Community Business Initiative

Policy

CBI Portal Operating and Privacy Policy

The CBI portal is operated a public blog and a private forum. The registered domain is cbimobpot.co.za which refers to CBI mobilising potential.

A: Fundamentals for operating CBI:

  1. The portal is operated explicitly Christian but non-Christians are welcome to participate.
  2. The portal creates community awareness and functions as an interdenominational and interactive communication tool.
  3. The concept of the portal can be used by any language group or culture in any community. The English language was selected as default for being the dominant business language and the cross-cultural communication medium in the South African context.
  4. Participation is conditional and the decision of the management is final. Interested people can visit the Focus Group sessions twice at no charge and without registering.
  5. The CBI basic services are conditionally provided at no charge. Cost of operating the Focus Groups is covered by donations and start-ups participating in the Inala Community Ventures programme.
  6. Management reserves the right to terminate the services at any reasonable time where the behaviour or conduct of the person seeking advice makes it impossible to continue with the relationship. The decision of management is final in this regard.
  7. CBI and its approved co-workers from the community do not accept any professional liability as no provision is made for professional indemnity insurance. However, as committed Christians we perform the community service striving for excellence.
  8. Participants are free to obtain independent second opinions at any time. However, the second opinion should not come from one of the approved co-workers of CBI.
  9. If independent professional counselling is required, the individual will be responsible for the cost associated with such services.
  10. The size of Focus Groups should preferably be limited to practically support participation. Guideline in this regard is 12 participants. The duration of the weekly Focus Group meetings is 90 minutes.
  11. For operational purposes management decisions can be taken by any two of the CBI Forum Task Team members.
  12. The weekly Focus Group meetings are opened with a Christian devotion and prayers.

B: Conditions for using the CBI Portal:

  1. First and other exploratory visits have limited read-only access.
  2. Committed participants are required to register.
  3. Only approved participants can post comments. (Managing security of the virtual platform necessitates this.)
  4. The registration and approval process will show your true identity on your profile. The personal data is not accessible except to the individual and the administrator. The provisions of the POPI legislation apply.
  5. Management reserves the right to immediately stop the access of any participant if any degrading, disrespectful or divisive comments or material are posted. Such a person will have to apply again in advance after a cooling-off period.
  6. Management reserves the right to act in the interests of the security of the portal and its participants in respect of any unforeseen situation or incident. Such decision is final.
  7. Participation in the portal activities is on a voluntary basis. Participants themselves take responsibility to protect their own interest as in any public interactive forum.
  8. Access to toolbox material is limited.
  9. The administration of the portal is not full time. We endeavour to respond as soon as possible.

C: Privacy Policy:

  1. Comments
    • When visitors comment on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
    • An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar Service’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  2. Media
    • If you upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website may download and extract any location data from images on the Website.
  3. Cookies
    • If you leave a comment on our website, you can opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to re-enter your details when you make another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
    • If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
    • When you log in, we will also set several cookies to store your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will continue for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.
    • If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.
  4. Embedded content from other websites
    • Articles on this website may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
    • These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, include additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
  5. Who we share your data with
    • If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  6. How long we keep your data
    • If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
    • For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.
  7. What rights do you have over your data
    • If you have an account on this website, or have left comments, you can request to receive an export file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we have about you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
  8. Where your data is sent
    • Visitors’ comments can be checked by an automated spam detection service.
  9. Hosting conditions
    • Any reasonable conditions imposed by the domain hosting will apply.
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