1. Introduction
ORICONNECT registered as ORI ADVISORY (PTY) LTD with registration number 2025/572411/07. ORICONNECT, also referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” throughout this document, is committed to keeping your information private and secure.
The information that you provide us with through various channels, including our website, social media channels, email correspondence, video recordings, conversations or meetings, is only used for the purposes set out in this Policy. We collect your personal details and CV information to provide you with our services and match you with temporary audit project opportunities.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you about the types of personal data we collect, the purpose of collecting this data, and the ways in which the data is handled in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), 2013.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the controller of personal data is OriConnect.
2. What information is collected?
We will collect personal details, including but not limited to:
- Your name and contact details, including your email address and other relevant information from your Curriculum Vitae (“CV”).
- On occasion this will also include sensitive personal information such as details of criminal convictions and ethnic origin.
- When we receive your details and CV electronically, this may be through a direct application on our website, social media pages, or email.
- We will likely obtain further personal information about you throughout our relationship with you.
3. How is your personal information used?
We will keep, use, and share your information for our valid business reasons, including to:
- Provide our services to you.
- Maintain our business relationship where you are a user of our website, a client, or a consultant.
- Enable you to submit your CV for general applications, to apply for specific projects, to subscribe to our newsletter, or to register on our website.
- Match your details with project openings to assist you in finding a position best suited to your needs, schedule and to send your personal information (including sensitive personal information) to clients in order to apply for projects on your behalf.
- Retain your details and notify you about future project opportunities.
- Share information with you about products, services, reports, events, and opportunities. You will be given an option to opt out of communications.
- Fulfill contractual obligations with our clients.
- Provide further services to you by sharing your personal information with trusted third parties.
- Release personal information to regulatory or law enforcement agencies if we are required or permitted to do so.
- We may also be required to conduct criminal record, credit, qualification, and identity checks against your details. We will obtain your approval before conducting these checks.
4. The legal basis for processing your personal information
Under the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, we obtain and process information on the following bases:
4.1 Contractual necessity
In order to perform the obligations we undertake in providing a service to you, it will be necessary for us to process your personal data.
4.2 Legal obligation
We are subject to certain legal requirements which may require us to process your personal data. We may also be obliged by law to disclose your personal data to a regulatory body or law enforcement agency.
4.3 Legitimate interests
We will need to process your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests, provided we have established that those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms, including your right to have your personal data protected. Our legitimate interests include responding to requests and enquiries from you or a third party, optimising our website and customer experience, informing you about our products and services, and ensuring that our operations are conducted in an appropriate and efficient manner.
4.4 Consent
In some circumstances, we may ask for your consent to process your personal data in a particular way.
6. How long we will hold your information
As we often support consultants with placements throughout their careers, we may retain information for many years. We conduct regular data-cleansing and updating exercises with our candidates to ensure that the data we hold is accurate and that we are not holding data for longer than necessary.
Our standard terms of business state that our clients should retain consultants’ data such as CVs for the purposes of future projects, and that, as controllers of your data, they should inform you if they plan to retain your CV on file in order to notify you about potential future roles, or to otherwise hold or use your data for other purposes.
7. Your rights on information we hold about you
You have certain rights in relation to personal information we hold about you. Details of these rights and how to exercise them are set out below. We will require evidence of your identity before we are able to act on your request.
7.1 Right of access
You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the personal information about you that we hold.
7.2 Right of correction or completion
If personal information we hold about you is not accurate, out of date, or incomplete, you have a right to have the data rectified, updated, or completed.
7.3 Right of erasure
You have the right to request that personal information we hold about you is deleted, for example, if the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed, or if our processing of the information is based on your consent and there are no other legal grounds on which we may process the information.
7.4 Consent
To the extent that we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can do this by emailing info@oriconnect.co.za.
8. Curriculum vitae
You can update your CV at any time by emailing the updated version to recruitment@oriconnect.co.za. Your old CV will automatically be archived, provided the submission details remain the same (for example, you submit both CVs using the same email address, or you advise the relevant contact of your new submission).
9. Aggregate information about website visitors
We gather information and statistics collectively about all visitors to our website, for example, which areas users access most frequently and which services users access the most.
We only use such data in aggregate form. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users and how we can continually improve our online services to create a better overall experience.
10. Complaints
If you are unhappy about our use of your personal information, you can email info@oriconnect.co.za to request to be removed from our database.
