Last updated: 14 January 2026
Cape Truth Media (Pty) Ltd operates the website "https://capetruth.world" and corresponding digital networks. Our business is registered in South Africa (Registration Number: 2014/110943/07). In terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (referred as "POPIA"), Cape Truth serves as the responsible party (or data controller) of your information records.
Physical Address: 351 Main Rd, Kenilworth, Cape Town, 7708, South Africa
Contact Phone: +27 21 444 8765
Contact Email: [email protected]
This privacy declaration acts onto all digital visitors, members, and external whistleblowers interacting across our platforms, mobile applications, subscription newsletters, and secure submission tools.
We process relevant data fragments into three primary methods: data you directly provide, automatic connection telemetry, and analytical records.
Under POPIA rules, we must assign explicit reasons to validate data handling activities. The table below lists these coordinates:
| Processing Purpose | Types of Information Selected | POPIA Legal Grounds |
|---|---|---|
| Administering digital registrations and memberships | User details, payment credentials | Performance of subscriber agreement and membership contracts |
| Managing editorial tips and message systems | Communicated logs, optional email coordinates | Legitimate publicinterest objectives • Media transparency exception and source safety |
| Optimizing website behavior and traffic metrics | Analytic identifier cookies | Involuntary analytics requiring explicit pop-up assent |
We apply cookie components to secure basic operations. We support Google Consent Mode v2 setup structures, ensuring advanced tags (such as Google Analytics or AdWords modules) are held blockaded (denied status) until the visitor interacts with our consent banners.
Cape Truth strictly guarantees that we do not trade, lease, or lease consumer databases to commercial aggregators. Minimal data sets are transferred to verified service providers (such as hosting nodes, gateway payment channels) only to operate subscription structures. We comply with direct law enforcement requests only upon production of valid judicial warrants.
In instances where backup infrastructure operates across overseas regions (such as AWS cloud points in European regions), we apply standard procedural guarantees and encryption norms, guaranteeing compliance matching POPIA statutory levels.
We store details for as long as needed to fulfill our membership administration, legal checks, or editorial archives. When parameters expire, files are purged securely.
As a South African citizen, POPIA grants you specific rights to manage your personal files. Specifically, you have the right to request access, correction of errors, or complete erasure of your information. You also have the right to appeal to the regulatory authorities.
The regulatory authority oversight resides with:
Information Regulator of South Africa
JD House, 27 Stiemens Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2001
Email: [email protected]
We apply robust security measures, including HTTPS, network firewalls, and restricted employee access protocols, to protect your personal files from unauthorized access.
We do not purposefully market services to individuals under the age of 18 (the statutory age of consent in South Africa). If we discover data associated with minors, it is expunged immediately.
Our articles frequently reference external websites. We do not control their content or verify their privacy conditions, and recommend checking their statements directly.
We update this policy periodically to align with shifting local privacy requirements. Revised documents take effect immediately upon publication.
If you have questions regarding this policy, please email [email protected] or call +27 21 444 8765.