Your privacy is important to us.

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd is a registered business in the Republic of South Africa with Registration number: 2012/094565/07. For all intent and purposes we are bound to South African laws and regulations.

 

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd trades as Marketing 247 and uses www.marketing247.co.za to conduct such trade and services.

 

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd respects your privacy and wants you to enjoy a comfortable and secure experience with us. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and (under limited circumstances) share your information. Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd., is a marketing and online sales solutions company that provides integrated, multi-channel communications strategies, self-service client technology platforms and complete, in-depth data analytics to help achieve revenue goals for our Clients and Partners worldwide across a variety of industries. We operate our website www.marketing247.co.za. If you choose to visit any of the Sites, your visit and the associated information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy.

Categories of Information That We Collect:

 

Personal Information

We receive and collect personally identifiable information – such as name, job title, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses – from visitors to the Sites when they (i) submit inquiries or requests to us, (ii) become registered users of the Sites, (iii) sign up to receive newsletters or bulletins from us, or (iv) choose to provide information to us for some other reason. Visitors can choose not to provide their personal information, but that decision may limit our ability to contact them and our ability to provide services to them, or respond to their inquiries. Also, please note that if a visitor has provided us with a postal address, an e-mail address, or a telephone number, a Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd representative may contact them unless they have requested that we place them on our do-not-contact list, see “Obtaining Information From Us & Communicating With Us” below.

 

Website Usage Information

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd may save information on your system in the form of a small text file that is stored on your hard drive known as a “cookie” to access secure information or to better track usage of Sites. We may use session ID cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on the Sites. Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd use cookies and other navigational data that is passively collected to gather information concerning the usage of the Site by that visitor, including but not limited to the visitor’s Internet domain and/or IP address, information concerning the visitor’s browser, and other access-related information. We also may assemble aggregate information (information obtained by compiling information from many different visitors) as to which pages a visitor accesses on the Site. This information is used to analyze the Sites’ utility, and to enhance the areas and functionality within the Site that appear to be of interest to various users. We use this information in connection with developing, delivering and improving our services for our Clients and Partners. The information collected is not analyzed in a way that would reveal the identity of the individual browsing the Sites. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but visitors can manage cookies by following directions provided in their Internet browser’s “help” file. If a visitor rejects cookies, they may still use the Sites, but their ability to use some Sites areas’, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.

 

Client Information

We collect information (such as contact, billing, account, and business data) under the direction of our Clients and this data is used to offer products, fulfill orders, respond to customer service request and administer customer accounts. The use of information collected through our Client service is limited to the purpose of providing that Client service. Visitors who are a customer of one of our Clients and would no longer like to be contacted by them should contact the Client directly.

 

Business information

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd collect information on businesses and business professionals from company websites, vendors, public records and third party suppliers including company statistics such as employee numbers, geographic locations and contact information.

 

Supplemental Information

We may obtain personally identifiable and other information about visitors from our subsidiary companies, business partners, vendors or Clients and add it to information that they have previously provided to us in order to serve them better. From time to time, we may compare our contact lists to lists received from our subsidiary companies, third party service providers or Clients to try to avoid sending visitors unwanted, unnecessary or duplicative messages. We may also utilize and incorporate information from other sources to update and supplement information concerning visitors. All such combined, updated, and supplemented information will be handled consistent with this Policy.
Use of Collected Information:

Any personally identifiable information provided will be used by us or our service providers or vendors in connection with providing services for and communicating with visitors including processing any requests or inquiries that they initiate. Our service providers or vendors may not use visitor information for their own marketing purposes.

The use of information collected through a Site operated for a Client is limited to the purpose of providing the services for the Client. Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd will display relevant ads tailored to visitors based on (i) visits to our Sites (ii) key words that you search for and (iii) the content topics of web pages you visit. We will share the data needed to do this with third parties for this purpose, and for aggregate market analysis purposes.

