ACU eLibrary Research Management Good Practice Index

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself ( eg name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, online databases and personalised services.

By entering your details in the fields requested, Research Research (Africa)(Pty) Ltd will be able to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. Research Research (Africa)(Pty) Ltd will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current internet best practice.

During the course of any visit to the Research-Africa.net website, the pages which you see, along with something called a Cookie, are downloaded to your computer (see paragraph 3 below for more on this). Cookies allow us to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.

When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued with a Cookie. Cookies are text files which identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site, in order to track traffic flows.

Even assuming you have not set your computer to reject cookies, you can browse our site anonymously until such time as you register for Research-Africa.net services.

When you supply any personal information to Research-Africa.net we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We have to collect the information fairly, (see the notices on particular webpages which let you know why we are requesting the information) and to let you know how we will use it and whether we will pass the information on to anyone else. Whenever we collect personal information, we allow you to choose whether you wish to allow us to pass the information on to others. Registered users may also review and change their choice.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as it is needed for the purposes for which we collected it and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. Usually, this will be for as long as you continue to be registered with us for services.

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Research Research (Africa)(Pty) Ltd holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge a fee for information requests.) Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer (email: info@researchresearch.com).

As Research-Africa.net's services expand, there will be more opportunities to enhance the services provided to you. From time to time we may provide you with details of other Research-Africa.net services and products which may be of interest to you and offer you the opportunity to subscribe to them. We may also offer you the opportunity to participate in surveys carried out by the us or our agents which help our research into the types of service we offer. Research Research (Africa)(Pty) Ltd will keep a record of information provided by you. Please note that any information you provide to Research Research (Africa)(Pty) Ltd will only be used within Research Research (Africa)(Pty) Ltd, and will never be supplied to third parties without first obtaining your consent. The only time we may do so is if we are obliged by law to disclose information.