Privacy Policy

Who we are

The South African Go Association (SAGA) is the national organization responsible for promoting and developing Go in South Africa. SAGA has been affiliated to the International Go Federation since 1993.

Static site visitors

This website is hosted as a static site. This means that visitors cannot interact with the site to leave comments or make other contributions. The visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string may appear in the website logs.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Anonymous participation

If you want to take part in SAGA events, but do not want your participation mentioned online, please notify the event organiser. If you wish to have your name removed from posts on this site, please contact the webmaster.

Photographs

We publish photographs from tournaments, club meetings and other SAGA events, so that members can look back on them and so that people considering the game can see what it looks like to play. Photographs appear on club and event pages and in the photo archive.

Asking us to take a photograph down. If you appear in a photograph on this site and would rather not, tell the event organiser or mail the webmaster and we will remove it. You do not need to give a reason, and you do not need to be a SAGA member to ask. The same applies if you would prefer not to be photographed at an event at all — let the organiser know on the day.

Children. We publish a photograph in which a person under 18 is recognisable only with the permission of their parent or legal guardian. That permission can be withdrawn at any time, by the same route as above.

What we do with the files. We remove embedded metadata — including EXIF GPS coordinates, which would otherwise reveal where a photograph was taken — before publishing. We do not tag, label or name individuals in photographs. The photo archive is marked so that search engines do not index it, and we keep roughly the last four years of event photographs.

Where the files are kept. This website and its images are hosted on servers outside South Africa.

We publish these photographs in SAGA’s legitimate interest as the national body for the game — reporting on our own events and promoting Go in South Africa — rather than on the basis of consent, except for photographs of children as described above. If you have a question about how we handle this, the webmaster address above is the place to raise it.

Site contributors

SAGA members can make contributions to the site. If this interests you, please get in touch so that the process can be explained. We will also discuss the site’s use of cookies and any other details relevant.

If you have an account on this site to make contribution, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.