Privacy notice
What we do with what you send us.
This notice covers personal information submitted through the website of SA Legal Intelligence. It is written under the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA). It does not cover information processed inside a MatterGraph deployment, which is governed by the operator agreement signed with each firm.
Who is responsible
The responsible party is Tim Lai, trading as SA Legal Intelligence, of 35 1st Avenue, Illovo, Sandton, 2196, South Africa. A company, salegalintelligence Pty Ltd, is being incorporated to carry this business; when it is registered this notice will name it and its registration number, with the date of the change recorded below. The information officer is Tim Lai, registered as such with the Information Regulator, reachable at [email protected].
What we collect through the form
| Field | Why we ask | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Firm name | To identify the organisation the conversation is with | Yes |
| Your name | To address you and record who asked | Yes |
| Work email | To reply | Yes |
| Practice group or role | To route the conversation to the right pilot shape | No |
| Workflow description | To prepare for the first conversation | No |
We do not collect anything else from the form. The website sets no analytics cookies and loads no third-party scripts, fonts, or trackers. The web server records ordinary access logs (IP address, time, page) which are retained for 30 days for security purposes only.
Please do not send confidential matter information
The workflow field is for a description of the kind of work you do, not for facts of a live matter, client names, or privileged material. If you include such material it is handled under this notice and deleted on request, but the website is not the place for it. Matter information is only ever handled inside a firm's own MatterGraph deployment under a signed operator agreement.
Lawful basis and purpose
We process form submissions on the basis of your consent, given by ticking the box next to the submit button, for the sole purpose of responding to your enquiry and, if you choose, arranging a design-partner conversation. We do not use your details for marketing sequences, we do not add you to a newsletter, and we do not share them with anyone outside the responsible party except the provider that hosts the form endpoint, named below.
Who receives it
This website is hosted on Cloudflare. A form submission is received by a small program running in the responsible party's own Cloudflare account, stored in a database in that account, and forwarded by email to [email protected], which is read by the founder. No form service or marketing platform is involved. Cloudflare acts as our operator (processor) under a written data processing agreement; because Cloudflare has no data centre region in South Africa, submissions are stored outside the Republic. That transfer rests on section 72(1)(a) of POPIA: Cloudflare is bound by contractual terms that provide protection substantially similar to POPIA. Cloudflare's own privacy terms are at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
How long we keep it
Enquiries that do not lead to a conversation are deleted within 90 days. Enquiries that lead to a design-partner discussion are kept for the life of that relationship and deleted within 12 months after it ends, unless a signed agreement provides otherwise. The notification email is deleted from the mailbox on the same schedule.
Your rights
You may ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, withdraw consent, or object to processing, by writing to the information officer above. You may also complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa) at inforegulator.org.za.
Changes
This notice was last updated on 3 September 2026. Changes are recorded here with their date; we do not edit earlier versions silently.