Your privacy on the Internet is important to us. Because the Internet offers the ability to collect certain types of information about users, EDL Fasteners Ltd wants you to understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of any information we gather. To that end, this privacy policy sets out what information we gather, how we may use it, and how to correct or change it.
Collection of Personal Information
EDL Fasteners ("we", "us" or "our") collect personally identifiable information about users including you ("you"), such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by us. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by us for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our website.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose all information that we gather, including your personal information, to our related companies. We may also disclose aggregated tracking information and other information that does not personally identify you, to third parties such as our advertisers. Your personal information may also be disclosed to third parties when we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law. We may also disclose your personal information to other third parties provided we have your prior authorisation, which we will usually obtain at the time of collecting the information from you.
Use of Personal Information
We collect and use your personal information to operate our website and deliver the services you have requested. We also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from us. We may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Your personal information may also be used for verification of your identity and assisting you in case you forget your password or login details where these are necessary to access any of our products or services.
We do not sell, rent or lease our customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, we may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to us, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
We keep track of our website, in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Our websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us or the site; (b) protect and defend our rights or property of; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our users of, or the public.
Use of Cookies
Our website may use a cookie file containing information that can identify the computer you are working from. The cookie file is anonymous as it only gives us details of your IP address, PC platform (Windows, NT or Mac), Browser (e.g. Microsoft, Netscape or other, plus the version of Browser) and domain (whether you are accessing the site from NZ or elsewhere). We may use the information generated by "cookies" to track traffic patterns to and from our sites such as the pages you visit, the time you spend on each page, the date and time of your visit, and referring pages (pages you came from or go to). We may also use the information to enable you to use certain services as a member without having to log on each time and to visit member-restricted areas of the site.
You can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our websites, but you may need them for customisable areas of sites we may develop in the future. If your cookies are turned off we will not have any control over the frequency of display of certain ad formats. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our services or website.
Opting in and Opting Out
If our intended collection, use or disclosure of your personal information is outside the collection, use or disclosure set out in this Privacy Policy we will give you the option to opt out and not receive certain services or participate in certain interactive areas or opt in, for example agreeing to be contacted by us in relation to certain matters such as notification of new features to this website, receiving newsletters or promotional activities.
Changes to this Statement
We will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
Contact Information
Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have rights of access to and correction of personal information that we hold. We offer the ability to correct or change the information collected at any time and as often as necessary. If you have any questions about how our services work or regarding this Privacy Statement, contact us at info@edlfast.co.nz.