1. Overview & Information Officer Disclosures
Uniwire eCourse (operated under CyberCircuit Technologies & Consulting) is committed to safeguarding personal data entrusted to us by corporate clients, enterprise administrators, and individual learners.
In accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA Act No. 4 of 2013) and global privacy frameworks, our designated Information Officer can be reached for data subject inquiries or statutory rights requests:
- Responsible Party: Uniwire eCourse / CyberCircuit Technologies
- Email: store@uniwire.co.za
- Phone: +27 83 996 8511
- Jurisdiction: Republic of South Africa
2. Categories of Personal Data Collected
- Corporate Account & Licensing Data: Company name, registration details, administrator first/last names, corporate email addresses, and purchased course seat entitlements.
- Learner Roster & Progression Metrics: Learner names, corporate emails, course enrollment records, lesson completion statuses, quiz scores, and issued cryptographic completion certificates.
- Order & Billing Records: OpenCart transaction references, order IDs, invoice identifiers, and payment status (credit card numbers are processed via PCI-DSS compliant gateways and are never stored on Uniwire servers).
- Technical & Telemetry Data: IP addresses, browser User-Agent headers, session timestamps, and authentication tokens for security defense, rate-limiting, and brute-force prevention.
3. Legal Bases for Data Processing
We process personal data under lawful conditions specified in Section 11 of POPIA and Article 6 of GDPR:
- Contractual Performance: Fulfilling course licensing agreements, provisioning LMS multi-tenant seats, and delivering downloadable platform release bundles.
- Legitimate Interests: Enforcing API security, preventing firewall lockouts, protecting air-gapped software intellectual property, and validating cryptographic license keys.
- Consent: Freely given and informed consent for non-essential cookies, analytics telemetry, and voluntary product updates.
4. Cookie Policy & Granular Consent Management
Uniwire eCourse utilizes cookies and local storage tokens to deliver secure portal authentication and optimize user experiences:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for session authentication (`uniwire_token`), CSRF protection, and seat access control. Always active.
- Functional Cookies: Preserve UI preferences, active navigation tabs, and learning progress state.
- Performance & Analytics Cookies: Measure platform responsiveness, module access rates, and bandwidth utilization.
You can adjust or withdraw your consent at any time via our Cookie Preferences Center or the persistent 🍪 trigger button.
5. Statutory Data Subject Rights
- POPIA Rights: You have the right to request access to your personal records, demand correction or deletion of inaccurate data, object to processing, and lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator of South Africa (inforegulator.org.za).
- GDPR Rights: Data portability, right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"), and restriction of automated profiling.
- CCPA/CPRA Rights: Right to know, right to delete, and right to opt-out of data sale/sharing ("Do Not Sell"). Uniwire eCourse does not sell personal information to third-party data brokers.
6. Security Measures & Data Retention
We maintain multi-tier security defenses, including TLS 1.3 encryption in transit, bcrypt password hashing, cryptographic HMAC-SHA256 license token signing, and role-based access control (RBAC). Personal and corporate training records are retained for the duration of the corporate licensing contract plus statutory regulatory retention periods.