Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are Composting New Zealand Ltd – (NZBN: 9429038245152), trading since 1996. Our website address is: https://www.compostingnz.co.nz

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our") refers to Composting New Zealand Ltd, Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, Paraparaumu, 5036, New Zealand
Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to: New Zealand
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service refers to the Website.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself.
Website refers to Composting New Zealand's websites or subdomains, accessible from https://www.compostingnz.co.nz
You means the individual accessing or using the Service.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Email Newsletter

We provide the functionality on our website for visitors to sign up to our monthly email newsletter. We collect only the data shown in the signup form, and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

We will only ever use the information you provide to us for our own marketing purposes, and we will not share any information provided with third parties.

We collect this data so that we can send you periodic email newsletters (no more than once per month, unless we have an extra special limited time offer to let you know about). These newsletters may comprise:

How-to-guides for how to use our products, and links to our blog content.
Educational content on gardening, sustainability and our ongoing involvement in community projects.
Information on seasonal opening hours
Events that we think you may be interested in
Membership or VIP options
Special offers on our products which we think you might like to know about.

Cookies

If you purchase products online at any of our e-commerce sites or leave a comment on our blog posts, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page as a returning e-commerce customer, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

We use cookies to personalise content and ads and to analyse our traffic. You consent to the use of cookies if you continue to use our website on your browsing device.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Facebook / Google Tracking

Our websites utilise tracking code from Facebook and Google, in order to allow us to better serve your needs as customers. We use these scripts to personalise content and ads that you may see on 3rd party websites and apps for our products and services. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our usage of 3rd party scripts to aid our marketing activities.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email at sales@compostingnz.co.nz.