Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://prue.co.nz.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Request Appointment form

If you send us an appointment request via our Request Appointment form, we do not store any of the information you submit on the Site. Upon requesting an appointment, your name, email address (if any), mobile phone (if any), desired booking date and any comments are emailed to us to allow us to arrange an appointment for you on your behalf. Your contact information is only used to provide a means for us to communicate back to you regarding your appointment request.

Newsletter Sign-up form

If you sign-up to our newsletter via our Newsletter Sign-up form, your information is sent to our third-party email campaign tool – Mailchimp – for use transmitting newsletters (if any) to you via email.

See MailChimp’s Privacy Policy for information on how your data is used once collected by MailChimp.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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.

Analytics

We use cookies to analyze user activity via Google Analytics in order to improve our Site. For example, we can use cookies to look at patterns like the average number of views per page or how often users interact with our various web forms. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Site.

To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an Opt-out Browser add-on, which is available by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, to enable you to opt-out of Google’s programs.

Who we share your data with

For users that leave comments on our site (if any), your comment may be filtered through an automated spam prevention service. If you sign-up to our newsletter service then your information will be shared with MailChimp – an online email campaign service use by us for the sole purpose of sending you newsletter campaigns (if any) from time-to-time.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on our site or have left comments, or subscribed to our newsletter, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

For all enquiries please email us on admin@prue.co.nz and we’ll be in touch as soon as possible.

How we protect your data

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted via any part of our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. When possible, all data you provide will be encrypted using SSL encryption. Access controls within the organisation limit who may access your information.