MedicalAidE.co.za is an independent resource on medical aids in South Africa. We aim to provide informative content for our readers and hope that you find the articles on our website useful. Your privacy is of the utmost concern to us and we have therefore provided this document outlining how personal information may be received and collected while you, the reader/visitor, peruses through the content on our website.

Should your require any other details regarding our privacy policy and your privacy for the duration you remain on our website, then please contact us through the mail form on our Contact page. We try our utmost to respond to email queries within 2 working days.

Log File Data

It is important for us to grow our website, understand the trends of users and protect our readers. In order to do this we use the data collected through log files. It provides us with a wide range of information including your IP address, the type of browser you used when viewing our content, the date and time that you were on our website, your Internet Service Provider (ISP), your movement across our website, the duration of your stay, basic demographic information, your entrance and exit paths, clicks and other trends. We cannot personally identify you through the data in these log files but the information gathered helps us in providing a better experience for your and other users in the future.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do not use cookies to store information about you, your preferences or attempt to record information on your behaviour prior to and after you leave our website. We also do not use cookies and web beacons to alter the content on our website specifically for you and your user behaviours. We attempt our utmost to protect your privacy an provide you with the same experience as other users without collecting data through cookies to manipulate what you see and read.

Advertising Partners

However, our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons to determine the relevancy of ads and track user trends for their advertisers. This does not in any way influence our impartiality and determine our content. Any queries or concerns that you may have with regards to our ad partner’s cookies or web beacons should be be discussed with them directly and you can refer to their website and advertising privacy policy.

Browsers

We cannot control the usage of cookies and web beacons by advertising partners. If you are not comfortable with the use of cookies or web beacons, then please visit partner sites for more information on how to disable cookies and web beacons. You may also wish to disable these features on your browser so as to prevent any such use at a later stage, if not on our website, then on any other digital property that exists on the Internet.

Our Current Advertisers

MedicalAidE.co.za currently uses the Google Adsense platform for revenue generation.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

  • Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on MedicalAidE.co.za.
  • Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to MedicalAidE.co.za and other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad content network privacy policy which can be viewed on this link www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/.

 

Last updated on December 5, 2012.