Privacy Policy
Last updated: 16 October 2026
This policy explains how Habakkuk Academy (“we”, “us”) collects and uses your personal information when you use the Business Management course website. We process personal information in line with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA).
What we collect
- Account details: your full name and email address, and a securely hashed password (we never see your password).
- Learning records: your progress through the course, your answers to knowledge checks, and your completion date.
- Certificate details: the name, completion date and unique certificate ID on your certificate.
- Payment records: the payment reference, amount, currency, status and date. Your card or bank details are entered on Paystack’s secure checkout and are not received or stored by us.
- Technical data: basic server logs (such as IP address, browser type and time of request) kept by our hosting provider for security and troubleshooting.
Why we use it
- To create and secure your account and let you sign in.
- To give you access to the course after payment and save your progress.
- To issue your certificate and let others verify it.
- To process payments, prevent fraud and keep financial records required by law.
- To send essential account emails, such as email confirmation and password resets. We do not send marketing emails unless you separately agree.
We rely on the performance of our contract with you, our legal obligations, and our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure.
Public certificate verification
Your certificate has a QR code and certificate ID. Anyone who has your certificate ID or scans the QR code can see your name, completion date, certificate ID, issuer and the certificate’s non-accredited status. They cannot see your email address, answers or payment details. Verification pages are marked so that search engines should not index them.
Who we share it with
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with service providers who help us run the course, under appropriate agreements:
- Supabase — account authentication and database hosting.
- Paystack — payment processing.
- Vercel — website hosting.
- An exchange-rate data provider supplies currency rates to our server; no personal information is sent to it.
Some of these providers store or process data outside South Africa. Where this happens, we rely on providers bound by data-protection laws or agreements that give a level of protection comparable to POPIA. We may also disclose information where the law requires it.
Browser storage
We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. We use your browser’s local storage only to keep you signed in and remember your chosen display currency. Clearing your browser data removes these.
How long we keep it
- Account and learning records: while your account is active, and up to 12 months after you ask us to close it.
- Certificate records: for as long as verification is offered, so that your certificate stays verifiable — unless you ask us to remove it, in which case it will no longer verify.
- Payment records: for at least five years, as required for tax and financial record-keeping.
Security
We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), hashed passwords and restricted database access. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your personal information, we will notify you and the Information Regulator as POPIA requires.
Your rights
You may ask us to confirm what personal information we hold about you, give you access to it, correct it, delete it, or object to how we use it. Email habakkukweb@outlook.com and we will respond within a reasonable time. We may need to verify your identity first.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, you may complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa) — see inforegulator.org.za.
Children
The course is intended for adults. Learners under 18 need the consent of a parent or guardian.
Changes
We will post any updates on this page and change the date above. Significant changes will be communicated by email.
Contact
Information requests and privacy questions: habakkukweb@outlook.com.