You hereby declare and confirm that you, as the SAGA Patron Member providing information, do hereby irrevocably agree and understand that any/all information supplied or given to SAGA, is done so in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPI Act) including any amendments.

SAGA may collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information while you are registered as a member for the purposes of administration and organisational requirements. The information we hold may include but is not limited to; your legal and professional name, email address, a home, postal or other physical address, other contact information, cv, photograph(s), your title, birth date, gender, race.

Your information will be accessed by SAGA employees and Executive Committee on password and anti-virus protected computers, stored in the cloud or on password protected servers managed by a third-party service provider, which may be located outside of South Africa.

Where SAGA shares your information, we will take all precautions to ensure that the third party will be POPI complaint and will treat your information with the same level of protection and confidentiality required by the POPI Act. Should you no longer be a member, your information will be kept for no longer than 10 years upon which the SAGA information officer will delete your personal information. Particular information such as name and phone number may be kept for longer for record keeping purposes.