POPIA & Advertising Privacy Notice

Privacy Policy & Cookie Disclosures

How Think Digital X (Pty) Ltd (“ThinkWiFi Zone” / “ThinkWiFi Pulse”) protects personal information under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and manages advertising cookies and identifiers.

1-Click Ad Personalisation & Device Identifier Opt-Out

Use the control below to opt out of first-party Publisher Provided Identifiers (PPID) and personalised Google Ad Manager advertisements on this browser. Opting out stores an opt-out preference cookie (`tdx_ad_optout=1`), clears local identifier tokens, suppresses PPID transmission, and instructs Google Publisher Tags to serve non-personalised ads (`nonPersonalizedAds: true`). You can still use complimentary ThinkWiFi Zone public Wi-Fi normally.

1. Google Advertising Cookies & Third-Party Vendors

In compliance with Google Publisher and Google Ad Manager disclosure requirements, please note:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and web storage to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to connected.thinkwifizone.com or other websites on the internet.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to ThinkWiFi Zone / ThinkWiFi Pulse sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalised advertising from Google at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings, and may opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
To learn more about how Google processes data when you use partner sites or apps, read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

2. Privacy-Preserving Salted Identifiers (PPID) & Network Logs

When you connect to a physical ThinkWiFi Zone Wi-Fi router, network gateways process technical session parameters (such as local IP allocation, access point identifier, session duration, and RADIUS accounting) strictly to authenticate and deliver wireless internet connectivity and prevent network abuse.

For advertising frequency capping (so you are not shown the exact same advertisement repeatedly) and cryptographic reward verification, our server computes a one-way secret-salted HMAC-SHA256 Publisher Provided Identifier (PPID) or random first-party identifier. Raw hardware MAC addresses are never transmitted to advertising partners or third-party scripts, and the salted identifier cannot be reversed to a hardware address. You can disable PPID transmission at any time using the 1-click Opt-Out control above.

3. Your Rights Under South Africa’s POPIA

Under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, data subjects in South Africa have the right to:

Request confirmation of whether Think Digital X (Pty) Ltd holds personal information relating to you;
Request correction or deletion of inaccurate, irrelevant, or out-of-date personal records;
Object to the processing of personal information for direct marketing or personalised advertising; and
Lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator of South Africa (inforegulator.org.za).

4. Official Statutory Documents (Terms, Full Privacy Notice & PAIA Manual)

You can view and download our full signed corporate PDF documents—including the Think WiFi Terms of Use, formal Privacy Notice PDF, and Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) Manual—on our Terms, Privacy PDF & PAIA Document Centre, or contact our team via the Contact page.