Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. Because the Internet offers the ability to collect certain types of information about users, we want you to understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of any information we gather. This privacy policy explains how we handle and protect your information in accordance with commonly accepted privacy principles.
For information about the New Zealand Privacy Act and how it protects all personal information in New Zealand, visit www.privacy.org.nz/. This policy was last updated on 17 August 2009.
What information we collect
We only obtain information that we reasonably require to do business with you. This may include:
Personal information provided by you; and
Aggregated information generated by our systems or third party systems which track traffic to our site but does not relate to you personally.
Aggregated information includes "cookies". Cookies are pieces of information that our web page transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard and many websites use them to provide useful features for you. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify you, only your computer. We may use a cookie file containing information that can identify the computer you are working from. The cookie file is anonymous as it only gives us details of your IP address, PC platform, Browser and domain. We may use the information generated by cookies to:
Track traffic patterns to and from our site including information like the pages you visit, the time you spend on each page, the date and time of your visit, and referring pages (pages you came from or go to);
Ensure advertising is being shown to the most appropriate person and limit the frequency of display for certain ad formats; and
Enable you to enter our site and use certain services as a member without having to log on each time and to visit member-restricted areas of the site.
You can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our website, but you may need them for customisable areas of the site that we may develop in the future. If your cookies are turned off we will not have any control over the frequency of display of certain formats. This could affect your reading experience.