This Cookie Notice describes how Molecular Diagnostic Services (Pty) Ltd

("we" or "us") use cookies and similar technologies to collect and store information

when you visit our website. For additional information on our data processing activities, including information about your rights, please visit our https://www.mdsafrica.net/

• What are Cookies and what information do they collect?

When you visit our websites or view our services online, we or an authorized third party may send you a cookie. Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your device. When a website is accessed, a cookie that is placed on a device will send information to the party that has placed the cookie. Cookies are common and used on a number of websites. Each cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie and usually the IP address or another unique number of the device, and thus may contain personal data, i.e. information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

• Session and Persistent Cookies

Our website may place session and persistent cookies on your device. The difference between a session and a persistent cookie relates to the length of time the cookie lasts. Session cookies are cookies that typically last for as long as you are using your browser, or browser session. When you end your browser session, the cookie expires. Persistent cookies, as the name implies, are persistent and will last after you close your browser. This allows, for example, for quicker and often more convenient access to our website.

• Types of Cookies, purpose of Cookies and Legal Basis for Cookies?

We use different types of cookies:

1. Strictly necessary cookies: Strictly necessary cookies are required to browse the website and use the functionalities of the website. If you disable necessary cookies, the functionality of the website will be affected. The legal basis for the collection of information through the use of strictly necessary cookies is contract performance (if we concluded a contract on the use of the website with you) or legitimate interests of us or third parties, such as the provision of a functioning website. More information on the balancing test is available upon request.


2. Performance cookies: Performance cookies allow us to collect information on the use of and the scope of use of the website by individual users. This includes whether a user has visited the website previously, the website the user comes from, the overall site usage and areas that users prefer and thus allows us to improve the performance of the website and the users’ experience in using that website. The legal basis for the collection of information through performance cookies is your consent (Sections 18 and 69 of POPIA)


3. Functionality cookies: Functionality cookies enable us to store the selections and settings made by you (e.g. language, region, text size, font). If you disable functionality cookies the functionality of the website may be affected. The legal basis for the collection of information through functionality cookies is your consent.


4. • Targeting/advertisement cookies: Targeting/advertisement cookies allow us to analyze the efficiency of our marketing activities and to provide targeted advertisement tailored for your interests. If you disable such cookies you will not receive a customized experience. The legal basis for the collection of such information by targeting/advertisement cookies is your consent.

• First Party and Third Party Cookies

Our website may place first party cookies and allow third parties to place cookies on your device. The difference between a first party cookie and a third party cookie relates to the control of the party who serves the cookie. First party cookies are cookies that are specific to the website that created them. Their use enables us to operate an efficient service and to track the patterns of behavior of visitors to the website. Third party cookies, on the other hand, are placed on your device by a third party (i.e., not by us). While we may allow third parties to access the website to place these cookies on users’ devices, we do not retain control over the information supplied by the cookies, nor do we retain access to that data. This information is controlled wholly by that third party and subject to their privacy notice. The legal basis for the collection of information through third party cookies depends on the type of cookie, please see above.

• Withdrawing consent, disabling, cookies, browser settings

To the extent, you have given consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the withdrawal of consent.

• Contact us

For further information on our use of cookies and similar technologies and additional information on the processing of your personal data, please visit our privacy notice