Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026/09/27

This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of Online Centre ("Online Centre", "We", "Us", or "Our") regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you ("You", "Your") use our website (the "Service"). Please review this policy to understand your privacy rights and how we protect your information.

 

 

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words with initial capitalization have meanings defined under specific conditions. These definitions apply regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Company (referred to as either "Online Centre", "We", "Us", or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Online Centre, located at Table View, Cape Town, 7441 (Full address on request).
  • Cookies are small files placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of Your browsing history among other uses.
  • Country refers to South Africa.
  • Device means any device capable of accessing the Service, such as a computer, cellphone, or tablet.
  • Personal Data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Service Provider refers to any natural or legal person processing data on behalf of the Company. This term includes third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service or assist in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself.
  • Website refers to Online Centre, accessible from https://site.onlinecentre.co.za/.
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on whose behalf such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

 

 

Spoor (mobile application)

This section applies to Spoor, the offline 4x4 trail recording application published by Online Centre on Google Play (package identifier za.co.onlinecentre.spoor). Where anything in this section differs from the rest of this notice, this section governs Spoor.

Location data

What Spoor accesses. Spoor accesses your device's precise location, from GPS and from network-based location services. It does this while you are using the app, and also in the background, while the screen is off, or while the app is not in the foreground, but only for as long as a recording is actually running.

Why Spoor needs it. Recording the route you drive is the purpose of the app. Spoor uses your location to:

  • record the track of a trail as a series of GPS fixes, with the time, elevation, speed and heading reported by the device for each one;
  • attach a position to any waypoint you mark, such as a gate, a water crossing or a hazard;
  • show where you are on the map, and centre the map on you;
  • calculate the distance, duration, moving time, climb and maximum speed shown for a recorded trail.

Why it runs in the background. A trail is driven with the phone in a pocket, on a cradle with the screen off, or with another app open. If Spoor only had access while it was on screen, the recording would have gaps or stop altogether. Background access exists so that a recording you started continues until you stop it.

Where your location is stored, and where it is not sent. Everything Spoor records is written to a database on your own device. Your recorded tracks, waypoints and the location data they contain are never transmitted to Online Centre, and are never transmitted to anyone else. They are not uploaded, backed up to a server, or synchronised. Spoor has no user accounts, no login, and no server that stores your data.

Your recorded data leaves your device only when you choose to send it: Spoor can export a trail as a GPX or KML file, and you then decide what to do with that file through your device's own sharing options. Where it goes at that point is determined by you and by whichever app or service you send it to.

Map data

Spoor is designed to work with no reception, and does so by downloading map areas in advance and storing them on your device.

To draw the map, and to download a map area for offline use, the app requests map tiles from a map server operated by Online Centre at kaart.onlinecentre.co.za. Like any request to any web server, these requests carry your device's IP address, and the tiles requested indicate the part of the map being displayed or downloaded, which is an approximate indication of the area you are looking at, not a record of where you have driven. Server logs of these requests are retained only for the operation and security of the server, and are not linked to you, to any account, or to your recorded trails.

No map request is made while the app is drawing a map area you have already downloaded. This is the only network connection Spoor makes for any purpose.

Other permissions Spoor requests

  • Notifications,  to display the ongoing notification that Android requires while a recording is in progress. The notification is what stops the system ending the recording.
  • Files you choose, when you import a route, Spoor reads only the single GPX or KML file you select in the file picker. It does not browse, scan or read anything else on your device.
  • Battery optimisation exemption, optional, and offered because Android's power saving will otherwise stop a long recording. You can decline it.
  • Run at start-up and keep the device awake, used only to keep an active recording running reliably.

What Spoor does not do

Spoor contains no advertising, no analytics, no crash or usage reporting, and no third-party tracking libraries of any kind. It does not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, or any device identifier. It does not build a profile of you, and it has nothing to sell to anyone. Online Centre cannot see your trails.

Retention and deletion

Your recorded trails, waypoints and downloaded map areas remain on your device until you delete them. You can delete an individual trail, waypoint or downloaded map area inside the app at any time.

Because this data is held only on your device and nowhere else, uninstalling Spoor, or clearing its data in Android's app settings, permanently deletes all of it. There is no copy held by Online Centre to request the deletion of. You can also withdraw any permission, including location, at any time in Android's settings.

Security

Your data is protected by the security of your own device: Spoor's database is held in the app's private storage, which Android does not make readable to other apps. Requests to the map server are encrypted in transit using HTTPS. Since your recorded location data never leaves your device, it is not exposed to interception in transit or to a breach of any server.

 

 

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data (E-commerce Site)

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. This may include:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data

We may also collect information automatically, including:

  • Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address)
  • Browser type and version
  • Pages of our Service that You visit
  • Time and date of Your visit
  • Time spent on those pages
  • Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including:

  • Type of mobile device You use
  • Your mobile device unique ID
  • IP address of Your mobile device
  • Your mobile operating system
  • Type of mobile Internet browser You use
  • Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

 

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. We may use:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies: Essential for providing You with services available through the Website and enabling You to use some of its features.
  • Flash Cookies: Used to collect and store information about Your preferences or activity on our Service.
  • Web Beacons: Electronic files that permit the Company to count users who have visited certain pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics.

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

 

Use of Your Personal Data

We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To manage Your Account
  • For the performance of a contract
  • To contact You
  • To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events unless You have opted not to receive such information
  • To manage Your requests
  • For business transfers
  • For other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and improving our Service

 

Sharing of Your Personal Data

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers
  • For business transfers
  • With Affiliates
  • With business partners
  • With other users
  • With Your consent

 

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We may also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.

 

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on computers located outside of your province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.

 

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

 

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

For any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].