Privacy Summary
Fear Factory respects the privacy of its customers.
This Privacy Policy explains how we (Fear Factory and any of our subsidiary companies) collect and use your personal information.
For the purposes of applicable privacy legislation, the “Data Controller” in respect of your personal information is Fear Factory.
Personal information is any piece of information that relates to a living individual (natural person) who can be identified, directly or indirectly.
You authorize Fear Factory and its subsidiaries to collect, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and also to the extent not prohibited by applicable privacy legislation.
We will collect the personal information you provide us and we may also collect personal information online from your computer, mobile or other device.
You may have rights under privacy legislation to access, delete and correct the personal information we hold about you. If you would like to access or correct your personal information, or if you have any questions or complaints in relation to privacy, please contact us. If we decide to refuse your request for correction of your personal information, we will notify you of our decision in writing, if required by law.
1. The personal information we collect about you
Fear Factory Wellington operates the website fearfactory.co.nz as part of our operations we may gather certain types of information about the users of our sites:
• Personally Identifiable Information. This is provided by you when you register for services that we may offer. Examples of these services could include email newsletters or competitions. Providing this information will always be optional for you. However, some services may not be available to you if you chose 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.
• Google shows our ads on sites on the internet and use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.
2. What else do we do with personally identifiable information?
We have collected this information in order to provide the best possible service to you while you are visiting our sites. To this end we may use the information that you provide for the following purposes:
• To process any transactions that you might make on our site. To help provide any other services that you have requested.
• To offer the most relevant information suitable to your and your interests.
• For any marketing, promotional, publicity, direct marketing or market research that we might undertake.
• For any other purposes for which you have given permission.
3. Your obligations regarding the information you provide us about others
If you provide us with personal information about another person (for example a spouse, relative or travelling companion) then you are responsible for ensuring you have authority to do so and that the person consents to our use of their information as set out in this Privacy Policy, making that person aware that you have disclosed their personal information to us and that we will use their personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
4. Access to and correction of your personal information
Under applicable privacy legislation, you may have rights to access, delete and correct the personal information held by us. You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you by contacting us. If we refuse access, or if we decide not to make the corrections or deletions you request, we will provide you with a written notice which sets out the reasons for the refusal, if required by law. We reserve the right, however, to deny or limit access or amendments to your personal information where we are entitled by law to do so (for example, where complying with the request could prejudice the prevention or detection of crime).
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5. Security
We take care with our physical, technical, organizational and electronic security to protect your personal information against loss, damage, misuse, unauthorized access, erroneous disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
As part of our security measures, we use secure servers and industry standard data encryption for transmission of personal information on Fear Factory websites, for example when you pay by credit card online. Known as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol, you can check this is active by looking for the padlock symbol on many browsers. SSL allows a secure connection between your internet browser and our internet server, using a private (or secret) key to encrypt the information.
You are responsible for ensuring the security of the personal information held on your computer, mobile or other device.
6. Links to other websites
The Fear Factory website provide links to other websites for your ease and convenience. These websites may have different security standards and privacy policies. We recommend that you read the privacy policies for these websites before deciding whether to divulge information to these websites. We are not responsible for the information you choose to divulge to these websites.
7. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the Privacy Policy on our websites. We will also specify the date of the last update.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 24th September 2019.