Last Updated: July 2026

Welcome to the Privacy Notice of Benjamin Commodities (Pty) Ltd (“we”, “us”, or “our”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and other applicable South African laws.

This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website or engage with us for trading commodities, including fruit, fuel, minerals, and financial instruments.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect and process personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you inquire about our services, contact us via WhatsApp or email, or enter into trading agreements. This includes:

• Identity Data: Full name, company name, registration numbers, and director details.

• Contact Data: Email address, telephone number, WhatsApp number, and physical/postal addresses.

• Transaction & Financial Data: Bank account details, transaction histories, and information necessary to verify and facilitate secure commodity trading and financial instruments.

• Technical Data: IP address, browser type, and usage data collected automatically via cookies when you navigate our website (managed via our cookie consent preferences).

2. How We Use Your Information

We process your personal information only for lawful reasons aligned with our business operations, including:

• Concluding, managing, and executing international commodity trading contracts.

• Responding to your business inquiries submitted via email, phone, or WhatsApp.

• Verifying your identity and performing necessary compliance/due diligence checks (e.g., anti-money laundering regulations).

• Ensuring secure and reliable transactions every step of the way.

• Maintaining and optimizing the performance and security of our website.

3. Sharing and International Transfer of Data

Because Benjamin Commodities is an export company operating across key international markets, we may occasionally need to share your information with trusted partners, logistics providers, financial institutions, or regulatory bodies outside of South Africa.

• We ensure that any international third party receiving your data is subject to laws or binding agreements that provide an adequate level of data protection equivalent to POPIA.

• We will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

4. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed in an unauthorized way. Access to your data is strictly limited to employees and trusted partners who have a legitimate business need to know.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

6. Your Legal Rights (Under POPIA)

As a data subject in South Africa, you have the right to:

• Request confirmation of whether we hold your personal information.

• Request access to or copies of the personal information we hold about you.

• Request that we correct, update, or delete inaccurate, irrelevant, or outdated personal data.

• Object to the processing of your personal information for specific purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Information Officer using the details provided below.

7. Contact Details and Information Officer

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or how we handle your data, please contact us:

• Company Name: Benjamin Commodities (Pty) Ltd

• Landline: +27 21 140 8243

• WhatsApp: +27 81 394 2515

• Email: info@benjamincommodities.co.za

• Physical Address: Cape Town, South Africa

If you feel your data protection concerns have not been adequately addressed by us, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the South African Information Regulator at info@inforegulator.org.za.