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Privacy Policy

Text Me understands the importance of privacy to its customers. This Privacy Policy tells you what information we collect, what we do with it and your rights to view, correct or change it.  We adhere to The Privacy Act 1993, and the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007.

Collecting Information

Text Me Limited operates the website www.textme.co.nz. As part of our operations, we gather certain types of information about the users of our site.
  • Personally Identifiable Information. This is provided by you when you register for services that we offer. Examples of these services include when you register with us and create an alert. Providing this information will always be optional for you. However, some services may not be available to you if you choose not to provide it.
  • Aggregated Data. This information is generated by our systems as they track traffic through our sites. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to the personally identifiable information that you may have provided.

Sharing Information

  1. The information may be hosted with a service provider. Our agreements with them protect the information that we collect from any unauthorised use.
  2. We will use your personal information primarily to target and personalize the information we provide and make our services more rewarding for you to use. We may also use your information to contact you for account and promotional purposes or for internal purposes such as studying our customers' preferences.
  3. We will share aggregate or collective information about our customers (not the personally identifiable information) with advertisers and business partners. This information will only ever be general (ie. 1000 people or 25% of people like chocolate) - it will never identify individual users.
  4. Your personally identifiable information may be shared with third parties when we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law.
  5. Only if your prior permission has been obtained (which we would usually do at the time of collection), we may share the information with specified third parties. 

Using the Information

We have collected this information in order to provide the best possible service to you while you are visiting our site. To this end we may use the information that you provide for the following purposes:
  1. To verify your identity if you need help with a forgotten password or you are having login problems with one of our site services.
  2. To process any transactions that you might make on our site and through our services.
  3. To help provide any other services that you have requested.
  4. To offer the most relevant information suitable to you and your interests.
  5. For any marketing, promotional, publicity, marketing or market research that we or our business partners might undertake.
  6. For any other purposes for which you have given permission.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer and is recognised by our server when you visit our sites. A cookie does not provide us with any personally identifiable information. It does provide details of your IP address, the computer platform that you use (eg Mac or Windows), the browser that you use (eg Microsoft Explorer or Netscape) and what domain you are accessing our sites from. With this information we can do the following:
  1. Track traffic patterns to our site.
  2. Ensure that the most relevant content is being shown.
  3. Allow you to enter certain site member services without having to log in each time you visit.
If you would rather we did not use cookies with you, you can refuse them by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You will still be able to visit our site.

Advertisers and Business Partners

This Privacy Policy only relates to our site. You should be aware that we are not responsible for the practices of our advertisers or business partners. Our site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by Text Me. If you visit one of these linked sites, you should review their privacy and other policies. We are not responsible for the policies and practices of other companies.

Opting in and opting out

You will always have the option to opt in to certain services and to opt out of those services at any stage. This means you may change your mind at any stage about participating in any of our services.

Spam

We do not send unsolicited emails or text messages - otherwise known as spam. We only send you information which you have authorised us to send under the website's Terms and Conditions.

Limitation of Liability

Please note that the Terms and Conditions of this website contain certain limitations of liability.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
We realise that our members trust us to protect their personal information. We take that task seriously.

Changing the Policy

From time to time, it may be necessary for Text Me to change this privacy policy so we encourage you to review this page every time you visit us, for the latest information on privacy practices at Text Me.

If you have any questions about our privacy policies or any other matter, please contact us.