TFG Money Account - Online Application

Privacy Statement
(This privacy statement should be read in conjunction with the terms and conditions of our website)


"TFG", "we", "us" and "our" refer to The Foschini Group Limited and all of its subsidiaries and brands. "websites" refers to all websites owned and operated by TFG. "app" refers to a mobile application which runs on a mobile phone, tablet, watch or other mobile device.

We value your privacy

We understand that your personal information is your most valued asset. We are, therefore, committed to protecting this asset and this statement sets out our practices insofar as it relates to your personal information.

Who are we?

TFG refers to our holding company, The Foschini Group Limited and its subsidiaries which operate under various retail brands. Further information about our different brands can be found in our Access to Information manual ("Manual") which you can access here. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, please contact our Information Officer or the relevant Deputy Information Officer, whose contact details can also be found in the Manual.

The information we collect

When you open an account with us, shop at one of our stores, join our Rewards program, enter any of our competitions, you visit website, or download or use one of our apps we will collect the following information from you:

  • Your name, surname, identity/passport number, contact information and residential/postal address;
  • Your age, gender, ethnicity, marital status and language;
  • Your employment, banking and financial information;
  • Any other form of personal information that we may reasonably require to offer or provide any of our services or products to you;
  • Information we collect through cookies and similar technologies - see further below under the headings "Cookies" and "Google Analytics".
What we do with your information

We use your information to:

  • Provide you with our services and products, including assessing whether you qualify for credit;
  • Manage and administer your credit and rewards account, insurance policy, or magazine subscription;
  • Communicate with you if we have any special offers, discounts or competitions for you, or where you have consented to it, provide you with special offers on insurance products or magazine subscriptions;
  • Comply with any applicable law that requires us to use your information, or where we need to do so in order to protect any interest that you, TFG or another party may have.

We also employ the use of Google Analytics which is utilised to track your activity on our website. This information is used to optimise our services based on your activity on our website to enhance the overall user experience as well as the development of products that best suit your needs. For more information on Google Analytics please follow this link.

Cookies

We employ the use of cookies, which are small text files which asks your web browser for permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic. Cookies allow us to tailor our operations and websites to you, e.g. by estimating our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences and recognise when you return to our website.

Overall, cookies help us to provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful or not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any of your personal information, other than that which you choose to share with us. We own and retain all rights to de-identified statistical information collected and compiled by us.

You may at any time decline cookies in your web browser settings, but this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our websites.

Google Analytics

In order to ensure that the content of our websites remain up to date, user-friendly and comprehensive, we employ the use of Google Analytics, which is a web-analysis tool from Google Inc. This service uses cookies that track you preferences during your visits to our websites and allows us to simplify navigation and make our website more user-friendly. The information that is used during this process (which includes your IP Address) is de-identified and makes personal identification impossible.

TFG also makes use of first-party and third-party cookies, as well as web beacons and similar technologies to deliver measurement services and targeted advertising to visitors. Cookies may include Google Analytics cookies, a Google Ads cookie, and a Facebook Event Tracking cookie. No personal information is shared with any third party when providing these targeted services.

For more information on the use of Google Analytics and your privacy options please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and for detail regarding the information Google collects and how it is used to deliver targeted advertising, please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/.

Sharing your personal information

We generally do not share your personal information, but in some instances we have service providers that assist us with some of the services or products we provide you with. In these instances we do share your information with them, but we have service level agreements with them to ensure that your information is protected and only used to provide those services and products to you.

Protecting your information

The safeguarding of your information is important to us and we have a specialized information security team that adopted industry best practices to ensure that all reasonable practicable organizational and technical measures are in place to protect your personal information. If you have any questions regarding the protection of your information you are welcome to contact our Information Officer or the relevant Deputy Information Officer.

Your choices

As this is your personal information you have options available to you. You may:

  • Ask us to confirm what information we hold of you and also to either delete, correct or destroy that information;
  • Object to us using your information if you have reasonable grounds to believe we should not be using your information;
  • Ask us not use your information for direct marketing or if you have consented to direct marketing you may withdraw that consent at any time

You have to think carefully when you exercise these options as we may not be able to provide you with our service or products if you object to us using your personal information.

Updates to this notice

We may update this notice from time to time but you can always accept that the one available on our website is the most up to date version.

- September 2019

© TFG Money is a division of Foschini Retail Group (Pty) Ltd, a registered credit provider (NCRCP36)