Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 28 February 2022.

We at Market Ardent respect the privacy of your personal information, and as such make every effort to ensure your information is protected and remains private. This Statement of Privacy applies to the marketardent.com Web site and any Market Ardent mobile application we might have in the future as regards to data collection and usage.

We will not rent, sell, lease or barter your personal information, data, or email address to anyone unless you grant us explicit permission for that.

This Privacy Policy will inform you about the types of personal data we collect, the purposes for which we use the data, the ways in which the data is handled, and your rights with regard to your personal data. Furthermore, this Privacy Policy is intended to satisfy the obligation of transparency under the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and the laws implementing GDPR. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the controller of personal data is Market Ardent and our contact details are set out in the Contact Information section at the end of this statement of privacy.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Your Information” means information about you, which may be of a confidential or sensitive nature and may include personally identifiable information (“PII”) and/or financial information. PII means individually identifiable information that would allow us to determine the actual identity of a specific living person, while sensitive data may include information, comments, content and other information that you voluntarily provide.

BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, TRANSFER, MANIPULATION, STORAGE, DISCLOSURE, AND OTHER USES OF YOUR INFORMATION (COLLECTIVELY, “USE OF YOUR INFORMATION”) AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF SERVICE FOR MArket Ardent WHICH MAY BE ACCESSED HERE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OR CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF SERVICE YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR SERVICES.

Collection of Personal Information

Market Ardent collects information personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. when you use our website (“Website” or “Site”), any mobile application (“App”) which we may make available to you now, or in the future that allows you to access our services, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”) and through other interactions and communications you have with us. Market Ardent also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

The term Services includes, collectively, various applications, websites, widgets, email notifications, and other mediums, or portions of such mediums, through which you have accessed this Privacy Policy. This information is used by Market Ardent for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Market Ardent Web site.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting the revised Privacy Policy on the Site and in the App. Those changes will go into effect on the “Last updated” date shown at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the Site or Services, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review the Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Consent

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a purchase, you are consenting to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to decline. If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, and for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at hello@marketardent.com.

Information Provided By You 

We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you request information, create or modify your personal account, request Services, complete a Market Ardent form or enrolment process, contact customer support, make a purchase or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include, without limitation: name, date of birth, e-mail address, physical address, business address, phone number, or other personal information you choose to provide.

Information Collected Through Your Use of Our Services 

The following are situations in which you may provide Your Information to us:

  • When you fill out forms or fields through our Services;
  • When you register for an account with our Service;
  • When you order services, products, courses from, or through our Service;
  • When you sign up for any newsletters or other materials through our Services;
  • When you provide information to us through a third-party application, service or Website;
  • When you communicate with us or request information about us or our courses, products or Services, whether via email or other means;
  • When you participate in online surveys;
  • When you participate in any of our marketing initiatives, including, contests, events, or promotions; and
  • When you participate in forums, reviews or provide user-generated content or other submissions.
  • We also automatically collect information via the Website or App through the use of various technologies, including, but not limited to cookies and pixel tags (explained below).

We may collect your IP address, browsing behavior and device IDs. This information is used by us in order to enable us to better understand how our Services are being used by visitors and allows us to administer and customize the Services to improve your overall experience. 

Log Files, Cookies and Anonymous Identifiers 

We collect information about how you interact with our Services, preferences expressed, and settings chosen. We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, to improve marketing, analytics, or App/Site functionality, and to document your consent to receiving products, services or communications from us or our partners. If we link such information with personally identifiable information in a manner that identifies a particular individual, then we will treat all such information as PII for purposes of this Privacy Policy.

Technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, touch heatmaps, user recordings, crash videos, scripts, and similar technologies that create and maintain unique identifiers are used by us and our partners, affiliates, advertisers, analytics teams, or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the Site, tracking user’s movements around the Site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as an aggregated basis. We use cookies to help us know that you are logged on, provide you with features based on your preferences, understand when you are interacting with our Services, and compile other information regarding the use of our Services.

Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our Site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use cookies to collect and store information. Our website may use remarketing services, such as Google Ads and Facebook Remarketing Campaigns, to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our Site.

DoubleClick

We use Google Analytics remarketing codes to log when users view specific pages or take specific actions on marketardent.com. This allows us to provide targeted advertising in the future. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertising from us in the future you can opt-out using the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy, as well as Google & Facebook privacy policies. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Site may be limited.

Google Analytics 

We use Google Analytics to analyze the audience of the website and improve our content. No personal information is collected from Google Analytics. For further information on the privacy policy concerning Google Analytics, please go here:  http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html

Device Information 

When you use our Services through your computer, mobile phone or other device, we may collect information regarding and related to your device, such as hardware models and IDs, device type, operating system version, the request type, the content of your request and basic usage information about your use of our Services, such as date and time. In addition, we may collect information regarding application-level events and associate that with your account to provide customer service. We may also collect and store information locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and application data caches.