Information provided by visitors will not be sold, transferred, or traded to any third parties for the marketing of third parties’ goods or services without the visitor’s consent. If we decide to offer visitors the opportunity to “opt-in” for data sharing with third parties, we will only share their data consistent with that visitor’s opt-in preferences and visitors may subsequently “opt-out” by seeing “Obtaining Information From Us & Communicating With Us” below.

Business information will be used for marketing activities and may from time to time be licensed to authorized third party businesses for marketing purposes.

 

Third-Parties

In order to operate our websites and provide services, we may provide personally identifiable, aggregate and other information associated to third parties that provide services for us, including services such as payment processing, database management, sending emails and professional services. We endeavor to require such third-party service providers to confirm that their privacy practices including onward transfer to sub-processors are consistent with this Policy. On occasion, we may also share personally identifiable and other information concerning a visitor with our affiliates (such as a subsidiary or affiliate of our company) in which case we require our affiliates to honor this Policy, and also Clients in furtherance of our operations and as needed to implement visitor request.

 

Consent to Transfer, Processing and Storage of Personal Information

As Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd works with global providers, we may transfer your Personal Information to Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd in INDIA, to any Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd subsidiary worldwide, or to third parties acting on our behalf, for the purposes of processing or storage. By providing any Personal Information to us, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the transfer, processing and storage of such information outside of your country of residence where data protection standards may be different. Our Privacy Statement and our practices are designed to provide a globally consistent level of protection for Personal Information all over the world. This means that even in countries whose laws provide for less protection for your information, Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd will still handle your information in the manner described here.

 

Industry Standard Practices

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal and other information covered by this Policy. We have training and policies and procedures in place to address the security of our workplaces and the integrity and protection of electronic records stored in our systems. Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd’s systems uses firewalls and Secure Socket Layers to help protect and safely transmit information.

 

Additional Important Information: Third-Party Sites

The Sites may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. In addition, visitors may have linked to the Sites from other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other such websites, and this Policy applies only to information collected by us in connection with the Sites we operate.

 

Social Media Features

The Sites may include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Sites, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Sites. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

 

Data Retention

We will retain personal data we collect from visitors as well as data we process on behalf of our Customers for as long as needed provide our services to our visitors and Customers. We will retain and use information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

 

Change of Control

In the event of a merger or acquisition of our company, the sale of substantially all of its assets related to the operation of the Sites, or other change of corporate control, all information concerning visitors would be transferred to or controlled by the successor entity. Such information would remain subject to the principles and guidelines set forth in our Policy.

 

Privacy of Children

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd does not intentionally collect information from persons under the age of 13. Our Sites are not intended for use by children under the age of 13.

 

Privacy Policy Updates

This Privacy Policy will be updated periodically to comply with the evolving legal framework and to conform to our current business practices. Unless stated otherwise, our current Policy applies to all information that we have collected concerning a visitor to this Site. If we make any material changes, we will notify visitors by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage visitors to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Visitors with questions or concern about our privacy practices see “Obtaining Information From Us & Communicating With Us” below.

 

Obtaining Information From Us & Communicating With Us

Upon a visitor’s request (using any of the contact methods below) concerning their personally identifiable information, we will provide and/or correct or delete such information that we may have in our database collected from www.marketing247.co.za and our associated systems in reasonably obtainable form. Visitors may also Contact Us (using any of the contact methods below) to express their preferences on how we communicate with them, to ask questions relating to this Policy, or to request that they be removed from our database. Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd will respond to your access request within 30 days.

 

Access to Information Controlled by Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd

In the event that you wish to access, change or update any information we hold on you please contact : info@marketing247.co.za and we will endeavour to respond to your request within 30 business days.

 

Access to Data Controlled by our Clients

Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd has a direct relationship with some of the individuals whose personal data it processes, but in many cases Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd does not have a direct relationship with individuals whose personal data it processes. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data should direct his query to the Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd Client as well as Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd. If the client requests Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd to remove the data, Matz Trading and Projects (Pty) Ltd will respond to the Client’s access request within 30 business days.

 

Dispute Resolution

If you have any concerns regarding the privacy of your data you can contact us.