This Privacy Policy is governed by New Zealand law and is subject to (and must be read in conjunction with) our Terms and Conditions.
In order to provide you with our services via our website, we need to hold and process your personal information.
By "Personal Information", we mean information about you which you have provided to us, or information which you have authorised us to collect from others or third parties who are authorised to disclose information about you to us.
We may collect Personal Information about you either directly from you, for example when you open an account with us or use our website. We may also collect information from a third party, for example, information collected when a third party opens an account on our website on your behalf.
We will use your Personal Information to verify your identity, to contact you, and to manage your account.
We will also use your Personal Information to contact you about other services we think you may be interested in. If you do not wish to receive such information please let us know.
By using our website, or by opening an account with us, you consent to us using your Personal Information for these purposes. You also consent to the transfer of your information outside New Zealand where it is necessary to fulfil a contractual obligation or where our data storage is outside New Zealand.
If you pay for our products or services through our website, you will be purchasing through a Shopify service called "Shopify Payments" which falls under the privacy policy for Shopify, available here.
We take our data storage and website security seriously and always endeavour to provide a secure safe platform on which to conduct online transactions.
No data transmissions over the internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. Accordingly, we do not warrant or guarantee the security of information, including Personal Information, transmitted from or to you. Once we have received your Personal Information, we will use reasonable efforts to protect that information against loss or misuse and against unauthorised access, use, modification, or disclosure. Copies of transaction details and/or any correspondence from our website, that may contain any Personal Information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.
In order to provide you with our services we may need to disclose your Personal Information to third parties, this would include, for example, providing your details to Heart Saver New Zealand Ltd. There may also be circumstances where we are required to disclose Personal Information by law, for example to government and regulatory authorities.
Under the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993, you are entitled to request Personal Information we hold about you. There are some circumstances under this Act where we may choose not to provide you with some or all of the Personal Information we hold about you. If that occurs, we will write to you and tell you why we have reached that decision.
If you would like to review or modify any part of your Personal Information you should email us at admin@heartsaver.co.nz. If you wish to have your details removed from our records, please contact us at any time and this will be actioned as soon as possible.
Our website uses “cookies”, which are small data files that are stored on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies enable you to use our website and may be used in a variety of ways to enhance or personalise your online browsing experience. Cookies may be used to personalise your visits to the website, eliminate the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information, enable us to improve the content, reliability and functionality of our website, evaluate the effectiveness of the advertising on our website and track website usage patterns. Accepting a cookie will not give us access to any data on your computer other than the data stored in the cookie. You may configure your web browser to not accept cookies, however, you may experience a loss of functionality as a result.
Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We take no responsibility for the privacy practices of third parties. You should consult the privacy policies of each third party website in order to determine whether that site adheres to a similar policy to ours.
We reserve the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and will post a notice on our website advising of such change. For this reason, we encourage you to visit this page regularly to check the current version of the Privacy Policy.