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Privacy Policy:

We respect your right to privacy.

We collect and store information about individuals as detailed below, in the course of operating our business.

We do not sell or supply information about individuals, or for that matter any of our customers, to any other parties, for any reason (other than the specific events detailed in 3. below).

If you are concerned about the supply of information to us, or our potential use of such information, please communicate with us first to privacy@prezzies.co.nz

1. If you purchase prezzies.co.nz goods or services then we collect and store the following information for the purposes of:
* being able to provide you with goods and services; and
* protecting our intellectual property rights and those of our licensors; and
* maintaining our accounting and credit records; and
* communicating with you on matters to do with your purchase; and
* communicating with you generally (if you have asked to be kept informed).

a) Your full name, physical address, telephone number and email address.

b) The name, physical address, and contact phone number of the recipient of the goods or services you have purchased.

c) The details of the product(s), service(s) that you have purchased.

g) The date of purchase and any details relevant to payment.

h) The Internet Service Provider and/or IP address used by you to conect to prezzies.co.nz.

2. The above information is stored in our databases and in our accounting system.

3. We do not provide access to your details to any other party, except in the following instances which you authorize us to do as part of the terms under which we are prepared to do business with you:

a) When we seek credit references from credit agencies, or instruct debt collection agencies to recover monies you owe us.

b) When we detect a breach of our copyright or fraud, or the theft of our property, or unlawful activity against or upon our site, and instruct our legal representatives or lay a complaint with law enforcement agencies or the software industry association.

c) When required under NZ Law to disclose personal information held by us.

4. Credit Card Transactions. If you pay by Credit Card, and provide your credit card details on-line, those details are entered by you through a secure page (https) and they are not received on-line at the time of transmission by prezzies.co.nz or any of its employees. Nor (for your security) are your credit card details accessible by prezzies.co.nz at the time you input them. Your credit card details are not stored electronically by prezzies.co.nz - they are used to complete the transaction, then deleted from the secure recorder. A paper-based copy of your credit card details is maintaned by prezzies.co.nz for the period of time specified by our bankers.

6. If you send us an on-line or off-line query, which includes personal information about you, we will hold such information in a database or in paper records for the period of time that the query remains "live" after which time we will either move the information to our customer database (if you become a customer) or delete the information.

7. Access to Personal Information: If you are a private individual about whom we hold personal information you may request a copy of that information from us and we will supply such information subject to the information being readily retrievable.

8. Correction of Personal Information: In you are a private individual to whom we disclose information that we hold about you, and you believe that some or all of that information is incorrect, then we will, in the face of evidence to our satisfaction, correct that information OR in the absence of such evidence - record with that information details of your disagreement with the accuracy of the information.

Security:

Online Credit Card details:

Your credit card details are NOT stored electronically on the prezzies.co.nz web server, or on any computer systems operated by us.

When you enter your credit card details to complete a purchase, you are connected to a purpose-built secure page operating under https which encrypts your information. The secure page we use carries a Thawte Authentication Certificate.

Your credit card details are stored on the secure server only until the transaction is completed by us, then they are deleted.

Storage of Credit Card details:

We physically store paper-based details of your credit card and transaction in a locked cabinet for the period of time that our bank (credit card merchant service supplier) requires. This information is only accessible to prezzies.co.nz staff who are responsible for product ordering, shipping, and accounting.

Fax or Phone Options:

If you do not wish to provide your credit card details on-line, you may fax us your details (by downloading and completing the fax order form avaialble in our shopping cart), or telephone the details during business working hours (NZ time). Security and storage of information supplied by fax and phone is the same as detasiled above.