Privacy notice

Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 · Last updated 13 August 2026

This notice explains what personal information Curve Capital collects through this website, why, and what you can ask us to do about it. It is written to be read rather than to be technically unassailable. If anything in it is unclear, ask and we will explain it.

Who is responsible

Responsible party: Curve Capital (Pty) Ltd, Registration No. 2026/624086/07
Address: 24 Korhaan Street, Southdowns Residential Estate, Centurion, Gauteng, 0157
Information Officer: Rynhard van Maarleveld CA(SA)
Contact: rynhard@curvecapital.co.za · 082 304 2206

What we collect, and only when you send it

This website has no analytics, no advertising trackers and no cookies. It loads nothing from any other company's servers. If you read the site and leave, we do not know you were here.

If you complete the enquiry form, we receive what you type into it:

Your name, and your company name if you give one
Your email address, and your phone number if you give one
Which service you are asking about, and your message
If you choose to complete the optional fields: your approximate turnover, employee numbers, and whether every shareholder is also a director

The score checker at curvecapital.co.za/score.html works differently. It runs entirely in your browser and calculates as you type, and nothing reaches us at that point. If you then choose to press send, we receive your name and email, your company name and phone number if you give them, and the answers you entered: entity type, turnover, liabilities, employee numbers, shareholders, who compiles your statements, and the score and requirement it worked out. That is the point of the button: it means we can quote you properly instead of asking you the same questions again. If you do not press send, we never see any of it.

Please do not send confidential financial records through either form. Once we are talking, we will tell you a sensible way to send documents.

Why we have it, and what we do not do with it

We use it for one purpose: to answer your enquiry, and to work out which engagement the Companies Act actually requires in your case so that we can tell you. The optional fields exist because they let us calculate your public interest score before replying, which usually saves an exchange of emails.

We do not send marketing, we do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not sell or share your information with anyone for their own purposes. If your enquiry becomes an engagement, the information carries over into the client file and our engagement letter and standard terms of business govern it from that point.

Who else touches it

Form submissions are received and stored by Netlify, the company that hosts this website, and reach us by email. Netlify processes the data on our instruction as an operator, and its servers are outside South Africa. Sending you a reply necessarily involves your email provider and ours. Those are the only third parties involved.

Because that means your information leaves South Africa, we rely on section 72 of the Act: you provide the information voluntarily in order to get a reply, and the transfer is necessary for us to give you one.

AI and automation

We use AI tools in the course of doing the work: drafting financial statements from a trial balance, working disclosure checklists, running public interest score and acceptance calculations, and checking a finished file. Being straightforward about that matters more to us than the marketing value of staying quiet, so here is how it is controlled.

Paid business-tier services only. Client information is never put into free consumer tools. The services we use operate under business terms where the information is not used to train models.
They are operators, not recipients. A provider processes the information on our instruction and for our purposes. It does not acquire the right to use it for its own.
Processing happens outside South Africa, so section 72 of the Act applies, the same as it does for the hosting of this website.
Client engagements are governed by the engagement letter, which is where authority to use third-party processors sits, not by this website notice. If you are a client and would like the detail of which services we use, ask and we will set it out.
No tool signs anything. Every professional judgement, and every report, is made and signed by a Chartered Accountant (SA) who is responsible for it.

How long we keep it

If your enquiry does not become an engagement, we delete it within 12 months. If it does, the records become part of your client file, and professional and statutory record-keeping rules under the Companies Act, the Tax Administration Act and FICA determine how long we must keep them, and in some cases years after the work ends. We keep them for that period and no longer.

What you can ask us to do

Under the Act you may, at any time and free of charge:

Ask what personal information we hold about you
Ask us to correct anything that is wrong
Ask us to delete it, where we are not legally required to keep it
Object to our processing it

Email rynhard@curvecapital.co.za and we will act on it. If you are not satisfied with how we handle a request, you are entitled to complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa, whose current contact details are on its own website.

Access to records

Curve Capital is a private body for the purposes of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000. Our PAIA manual, which explains how to request access to records we hold, is available on request from the Information Officer above.

Changes

If this notice changes we will update the date at the top. We will not apply a materially different use of information you have already sent us without asking you first.