Who we are
This website belongs to Chris Maritz (MaritzCorp), a revenue growth and digital marketing consultant. For anything about your personal information, email marketing@maritzcorp.com.
What we collect, and why
- Enquiry forms (Hire Chris, Free estimate): your name, phone number, email address and your message. For a free estimate, also your website and the services you want a quote on; for a free audit, your website. We use these only to reply to you and to prepare the estimate or audit you asked for.
- Reference letters request: your name and email address. We use them to send you the letters and, because you agree to it on the form, occasional marketing emails. Every marketing email lets you unsubscribe.
- Blog comments: the name you choose (or none) and your comment, which are shown publicly. To stop spam we keep a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address, never the address itself.
- Site analytics: if analytics are switched on, Google Analytics records how the site is used (pages visited, buttons clicked) through cookies. Visitors in the UK, EU and Switzerland are not tracked unless they agree.
Cookies
The site works without cookies. Analytics cookies are only set where described above. Logging in to the admin area sets one essential cookie, which is only used by Chris and the site administrator.
Who else handles your data
We don’t sell your information. Trusted services process it on our behalf: Vercel (website hosting), Neon (database), our email provider (to deliver enquiries), and Google (analytics, if enabled). They may store data outside South Africa, with safeguards required by law.
How long we keep it
Enquiries and letter requests are kept for as long as needed to deal with them and for our business records, then deleted. Comments stay up until they are removed. You can ask us to delete your information at any time.
Your rights
Under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and the GDPR where it applies, you can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, object to how we use it, and stop marketing emails. Email marketing@maritzcorp.com and we will respond within a reasonable time. If you are unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.