Last updated: 15 May 2026
This site has been built to help members of the public participate in environmental decision-making in the Plettenberg Bay area. When you sign the petition or submit an objection through saverobberg.com, your information is used only for that purpose and is sent only to the authorities responsible for the application you are objecting to. We do not sell your data, share it with marketers, give it to political parties or applicants, or use it for anything other than the public participation process you signed up for. You have rights under South African law to see, correct, or delete what we hold about you, and this notice explains how to exercise them.
saverobberg.com is a citizen-run initiative administered by Daron Chatz. The site exists to facilitate public participation in environmental and planning processes affecting the Robberg Coastal Corridor, the Cradle of Human Culture and the surrounding landscape. We are not a registered company or NGO. We are not affiliated with any political party, government body, conservation organisation, or development applicant.
For the purposes of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA), Daron Chatz is the Responsible Party and Information Officer for this site.
We collect different information depending on what you do here.
If you sign the petition, we collect your name and email address.
If you submitted an objection through the objection form, we collected your name, email address, the concerns you selected from the form, your location (typically the city, town or suburb you provided), and any identification information you chose to provide such as an identity or passport number or telephone number. Your objection was then formatted into an email and sent on your behalf to the authorities listed on the form at the time of submission.
The objection-submission feature on this site was disabled at the close of business on Friday 15 May 2026, in line with the public participation deadline for the Erf 8010 Notice of Intent (HilLand reference PLE26/1009/19). No new objections can be submitted through the site after that date.
We do not collect financial information. We do not ask for, store, or transmit passwords. We do not track your browsing on other websites. We do not use analytics or advertising tools to profile our visitors.
The objection form offered an optional field for identity or passport numbers because some authorities use this information to verify the identity of objectors and to match them against their Interested and Affected Party registers. Providing this information was always optional, and your objection was valid whether or not you provided it.
If you did provide an identity or passport number, it was included only in the email sent to the authorities listed on the form at the time of submission. It is not used by us for any other purpose. It will not be re-used, on-shared, or transferred to anyone other than those authorities. Where we publish or share any compiled record of objections beyond the original recipient list (for example to support transparency or accountability about the public participation process), identity numbers, telephone numbers and physical addresses are redacted from that compiled record before it is shared.
Petition signatures are used to demonstrate the level and breadth of public concern about specific development applications. We may publish aggregate numbers, for example total signature counts, but we do not publish individual names or contact details from the petition.
Objection information was used to send an email on your behalf to the named public participation recipients for the application you objected to. This is the same email you could have sent yourself by typing it from scratch. The form was a convenience to make that process easier.
When you submitted an objection, your information was shared by email with the recipients listed on the form at the time of submission. For the Erf 8010 application, these were:
These are the same recipients your objection would have been sent to if you had typed and sent it yourself. The email addresses used are the addresses each of those bodies has themselves published as the appropriate contact points for public submissions on the relevant application.
Once your email has been sent, your data is held by the recipients under their own statutory data protection and record-keeping obligations.
We do not sell your data. We do not share it with marketers, advertisers, or commercial third parties. We do not share it with political parties, with the development applicant or its representatives, or with the Environmental Assessment Practitioner for any purpose other than the public participation process. We do not transfer your data outside of South Africa.
We process your personal information on two of the legal grounds set out in section 11 of POPIA.
Consent. By completing and submitting a form on this site, you consent to your information being used for the specific purpose described in this notice.
Legitimate interest. The processing is necessary for the exercise of your right under section 24 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa to have the environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations, and your associated right under the National Environmental Management Act, 1998, to participate in environmental decision-making affecting that environment.
This site uses HTTPS encryption for the connection between your browser and our server. Form submissions are transmitted over encrypted connections. Records of objections are accessible only to the site administrator.
We do not maintain a public-facing database of objectors. We do not allow third-party access to our records.
No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data in transmission to or storage by third parties (including the authorities) once it has left our system. Once an objection email has been sent, the data within it is held by the recipients under their own protection arrangements.
We retain records of submissions for as long as is reasonable given the procedural status of the application you have objected to. As a guide, we retain submission records for the duration of the application process, including any appeal or review period, plus three years thereafter. This is to preserve the public participation record in case any procedural dispute later arises.
Once that retention period has elapsed, records are securely deleted.
If you would like your information removed earlier than that, please contact the Information Officer using the details below. We will assess any such request against our legitimate retention interests, including the need to maintain a complete public participation record for the relevant application, and respond to you in writing.
Please note that asking for deletion of our records does not retract objections you have already submitted to the authorities, since those emails are no longer in our control once sent.
Under POPIA you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, please email the Information Officer at the address below. We will respond within 30 days as required by POPIA.
This site is not intended for use by children. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18, and the objection process is intended for adult I&AP participation in statutory processes.
This site uses essential cookies necessary for the form submission process and basic website functionality. We do not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, or any third-party tracking technology that profiles our visitors or shares their data with external advertisers.
We may update this notice from time to time to reflect changes to the site, our processes, or applicable law. The current version is dated at the top of this page. Material changes will be reflected by an updated date and, where appropriate, by notification on the home page of the site.
For any question about this notice, your data, or to exercise any of your rights:
Daron Chatz, Information Officer for saverobberg.com
Email: hello@saverobberg.com
