PRIVACY POLICY
Who we are
The tea ship ltd trading As Amaranto (we, us or our) is committed to protecting and maintaining the privacy, accuracy and security of your personal information. This privacy policy sets out details of how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information. By accessing and using our website or our products and services, you consent to the collection, use, storage and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy.
How we collect your informations
We will only collect personal information relevant to our business relationship with you. The personal information we collect will generally include yours: name, address, telephone numbers, email address, and any name and contacts of event organisers or any person we need to liase with. You may choose to not provide us with this information, but not doing so may affect our ability to provide you with our products and services. We will collect this information directly from you when you:
- Register to use our products and services;
- Use our products and services; or
- Communicate or interact with us, whether by email, telephone or otherwise. You are required to keep us informed of changes to your information to enable us to have proper administrative
processes.
We may also collect aggregated information generated by our system, which tracks your use of our products and services but does not identify you personally.
Cookies
Our website uses server logs and web analytic tools (such as “cookies”). Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your device by websites that you visit. When you use our website, these tools collect information such as the browser and operating system that you use, the internet protocol address of the device you use to access the site, search terms, your location and the content that you view when visiting the website. You can set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our website, or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. If you set your browser to reject cookies you may not be able to access all the features of the website.
How we use your information
We may use your personal information to:
- identify you, so we can ensure that your account is secure
- provide our products and services to you
- communicate with you
- carry out our business which includes maintaining your account, planning, training, product development,research and analysis
- enforce our agreement with you in any way
- fulfil our legal requirements (for example, disclosure to law enforcement agencies or the courts)
- or for any related purpose in connection with the above.
We may use any information that we collect from you that is not personal information (so you cannot be personally identified from it) for our business purposes, including:
- to assess how our customers use our products and services
- to improve our products and services
- for marketing and promotional purposes.
Marketing
We may use your information to offer you products and services that we believe meet your needs. You can notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by
emailing us at info@amaranto.co.nz or writing to us at Amaranto, 7 Wi Apo Place, 0900 Wellsford. We will act promptly on any such request.
Who we may disclose your information to
We may disclose information we retain about you, including your personal information, to the following persons or their agents:
- our employees, contractors, and our related entities;
- third parties engaged by us to perform specific functions for our business.
- service providers engaged by us, such as data storage, IT, software management, insurers and financial services
- Government departments or law enforcement agencies (including the Police)
- liquidators, administrators or other persons appointed to administer your financial affairs
- debt collection services or credit reporting agencies.
- Some of the persons listed above may be located
overseas. We will only transfer your personal information
to a recipient that is obliged to protect your personal
information with comparable safeguards to those
contained in the Privacy Act 2020, or otherwise we will
obtain your express consent to transfer or store the
personal information. We may disclose, sell or transfer to
third parties any non-personal, aggregated information that
we collect from you and our other customers.
Information Security
We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information secure and confidential. This includes the following:
- only our staff and those who perform services on our behalf, and are authorised to handle your information, will have access to your personal information;
- we will not retain any of your information for any longer
than it is required by us except to fulfil our legal obligations or where you have consented; and - we will, with your help, keep your personal information
accurate, complete and up-to-date.
Advertising/Third Party Links
Our website may contain links to a variety of advertising and third party website sources. Some of these links may request or record information from users or use cookies or
other methods to collect information from you. We have no control over the content or privacy policy practices of those sites and encourage you to review the privacy policies of those sites before using them.
Information Access
You can access most of the personal information we hold about you and request corrections. This right is subject to some exceptions, for example, you may not obtain access to information relating to existing or anticipated legal proceedings.
You can request access to your information by emailing us at info@amaranto.co.nz or writing to us at Amaranto, 7 Wi Apo Place, 0900 Wellsford. This service is
free unless the information you request requires significant research or preparation time. Before we act upon requests of this nature, we will tell you how much this service will
cost.
Information Access
We are committed to protecting your privacy and our policies, processes and systems have been developed with this in mind. However, if you think we have made an
error, please email us at info@amaranto.co.nz or writing to us at Amaranto, 7 Wi Apo Place, 0900 Wellsford. to let us know. Where we have made an error, we
will endeavour to correct the error as soon as reasonably practicable.
Questions & Compliants
If you have a question or complaint about the way we have dealt with your personal information, please contact us by email or in writing at the addresses above. We will
endeavour to respond promptly to your question or complaint.
Privacy Breaches
We take our privacy responsibilities seriously. In the unlikely event that a suspected or actual breach of your personal data occurs, we will investigate the breach. We will notify you and the Privacy Commissioner if we reasonably believe that the breach has caused you serious harm, or is likely to cause you serious harm.
Privacy Policy Changes
We may change this policy at any time by publishing the amended policy on our website. We will endeavour to inform you of any changes to the policy by email or on the
website.