Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how Simas Corporation (Pty) Ltd trading as Femagraphy (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, protects, and processes your personal information when you visit our website (femagraphy.com) and purchase our digital publications.

We operate as a “Responsible Party” under the South African Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013 (POPIA). We are committed to protecting the privacy and sovereignty of our users’ data in a transparent, lawful manner.

1. Legal Disclosures (In Terms of Section 43 of the ECT Act)

Full Legal Name: Simas Corporation (Pty) Ltd
Trading Name: Femagraphy
Legal Status: A private company registered in the Republic of South Africa
Registration Number: 2019/162925/07
Physical, Street, & Postal Address (Domicilium Citandi et Executandi): 74 George Ave, Sandringham, 2192, Gauteng, South Africa (Marked for attention: CEO and Legal)
Telephone Number: +27 79 235 3245
Website Address: femagraphy.com
Official Email Address: info@femagraphy.com

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you create an account, register for a membership, purchase publications, or interact with our platform. This includes:

Identity & Contact Data: Your full name, username or alias, email address, physical/billing address, and phone number.
Account Credentials: Passwords and secure login details used to access your membership profile and digital books.
Transaction & Cryptographic Data: Details regarding the publications you purchase. Please note that for your security and privacy, we do not store traditional credit card files on our servers. Payment processing is routed securely through our merchant gateway, Coinsbuy. If you pay via cryptocurrency, we may process public wallet addresses and transaction IDs associated with your payment.

3. Purpose of Processing Your Information

In accordance with POPIA, we only collect and process personal information for specific, explicitly defined, and lawful purposes related to our business. We use your data to:

Establish, maintain, and manage your WooCommerce membership profile.
Process secure payments, verify transactions, and fulfill your digital orders.
Provide customer support and resolve technical interface issues.
Comply with legal, financial, anti-money laundering (AML), and regulatory obligations within South Africa and international jurisdictions.
Send you essential account updates, system notifications, or marketing communications (only where you have provided explicit opt-in consent).

4. Information Sharing & Third-Party Operators

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. To deliver our e-commerce services, we share necessary data with trusted third-party “Operators” who assist us in managing our platform under strict confidentiality agreements. These include:

Payment Processors: Coinsbuy, to facilitate high-risk and cryptographic e-commerce processing.
Web Hosting & Core Infrastructure Platforms: WooCommerce and our hosting providers, to securely manage your digital library account wall.
Legal Authorities: We may disclose information if required to do so by South African law, court order, or regulatory bodies.

5. Cross-Border Data Transfers

As a global digital platform, the personal information we collect may be stored and processed outside the Republic of South Africa (for example, on secure cloud servers utilized by our payment gateway or hosting providers). We ensure that any international data transfers comply with Section 72 of POPIA, ensuring that foreign operators adhere to data protection standards at least equivalent to our own.

6. Data Security

We implement strict technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Access to your personal data is restricted to authorized personnel who require it to fulfill their operational duties.

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, maintain your active membership account, or comply with statutory retention periods dictated by South African tax and corporate laws.

8. Your Legal Rights

As a data subject under POPIA (and under global standards such as GDPR where applicable), you possess the following rights:

Right of Access: You may request confirmation of whether we hold personal information about you, along with a copy of that record.
Right to Rectification: You may request that we update, correct, or complete inaccurate or outdated personal data.
Right to Deletion: You may request the permanent erasure of your personal data, subject to our overriding legal or regulatory retention obligations.
Right to Object: You may object to the processing of your data for direct marketing at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Information Officer at info@femagraphy.com. If you believe we have handled your data unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the South African Information Regulator.

9. Cookies and Tracking

We utilize standard internet cookies to optimize website performance, manage user login states across your membership session, and track overall traffic analytics. You can adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, though doing so may disable or interrupt the membership access features required to view your purchased publications.