MIAMIA knows that you care how your information is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This privacy policy has been updated on the 10th August 2021.
By visiting MIAMIA, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Any personal information provided to or gathered by MIAMIA is controlled by MIAMIA TRADING COMPANY.
The information we collect
The information we learn from customers help us personalise and continually improve the delivery of information related to starting business in Tanzania, doing business in Tanzania and Tanzania business sectors. We use the information to handle orders; deliver products and services; process payments, communicate with you about orders, products, services and promotional offers; as well as update our records and generally maintain your account with us. We also use this information to improve our website, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can select not to provide certain information on our website. However, doing so may restrict the features that we are able to provide you. We use the provided information for such purposes as responding to your requests, communicating with you, customising future shopping for you, and improving our products.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies”, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses MIAMIA. Note: Your browsing and purchasing patterns may be commercially sensitive. We recognise this. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalised experience at MIAMIA if we cannot recognise you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from MIAMIA if your computer supports such capabilities.
Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you or your organisation to the extent permitted by law, we obtain (or may obtain) information about you from other third party sources. We combine such third party sourced information with information we have obtained about you from our site, we will treat the combined information in accordance with the practices described under this Privacy Policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Do we share the information we collect about you?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we do not share or sell it to third parties. MIAMIA shares customer information only as described below.
Third Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Those can include providing customer service, fulfilling orders, processing credit payments and analysing data. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might buy or sell subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy unless the customer consents otherwise.
How long we retain your data
Different types of personal data are retained for different periods of time. Personal data is retained for only as long as MIAMIA has a legitimate basis to retain the data.
- Personal data you provide when signing up for our email marketing lists is retained until such time as you unsubscribe. After you unsubscribe, we retain minimal information to ensure you stay unsubscribed.
- Personal data provided as part of a contract between us is retained for a period of 7 years after the contract has ended.
- We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username when provided). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Under current data protection laws and under GDPR you have certain rights. These include:
Right to Access: You may request a copy of all personal data held about you by MIAMIA.
Right to Rectify: You have the right to ask MIAMIA to correct any inaccuracies in the personal data held about you.
Right to Erasure: You have the right to ask that we erase any personal data we are possessing about you. Please note that we may still be legally allowed or obliged to retain your information in instances such as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and defend or establish a legal claim.
Right to Restrict: In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
Right to object: In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.
Right Not to be Subjected to Automated Decision Making: You have the right not to be subjected to automated decision making where the decision has legal or significant effects.
Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we are processing your personal data on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
How to Exercise Your Rights: Please contact us at controller@miamia.co.tz and provide us with as much information as possible to enable us to complete your request.
How about cookies?
Cookies are identifiers that we transfer to your device’s storage through your web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and provide additional features such personalised information, and storage of items in your shopping cart between visits. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of MIAMIA’s best features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. We remove login cookies when you log out of your account.
How secure is the information we collect about you?
MIAMIA takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including secure hosting of our website, virus and malware protections and encryption of data in transit using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates.
We restrict access to personal information to MIAMIA’s employees, contractors, agents and suppliers who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations.
Opt-in/Opt-out
If you do not want to receive e-mail correspondence from us, please let us know by telling us so via email to controller@miamia.co.tz. If you encounter any problem, click this link and let us know about the problem you are facing.
Contact us
Follow this link to contact us or send us an email to controller@miamia.co.tz. Other options to contact us include by calling +255718982695 or sending text or Whatsapp message to that number.