Privacy
What this website records, and how to switch it off.
This site has no accounts, no login and no shop. It counts visitors so we can tell which pages are useful, and that is all it does. This page says exactly what is recorded, in plain words, and gives you a button that stops it.
Last updated 27 August 2026.
Who is responsible
Giyant Business Solutions is the responsible party for this website under the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013. Brendon Mapinda is the contact for anything on this page, and he reads mapindabrendon@gmail.com.
What the site records
Visitor numbers, and nothing else.
- Which page you opened, and how many seconds it was genuinely on your screen. The address is trimmed before it is stored, so any part of it that could be a private code is replaced rather than kept.
- Whether you have been here before, as a yes or a no, and roughly how many separate days you have visited, as a band such as three to five rather than an exact number.
- Your city, region and country, worked out roughly from your connection.
- The line of text your browser sends to identify itself. What is kept from it is whether you are on a phone, a tablet or a computer, and which browser.
- The website that linked you here, if one did.
The seconds are counted honestly. Only time the page was actually in front of you counts, so a tab left open in the background while you do something else adds nothing.
What it never records: no name, no email address, no phone number, no IP address, no precise location, and nothing whatsoever about what you do on any other website. Nothing is sold, and nothing is used for advertising.
Nothing belonging to anybody else runs in your browser on this site. No Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no advertising tag, no embedded widget and no shared tracker. The counting is code that belongs to this site, running on the address you are already on, which is the reason it can be as small as it is. The two companies that do see anything are the ones that run the servers, and they are named in section 06.
If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, nothing is counted at all. That is honoured, and it is separate from the button further down this page.
The contact form
The form on the contact page does not send anything from this website. It opens your own email app with the message filled in, and you press send there, from your own address. So the details you type never reach this website and are never stored by it, and nothing on this page applies to them.
Anything you do send us by email is kept only for as long as it takes to answer you and do the work you asked about.
The one thing stored on your device
A single small cookie called _bza, set by this site itself. It holds a date and two numbers: the day you first visited, how many separate days you have visited on, and the day you were last here.
There is no identifier in it. Two different people who first visited on the same day and have been back the same number of times carry byte for byte identical cookies, and nothing here can tell them apart. The cookie itself is never stored, only the yes or no and the band described in section 02.
It exists so we can tell roughly how many people come back, rather than treating every visit as a stranger. It lasts two years unless you clear it, it does nothing else, and switching counting off below deletes it.
Your IP address is used for a moment, to work out which city you are near and to produce a daily counting number, and is then discarded. It is never stored anywhere.
That daily counting number is worth being exact about, because it is the one value that does travel with your visits rather than being a plain total. It is a scramble of your connection and your browser, made with a key that belongs to this site alone, and it is what lets us count one person visiting four pages as one person rather than four. It cannot be turned back into you, it changes completely at midnight UTC every night, so the visits you make on one day cannot be joined to the visits you make on the next, the same person on another site we run produces an entirely unrelated number, and it is deleted with the rest of the raw record after three days.
Turning counting off sets a second cookie, bz_optout, and stores the same answer in your browser. That pair is the only reason your choice is remembered, so clearing your browser data clears the choice too, and a different browser or a different device is a separate choice.
Why this is allowed, and your right to say no
The lawful basis is legitimate interest under section 11(1)(f) of POPIA. Knowing which pages are actually read is how we decide what to improve and what to remove, it cannot be done without counting, and the way it is done here was built to be the least intrusive version of it we could find rather than the most useful.
You have the right to object under section 11(3), and if you do, we stop. Section 11(4) gives no room to argue the point, there is no balancing test and no override, so an objection simply ends the processing. The button below is that switch and it works on the very next request.
Because we hold nothing that identifies you, the only place an objection can be recorded is the browser you make it in. So it holds on this browser, on this device, until you clear your browsing data, and you would need to press it again on another one. That is a real limit and it is the honest consequence of not identifying anybody.
Counting on this browser
This takes effect straight away on this device, and the same button turns it back on.
How long it is kept, and where it goes
Individual page views are kept for three days and are then deleted automatically, and that includes the daily counting number described in section 04. What survives is a daily count per page, which is a number and cannot be traced back to anybody.
Two companies see anything at all, and both are there because they run the machines. Vercel hosts this website, so every request you make to it reaches Vercel first, including your IP address, the way it would with any host anywhere. Cloudflare stores the counting, in Western Europe, and what reaches it is the list in section 02 and nothing else.
Both process outside South Africa, which makes this a cross border transfer under section 72 of POPIA, and both are engaged on data processing terms that carry POPIA level protection through to them and restrict what they may do onward. Nothing your name is attached to leaves, because nothing here has your name attached to it in the first place.
Your rights
You can object to the counting, which the button above does. You also have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected and to have it deleted. In practice there is no name, no address and no contact detail on any of it, so nothing we hold lets us go and find you on our own, and after three days there is nothing left of an individual visit at all. Ask anyway if you want to, at mapindabrendon@gmail.com, and you will get a straight answer rather than a form.
You may also complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa at inforegulator.org.za (opens in a new tab) or POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za.
If this page and the website ever disagree, the website is the truth and this page is the mistake. Say so and it will be fixed the same day.