The New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute (Te Puia) is committed to ensuring the privacy of individual information. This information can be personally identifiable information or aggregated information. This Privacy Policy (Policy) tells you about the collection, use, disclosure, security and accessibility of information.

Collection of Information

Te Puia operates the website www.tepuia.com and collects information about online customers and other website users including:

1. Personal information provided voluntarily through e-mail reservations, website reservations and sales, telephone, fax, application forms, questionnaires, competitions, customer feedback forms, correspondence or contact in person.
2. Aggregated data which includes measuring traffic, referring sites, origin of users and traffic patterns to our websites. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to the personally identifiable information that you may have provided.

Use of Personal Information

Te Puia collects this information in order to provide the best possible service to you while you are visiting our sites. The information that you provide may be used for the following purposes:

1. To verify your identity and process any transactions that you might make on our site.
2. To inform or offer the most relevant information suitable to you and your interests.
3. For any marketing, internal or market research, promotional, publicity, or direct marketing that we might undertake.
4. For any other purposes that you authorise.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Te Puia will not sell, or allow third parties access to your information without your authorisation except where it is required by law.

Security

Te Puia takes reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is secure and protects that information from misuse or loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Please note however that total security of data transmission over the internet cannot be guaranteed as being completely secure. Hence, we cannot guarantee and we do not warrant the security of information transmitted to us over the internet and you acknowledge that you do so at your own risk.

Access to information

You may request Te Puia to access and make corrections to your information at any time. If you believe that your information has been compromised in any way, please contact us immediately.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that resides on your computer’s hard disk and is recognised by our server when you visit our site. A cookie cannot read your hard drive or perform any commands on your computer. It does not contain any of your personal identifiable information. You may configure your web browser to not accept cookies however you may experience a loss of functionality as a result.

Te Puia may use the information collected by cookies to:

• Track website traffic patterns
• Ensure to display the most relevant content based on the information we collect when you visit our websites.
• Allow you to use certain services on our websites

Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. A notice will be placed on the Te Puia home page of any material changes to this policy.

Contact Details

If you have any questions about this policy please contact us at:

Te Puia
Hemo Road
P O Box 334
Rotorua
New Zealand

This policy was last updated: June 2009.

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