POPIA: achieve compliance with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act
The Usercentrics Consent Management Platform (CMP) helps you to meet the requirements of POPIA compliance.
What is POPIA?
POPIA is South Africa’s law to protect personal information. Passed in 2013, it is a 12-chapter framework to regulate the processing of personal data. Enactment has been staggered, the latest sections coming into effect in July 1, 2020, and enforcement starting July 1, 2021. POPIA, or the POPI Act, is quite similar to the European Union’s GDPR or Brazil’s LGPD.
RISKS
What are the consequences of POPIA noncompliance?
Noncompliance with POPIA can lead to fines of up to ZAR 10 million (approx. EUR 500,000).
Penalties can also include sanctions or prison sentences of up to 10 years for certain violations for responsible individuals.
COMPLIANCE
Why you need a Consent Management Platform in order to be compliant with POPIA
POPIA requires a legal basis for processing data.
- You can only process personal data for legitimate, specific, explicit and clearly communicated purposes.
- User consent to processing data must be voluntary, specific and informed.
- In order to comply with POPIA, you must maintain a record to be able to demonstrate that consent was collected in accordance with the law.
We’re here to help
Obtain and store POPIA-compliant consent for data processing
by clearly communicating with South African visitors to your website or app.
TALK TO AN EXPERT
Contact our expert team
We’re happy to answer questions and get you acquainted with Usercentrics and our Consent Management Platform.
- Doing business in South Africa and unsure whether your website is compliant with current privacy laws?
- Get in touch with us and learn how the Usercentrics Consent Management Platform can help you achieve POPIA compliance.
- Looking to partner with us? Get in touch here.
“In order to be GDPR-compliant it was of great importance for us to carefully collect and document the consent of our website visitors. We initially had concerns that our relatively complex tag management would make the implementation more difficult. However, they were quickly dispelled.”
“Short implementation of 7 days for our first site. We can rollout templates with already defined consent technologies, so we stay concentrated on the real issues which bring us further.”
“It’s super easy to use with an intuitive dashboard. You can customise the CMP with just a few clicks. A/B testing is easily setup. Legal texts are up to date which saved me a lot of time. ”
“We were looking for a tool that allows us to easily and conveniently implement GDPR compliance when using tracking and services on our website. Usercentrics was the ideal solution to find this as the tool covers all essential features and makes it possible for businesses to stay compliant without any hassle”
