THE NCT BUSINESS

NCT Forestry Agricultural Co-operative Limited and its subsidiaries exist to market the timber of its members and non-member timber suppliers to the domestic and international markets. In addition, we provide a number of forestry-related services.

To achieve our objectives, NCT requires to collect and use the personal information of individuals and legal entities.

We value the importance of privacy and are committed to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) to ensure we use your personal information lawfully and securely. We have well-skilled and equipped information officers who ensure that NCT complies with its legal obligations, policies and security requirements.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

We are guided by the following principles when personal information is processed:

• Personal information shall be obtained lawfully not excessively and with consent where possible or if necessary, unless legal justification We will collect personal information directly from you as far as possible and we may ask third parties for information only when absolutely necessary and as provided for by law.
• We will only obtain personal information for a specified purpose to carry out and pursue our business and related operational interests. We do not sell personal information as a commodity.
• We will not further process your information in any manner incompatible with its original purpose, unless it is legally justifiable, or we have obtained your consent to do so.
• Your information may be kept in printed or electronic format for as long as may be legally
• We will ensure your information is of good quality which means it must be adequate, relevant, not misleading and, where necessary, kept up-to-date. We depend on you to tell us when information needs to be
• We will only share information to achieve our specific business goals or if required to do so by
• We will keep you informed when your information is being
• We will ensure that technical and organisational safeguards and measures are in place to protect and guard against unauthorised or unlawful processing of your information and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your data.
• We will respect your rights under
• We will not transfer your information to another country unless the person in that country has an adequate level of protection in place.

YOUR RIGHTS

We respect your rights as provided for in POPIA.

• To have personal information processed in accordance with the laws which includes the right to withdraw
• To be notified about why personal information is being collected as may be found in the various NCT processing notices where applicable (Commercial, HR, CSI).
• To be notified when personal information was accessed and/or acquired by an unauthorised
• To know that NCT holds personal information and to request access to
• To request the correction, destruction or deletion of personal Please complete POPIA Form 2.
• To object, on reasonable ground, to processing of personal Please complete POPIA Form 1.
• Not to have data processed for direct marketing through unsolicited electronic
• Not to be subjected to a decision based on profiling through automated processing of
• To submit a complaint to the Information
• To institute civil proceedings for damages against a party who has contravened the

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

If you require more information on how we process personal information, you may visit our website at www.nctforest.com. If you have any queries or complaints on how we process your information, please email us at informationofficer@nctforest.com.

Information regulator

General enquiries: inforeg@justice.gov.za | Complaints: complaints.IR@justice.gov.za