Privacy Policy

Last reviewed November 2019

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices of Downs Distributors Limited and its related companies Our Privacy Policy explains:

• What information we collect, who we collect it from and why we collect it;
• How we use that information;
• The circumstances in which we may disclose that information to others; and

Your choices in relation to your information, including how you can access and correct that information.

Information Downs Distributors collects

We collect the following information about you:

• Information you give us: We collect personal information about you when you register for events, subscribe to our newsletters or mailing lists, enter Downs Distributors promotions or surveys. We also collect personal information about you when you purchase our products and services and otherwise communicate with us. This personal information may include your name, contact details, email address, place of work, position and other details necessary for us to provide the information or services you have requested.
• Information you authorise others to give us: When you inquire about or purchase products and services from us, we may ask for your consent to collect information about you from others (for example, to undertake credit checks, obtain references or to co-operate with your other service providers or suppliers). In these instances, we may collect information about you from the sources that you have authorised, such as credit rating agencies, service providers and referees.
• Information from your use of our services: We record information about how you use and interact with our services, for example how, when, where and how often you use our products and services. We also maintain records of your communications with our customer support team and other staff, including phone calls and e-mails.
• Information from your use of our website: We receive information when you interact with and use our website. We use server logs and different Web analytic tools to help us record this information (including ‘cookies’, ‘pixel tags’ and other anonymous identifiers). These tools may gather information such as what browser and operating system you use, the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our website, search terms, your location and what content, products and services are viewed when visiting or registering for services on our website.
  
  We also use third party service providers (for example, Google) to help us track the effectiveness of our website, generate visitor traffic and to display targeted advertising. These advertisements may collect anonymous information about your visits to the website on which such advertisement is placed, your interaction with these ads and the products and services offered by us and others through the use of a cookie (such as a Google Analytics or Double Click cookie) pixel tag or other web technologies. We, Google and other selected marketing organisations and may use this anonymous information to inform, optimise and provide targeted advertisements to you.

Our website may also contain links and advertisements which link to third party websites. We have no control over the privacy policies of such third parties and we encourage you to review such policies prior to providing any information to or purchasing goods or services from such third parties.

 How Downs Distributors uses information collected

We use the personal information collected by us for the following purposes:

• providing you with information, products or services that you have requested;
• verifying that existing information we hold about you is accurate and complete;
• maintaining and improving our services and website, training our staff and monitoring use of our website and services;
• confirming your identify, controlling unauthorised use or abuse of our services and verifying compliance with applicable laws;
• undertaking credit checks, invoicing and authorising and processing credit card transactions;
• assisting us in performing our obligations or enforcing our rights under any agreement we may have entered into with you;
• communicating with you to inform you about our services, letting you know about upcoming changes, improvements or new products and services you may be interested in;
• to undertake any other promotional activities where you have consented to such promotional activities;
• providing you with effective customer service and otherwise helping to solve any issues or problems you may have with our services or website; and
• for the purposes identified in any specific supplemental privacy notice posted on the page or area of our website where you provided that information.

We will ask for your consent before using personal information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may use anonymous or ‘non-personally identifiable’ information:

• to personalise and support your use of our website, our services, and/or the services of our customers;
• to improve our website, the customer experience, our marketing systems, and our products and services;
• to identify actions or transactions that originate through an affiliate marketing or supporter referral program;
• to deliver targeted advertisements on our website and other third party websites;
• to provide reporting to our current and prospective service providers; and
• for other historical, statistical or research and analysis purposes.

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you have subsequently consented), for other legitimate purposes (such as regulatory compliance) and as permitted or required by applicable laws.

Information Downs Distributors shares

Ensuring and respecting your privacy is important to us. We do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your personal information with third parties unless one of the following circumstances apply:

• With your consent: We may share personal information with third parties when we have your express consent to do so.
• With your employer: If your employer is our customer and your interactions with us or use of our services is in the course of your employment, your employer will have access to the information you have provided to us (including records of communications, login information, where applicable and other data).
• With our contractors and service providers: We sometimes engage other trusted businesses and persons to provide services and perform functions on our behalf (for example, content specialists and credit card providers). We may provide such persons with access to personal information needed to perform their functions, based on our instructions and in accordance with appropriate security and confidentiality measures.
• Jointly provided services: In some cases we may provide services jointly with other businesses or organisations. For such ‘co-branded’ offerings in which a third party is involved, we may share or jointly collect customer information with that third party. In such cases we will make it clear at the outset who is collecting or receiving the information and whose privacy statement governs its use.
• For legal purposes: We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect or enforce our rights, to protect against harm or the rights, property or safety of others or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on us.

Also, in the event that Downs Distributors or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, our customer information will be one of the transferred assets. In that case, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and will give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Occasionally we may send information or offers to you on behalf of other organisations or businesses. When we do this however, we do not share your personal information with those other organisations or businesses.

We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our contractors, service providers and other third parties such as marketing, search and research organisations, for example, Google.

Your information choices

You may set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our website or services, or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. If you set your browser to reject all cookies however, you may not be able to use all of the features and functionalities of our website or our services.

Accessing and correcting Personal Information

You have a right to access, and ask us to correct or delete any inaccurate personal information we may hold about you. If you would like to review or correct your personal information, please contact us using the details at the bottom of this Privacy Policy:

If you contact us we may, for your protection, ask you for additional information to verify your identity. We will use all reasonable efforts to provide the access you request within 10 working days and will correct or delete any inaccurate personal information you discover unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes.

Please be aware that even after your request for a change or deletion of information is processed, we may keep a copy of the information that you originally provided to us in our archives for uses documented in this Privacy Policy and may for a time, retain residual information about you in backup and/or archival copies of our databases.

Changes

577. may occasionally change our Privacy Policy. These changes may reflect, among other things, changes in applicable laws or regulations, changes to our data collection practices, and/or changes to our business or services

We will post any updated policy on this page and if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice on our home page. You can tell if the privacy policy has been changed by checking the revision date that appears at the top of this policy.

Using our services or website after a notice of the changes has been published on our website shall constitute your consent to the changed terms or practices. We therefore encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

How to contact us

Downs Distributors welcomes your feedback about our Privacy Policy. Please send your questions, concerns or comments regarding our Privacy Policy and your requests for access to your personal information:

• By postal mail addressed to us at, Downs Distributors, PO Box 302041, North Harbour, Auckland 0751, New Zealand; or
• By email to: sales@downs.co.nz