Updated: 22 April 2020
Vector Limited and its related entities (we, our, us) is committed to protecting our customers' personal information. We have created this privacy policy to help you understand how we collect, use and protect your information when you visit our websites and use our products and services.
This privacy policy covers the following topics:
This Statement is provided for your information and doesn't limit or exclude your rights under the Privacy Act 1993.
1. What information does Vector collect?
We collect information relating to you that you have provided to us (for
example, on a services application or registration form, through the
way you use our products and services, when your details are recorded in
a visitor or site log, when you enter a competition or promotion, or
that we may have obtained from another source (such as from our field
service providers and contractors)).
The information may include your name, address, telephone number(s), email address, information on how you use our products and services, and anything we need to provide these products or services to you. We may also monitor and record your calls to us and our calls to you.
We collect personal information about you when:
2. How does Vector use your information?
The information that we collect from you may be used by us for a number of purposes connected with our business such as:
CCTV footage specifically may be used for the following purposes:
3. Sharing your information
There may be times when we need to disclose your personal information to
third parties. You authorise us to disclose your information to:
Otherwise, we will only disclose your personal information without your consent if doing so is:
4. Protecting your personal information
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal
information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up to
date and stored in a secure environment protected from unauthorised
access, modification or disclosure.
CCTV footage will usually be retained for a period of 30 days, after which time it will be deleted.
Site and Visitor logs will usually be retained for a period of 2 months, after which time they will be deleted.
5. Accessing and updating your personal information
You may request access to the personal information we hold about you by sending an email to privacy@vector.co.nz.
Please quote your name and address. We would be grateful if you could
also provide brief details of what information you want a copy of (this
helps us to more readily locate your data).
In some cases, there may be a charge associated with providing copies of your personal information to you. If so, we will advise you of this prior to sending your information to you.
We will not be able to provide your personal information if we do not know or don't have reasonable grounds to believe it is personal information about you or if disclosing the information would involve the unwarranted disclosure of the affairs of another individual.
You can request correction or amendment of the information held by us at any time and as often as necessary by sending us an email to privacy@vector.co.nz and specifying the information that you require changed. If it is reasonable in the circumstances for us to do so, we will make the requested change or correction, otherwise we'll take reasonable steps to mark that information as having been subject to a change or correction request.
We will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also, if you are using the internet, remember to sign out of your account and close your browser window when you have finished. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
6. Internet use
We make every effort to maintain the security of our internet
connections; however for reasons outside of our control, security risks
may still arise. Any personal information transmitted to us or from our
online products or services will therefore be at your own risk, however
we will use our best efforts to ensure that any such information remains
secure.
We may use cookies and other interactive techniques such as web beacons to collect information about how you interact with our website, and web-related products and services, to:
We also collect IP addresses. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. We collect and manage IP addresses as part of the service of providing internet session management and for security purposes.
We may use a persistent cookie to record details such as a unique user identity and general registration details on your PC. This helps us recognise you on subsequent visits to this website so that you don't have to re-enter your registration details each time you visit us and allows us to carry out the activities mentioned above.
Most browser technology (such as Internet Explorer, Chrome etc) allows you to choose whether to accept cookies or not – you can either refuse all cookies or you can set your browser to alert you each time that a website tries to set a cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to access our sites, but you may need them for customisable areas of the site that we may develop in the future, or to access and benefit from certain functionality offered by the site.
7. Destruction of your information
We take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is
appropriately disposed of once it is no longer needed for the purpose
for which it was collected.
8. Changes to our privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time and we will tell you
about a change in the policy by posting an updated policy on our
website. Any change we make applies from the date we post it on the
website.