Hostking’s POPIA Compliance
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is South Africa’s data protection law. The purpose of the Act is to protect people from harm by protecting their personal information.
The Protection of Personal Information Act involves three parties:
* The data subject: the person to whom the information relates.
* The responsible party: the person who determines why and how to process.
* The operator: a person who processes personal information on behalf of the responsible party.
POPIA places various obligations on the responsible party, which is the body ultimately responsible for the lawful processing of the personal information.
Is Hostking POPIA compliant (certified)?
At Hostking, we care deeply about the security of your personal information provided to us to manage your Hostking account. You can read more about what Hostking has done to comply with data protection laws, including POPIA in our Privacy Policy.
It is not possible to be certified as the Information Regulator has not yet set up a system allowing organisations the ability to obtain a POPIA certification.
You can find further details relating to our compliance with data protection laws in our Privacy Policy.
Is Hostking's Service Providers POPIA Compliant aswell?
We use the following providers:
ZA Data Center - Xneelo - We host some servers in the data center locally (Colocation).Hence data is protected. Xneelo is fully POPI Compliant.
- https://xneelo.co.za/help-centre/products-and-services/data-protection/
Germany/Finland - Hetzner.com which complies with GDPR Data Protection. We also ONLY use dedicated servers our system admins have access to alone. Hence data is protected.
- https://www.hetzner.com/privacy-policy-notice
First Distribution for Microsoft Licensing - GDPR Compliant
cPanel and Directadmin for Control Panel Licensing - GDPR Compliant
