Cookie Policy

1Purpose and scope

This Cookie Policy explains how PlacementPlus uses cookies, browser storage, pixels, tags, software development kits and similar technologies on placementplus.co.za, on the PlacementPlus platform at app.placementplus.co.za, and on related web applications.

It should be read with our Privacy Policy at placementplus.co.za/privacy.

2What these technologies do

A cookie is a small text file stored by a website in a browser. Local or session storage keeps similar values in the browser. Pixels, tags and software logs can record events such as a page view, a consent choice, a sign-in or an error. A technology may be set by PlacementPlus (first party) or by a supplier (third party), and may last only for the session or for a stated period.

3Our consent approach

Strictly necessary technologies operate where required to deliver a service you request, secure the site, authenticate a user, remember a privacy choice or balance traffic. They cannot be switched off through our banner, although blocking them in your browser may prevent the service from working.

Every other category is off until you turn it on. We do not treat continued browsing, scrolling or closing a banner as consent.

How the banner behaves

• It appears on your first visit, before any optional technology runs.
• Accept all and Reject all are equally prominent and take the same single click. Refusing is never harder than accepting.
• Manage choices lets you turn Functional, Analytics and Marketing on or off independently.
• There is no close or dismiss control. The banner asks a question and waits for an answer, because a banner that can be waved away leaves us without one.
• Strictly necessary technologies are shown but are not offered as a choice, because they are not one.
• A Cookie settings link is present on every page, so a choice can be changed as easily as it was made.
• An optional technology may run only where a recorded choice permits it. No recorded choice means no — not “not yet”. A tag that fires in anticipation of a later yes has already fired, and the visitor’s answer arrives too late to matter.

4Categories

5What is deployed today

This section states what actually runs. It is divided deliberately: a policy that lists technologies a site does not use tells a visitor nothing about their own visit.

5.1 In use

Analytics is now deployed, and it is off for every visitor who has not turned it on. No advertising or marketing technology is deployed. If you refuse Analytics, nothing optional runs during your visit. We say so plainly rather than implying otherwise.

5.2 Not deployed

The following may be introduced in future. None of them runs today, and none may run merely because it appears here. Before any is activated, this Policy will be updated, the banner will reflect it, and consent will be sought.

Activating any of these requires a change to this Policy and to the banner, and a new consent. An existing choice does not carry forward to a category that did not exist when it was made — the recorded version would no longer match, and you would be asked again.

This version (v3.0) activated analytics. A choice is now recorded against a version number, so a choice made against v2.1 or earlier is not carried forward: those visitors are asked again, and no analytics tag runs for them until they answer.

6First-party operational logs

We keep server-side logs of requests, errors and security events. These are not cookies and do not depend on your consent: they are necessary to operate the service securely and to meet our accountability obligations under POPIA. They record the request, the time, the outcome and, where a user is signed in, who made it.

Access to a candidate’s file is logged individually, per reader. That log exists for the candidate’s benefit: an access request under section 23 of POPIA is answered from it.

Ownership verification tags for Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools are published on the site. They prove who owns the domain, set no cookie and collect nothing about a visitor, so they are not part of a consent choice. Search Console and Bing data reaches us only as aggregated search performance.

7Managing your choices

• Use the Cookie settings link, present on every page, to change your choice at any time.
• Your browser can block or delete cookies. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent sign-in.
• Your choice is stored in your browser, so it applies to that browser and device. Clearing your browser data clears it.

8Third-party technologies

Where a third-party technology is introduced, that supplier may process information under its own terms and may set its own identifiers. Section 5.2 names those under consideration. We will not activate one without updating this Policy, updating the banner, and obtaining consent.

9Retention and consent renewal

• A recorded choice lasts 12 months, after which you are asked again.
• Changing this Policy in a way that affects categories or technologies causes a fresh request.
• A choice recorded against an earlier version of this Policy is not carried forward.

10Updates

We may update this Policy. The effective date and version are shown on it, and the current version is published on the platform. Earlier versions may be requested from privacy@placementplus.co.za.

11Contact

Privacy contact
privacy@placementplus.co.za

Registered address
Mulberry Hill Office Park, Broadacres Drive, Dainfern, Johannesburg, 2191, South Africa

Information Regulator
inforegulator.org.za | POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za