Cookie Policy
- Effective date:
- 5 October 2026
- Last updated:
- 5 October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Umbutho Administrators (“Umbutho”, “we”, “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies on umbuthoadmin.co.za (“the website”), what we place, and how you can control it. It is written with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA) in mind and applies to visitors in South Africa.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file that a website stores in your browser. It can be read back on later visits, either by the website that set it or by a service that website uses. In this policy “cookies” also covers similar technologies, such as your browser’s local storage.
2. The cookies we use
2.1 Functional
Functional storage makes the website work as you expect. We use it only to remember your answer to our cookie notice. It does not identify you and does not need your consent.
2.2 Statistics
Statistics cookies tell us how the website is used — which pages are visited, how long for, and how visitors found us — so that we can improve its content and performance. They identify your browser rather than you personally. We only place statistics cookies if you accept them in our cookie notice.
2.3 Marketing and tracking
We do not use advertising, remarketing or cross-site tracking cookies. If that changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent first.
2.4 Social media
The website links to our Facebook and LinkedIn pages. These are ordinary links: nothing from those networks is embedded on our pages, so they place no cookies through this website. Once you follow a link, that network’s own cookie and privacy policies apply.
3. Cookies placed on this website
Google Analytics
Statistics — placed only if you accept
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use this website, such as which pages are viewed and how visitors arrive. The analytics script is served from our own domain, and its requests are relayed through our server, which shortens your IP address before passing it to Google.
Analytics data is processed by Google LLC, which may process it outside South Africa. See Google’s privacy information.
| Name | Expiration | Function |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | Distinguishes visitors |
| _ga_* | 2 years | Stores session state |
Umbutho website
Functional — always on
We remember your answer to our cookie notice in your browser’s local storage, so that we do not ask again on every visit.
This stays in your browser. It is not sent to our servers or shared with anyone.
| Name | Expiration | Function |
|---|---|---|
| cookie-consent | Until cleared | Stores your cookie notice choice |
4. Your consent
The first time you visit, we show a cookie notice. If you choose “Accept”, you consent to the statistics cookies described above. If you choose “Decline”, or do not answer the notice, no statistics cookies are placed and the website works exactly the same.
You can change your mind at any time with the button below. If you withdraw your consent, we delete the Google Analytics cookies from your browser and stop placing them.
5. Managing cookies in your browser
You can also delete cookies, block them, or ask to be told each time one is set, using your browser’s settings — see the Help section of your browser for how. Blocking cookies does not stop this website from working; your cookie notice choice will simply not be remembered, and the notice will be shown again on your next visit.
6. Your rights
Under POPIA you have the right to:
- know what personal information we hold about you, why, and for how long;
- ask us to correct or delete your personal information;
- withdraw consent you have given, at any time;
- object to the processing of your personal information.
To exercise these rights, contact us using the details below. If you are unhappy with how we handle your information you may also complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa): P.O. Box 31533, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017 — complaints.IR@justice.gov.za.
7. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the website or the law changes. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.
8. Contact us
For questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:
Umbutho Administrators
Suite 145, Private Bag X2600, Houghton
Johannesburg, South Africa
2041
Email: info@umbuthoadmin.co.za
Phone: 087 088 8628
You can also reach us through our contact form.