PRIVACY AND DICLAIMER

1. Disclaimer

Suggested page title: Disclaimer — or Scope of our work.

 

Functional Living is an educational and advocacy initiative. We build awareness, share knowledge and develop practical skills within the neurodiverse and broader community, through educational programmes, workshops, training, learning groups and peer or community support groups.

We do not provide clinical services.

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Functional Living does not offer medical, psychological, psychiatric or diagnostic assessment, clinical evaluation, therapy or treatment. Taking part in our programmes is not healthcare, is not clinical advice, and is not a diagnosis.

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Our material is educational. It draws on contemporary research and emerging insights from the behavioural and intervention sciences, and is offered for general awareness, personal reflection and skills development. It is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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Facilitators may hold professional registrations in their own right. They are not acting in that capacity when facilitating a Functional Living programme, and no practitioner–patient relationship is created by taking part.

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If you are seeking diagnosis, clinical support or healthcare, please consult an appropriately qualified and registered professional a medical practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist or other registered healthcare provider.

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If you are in crisis or at risk of harm, please contact your doctor, your nearest emergency department, or the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) on 0800 567 567.

 

 

2. Privacy notice

 

Who we are

Functional Living Community (“we”, “us”) is the responsible party for the personal information described here.

Information officer: [Gerrida Herbst]

Email: connect@functionallivingcommunity.org

Address: [Office 326 The Park, Park Road, Pinelands Cape Town, 7405]

 

What we collect, and why

What, Why we collect it and on what basis

• Name and email address

• To send you information you asked for about workshops and community news

• Your consent, given when you subscribed

• Booking details for a workshop

• To register you, contact you about it, and issue a receipt

• To perform the agreement between us

 

Payment details

• To take payment

• Handled by our payment provider — see below

 

Website usage

• To keep the site working and understand which pages are used

• Our legitimate interest in running the site

 

We do not ask for, and you should not send us, clinical or health information. Our programmes are educational and we keep no clinical records.

 

Who else handles your information

 

We use established providers to run our website, mailing list and payments. They process information on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

• Wix — our website, event bookings and forms

• Mailchimp (Intuit) — our mailing list and email

• Yoco and Ikhoka — card payments. We never see or store your full card details.

 

Some information is stored outside South Africa. Wix and Mailchimp store data in the United States and other countries. We rely on these providers’ contractual data protection commitments, as permitted under section 72 of POPIA. If you would prefer your information not to leave South Africa, please contact us before subscribing.

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We do not sell your information, and we do not share it with anyone else except where the law requires us to.

 

How long we keep your information

• Mailing list: until you unsubscribe, and for a short period afterwards so we can honour the unsubscribe.

• Booking and payment records: as long as required for tax and accounting, currently [five] years.

• Anything else: no longer than we need it.

 

Your rights

 

You may ask us to:

• tell you what personal information we hold about you

• correct anything that is wrong

• delete it, where we are not required to keep it

• stop sending you marketing, every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can also reply to any message and ask

 

Email connect@functionallivingcommunity.org and we will respond within a reasonable period.

If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za

 

Changes

If we change this notice we will update this page and change the date below.

Last updated: [07/08/2026]