Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

 INFORMATION ABOUT US

1. The website www.megachoice.nz (“Our Website”) is operated by Mega Choice Limited (“We” or “Us”). We are a limited liability company registered in New Zealand under company number 9429030954090.
2. We are located in New Zealand ship orders domestically within New Zealand, and not internationally currently.
3. Our websites may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of any third party websites. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of each website you visit.

 INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

1. We understand that you care about how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
2. We may collect and process the following data about you:
   1. Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on Our website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, chat, via surveys or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use Our Website, subscribe to any of our services, search for a product or service, place an order or enter into any financial transactions through Our Website, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on Our Website, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with Our Website. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.
   2. Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to Our Website we may automatically collect the following information:
      1. Technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
      2. Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from Our Website (including date and time details); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, traffic data, location data and any other communications data, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
      3. Customer activity data is shared using Facebook Pixel, advanced matching and Conversions API. Customers can disconnect this data from their Facebook account by changing their settings for Off Facebook Activity.
   3. Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), or if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide, and we may combine that information with other information we receive from or about you. We may also receive information about you from third-party social networking services when you choose to connect with those services. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

 COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies to assist us with providing you with an optimal experience and also to help improve and secure Our Website (and your information). 

 

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

 Information you give to us. We will use this information:

1. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
2. To provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
3. To provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may be of interest to you.
4. To notify you about changes to our service; and/or
5. To ensure that content from Our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

 Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

1. to administer Our Website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
2. to improve Our Website to ensure that our content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
3. to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
4. as part of our efforts to keep Our Website safe and secure;
5. to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of Our Website about goods or services that may interest you or them.
6. Facebook Pixel, a third-party cookie that collects and shares customers’ browsing behavior on your online store. Browser-based ad blockers can prevent the pixel from collecting data.

 Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

 YOUR RIGHTS

1. You can always choose not to provide us with any information, or to disable Cookies (as discussed in our Cookies Policy), though this may affect your ability to access or use Our Website or any particular features of it, and we may not be able to process transactions with you.
2. Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

1. In New Zealand The Privacy Act 1993 (“Act”) gives you the right to access information held about you by us. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of $50 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you and we will make best efforts to complete within 5 working days.
2. We take steps reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that the personal information that we collect, use and disclose is accurate, up to date and complete. Where an individual requests to correct information, we will take reasonable steps to correct the information, having regard to the purpose for which it is held.

 CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Our Privacy Policy (and other Terms and Conditions) will change from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. You should check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy as they will take effect from the date posted on Our Website. We stand by our promises regarding your information, however, and will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of your information which we have already collected in the past without your consent.

 

HOW WE RESPOND TO ‘DO NOT TRACK' SIGNAL

As noted in our Cookies Policy, you can change settings on your device or browser to disable the use of Cookies and the other similar technologies we use.

If we receive a “Do not Track” Signal from you, we will cease to use all cookies other than “strictly necessary cookies” which apply to any features of Our website or services we offer. You will then be advised whether any feature of Our website which you attempt to use or access will not correctly operate without additional tracking or cookies being enabled for any reason.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN

Our Website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old or older. If you are under 18 years of age, you may only use Our Website with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to megachoice.online@outlook.com

 

Cookies Policy

1.   INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

1. Our website (“Website”) and any mobile applications (“Apps”) we provide use technologies like cookies, pixel tags, device or other identifiers and local storage (collectively described as “Cookies”) to distinguish you from other users of our Website or Apps. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website, and also allows us to improve and secure our site. Third parties that you interact with as you use our Services may also use these technologies for a variety of purposes.
2. This policy may change from time to time. We recommend you check back here from time to time to get the latest information about these technologies and how they are used.
3. Your browser or device may offer settings related to these technologies. For more information about whether these settings are available, what they do, and how they work, visit your browser or device's help material. We may not recognize or respond to browser or device signals around tracking, and some settings may interfere with your use of features we offer. Additionally, the settings offered by a browser or device often only apply to that particular browser or device.
4. Cookies are small files that are placed on your browser or device by the website or app that you're using or ad that you're viewing. Pixel tags (also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels) are small blocks of code on a webpage or app that allow them to do things like read and place other cookies and transmit information to us or our partners. The resulting connection can include information such as a device's IP address, the time a person viewed the pixel, an identifier associated with the browser or device and the type of browser being used. Local storage is a technology that allows a website or app to store and retrieve data on a person's computer, mobile phone or other device. Some examples include device or HTML5 local storage and caching.
5. We use the following types of Cookies:
   1. “Persistent”– stored on your computer or device, and used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This assists with our security services, and also enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your region) and provide personalised features such as start page, or deliver ads that are relevant to you.
   2. “Session” – temporarily stored in your computer or device's memory, and used as an integral part of the identification process for our services. This is for security purposes to determine that you are who you say you are and to provide you with your confidential account information during a session. No personal information is kept in the Cookie and the cookie is not written to your hard drive. When you log out of your session the Cookie is no longer valid and is discarded when you close your browser.
6. The Cookies we use may be categorised as:
   1. “Essential”. These are Cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, authentication Cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. For example, they help protect your account from being accessed by anyone other than you, and let us know when several people have logged in from the same computer. With login approvals if someone logs into your account from a browser you've never used before, we may block them and ask for more information. They also help us implement login notifications, so you can be alerted when your account is accessed and disable any active sessions.
   2. “Analytical/performance”. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website and Apps when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our Website and Apps work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
   3. “Functionality”. These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website and/or Apps. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your region). For example, we may store information in a Cookie that is placed on your browser or device so you will see the site in your preferred language.
   4. “Targeting”. These record your visit to our Website or Apps, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website, Apps and the advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose but will never share any information which enables you to be identified.
7. By continuing to browse or use our Website or Apps, you are agreeing to our use of Cookies, but note that you can block these by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse Cookies. Please note however that:
   1. if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including “essential” ones) you may not be able to access all parts or features of our Website or Apps, or they may operate more slowly or require re-entry of data already entered on other occasions.
   2. We still use some Cookies if you don't have an account or have logged out of your account. For example, if you have logged out of your account we use Cookies to help:
      1. Identify and disable the accounts of spammers;
      2. Recover your account if you ever lose access to it;
      3. Provide extra security features like login notifications and login approvals;
      4. Prevent people who are underage from signing up with a false birth date;
      5. Identify public computers so that we can discourage people from using ‘Keep me logged in' and putting their account at risk; and
      6. Generate insights about the people who interact with our Website and/or Apps, any services we provide, and the websites of our advertisers and partners.
   3. Third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use Cookies, over which we have no control. These are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting Cookies.
   4. Facebook Pixel, a third-party cookie that collects and shares customers’ browsing behavior on your online store. Browser-based ad blockers can prevent the pixel from collecting data.
8. Except for Essential Cookies, all Cookies we use will expire after they are no longer required for their original purpose.