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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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