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Privacy Policy

Last Modified: 18-11-2021 23:12

Marlborough Online does not directly collect any personally identifiable information about visitors to the website without your permission. 

Data Collected by Marlborough Online

Marlborough Online itself collects limited information automatically via web server log files, such as IP address, date, time, and pages visited, however none of this can be used by Marlborough Online to identify an individual. Marlborough Online uses session cookies to manage certain site functionality, however these cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information. If you disable cookies in your web browser, some site functionality may be affected.

Forum

As part of the Marlborough Online Website there is a forum. In order to use the forum, you are required to register and provide some personal information to confirm your identity to ensure appropriate use of the forum. This information will not be provided to third parties, and if you choose to remove your forum profile, it will be deleted, however past posts that others have responded to may be retained. There is no requirement to create a forum profile simply to browse the Marlborough Online site.

Contact Form

If you use the contact form, you will need to provide your name and email address. This will be used by Marlborough Online solely for the purpose of communicating with you in response to your message. Your email address will not be provided to any third party without asking you first. (In some cases if you have a query that Marlborough Online cannot solve, but is able to refer you on to a third party who can, we will ask you if we can pass on your message.)

Law Enforcement

In the event of criminal activities occurring, Marlborough Online may voluntarily or as a result of a court order turn over server log files to a law enforcement authority. Law enforcement authorities may have the ability to request log files from ISPs which in combination with Marlborough Online log files, might be able to provide the identity of a web site visitor to authorities. As Marlborough Online is based in New Zealand, information requested by a law enforcement agency will not be supplied unless the request complies with New Zealand law.

Third party Services

Social Media

If you use various social functionality such as Facebook Share button, Tweet, or Like Marlborough Online's Facebook page, you may be identifiable to these third party services to the extent of your public profile and privacy settings on any of these third party services. You should make yourself aware of the privacy policy of any of these third party services on their respective web sites if you use any of these services.

Google Analytics

Marlborough Online makes use of Google Analytics site traffic analysis software. This software sets third party cookies which you may disable if you wish without any impact on your use of Marlborough Online, although disabling these cookies will make it harder to gain data that can provide insights on how to improve Marlborough Online. Google has its own privacy policy which applies to Google Analytics and cookies. If you have  a Google account, you can adjust your privacy settings to control what information Google is able to associate with you. If you are particularly concerned about privacy, you log out of your Google account, or start a private browsing session before browsing Marlborough Online.

Google Adsense

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to Marlborough Online or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to Marlborough Online and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings

Stripe

Marlborough Online provides an online shopping cart using third party integration with Stripe to process credit card payments. Marlborough Online does not collect any credit card payment directly, however Stripe will collect payment details for the purpose of facilitating payment processing and fraud prevention. Your use of credit card payments for purchases made on Marlborough Online are subject to you accepting Stripe's payment terms and conditions.

Cite this page

Privacy Policy. (2021) Retrieved March, 19, 2024, from https://www.marlboroughonline.co.nz/marlborough/about/privacy

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