NZAviator cares about your privacy. For our business to work we need to collect some information from you. We think it’s important that you know when we’ll collect information from you, what we’ll collect, how we’ll store it, and how it will be used. In other words, we want to make sure you know what’s going on with your personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). Anything we collect from you will be kept safe and secure, and we’ll make sure we use your information lawfully. 

What we collect

When you register with us we will collect relevant Personal Information from you, and store it securely in our database. This will include your name, and email address, and may include (but not be limited to) address details, phone number, and information regarding your use of our Service, and browser information. We’ll also keep a record of your email address, username, password, and your company details (if you’re a company), and your IP address so we can identify you when you come back and visit us.  We automatically receive your location when you use the Service. The Personal Information you provide is used for such purposes as allowing you to set up a user account and profile that can be used to interact with other users through the Service, improving the content of the Service, and communicating with you about specials and new features. We may also draw upon this Personal Information in order to adapt the Services of our community to your needs, research the effectiveness of our network and Services, and to develop new tools for the community.

When you use the Service we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser or mobile platform, including your location, user name, each business you’ve checked into and the time and date that you checked in, IP address, cookie information, and the page you requested.

We may share anonymous information with our partners about how our users, collectively, use our site, so that our partners may also understand how often people use their services and our Service.  

How NZAviator uses your Personal Information

At NZAviator, we will only use any Personal Information you give us for the purpose it was collected for. 

The main purposes we collect information for are to:

• complete your registration for NZAviator.co.nz

• tailor the information you get from our website

• identify businesses, products, and services that may be of interest to you and communicate with you about them

• analyse non-personalised information about the use of our website to continually improve it and to improve our customer service

• Inform you about the development of our websites

• administer promotion, surveys, and other services

• obtain feedback or views about the NZAviator services

• prevent and detect any misuse of, or fraudulent activities involving any of our products and services

How do we contact you?

We will contact you by electronic direct message through our website, by email, or using other contact details including mobile phone.

We’ll also use your email address to confirm your registration details when you request a new password and to communicate with you if there are any issues with your account.

At all times, we’ll make sure we only use your information in a manner consistent with the Privacy Act 1993, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

Tailoring the information you get from our website

Sometimes, NZAviator may tailor advertising or other content available to you on our website, to help make sure you are getting information that is relevant to you.

Cookies

NZAviator gathers information through the use of “cookies”. These are small packets of information that a website stores on your computer. Our system accesses and reads the cookies on your computer when you visit our website. Cookies are not used to gather or allow the gathering of any personally identifiable information. Generally, cookies allow us to use the information we collect to customise your experience so that your visit to our websites is as relevant and as valuable to you as possible. If you want to disable these cookies, you can do so in your own computer settings, but you may not be able to use all of the functions on our website.

NZAviator uses Google Analytics and other analytics software to better understand who is using the Service, and how people are using it.  These tools use cookies to collect and store anonymous information such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the website, IP address, and type of operating system used.  We use this information to improve the Service and make it appealing to as many users as possible. 

 How NZAviator protects your information

We want to make sure any information you provide us is safely kept. We have processes in place to help us do that. We protect our data by using secure passwords and other measures. 

Your NZAviator account Personal Information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorised access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.

NZAviator endeavors to safeguard user information to ensure that user account information is kept private. However, we cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Unauthorised entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

You shouldn’t tell anyone else your username or password and should ensure your computer is free of viruses and other computer nasties.

The Service may contain links to other sites. NZAviator is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site, you should read the privacy policy stated on that site. This Privacy and Security Policy only governs information collected on the NZAviator Service.

How you can access and update your information

NZAviator allows you to change the information you provide during registration. If you are a registered user, you may log in and access the Edit Profile page from your Dashboard to add, change, or delete Personal Information or to reset your personal preferences. 

If you are having trouble accessing and updating your Personal Information, please contact us by completing the CONTACT US form online. You can request the information we hold about you, and request corrections to it, at any time by contacting us.

How do I delete my account?

Should you ever decide to delete your NZAviator account, you may contact us by completing the contact us form on the site.

How is information removed from my account?

Even after you remove information from your account or profile, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere, to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. Removed and deleted information may remain on backup media indefinitely until we remove it.

 Updating this policy

We may update this policy sometimes. When the updates are significant, we will give you a reasonable warning in advance by posting a notice on the NZAviator.co.nz home page. 

Version: last updated  June 2022