Our
Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our
commitment to combine the highest-quality products and
services with
the highest level of integrity in dealing with our clients
and partners. The Policy is designed to assist you in understanding
how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information
you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions
when using our site and our products and services. This statement
will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business
practices and our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two
types of information: personal information you knowingly
choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis
and Web site use information collected on an aggregate
basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services from us
or our partners, you may need to give personal information
and authorization to obtain information from various credit
services. For example, you may need to provide the following
information:
Name
Mailing address
Email address
Credit card number
Home and business phone number
Other personal information (i.e. mother’s maiden
name)
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information to
our partners, if you choose to correspond further with
us through email, we may retain the content of your email
messages together with your email address and our responses.
We provide the same protections for these electronic communications
that we employ in the maintenance of information received
by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web
sites, our Web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation
below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs
to collect information about how our Web site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs
may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed,
time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just
before and just after our Web site. This information is
collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information
is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal
information for purposes of administering our business
activities, providing customer
service and making available other products and services
to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally,
we may also use the information we collect to notify you
about important changes to our Web site, new services and
special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists
used to send you product and service offers are developed
and managed under our traditional corporate standards designed
to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers’ personal
information. As a customer, you will be given the opportunity,
at least once annually, to notify us of your desire not
to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are
a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers
to recognize the computer
used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of
data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on the
user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information
a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent
interactions with that Web site by the same user or to
use the information to streamline the user’s transactions
on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to
move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial
transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your
online experience easier and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software
tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information
about our Web
site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly
improve our Web site and better serve our customers. This
information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages
in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve
our Web site to better meet the needs of our customers
and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important
business and technical statistics. The information in
the cookies lets us trace
the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move
from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count
how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web
site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies
to capture your individual email address or any personally
identifying information about you although they do permit
us to send focused online banner advertisements or other
such responses to you.
Sharing Information with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers from outside companies
advertised on our Web site. We take measures to select
product or service providers that are responsible and afford
privacy protections to their customers. However, we cannot
make any representations about the practices and policies
of these companies.
Sharing Information with Strategic Partners
We may enter into strategic marketing alliances or partnerships
with third parties who may be given access to personal
information including your name, address, telephone number
and email for the purpose of providing you information
regarding products and services that we think will be of
interest to you. In connection with strategic marketing
alliances or partnerships, we will retain all ownership
rights to the information, and we will not share information
regarding your social security number or other personal
financial data.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect
to notify you about important changes to our Web site,
new services and special offers we think you will find
valuable. As our client, you will be given the opportunity
to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers
by clicking on a response box when you receive such an
offer or by sending us an email request at unsubscribe@econz.co.nz
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card information
to us on our Web site, a secure server software which we
have licensed encrypts all information you input before
it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route
and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure
unless we advise you that security measures will be in
place prior to your transmitting the information. For that
reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information
such as Social Security or account numbers to us through
an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security. We utilize encryption/security software
to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information
we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental
loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically,
our operations and business practices are reviewed for
compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing
the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate
values, ethical standards, policies and practices are
committed to the protection of customer information.
In general, our business practices limit employee access
to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure
of such information to authorized persons, processes
and transactions.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers,
sales, Web site traffic patterns and related Web site information
to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this
information will not include personally identifying data,
except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to
do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe
that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal
rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web
sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information
or content contained therein. Often links to other Web
sites are provided solely as pointers to information on
topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
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