Last updated: 9 November 2026.
Who is responsible
WebReviewStar is operated from South Africa by WebReviewStar. For the purposes of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA), and of the EU General Data Protection Regulation where it applies, we are the responsible party for the limited processing described here. Contact: reviews@webreviewstar.com.
What we collect
Nothing you type. This site has no account, no comment form, no newsletter and no contact form. We do not ask you for personal information and we do not store any.
Server logs. Like every web server, ours records the request: IP address, date and time, the URL requested, the referring page and your browser's user-agent string. These logs exist to keep the site running and secure — detecting abuse, diagnosing faults, and understanding traffic volume in aggregate. We do not use them to build a profile of you, and we do not sell or share them.
Nothing else. No analytics package, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting.
Cookies
We set no cookies of our own. Advertising delivered through Google AdSense may set cookies on your device. Full detail, and how to refuse them, is on the cookies page.
Who else is involved
- Google — serves the advertising on this site and may collect data as an independent controller. See Google's privacy policy.
- Amazon — receives the referral when you click a product link, and sets its own cookies on its own domain.
- Our hosting provider — stores the site and its server logs on our behalf, in a data centre in the United States.
International transfers
Google and Amazon are based in the United States and process data there. Where personal information leaves South Africa, POPIA section 72 requires an adequate level of protection; those transfers rely on the providers' contractual safeguards. If you are in the EU or UK, transfers rely on their standard contractual clauses.
How long we keep things
Server logs are retained for a short operational period and then discarded. We hold no other personal information about visitors, so there is nothing else to delete.
Your rights
Under POPIA — and under GDPR or CCPA/CPRA if you are in those jurisdictions — you may ask to be told what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to processing, and to complain to a regulator. Because we hold essentially nothing beyond transient logs, most such requests will confirm that we hold no record of you.
To make a request, email reviews@webreviewstar.com. We will respond within 30 days.
If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the South African Information Regulator (inforegulator.org.za), or, in the EU, to your national supervisory authority.
Children
This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS only, with strict transport security enabled. Access to the server is restricted to key-based authentication.
Changes
If this policy changes materially — for example if analytics or a newsletter is added — the change will be published here with a new date before it takes effect.