Privacy policy. 

Brownstone Ventures Limited values your privacy and takes great care to protect the information you provide us.

 

Collection of Personal Information

When you contact us on our website  the personal information we collect includes name, email address, and telephone/mobile number.  We may collect any further information you provide to us and any other information you send to us.

We may also collect information about your use of the website.

 

Use of Personal Information

The personal information we collect from you will be used in some or all of the following ways:

1.    To promote the products displayed on our website to you.

2.    To communicate with you with regard to any transactional business undertaken between us.

3.    To provide you with invoices and statements and collect payments from you.

4.    Send you marketing, technical data and other communications.

 

Updating Your Personal Information

You can update your personal information with us at any time by using the contact facility on the website. 

 

Security of your Personal Information

We assure you that all the personal information we collect will be safely and securely stored.  We will protect your personal information by:

a.     Storing all personal information on secure servers

b.    Restricting access to personal information

c.     Using appropriate technology products to prevent loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information 

d.    Deleting your personal information in a secure manner when it is no longer needed for our record retention purposes.

 

Disclosure of Personal Information

We place a high value on our customers and we will not share your informaion with any other organisations other than related companies and those third parties that provide delivery services for the products you have purchased from us, or to whom we are using for marketing or other communication purposes.

Where we provide your personal information to third parties for these or any other purposes, the third parties will be obligated to use the personal information only in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

We may disclose your personal information to the extent that we are required to by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

 

Cross Border Transfers

The personal information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between any of the countries that we operate in, to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on our website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.  By using our website you agree to such cross border transfers of personal information.

 

Updating This Policy

We may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on our website.  It is your responsibility to review the privacy policy.

This privacy policy is current and was posted in November 2020.

 

Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party website that we may link to on our website.

 

Collection of Computer Data

When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. Such information is typically considered non-personal information. We also collect the following:

  • Cookies

Our Website uses "Cookies" to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Website. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

  • Log Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our Website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you're headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our Users to help improve our Website.

We do not classify this data collected as personal information or use it in association with other personal information, although we may aggregate, analyse and evaluate such information to better develop or improve the services or products provided on our website.

 

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or you believe your privacy has been breached, you can contact us:

a.    By email                  enquiries@brownstone.co.nz

b.    By post                    Brownstone Ventures Limited

PO Box 29610

Riccarton

Christchurch 8440

New Zealand