Privacy Policy
最后更新: 27 August 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Tawfiq International Trading Co., Ltd. ("Tawfiq International", "we", "our", or "us") collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you contact us through our website, WhatsApp, or other approved business communication channels.
Tawfiq International is the customer-facing business responsible for handling trade, sourcing, quotation, and related commercial inquiries.
1. How We Receive Information
We may receive information through:
- WhatsApp communications
- Website contact forms
- Website quotation or sourcing request forms
- Other business communications you initiate with us
2. Information We Process
Information You Provide
Depending on how you contact us and what you choose to provide, this may include:
- Name
- WhatsApp profile name
- Phone number
- WhatsApp or platform identifiers
- Message content
- Files or attachments you voluntarily send
- Product information
- Requested quantities
- Destination country
- Sourcing requirements
- Commercial requirements
- Other information included in your inquiry
Operational Information
We may process limited operational information reasonably necessary to operate and secure our services, including:
- Date and time of communications
- Message delivery or processing status
- Communication-channel metadata
- Technical and security information
- Records required to prevent duplicate processing, abuse, or fraud
Derived and Assisted Processing
Our operational tools may generate information derived from your inquiry to help our team organize and respond to business communications, including:
- Inquiry classification
- Intent classification
- Inquiry summaries
- Follow-up priority
- Lead or business-opportunity classification
- Suggested response drafts
These tools are used to assist our team and do not make legally significant automated decisions about you.
3. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Respond to inquiries
- Handle sourcing requests
- Handle quotation requests
- Evaluate and organize business opportunities
- Prioritize business follow-up
- Route communications for human review
- Prepare suggested response drafts
- Prevent duplicate processing
- Prevent fraud, misuse, and abuse
- Protect our services
- Maintain operational and security records
- Provide customer and technical support
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
4. Automated Tools and Human Review
Automated tools may assist our team with classification, summarization, prioritization, and drafting suggested responses.
Our current messaging workflow may require a human operator to review, edit, approve, or decline suggested outbound responses before they are sent.
5. Technical Service Providers
Tawfiq International may use technical service providers acting on our behalf to support message processing, workflow organization, hosting, infrastructure, security, communications, and related operational services.
These service providers process information only as reasonably necessary to provide services to Tawfiq International and are not the trading company, seller, supplier, sourcing office, or contracting party.
6. How We Share Information
We may share information only when reasonably necessary with:
- Meta / WhatsApp as a communication platform
- Technical service providers acting on our behalf
- Hosting and infrastructure providers required to operate our services
- Professional advisers where reasonably necessary
- Competent authorities where disclosure is legally required
We do not sell personal information.
7. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for purposes such as:
- Handling and following up on inquiries
- Business communications
- Security and fraud prevention
- Operational auditing
- Dispute handling
- Legal and compliance obligations
When information is no longer reasonably required, it may be deleted or anonymized as appropriate.
8. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
No electronic transmission or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
9. Your Privacy Requests
Depending on applicable law, you may contact us to request:
- Access to information associated with you
- Correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion of information
- Objection to certain processing
- Information about how your data is handled
For data deletion requests, please see:
10. International Processing
Our infrastructure and service providers may process information in different countries. Where applicable, reasonable safeguards are used in connection with international processing.
11. Children
Our website, WhatsApp communications, and sourcing services are intended for business and commercial inquiries and are not directed to children.
12. Contact
For privacy questions, data requests, or other privacy-related matters, contact:
13. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date shown on this page.
