This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how visicswire.com in New Zealand ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, such as personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as described in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and phone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We want certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we need under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please don't use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the details you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on that SNS. We'll access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you supply in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the site you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. However, we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by legislation, in which case we'll inform you of any such processing and provide you with an opportunity to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your personal computer or mobile device until you delete them) to supply you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.
We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which can be used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are crucial to provide you with services available through our Site and to let you use some of its attributes. By way of example, they allow you to log into secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load fast. With no cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be supplied, and we only use these cookies to supply you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the modifications you make to other sections of our Site that you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to gather information about visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only utilized to enhance how our Site works. You can find out more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising that's more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third-party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests when you are on third party websites. You may disable cookies which remember your browsing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do decide to remove cookies by the companies listed at the above link, not all companies that function online behavioral advertising are included in this listing, which means you may still receive some cookies and tailored ads from companies which are not listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on our Site or you join your accounts or engage with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this. |
You can typically reject or remove cookies through your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. By way of example, we might not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may want to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated content to our Site, including via our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please note that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be private or confidential once it is published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we don't associate such feedback with your personal information. For those who have given your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, could be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not provide the same level of protection as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this move, storing or processing. We'll take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to safeguard personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no storage or transmission system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web isn't completely secure. For those who have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you feel that the security of any accounts you could have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required that you use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (such as for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests concerning the private data associated with the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We'll attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began before requesting such change or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you want to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in regard to your personal information, please contact us via the information listed on our website. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your regional data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or via our site.