Protecting your personal details on our website

Here at MPOWA Finance, we endeavour to treat you and your personal data as well as your online security with a lot of care. We understand that you would like to make use of our online services at this point because you are in need of financial relief and we will do our best to provide that to you.

Storing your Personal Data securely

We protect your personal information using secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology, by limiting employee access on a need-to-know basis as well as storing your data in firewall protected servers.

By submitting your details and/or using our service you accept this Privacy Policy and expressly provide voluntary, specific and informed consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described below. You have the right to object to our use of your personal information. Depending on the information you object to, we may not be able to proceed with your loan application/s as certain information is required for the conclusion or performance of this contract and we are obliged by law to obtain same.

We recognise the need for appropriate protection and management of the personal information you share with us. We protect that information using secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology, by limiting employee access on a need-to-know basis as well as storing your data in firewall protected servers.

You should also also read the loan terms and conditions (sent via email during the application and signed online in acceptance), which provide further details of how we collect, process and use your personal information and should be read together with this Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy applies to all current and former customers and may change from time to time. Each update change super-cedes the previous version.

When we first obtain Personal Data from you, we give you the option to accept our Privacy Policy as stated on this page by ticking a box. You may change your mind at any time by emailing us at the address below to unsubscribe from any of our marketing mailings lists or simply unsubscribe on the link at the bottom of the email you received.

We collect and may hold personal data from you via this Website and from third party sources and use it for making decisions, providing services and servicing our relationship with you, to understand your financial needs, to assess your application for credit, to conduct our business, to provide you with better customer services and products from both ourselves and those of selected third parties, to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing of the Website and for statistical analysis. We only collect information which is necessary for the operation of the provision of our Service to you. We will not keep your personal data for longer than necessary to provide the Service, or as required by law.

We may pass this information to other service providers or agents, as permitted by law so that they may do the same and they may pass information held by them about you to us so that we may do the same. In the provision of our Service to you, we may disclose your information to the following third parties who may provide us with further information about you, such third parties may also be required to disclose your information to selected third parties in relation to this application, and as required by law, such as Credit Reference Agencies, corporate groups and/or affiliate companies, any other creditor, credit provider as in the context of your current application form to assist you in your application, any debt counsellor, collector or tracing agent, to any company, business or intermediary associated with us to recover debt; and/or any prospective purchaser of our company.

If at any time you wish to stop receiving such contact from a third party, you will need to follow the instructions about unsubscribing provided at that time by the third party. Please note that we only partner with trusted companies who will respect your right to unsubscribe from any such marketing communications, but we will not be responsible for managing that process or any disputes.

You may also register on the National “Opt Out” register of the Direct Marketing Association of South Africa by going to www.dmasa.org.

By submitting an application form through this site, you agree that we can contact you by post, telephone and/or email (or such other channel we may adopt from time to time) to tell you about other products and services, offered by ourselves or other carefully selected companies, that we believe would be of interest to you.

All information submitted in this form is held safely and securely by us in accordance with the Data Protection Act. We require all parties to whom we may pass your information to treat it with the same degree of confidentiality.

Please email data@mpowafin.co.za to unsubscribe from any of our marketing mailing lists.