How We Protect Your Data 

We protect your information using commercially reasonable technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and information access authorization controls. Although we take measures to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, or searches, or other information will always remain secure. We cannot guarantee the security of our information storage, nor can we guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet including, without limitation, email and text transmissions. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Payments

We accept payments through Paystack, Flutterwave, and Paychant. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Paystack, Flutterwave, and Paychant, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

The Legal Basis For Collection and Processing Your Personal Information 

The legal basis upon which we rely for the collection and processing your Personal Information under the GDPR are the following:

When signing up to use our Services, you must give explicit consent allowing Market Ardent to provide you with our Services and generally to process your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy; It is necessary for entering into, or performing, the obligations of a contract between you and Market Ardent, including, without limitation, the Terms of Service agreement which may be accessed by you HERE; It is necessary for our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our website and business; analyzing the use of the website and our Services; assuring the security of our website and Services; maintaining back-ups of our databases; and communicating with you. It is necessary for our legitimate interests in the protection and assertion of our legal rights, and the legal rights of others, including you; It is necessary for our compliance with certain legal provisions which may require us to process your personal data. By way of example, and without limitation, we may be required by law to disclose your personal data to law enforcement or a regulatory agency.  

How We Use Your Data

Our primary purpose in collecting, holding, using and disclosing your Information is for our legitimate business purposes and to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. We will not rent, sell, lease or barter your information to anyone unless you grant us explicit permission. We will use this information in order to:

  • Provide users with our Services and customer support including, but not limited to, confirming emails related to our services, reminders, confirmations, requests for information and transactions.
  • Contact you and provide you with information.
  • Analyze, improve and manage our Services and operations.
  • Resolve problems and disputes, and engage in other legal and security matters.
  • Enforce our Terms of Service.

Additionally, we may use the information we collect about you to:

  • Send you communications we think will be of interest to you, including information about courses, products, services, promotions, news, and events of Market Ardent and other companies, where permissible and according to local applicable laws.
  • Display advertising, including advertising that is targeted to you or other users based on your location, interests, as well as your Market Ardent activities.
  • Verify your identity and prevent impersonation, spam or other unauthorized or illegal activity including, without limitation, infringement of intellectual property rights of third parties.

How We Share Information We Collect 

We may share the information we collect about you as described in this Privacy Policy or as described at the time of collection or sharing, including as follows:

  • With third party Service Providers to enable them to provide the Services you request;
  • With the general public if you submit content in a public forum, such as your reviews, comments or other features of our Services that are viewable by the general public;
  • With payment processors listed under the Payments section above;
  • With vendors, consultants, marketing partners, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf;
  • In response to a request for information by a competent authority if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or is otherwise required by, any applicable law, regulation, or legal process;
  • With law enforcement officials, government authorities, or other third parties if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements, Terms of Service, or policies, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Market Ardent or others;
  • If requested by authorities in the event of any act of terrorism or instance of local, regional or national emergency;
  • To enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, and any other applicable agreements and policies;
  • To enforce or protect our rights.

Promotional Information Opt-Out

You may opt-out of receiving promotional messages from us by following the instructions in those messages. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account, about Services you have requested, or our ongoing business relations.

Your Access and Rights To Personal Information

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained 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). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Please note that in some cases we may retain certain information about you as required by law, or for legitimate business purposes to the extent permitted by law. For instance, if you have a standing credit or debit on your account, or if we believe you have committed fraud or violated our Terms of Service, we may seek to resolve the issue before deleting your information

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on marketardent.com or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Furthermore, if you prefer that Market Ardent does not share certain information as described in this Privacy Policy, you can direct Market Ardent not to share that information. We will comply with an individual’s requests regarding access, correction, sharing, and/or deletion of the personal data we store in accordance with applicable law. To make changes to your account affecting your personal information contact us at hello@marketardent.com. For any deletion, non-sharing, or update request, we will make the changes as soon as practicable, however, this information may stay in our backup files. If we cannot make the changes you want, we will let you know and explain why.

Our Information Retention Policy 

Unless you request that we delete certain information, we retain the information we collect for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. Following termination or deactivation of your account, we will retain information for at least 3 years and may retain the information for as long as needed for our business and legal purposes.

Sharing Of Blog Posts

We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Facebook Share official buttons

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter Tweet official button

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

LinkedIn Share official button

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Pinterest Save official button

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Reddit Badge official button

We use Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy

Contact Information

Market Ardent welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Market Ardent has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Market Ardent at hello@marketardent.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to determine and remedy the problem promptly.