Last updated: 26 October 2026
POG Advisory & Chartered Accountants Inc. ("POG Advisory", "we", "us") respects your privacy. This policy explains how we process personal information collected through this website and our related services, in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).
1. Who is responsible for your information
POG Advisory & Chartered Accountants Inc. is the responsible party for personal information collected through this website. You can contact us, including our Information Officer, at info@pogidja.co.za or +27 84 782 2372.
2. What we collect
- Information you give us: your name, email address, phone number, business name, the services you are interested in, your preferred office and any message you send, through our contact form, quote request form, WhatsApp, email or phone.
- Client information: when you become a client, we collect the financial, tax and company information needed to deliver our services.
- Technical information: our hosting provider may record basic technical data such as your IP address, browser type and pages visited, for security and to keep the website running.
3. How we use it
- To respond to your enquiry and arrange consultations.
- To prepare quotes and deliver the services you request.
- To meet our legal, tax and professional obligations.
- To keep our website secure and working properly.
We do not sell your personal information, and we only send marketing messages if you have agreed to receive them.
4. WhatsApp and third-party services
Our contact and quote request forms open WhatsApp with your details filled in. Your message is only sent when you tap send in WhatsApp. WhatsApp is operated by Meta and its own privacy policy applies to messages sent through it. This website also loads fonts from Google Fonts.
5. Sharing your information
We share personal information only where necessary: with SARS, CIPC and other authorities when acting on your instructions or as required by law, and with trusted service providers (such as accounting software and hosting providers) who process it on our behalf under appropriate confidentiality and security obligations.
6. How long we keep it
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected, or as required by law. Tax and accounting records are generally kept for at least five years.
7. How we protect it
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information against loss, misuse and unauthorised access, and we require our service providers to do the same.
8. Your rights
Under POPIA you have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to ask us to correct or delete it, to object to its processing, and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. Contact us at info@pogidja.co.za to make a request.
If you are not satisfied with how we handle your information, you may lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator of South Africa (inforegulator.org.za).
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this page.