Data Privacy Terms and Conditions

Data Privacy Terms and Conditions

We are committed to protect the privacy of our website visitors and we will only collect, record, store, process, and use your personal information in accordance with The Privacy Act 2020 and other pertinent laws. The outline below provides for the manner by which we manage the personal information that we will obtain from you if you visit our website.

Collection of Personal Information
We primary collect your name & email address as required by our form when you contact us through our website. Aside from these, we also obtain the following information:
Your computer and your visits to and use of this website, which includes your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
Those which you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters;
Those that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use;
Those that relate to any communication that you send to us or send through our website which includes the communication content and metadata associated with the communication; and
Any other personal or official matters which you choose to send to us.
We will only collect your personal information if you voluntarily submit your information to us. If you choose not to submit your personal information to us or subsequently withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information, we may not be able to adequately respond to your inquiries or avail of our services.
If you provide personal information of any third party to us, we assume that you have obtained the required consent from the relevant third party to both the disclosure and the processing of his/her personal information in accordance with this policy.

Purpose of Collecting Your Personal Information
We mainly use your personal information to provide clear and competent responses to your inquiries with regard to the services that we offer. In relation thereto, we may use your personal information to:
–  Administering, evaluating and improving our website and business;
–  Enable your use of the services available on our website;
–  Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, collect payments from you;
–  Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
–  Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
–  Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
–  Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
–  Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
–  Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service; and
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

Security of Personal Information
We will implement reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, destruction, misuse or alteration of your personal information. To ensure utmost protection of your personal information, we will store the same on our secured services. However, we cannot guarantee that data sent over the internet will be fully secured considering that the transmission of information online is inherently insecure.

Your rights
Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to access and ask us to correct any personal information you have provided to us.
Contact us if:
–  You would like to access or change your personal information Maarte Catering has stored
–  You have any concerns regarding your privacy.
Maarte Catering may require proof of your identity before being able to provide you with any personal information.

Cookies
The site may use cookies to optimize user experience. A cookie is a small text file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Some internet browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. However, blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. It is recommended that you check this page occasionally to ensure that you are amenable to any changes made in this policy. We may also notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

Contact Us
If you wish to withdraw your consent to our use of your personal information or if you have any comments, suggestions or complaints, you may contact us at info@maartecatering.nz