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Privacy Policy

 

This notice explains how The Mat Project may collect, use and process personal information

What type of information do we collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. 

We also collect personally identifiable information you enter (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

 

How do we collect information?

When you conduct a transaction, or fill out our contact us form on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

 

Why do we collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and operate the Services to you;

  2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages;

  4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

How do we store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?

Our service is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. 

 

Personal medical information we collect as part of our health screening questionnaire is kept in medical confidence in a secure safe place and is only visible to class instructors or parties required by law. 

 

How do we communicate with site visitors?

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, mobile app and postal mail.

 

How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?

Our website collects cookies to provide you with a better service. A cookie is a small file sent from a Web server to your computer whenever you visit a website. If you return to the website later, your Web browser sends the small file to the server to notify the website of any previous activity you engaged in on the site. Once you return to a website, the server can retrieve the cookie file from local computer to assist in expediting certain functions such as logging in and retrieving account or user data.

Cookies allow us to provide you with a better service, such as remembering items you had in a shopping cart, logging visited pages on the site and remembering login details so you don't have to enter them every time you visit our website.

 We use cookies for many important reasons, such as:

  • To provide a great experience for you

  • To identify you as a  registered member

  • To monitor and analyse the performance, operation and effectiveness of our website running the Wix.com platform.

  • To ensure our platform is secure and safe to use.

 

What type of cookies do we use?

  • Functionality - We use these cookies so that we recognise you on our website and remember your previous selected preferences. A mix of first party and third party cookies are used. 

  • Security - Our provider, wix.com uses these these cookies so that we can recognise and verify you on our website.

How to manage cookies?

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, or you can delete cookies which are already set. To find out how to do this, we recommend visiting allaboutcookies.org. However, in some cases some of our website features may not function as as result. 

 

Information Shared with Third Parties. We may share your aggregated information and non-identifying information with third parties to conduct on-going quality improvement activities, or for industry research and analysis, demographic profiling and other similar purposes.

The Website, App and Service contain links to other sites that are owned or operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the content, privacy or security practices of any third parties. To protect your information, we encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of such third parties.

- We ues Google Analytics and other tools to understand web traffic and website usage.  Some of these tools may capture IP addresses or use cookies. You can find out more about Google Analytics here - https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage -

To opt our of Google Analytics you can do so via this link. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How can you withdraw consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us. Please note this may affect or limit the services we are able to offer you.

If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our Website, App and Service, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use/navigate through many parts of our Website, App and Service, although if you do so, you may not be able to access all portions or features of the Website, App and Service. Some third-party services providers that we engage (including third-party advertisers) may also place their own cookies on your hard drive. Note that this Privacy Policy covers only our use of cookies and does not include use of cookies by such third parties.

 

 

Your rights

You have the right to ask;

  • What information we hold about you. If you would like details of the information we hold just contact us.

  • Any inaccuracies in the information we hold to be corrected.

  • Us to erase or delete any or all of the information we hold about you

  • To withdraw consent and / or sharing if you wish to do so at any time. 

 

If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us. 

 

We may periodically send you free newsletters and e-mails that directly promote our Service. When you receive such promotional communications from us, you will have the opportunity to "opt-out" (this can be done by contacting us). We do need to send you certain communications regarding the Service and you will not be able to opt out of those communications – e.g., communications regarding updates to our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy or information about billing. 

 

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

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