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Privacy Policy
Last updated 17 January 2025
Winstone France Ltd (referred to as "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website. We respect the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you and adhere to the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020. By using our website, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy. You also consent to us collecting, storing, and using your personal information for the purposes for which you provided it.
Who we are:
Winstone France is a New Zealand registered limited liability company and our registered business name is: Winstone France Limited
We operate this website www.winfrance.co.nz and all pages within these domains.
Information We Collect and How We Use Your Information
We collect personally identifiable information from you when you:
- complete an online form
- event registration forms
- contact us enquiry form
We also collect personal information contained in any verbal or written communications between you and us, such as:
- during telephone conversations
- via email messaging
- via text messaging
The information we collect includes:
- your name
- your email address
- your telephone number(s)
- your physical address
- invoicing information
Providing some information is optional but if you choose not to provide required information, this could impact our provision of services to you.
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- communicate with you, including responding to your feedback and information provided in submission forms
- administer, evaluate and improve our site
- improve our services
- conduct administrative tasks within our business
- enable your use of the services available on our website
- send you relevant commercial communications via email and/or other messaging
- send you email notifications and our client newsletter that you have specifically requested
- send you marketing communications relating to our business, that you have specifically previously agreed to, or which we think may be of interest to you (you can opt out of these marketing communications at any time)
- deal with enquiries and complaints made in relation to our website, content, or suppliers
- for any other purpose for which you give your consent e.g. applying for a job with us
Unless you give us permission to reuse your personal information, we only hold this information for as long as it is required for the purpose for which it was provided. We then destroy or archive personal information unless we are otherwise required or authorised by law to retain the information.
We also collect non-identifiable information, when you engage with our website, such as:
- Your device ID, device type and information, geo-location information, Internet Protocol (IP) address and standard web log information. This information is manged with regular rotational purges.
- We use Google Analytics software to help measure traffic patterns to, from, and within our website. This service is used to anonymously aggregate website statistics such as number of page views, the number of visitors, time spent on our site, browser types, and common entry and exit points into and from the website. All information is aggregated by Google Analytics and provided to us to help us better understand usage of our website — no individual visitors are identified. Google Analytics is a leader in the industry and their systems have been adopted as an accepted website traffic measurement standard amongst major websites. You can learn more about Google Analytics by visiting the following links:
https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en - In addition to Google Analytics, we use other third-party email marketing tools to track how our website performs to make sure we are constantly improving our services. These third-party sources cannot identify you. All sources are secure and private and are only accessed by Winstone France Limited. These third-party marketing sources will never contact you directly or share your data for their own purposes.
Email Marketing
Currently we hold a secure account with marketing service Boma Marketing. Please see their Privacy Policy here: https://bomamarketing.com/legal/privacy-policy/
Information Sharing and Disclosure:
We do not and will never disclose any personal information you provide to us to any outside parties without your permission, unless it is necessary for us to do so in order to carry out our service to you, for example with our:
- Trusted Business Partners
- Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you.
- Software providers such as customer relationship management and accounting software
- Contractors who work with us to provide specific services
- Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or government requests.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred or disclosed as part of the transaction. We will notify you via email or prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your information.
Your personal information will only ever be disclosed to third parties here in New Zealand (or outside of New Zealand as applicable) who have agreed to treat your personal information in a manner consistent with New Zealand’s privacy laws.
Third-Party Links:
This website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites. We are not responsible for the content of such websites, or for the manner in which those websites collect, hold, use, and distribute any personal information you provide. When visiting a third party website from hyperlinks displayed on this website, we encourage you to review the privacy statements of those websites so that you can understand how the personal information you provide will be will collected, held, used and distributed.
Storage and Security of Information:
We employ all reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information. We hold your personal information digitally in secure databases operated by our third-party service providers. Any hard copies of personally identifiable information are held securely at our offices.
Access to your information within our organisation is limited to employees and contractors that are entitled to access this information as a requirement of their role.
Our website uses secure sockets layer (SSL) technology which establishes an encrypted link between our web server and a user’s web browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browser remain private. However, by using our site, you acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet, regardless of how securely we store your data.
Your Rights:
You have the right to:
- Access, update or delete your personal information we hold about you by contacting our office via phone (+64 3 339 8660) or through our website contact form
- Opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us.
To ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current, please notify us of any changes to your personal information as soon as possible.
Children's Privacy:
Our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will take steps to delete such information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy:
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update or revise this privacy policy at any time. Changes to this privacy policy will take effect immediately once published on this website. Please check this privacy policy regularly for modifications and updates. If you continue to use this website or if you provide any personal information after we post changes to this privacy policy, this will indicate your acceptance of any such changes.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact our office via phone (+64 3 339 8660) or through our website contact form.
