Introduction
Briton Infrared Limited (we, us, our) 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 the website.
The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy.
Who do we collect your personal information from
We collect personal
information about you from:
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you, when you provide that personal information
to us, including via the 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
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third parties where you have authorised this or
the information is publicly available.
If possible, we will collect
personal information from you directly.
How we use your personal information
We will use your personal
information:
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to verify
your identity
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to
provide services and products to you
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to market
our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g.
by text or email for this purpose)
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to
improve the services and products that we provide to you
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to
undertake credit checks of you (if necessary)
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to bill
you and to collect money that you owe us, including authorising and processing
credit card transactions
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to respond
to communications from you, including a complaint
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to
conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis)
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to
protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any
claim
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for any
other purpose authorised by you or the Act.]
Disclosing your personal information
We may disclose your personal
information to:
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another
company within our group
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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
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a credit
reference agency for the purpose of credit checking you
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other
third parties (for anonymised statistical information)
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a person
who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory
authority)
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any
other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement
agency)
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any
other person authorised by you.
Protecting your personal information
We will take reasonable steps
to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or
other misuse.
Accessing and correcting your personal information
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 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 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.