PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
Northern United Hockey Club Incorporated (we, us, our) complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 when dealing with personal information.
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person), and includes personal data, personally identifiable information and equivalent information under applicable privacy and data protection laws.
This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993. For further information on the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993, see www.privacy.org.nz.
This policy was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of our collection and use of personal information. We are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any request for further information should be sent to president@northernunited.co.nz.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may change this policy by uploading a revised policy onto our website. The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy.
This policy was last updated on 1 January 2019.
WHEN DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY
This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information when you visit and use our website and related services, purchase products or services from us, or otherwise deal with us.
CHILDREN
We may collect personal information from or about children aged under 16 if they use our website.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT
Directly from you
We collect the following information directly from you.
When you fill in a contact or enquiry form on our website, call us, meet us in person or otherwise contact us, we collect your name, email address and any other information you choose to provide to us.
When you sign up to our newsletter and other electronic alerts, we collect your name, email address and any other information you provide to us when you ask to receive our newsletter or other alerts.
Some of the personal information that we collect directly from you may be mandatory and some may be optional. We will let you know which of these applies at the time we collect the relevant personal information. While you do not have to provide us with some of the information that we may request, this might mean that our products and services may not perform as well as they should, or that we may not be able to provide some parts of the website or all of our products or services to you. If you require further information about the consequences of not providing us with any information, please contact us at president@northernunited.co.nz.
We use a third party service provider to process credit card transactions. We do not have access to your credit card information. The name of this third party provider will generally be displayed when you are requested to enter your credit card information. You can see further information about how they process your credit card information in their privacy policy.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use your personal information to:
provide our website, products and services to you
market our products and services to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose)
bill you and collect money that you owe us, including authorising and processing credit card transactions
respond to communications from you, including enquiries and complaints
protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to comply with law enforcement requirements, or
for any other purpose authorised by you or applicable law.
You can stop receiving our marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in those emails or contacting us at president@northernunited.co.nz.
DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to:
Our Executive Members
Wellington Hockey Association Inc and Hockey New Zealand Inc
a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a law enforcement agency or regulatory authority)
any other person with your consent
any other person authorised by applicable law.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Businesses that supports our website, products and services may be located outside of New Zealand (the country where we are incorporated) and also outside of the country where you are located. This means that the personal information we collect may be transferred to, and stored in, a country outside of New Zealand and the country where you are located.
PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
As required by applicable law, we will take steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse. We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risks inherent in processing personal information.
You play an important role in keeping your personal information secure by maintaining the confidentiality of any password and accounts used in relation to our products and services. You should not disclose your password to third parties. Please notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your account or any other breach of security.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Subject to certain grounds for refusal under applicable law, you have the right to access your 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.
Where you request a correction, if we think the correction is reasonable and we are reasonably able to change your personal information, we will make the correction. In all other cases, we will take reasonable steps to make a note of the personal information that was the subject of your correction request.
If you want to exercise either of the above rights, email us at president@northernunited.co.nz. Your email should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request (e.g. the personal information to be corrected and the correction that you are requesting).
Subject to applicable law, we may charge you our reasonable costs of providing to you copies of your personal information or correcting that information.
INTERNET USE
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.
If you follow a link on our website to another website, the owner of that website will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We suggest you review that website’s privacy policy before you provide personal information to that owner or website.
DATA RETENTION POLICY
The personal information that we collect and use will not be kept longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is collected, or for the duration required for compliance with applicable law, whichever is longer.
CONTACTING US
If you have any question about this privacy policy, or our privacy practices, or if you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, you can contact us at president@northernunited.co.nz or write to us at:
Northern United Hockey Club Inc
PO Box 1030
WELLINGTON 6140
COOKIE POLICY
INTRODUCTION
We use cookies on our website and as part of our related services, and receive information collected through cookies. This cookie policy explains how we use cookies and how you can opt out of cookies.
By continuing to use our website and related services, you indicate your agreement for us to use the cookies described below.
We use the term cookies in this cookie policy to mean cookies or similar technologies such as web beacons, clear GIFs, and pixel tags.
WHAT ARE COOKIES
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your browsing device, e.g. a computer or smartphone, when you visit a website. Cookies can be recognised by the website that downloaded them, or by other websites that use the same cookies. This helps a website know if the browsing device has visited that or other websites before.
Cookies can be used to collect information relating to your use of a website or your device, let you navigate between pages effectively, help to remember your preferences and generally improve your browsing experience.
Cookies can be session or persistent cookies. Session cookies are temporary and only stay on your browser until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your device until they expire or are deleted.
The cookies used on our website may be first party cookies (i.e. set by us) or third party cookies (i.e. cookies set on our website by a person other than us). The third party companies that place cookies on our website will have their own privacy policies.
WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE
The types of cookies used by us, and most websites, can generally be categorised as follows.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. e.g. these cookies allow us to remember the settings you have applied to the website (such as font size, preferences or colours), identify whether you are a returning website visitor and present you with a personalised version of the website, or eliminate the need for you to re-enter your login details. The information these cookies collect is generally anonymous and they do not track your browsing activity on other websites. These cookies may be first or third party, session or persistent cookies.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use a website, e.g. which pages are the most visited and if you receive any error message from any page. This information helps us improve the way our website and related services work and helps us manage the performance and design of the website and services. These cookies do not gather information that identifies you. All of the information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. These cookies may be first or third party, session or persistent cookies.
GOOGLE COOKIES
We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitors to our website. Google Analytics collects information related to your device, browser, IP address, network location, and website activities to measure and report statistics about your interactions on our website. We use this information to help us manage the performance and design of our website and to improve our website.
HOW TO CONTROL OR OPT OUT OF COOKIES
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However, if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and attempt use our services, you may not be able to access certain parts of our website or services, and some functionalities may not work.
You can find out more information about how to change your browser cookie settings at http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk.
To learn more about how to control cookie settings through your browser:
click here to learn more about the Private Browsing setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox
click here to learn more about Incognito and managing cookie settings in Chrome
click here to learn more about InPrivate and managing cookie settings in Internet Explorer
click here to learn more about Private Browsing and managing cookie settings in Safari.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITE COOKIES
If you follow a link on our website to another website, the owner of that website will have its own cookies. We suggest you review that website’s cookie policy before you visit that website.