PRIVACY POLICY
Our website address is: http://www.orbitsocial.co.nz.
Orbit Trustees Limited (we, us, our) complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when dealing with personal information. This privacy policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person). This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act.
We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuses.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you share your private information in a public comment you are fully liable
What information is collected
We collect information from you through any contact with us, like subscribing to our newsletter, calling or emailing us or responding to a survey. When you have authorised third parties or where the information is publicly available. When you buy or use our services and products. We may have collected personal information from you directly. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
When you buy or use our services and products online, all users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
How do we use your information?
- Verifying your identity
- Digitally market our products and services to you
- Undertake any credit checks of you
- Bill, Invoice, money that you owe us
- Collect money that you owe us, authorising and processing credit card transactions
- Communicate with you (including a complaint)
- Our own research and development, to improve the websites, services and products for you
- To protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
- A purpose authorised by you or the Act.
Do we disclose your information to outside parties?
We do not rent, sell, or trade your personal information to outside parties.
We may disclose your information to:
- *another company within our group
- any business that supports our services and products, including any person that hosts or maintains any underlying IT system or data centre that we use to provide the website or other services and products
- a credit reference agency for the purpose of credit checking you
- other third parties (for anonymised statistical information)
- a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority)
- any other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement agency)
- any other person authorised by you.]
*A business that supports our services and products in New Zealand. A business that supports our services and products may also be located outside New Zealand. This may mean your personal information is held and processed outside New Zealand.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files – containing letters and numbers – which are downloaded by your computer when you access and use certain website. We use Cookies to analyse user activity in order to improve the user experience, our services, and website functionality.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
You may disable cookies by changing the settings on your browser, although this may mean that you cannot use all of the features of the website
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What rights you have over your data
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold and to request a correction to your personal information. Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates.
In respect of a request for correction, if we think the correction is reasonable and we are reasonably able to change the personal information, we will make the correction. If we do not make the correction, we will take reasonable steps to note on the personal information that you requested the correction.
If you want to exercise either of the above rights, email us at [email protected] Your email should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request (e.g. the personal information, or the correction, that you are requesting).
We may charge you our reasonable costs of providing to you copies of your personal information or correcting that information.
INTERNET USE
While we take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.
[If you post your personal information on the website’s [message board/chat room/comment], you acknowledge and agree that the information you post is publicly available.]
If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal information.
By using our website, you consent to our online privacy policy.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 20 May 2021 and will remain in effect, except with respect to any changes, which will be in effect immediately after this page is updated.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, you can contact us at [email protected]