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1. About us
This website is operated by The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd, a private company registered in South Africa. Contact: info@thedataprofessionals.com.
2. Purpose of the website
The website provides general information about The Data Professionals and its frameworks, and a free maturity assessment. It does not constitute an offer to supply any service, course or membership. Services, training and membership are subject to separate written agreements, which will govern if they differ from anything on this website.
Orders, cancellations and refunds are covered in section 3. Selecting an offer on this website does not charge you. Bespoke work is quoted and agreed separately.
3. Orders, cancellations and refunds
Ordering. Every price on this website is the full price you pay. The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd is not registered for VAT, so no VAT is added. An order is confirmed when we receive payment, either against our invoice or through online checkout when it is available. We confirm every order in writing.
Your right to cancel. Under section 44 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, you may cancel an order placed through this website, without giving a reason and without penalty, within seven days after the agreement is made. We refund any payment within 30 days of your cancellation. This right does not apply to a service that, at your request, has already begun within those seven days (section 42 of the Act), but you keep it for any part that has not begun.
Full SixBy6 report. The report is released when payment is received, at your request, so it cannot be cancelled once released. If the report is faulty or not as described, tell us within 30 days and we will correct it or refund you.
Report reading and coaching. You may move a booked session by telling us at least 24 hours before it starts. A session missed without notice counts as used. Sessions in a pack must be used within the period stated with the pack (three months for three sessions, six months for ten). Unused sessions are not refunded after the seven-day cancellation period.
Monthly membership. You may cancel at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the month already paid for, and you are not charged again.
Yearly membership. You may cancel within seven days of joining for a full refund. After that, you may cancel by giving 20 business days’ notice, as the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 allows where it applies. We refund the full months left after the notice period ends.
Courses. Courses are not yet on sale. Their terms will be published here before they are.
How to cancel or ask for a refund. Email info@thedataprofessionals.com with your order number, or use the member portal once it is open. Refunds are paid by the method you used to pay.
4. The maturity assessment
The assessment is a self-assessment. Its ratings and its list of vulnerabilities are worked out only from the answers you give, which we do not see and cannot verify. The result is not an audit, a certification or an assurance of any kind, and it does not show that an organisation complies with any law or standard. Use it to decide where to look first, and confirm what it tells you with evidence before acting on it.
The quick check draws on two statements for each sphere. Its result is an indication only, and it is less detailed than the full assessment.
The free result is shown on screen once. It is not stored, and it may not be printed, saved, copied or captured. When you leave the result, reload or close the page, it cannot be shown again. A copy to keep comes only with the full report.
5. Country ratings
The country ratings in the assessment are derived from the Worldwide Governance Indicators published by the World Bank under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, converted to a scale of 1 to 5 by our own method. The World Bank does not endorse this website or the assessment. Between the World Bank's annual releases we may adjust a country's rating to reflect published current events; an adjustment is our own judgement, and its sources are shown with it.
The ratings are a general indication of a country's governance environment, used as a proxy for how exposed data may be there. They are not statements about the conduct of any government, and they are not country-risk, investment or legal advice. The names used for countries and territories are for ease of reading and imply no view on the legal status of any territory.
6. Copyright and intellectual property
Copyright © 2026 The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved.
The Data Professionals SixBy6™ model, with its spheres, statements, grid, weightings and method, and the KOPTUA™ framework are owned by The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd. All other content on this website, including text, design, assessment results and reports, belongs to The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd or is used under licence. All of it is protected by copyright and other intellectual property law, including the Copyright Act 98 of 1978.
SixBy6 and KOPTUA are trade marks of The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd.
The six outside spheres of SixBy6 are those of PESTLE analysis, a widely used method that grew from the environmental scanning described by Francis J. Aguilar in Scanning the Business Environment (1967). We do not claim PESTLE itself. What we own is the SixBy6 model built on it: its internal spheres, statements, grid, weightings and method.
You may use the assessment for your own organisation and view and print pages of this website for your own reference. You may share a full report you have bought within your organisation, provided the copyright notice stays on every copy. The free result is for viewing on screen only, as set out in section 3.
You may not, without our prior written permission, copy, reproduce, adapt, translate, distribute, sell or publish any content, or our frameworks and models; build a product, course, assessment or service on them or derived from them; or use them to train or improve an artificial intelligence model.
Material from third parties, such as the World Bank data described in section 4, remains the property of its owners and is used under the terms of its licence.
To ask for permission, or to tell us about a copy of our content you believe is unauthorised, email info@thedataprofessionals.com.
7. No professional advice
Content on this website, including assessment results, is for general information only. It is not legal, regulatory, security, financial or other professional advice, and should not be relied on as such.
8. Accuracy and availability
We take care to keep the website accurate and up to date, but we do not guarantee that all information is complete or current, or that the website will be uninterrupted or free of errors. We may change or remove content, including the assessment and its method, at any time.
9. Acceptable use
You agree not to use the website unlawfully, to send false or misleading enquiries, to attempt to gain unauthorised access to it or its systems, or to introduce malicious code.
10. Links to other websites
Links to third-party websites are provided for convenience only. We do not control, and are not responsible for, their content or practices.
11. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, including the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 where it applies, The Data Professionals (Pty) Ltd is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or reliance on, this website or an assessment result. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have that cannot be limited by law.
12. Privacy
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13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and the South African courts have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when they were last changed. Continued use of the website means you accept the updated terms.