Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
SIP Distilling Co. (we, us, our) complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when dealing with personal information.
This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.
This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act.
If you wish to seek further information on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz.
COOKIES
Our website uses anonymous “cookies” to allow customers to purchase from our website and to track customers’ usage of our website. These “cookies” do not contain or transmit any personal, confidential or financial information that could be used to identify individual customers purchasing from our website. All visitors to our website are free to refuse the use of “cookies”, however due to technical reasons this may prevent customers from being able to make purchases from our website. Using “cookies” ensures that the items added to, or removed from, customers’ online baskets are accurately stated when customers proceed to payment. We also use cookies if you have consented to the use of cookies and when you have accepted that you are above the minimum age to visit the website.
PAYMENTS & PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our website uses Payfast to process any financial transactions when customers purchase from our online shop. SIP Distilling Co. has no access to your financial data and account information, as every transaction is processed and managed by PayFast.
We will use your personal information:
- to verify your identity
- to provide services and products to you including processing payment transactions.
- to market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose)
- to conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis)
- to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
- for any other purpose authorised by you or the Act.
We may disclose your personal information to:
- another company within our group
- any business that supports our services and products, including any person that hosts or maintains any underlying IT system or data centre that we use to provide the website or other services and products
- other third parties (for anonymised statistical information)
- a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority)
- any other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement agency)
- any other person authorised by you.
We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.
You have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold and to request a correction to your personal information. Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates.
While we take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.