Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how thegar.icu in New Zealand ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.

Purposes of Processing

What is personal information?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as described in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information that, either alone or in conjunction with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.

Why do we need your personal information?

We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to offer you access to the Site. If you registered with us, you would have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information so as to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This consent provides us with the legal foundation we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't consent to our use of your personal data in line with this Policy, please don't use our Site.

Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

The personal data you provide when you register to use our Site, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username, password and demographic information (such as your gender);
the personal data that may be contained in any movie, remark or other entries you upload or post to the Site.
The personal data you supply in connection with our benefits program and other promotions we run on the Site.
The personal data you supply when you report a problem with our Site or when we offer you customer support.
the personal data you provide when you make a purchase through our Site.
The personal data you provide when you correspond with us by telephone, email or otherwise.

Information from Social Networking Sites

Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to connect with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your settings on this SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may reverse our access to the information that you supply in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically log information about you and your personal computer or mobile device when you access our Site. By way of instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and data regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling

We don't use your personal data for the purposes of automatic decision-making. But we may do this in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we'll inform you of any such processing and provide you with a chance to object.

Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard disk of your personal computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more interactive and personal experience on the Site.

We use two broad classes of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Siteand (2) third-party cookies, which can be served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

Type of cookie	Purpose
Essential Cookies	These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log into secure areas of the Site and assist the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
Functionality Cookies	These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and recalling the changes you make to other sections of our Site that you can customize. The objective of these cookies is to give you a more personal experience and to prevent you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site.
Analytics and Performance Cookies	These cookies are used to collect information regarding visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the amount of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site. We utilize Matomo for this purpose. Matomo uses its own cookies. It is only used to enhance how our Site functions. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/.
Targeted and advertising cookies	These cookies track your surfing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information regarding your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third-party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites. You may disable cookies that remember your browsing habits and target advertisements at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to remove cookies by the firms listed at the above link, not all businesses that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this listing, and so you may still receive some cookies and tailored adverts from companies which aren't listed.
Social Media Cookies	These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you join your accounts or engage with our content on or through a social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.

Disabling Cookies

You can typically reject or remove cookies through your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the directions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.

If you do not accept our cookies, you might experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you may need to log in every time you visit our Site.

Advertising

We may use other companies to serve third-party advertising when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide ads about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.

Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

to operate, maintain, and improve our Site, products, and services;
to manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our Site;
to operate and administer our rewards program and other promotions you participate in on our Site;
to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;
to send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
with your consent, to send you marketing e-mails about upcoming promotions, and other news, including information about products and services offered by us and our affiliates. You may opt-out of receiving such information at any time: such marketing emails tell you how to "opt-out." Please note, even if you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your account with us (if you have one) and our business dealings with you;
to process payments you make via our Site;
as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others;
for analysis and study services; and
as described in the "Sharing of your Personal Data" section below.

Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:

Third Parties Designated by You: We may share your personal data with third parties in which you have provided your consent to do so.
Third Party Service Providers: We may share your private data with our third party service providers who provide services like information analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure supply, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services.
Third Party Sites: Our Site may contain links to third party sites and features. This Policy doesn't cover the privacy practices of such third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their websites, policies or features. Please read their privacy policies before you submit any information to them.

User Generated Content

You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, including through our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be accessible to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal information, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information won't be confidential or confidential once it is published on our Site.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site, provided we don't associate such opinions with your personal information. If you have given your consent to do so, we might post your first and last name together with your comments on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.

International Data Transfer

Your data, including personal data that we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country where you reside, where data security and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of security as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all measures reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

Security

We attempt to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our business. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be totally secure, and the transmission of data via the world wide web isn't completely secure. For those who have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you believe that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.

Retention

We will only retain your personal data so long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you shut your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as for regulatory purposes).

Our Policy on Children

Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, they should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

Your Rights

Opt-out: You may contact us anytime to opt-out of: (I) direct marketing communications; (ii) automated decision-making and/or profiling; (iii) our collection of sensitive personal data; (iv) any new processing of your personal data that we may carry out beyond the original purpose; or (v) the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA. Please note that your use of some of this Site may be ineffective upon opt-out.
Access: You may access the information we hold about you at any time through your profile/account or by calling us directly.
Amend: You may also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies in your personal information.
Move: Your personal data is portable, i.e., you to have the flexibility to move your information to other service providers as you desire.
Erase and neglect: In certain conditions, for example when the information we hold about you is no longer applicable or is incorrect, you can request that we erase your data.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please be clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the aforementioned rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests concerning the private data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we might have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to finish any transactions that you started prior to requesting such change or deletion.

Complaints

We are committed to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal information. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal information, please contact us via the information listed on our site. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any case, within 30 days. We hope to solve any complaint brought to our attention, but if you feel that your complaint hasn't been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact the regional data protection supervisory authority.

Contact Information

We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.