POS Mate Limited complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when dealing with 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.  If you wish to seek further information on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may change this policy by uploading a revised policy onto this website.  The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy.

WHEN DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect personal information about you when you provide that personal information to us, including via this website and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any contact with us (e.g. telephone call or email), or when you buy or use our services and products. 

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use your personal information: 

– to provide services and products to you
– to market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose), when you have given us permission to do so
– to improve the services and products that we provide to you
– to bill you and to collect money that you owe us, including authorising and processing credit card transactions
– to respond to communications from you
– to conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis)
– to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
– for any other purpose authorised by you or the Act.

DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal 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 
– 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 may be located outside New Zealand.  This may mean your personal information is held and processed outside New Zealand.

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Where you have subscribed to a service via our website, you are responsible for choosing a password that will allow you to access your account with us and for keeping that password private and difficult to guess. We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse. 

COOKIES POLICY

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

When you use and access this website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions, analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.

We may use cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of this website, deliver advertisements on and through the website, and so on. 

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

You may access the personal information that we hold on you by logging in to your account on this website and making any necessary corrections. If you ask us to delete your personal information from our files, we will do so.

INTERNET USE

While we take reasonable steps to maintain the security of our website, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.

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.

We use cookies (an alphanumeric identifier that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive so that we can recognise your browser) to monitor your use of the website.  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.

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