Effective date: 3 November 2026
Sports Unwrapped respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal information we collect when you read, comment on or contact sportsunwrapped.co.za, why we collect it, and how we protect it in line with South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).
1. Who we are
Sports Unwrapped is a South African sports news website owned and operated by Chad Klate Media (Pty) Ltd (registration number 2026/185553/07). Chad Klate Media is the “responsible party” for your personal information under POPIA. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Sports Unwrapped and Chad Klate Media.
Information Officer: Chad Klate, Director and Editor
- Email: editor@sportsunwrapped.co.za
- Address: Roodepoort, Gauteng, 1724
By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read this policy.
2. Information we collect
You can read Sports Unwrapped without giving us any personal information. We collect information only when you interact with us or the site.
When you comment
- Your name or display name, email address and, if you choose, your website
- The content of your comment
- Your IP address and browser details, which help us detect spam and abuse
When you contact us or send a story tip
- Your name, email address, phone number and anything else you include in your message, such as photos, video or information about a story
When you subscribe to updates (if offered)
- Your name and email address
Collected automatically
- Technical data such as your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited and time spent on the site
- Cookie data (see section 5)
3. Comments
What is public. Your name or display name, your comment and the date are shown publicly to anyone who visits the site. Your email address and IP address are never shown publicly. Please don’t include personal information in a comment that you don’t want others to see, such as your phone number or address.
Profile pictures. If you have a Gravatar account linked to your email address, your Gravatar picture may appear next to your comment. Gravatar is run by Automattic; its privacy policy is at automattic.com/privacy.
Spam filtering. Comments and contact form messages are checked by OOPSpam Anti-Spam, an automated spam-detection service, which may receive your message, name, email and IP address.
Moderation. We may review, edit for length, decline or remove any comment that is abusive, defamatory, discriminatory, spam, off-topic, or that reveals someone else’s personal information. Some comments may be held for moderation before they appear.
Removing your comment. You can ask us to delete a comment you posted by emailing us from the address you used to comment and telling us which article it was on.
4. How and why we use your information
We use your personal information only to:
- Publish and moderate comments, and protect the site from spam and abuse
- Reply to messages, story tips and media enquiries
- Send updates or newsletters, where you have signed up for them
- Understand how readers use the site so we can improve our coverage
- Comply with legal obligations
We process your information with your consent, to respond to your request, to meet a legal obligation, or where it is in our legitimate interests and does not override your rights, as allowed by section 11 of POPIA.
5. Cookies and analytics
Our website uses cookies, which are small files stored on your device. Some are essential for the site to work, and WordPress may set cookies to remember your name and email for future comments if you choose. Others, such as analytics cookies, help us understand visitor numbers and popular articles.
You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the site works.
6. Who we share your information with
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only where necessary, with:
- Service providers who help us run the site, such as our web host, email provider, spam-filtering and analytics tools
- Social media platforms, if you choose to share or interact with our content there
- Professional advisers such as accountants and lawyers
- Authorities, where the law requires it
We will not reveal the identity of someone who sends us a story tip in confidence, unless the law requires it.
7. Transfers outside South Africa
Some of our service providers, such as email, spam filtering, Gravatar and analytics tools, may store information on servers outside South Africa. We only use providers that are subject to laws, binding rules or agreements that give protection similar to POPIA, as required by section 72 of POPIA.
8. How we protect and keep your information
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, including an SSL-secured website, password-protected accounts and limiting access to people who need it. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. If a security compromise affects your information, we will notify you and the Information Regulator as POPIA requires.
Published comments stay on the site with the article they belong to, unless you ask us to remove them or we remove them during moderation. Contact messages and subscriber details are kept only as long as needed, and subscriber details are deleted when you unsubscribe.
9. Newsletters and updates
We will only send you newsletters or marketing messages if you have opted in. Every message includes a simple way to unsubscribe.
10. Children
Sports Unwrapped is a general news site. Children under 18 should not post comments or send us personal information without a parent or guardian’s consent. If we learn that we have collected a child’s information without consent, we will delete it. When we report on youth and school sport, we take care when publishing the names and images of minors.
11. Links to other websites
Our articles may link to or embed content from other websites and social media platforms, such as YouTube, X, Facebook or Instagram. Embedded content behaves as if you visited that site, and it may collect data about you. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, so please read their policies.
12. Your rights
Under POPIA, you have the right to:
- Ask whether we hold your personal information and request a copy of it
- Ask us to correct or update inaccurate information
- Ask us to delete your information, including your comments
- Object to us processing your information, including for marketing
- Withdraw your consent at any time
- Lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator
To exercise any of these rights, email us at editor@sportsunwrapped.co.za. We may need to verify your identity first.
13. Our journalism
This policy covers how we handle the personal information of our readers, commenters and people who contact us. Personal information used in our news reporting is processed for journalistic purposes, which POPIA treats separately under section 7, and is governed by our editorial standards. If you have a concern about something we have published, please contact the editor at the email address above.
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page, with the effective date at the top.
15. Contact us and complaints
If you have questions or concerns about this policy, please contact our Information Officer first at editor@sportsunwrapped.co.za, and we will do our best to resolve them.
If you are not satisfied, you may contact the Information Regulator (South Africa):
- Website: inforegulator.org.za
- General enquiries: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za
- POPIA complaints: POPIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za
- Phone: 010 023 5200
- Postal address: P.O. Box 31533, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017