Privacy Act

 

This Privacy Policy describes how Johnsons and Allens Limited collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, make a purchase from www.johnsonallens.co.nz, or otherwise communicate with us.

Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

How we communicate with you

If you have opted-in to receiving promotional information from Johnsons and Allens, from time to time, we may email you information about products and services which may be of interest to you. If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you may opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send to you.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

  • Communicate with you.

  • Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal, or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe.

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

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our Site and use our Services.

a)    Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

  • Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, and email.

  • Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.

  • Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart, or add to your wish list.

  • Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services.

 

Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

b)    Information We Obtain from Third Parties

We may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:

  • Our payment processors, who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services you have requested, in order to perform our contract with you.

  • When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated under this Privacy Policy act. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party's policies or practices. For more information, see the section below, Third Party Websites and Links.

 

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g. payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfilment and shipping).

  • When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.

  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.

  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others. 

User Generated Content

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user-generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible to anyone.

We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.

Third-Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Security and Retention of Your Information

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorized access to your personal information.

Your Rights and Choices

These rights are not absolute and may apply only in certain circumstances, and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to how we use and share your information.

  • Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete the personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct the inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.

  • Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.

  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.

  • Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.

  • Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

 

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.

Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please email us at johnsonandallen.nz@gmail.com.