and online content and they can also facilitate/track the interaction on our Website and online content with social media (e.g. links to social media sites, like buttons, etc.).

We may employ the learnings of your behaviour on our Website to serve you with targeted advertisement on third-party Website(s) in an effort to “re-market” our products and services to you. We place re-marketing and behavioural advertising cookies only where you have given prior opt-in consent through our cookie consent manager, and you may withdraw that consent at any time.

3. First Party and/or third-party cookies?

We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our Website. First-party cookies are cookies issued from our www.yobicode.co.za domain that are generally used to identify language and location preferences or render basic site functionality.

Third-party cookies belong to and are managed by other parties, such as our business partners or service providers. These cookies may be required to render certain forms, such as the submission of a job application, or to allow for some advertising outside of our Website.

For some of the functions within our Websites we use third-party suppliers, for example, when you visit a page with videos embedded from or links to third-party content providers (for example YouTube, Twitter, etc.). These videos or links (and any other content from third-party suppliers) may contain third-party cookies, and we encourage you to consult the privacy policies of these third-party suppliers on their Websites for information regarding their use of cookies.

We use the following types of third-party cookies and tracking tools, and encourage you to review each provider's own privacy and cookie notices: Website analytics (for example, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Microsoft Clarity); embedded media (for example, YouTube); where used, social and advertising platforms (for example, Meta or LinkedIn) and cookie consent management platforms (for example, CookiesYes). A full cookie inventory, listing each cookie, its provider, purpose, category and duration, is available on request and, where published, through our cookie preference centre.

Some of these third-party providers process your personal information outside the Republic of South Africa. We permit such transfers only where the recipient country or provider offers protection substantially similar to POPIA, or where appropriate safeguards, such as a data processing agreement, are in place, or where you have consented to the transfer, in accordance with section 72 of POPIA. A list of the providers and the countries in which they process data is available on request.

4. Session Cookies and/or Persistent Cookies?

We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our Website. Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used to remember you during the course of your visit to our Website, and they expire when you close your web browser.

Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within our Website and remain on your desktop, mobile device and/or other web-enabled device even after you close your browser or restart your device. We use these cookies to analyse user behaviour to establish visit patterns so that we can improve our Website functionality for you and others who visit our Website. These cookies also allow us to serve you with targeted advertising and measure the effectiveness of our site functionality and advertising.

5. Categories of cookies?

We use the following categories of cookies on our Website:

Each category of cookie relies on a lawful basis for processing under POPIA. Strictly necessary cookies rely on our legitimate interest or the performance of your request (section 11(1)(f) or 11(1)(b)). Analytics and performance cookies rely on your consent (section 11(1)(a)) and are placed only if you opt in. Functionality cookies rely on your consent where they store personal information. Targeting, advertising, social media and re-marketing cookies rely on your explicit opt-in consent (section 11(1)(a)).

6. How are cookies used for advertising purposes?

We may use information collected from our cookies to identify user behaviour and to serve content and offers based on your profile to the extent legally permissible. In other cases, we can associate cookie information with you. For example:

• If we send you a targeted email that includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies, we will know whether you open, read or delete the message, but we include such tracking only in marketing emails you have opted in to receive, and you may opt out at any time using the unsubscribe link or by contacting popia@yobi.co.za;
• When you click a link in a marketing email you receive from us, we may also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our Website, even if you are not registered at or signed into our Website.

Cookies and ad technology such as web beacons, pixels, and anonymous ad network tags help us serve relevant ads to you more effectively. They also help us collect aggregated audit data, research, and performance reporting for advertisers. Pixels enable us to understand and improve the delivery of ads to you, and know when certain ads have been shown to you. Since your web browser may request advertisements and web beacons directly from ad network servers, these networks can view, edit, or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

Although we do not sell your personal information, placing advertising and social media tags on our Website causes certain personal information, such as your IP address, device identifiers and browsing behaviour on our site, to be shared with the relevant advertising platforms, which act as operators or processors on our behalf. You can opt out of off-site and third-party-informed advertising by adjusting your cookie settings. Opting out will not remove advertising from the pages you visit; instead, the advertisements you see will no longer be matched to your interests by those specific cookies.

7. Combining and analysing personal data

We may combine data from publicly available sources, and from our different email, Website, and personal interactions with you (this includes information collected when you sign up or log on to our Website or connect to our Website using your social media credentials). We combine this data to better assess your experience with us and to perform the other activities described throughout our Privacy Statement.

The combining and analysing of data described above may involve creating a profile of your interests and preferences (profiling). We use profiling to personalise content and advertising. You have the right under POPIA to object to processing for the purposes of profiling and to ask us to stop profiling your personal information (section 11(3)).

8. Do we use any other tracking technologies similar to cookies?

We may use web beacons (including conversion pixels) or other technologies for similar purposes as above and we may include these on our Website, in marketing email messages or our newsletter, affiliated Websites, to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but they may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor Website activity. The information provided herein about cookies also applies to web beacons and similar technologies. Conversion pixels are small codes located on our Website which are triggered when someone visits a page resulting in an increase in the conversion count.

9. How can you manage your cookies?

You can control non-essential cookies through our cookie consent manager, which appears on your first visit to our Website and is available at any time from the cookie settings link on our Website. The consent manager lets you accept or reject each category of cookie separately. Non-essential cookies are switched off by default and are not placed unless and until you opt in, and you can withdraw your consent at any time. You can also remove existing cookies, and block future cookies, through your browser settings.

Using the cookie consent manager will set a single cookie on your device to remember your preferences. This preference cookie does not track you and is kept separate from any analytics or advertising cookies.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. Therefore, if you do not wish cookies to be used, you may need to actively delete or block the cookies.

If you reject the use of cookies, you will still be able to visit our Website but some of the functions may not work correctly.

You may also visit www.allaboutcookies.org for details on how to delete or reject cookies and for further information on cookies generally. We place non-essential cookies only where you have opted in through our cookie consent manager; continuing to browse our Website is not treated as your consent.

10. Your rights under POPIA

With respect to personal information collected through cookies, you have the right to: access the personal information we hold about you (section 23); ask us to correct or delete it (section 24); object to its processing, including profiling (section 11(3)); and withdraw any consent you have given, at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. You may exercise these rights by contacting our Information Officer using the details below. We aim to respond within 30 (thirty) days.

11. Who to contact (Information Officer)

12. Information Regulator

You may lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator (South Africa) if you believe your personal information rights have been infringed. The Information Regulator, Woodmead North Office Park, 54 Maxwell Drive, Woodmead, Johannesburg, 2191. Telephone: +27 (0) 10 023 5200. Email: POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za. Website: www.inforegulator.org.za.

13. Children

Our Websites are not directed at children. Where a Website in the group serves learners or students, we do not place advertising or profiling cookies against users we know to be children, and the personal information of a child is processed only with the prior consent of a competent person, being a parent or guardian, as required by section 34 & 35 of POPIA.

14. Do Not Track signals

Some browsers can send a Do Not Track signal. Our Website does not currently change its behaviour in response to Do Not Track signals. Please use our cookie consent manager to set your preferences directly.

15. Changes to this cookie policy

We may update this cookie policy from time to time by publishing an updated version here and amending the revision date below. Where we make a material change, for example a new category of cookie or a new processing purpose, we will notify you by a Website banner or by email before the change takes effect and, where required, ask for your fresh consent. Minor clarifications will be shown by updating the revision date.