This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used and shared when you visit or sign up for information from www.brandscience.co.nz (“the Site”).

Personal Information We Collect

When you visit this site we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site and information about how you interact with the site. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information”.

When you request that we contact you or when you sign up for information through the Site, we collect certain information from you including your name, email address and phone number. We refer to this information as “Contact Information.”

The term “Personal Information” in this policy refers to both Device Information and Contact Information.

How do we use your Personal Information?

We use this Personal Information to:

Communicate with you; and

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

Providing Personal Information is optional. If you choose not to enter your Contact Information we will be unable to provide more information about our services.

We use Device Information to improve or optimise the Site, for example by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site.

Sharing your Personal Information

We will share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Contact Information as described above, for example for sending newsletters.

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Your Rights

You have the right to ask for any Personal Information we hold about you and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us through the contact information below.

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally if you are a European resident please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Data Retention

When you sign up for information through the site, we will maintain your Contact Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Minors

This Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 years old.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at hello@brandscience.co.nz.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner provides further details of the New Zealand Privacy Act and how it protects personal information in New Zealand.