Privacy notice
Who is responsible
Solms Training & Consulting CCRegistration CK 2000/046627/23
17 Rue Montclair
Somerset West
Cape Town, 7130
South Africa
contact@urdad.org
This notice covers the urdad.org web site, its trial and contact forms, and the playground at play.urdad.org. It is written to meet South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and, for visitors in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Visiting the site
The site sets no cookies, uses no analytics or advertising trackers, and loads nothing from any other site. Your choice of light or dark theme is kept in your own browser and never sent to us.
Like any web server, ours records each request (the address it came from, the page asked for and the time) to keep the site secure and running. That log is deleted after 14 days.
Before it is deleted, we count from it, for each day, how often each page was asked for, from which countries, with which kinds of browser and operating system, and from which other sites visitors followed a link. Those counts tell us which pages are read; they hold no address and nothing else that could identify you, so we keep them.
Using the playground
The playground lets you explore example models, and build models of your own, without signing in. It has no accounts, sets no cookies and loads nothing from any other site. Your browser itself remembers a few things for you (that you have read the playground’s notice, the model you last opened and your display preferences, such as theme and language), and none of them is sent to us.
The examples cannot be changed. A model you make there, new or a copy of an example, is kept on the playground’s server in Germany for 24 hours from when you made it and then deleted automatically; you can export it before then, or delete it yourself at any time. So that the playground knows which models are yours, your browser makes a random key, keeps it, and sends it when it connects; the server keeps only a one-way fingerprint of that key beside your models. The key is linked to nothing else (no name, no address, no account), so we cannot tell who made a model, and a model is shown only to the browser that holds its key. What you write into a model is kept as you wrote it, so do not put personal or confidential information in one.
Its server records each request (the address it came from, what was asked for and the time) to keep the playground secure and running. That log is deleted after 14 days, and nothing is counted from it.
When you send a form
The trial and contact forms ask only for what we need to answer you: your name and email address, and on the trial form your organisation and what you would like to achieve, and your role and country if you choose to give them. We use these details only to reply to you and, for a trial, to arrange it. We do so because you ask us to and consent to it when you send the form.
What you send is kept on our server in South Africa, and a copy is emailed to our own mailbox so that we can answer it; Who else holds it, below, says where that mailbox is. To stop the forms being abused, the address a submission comes from is held in memory for ten minutes and never written down.
We keep a submission for 12 months, then delete it automatically. We do not sell or share it, and no decision about you is made automatically. In case our server’s copy is damaged, it is also backed up each night on the same server in South Africa, and each backup is deleted after 14 days: a submission we have deleted, at your request or because its 12 months are up, can remain in a backup for up to 14 days more.
Your rights
You may ask to see what we hold about you, to have it corrected, or to have
it deleted at any time, and you may withdraw your consent. Send us a message or write to
contact@urdad.org; we answer within two working days.
If you are not satisfied with our answer, you may complain to South Africa’s Information Regulator (inforegulator.org.za) or, in the European Union, to your national data protection authority.
Who else holds it
Hostinger hosts our mailbox, contact@urdad.org, and so holds a copy of every message the forms send us. It keeps them in the United States (California), on our behalf, to host that mailbox and for nothing else.
Sending a form therefore transfers what you send outside South Africa. We do so with your consent, which you give by ticking the box on the form after reading this notice. The data protection law of the country it goes to may not protect it as fully as POPIA or the GDPR do, and the authorities there may be able to require access to it. The same holds for anything you email to contact@urdad.org directly.
netcup GmbH hosts the playground, play.urdad.org, and so holds the playground’s request log and the models visitors build there. It keeps them in Germany, on our behalf, to run the playground and for nothing else: the log for its 14 days, and each model for its 24 hours. Germany is in the European Union, where the GDPR protects them.
Last updated 28 October 2026.