Colony supports the protection of your privacy rights as an internet user.
This Policy applies to personal information submitted by you on this and other websites operated by Colony, and to any information automatically retrieved during your visit to our website.
Consent to Privacy Policy
By using the Colony website you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the Policy, please do not use this site.
Personal Information
Colony takes care to ensure that it adheres to the provisions of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 and will only collect and use information from you on this website in accordance with the Act and the Privacy Act 1993.
We will not under any circumstances release, sell, publish, or give away personal information to any other person or organisation unless required by law or subject to the consent of the information supplier.
Only authorised employees of Colony are able to access your personal information.
Access to Personal Information
You may request access to any personal information held about you and your request will be granted unless there are reasonable grounds to deny access. If you consider any information held is inaccurate, you may ask for a correction and you may at any time ask to be removed from any mailing or distribution list on which your details have been included. Written requests for access, correction and removal should be accompanied by proof of identity and should be made to: life@colonyone.nz
Non-Personal Information
Our website records standard information such as time, date and URL of request (the web page you arrived from) via our web servers. This information is recorded by all web servers and is used to improve the functionality, structure and performance of our website. We analyse non-identifiable web traffic data to improve our services and the use which visitors make of this website.
When you use the website our server logs the following information, which is provided by your browser:
- your server’s IP address (a number which is unique to the machine through which you are connected to the Internet) or your personal IP address
- the type of browser and operating system you are using
- the domain name of the referring site (e.g. the previous Site that you visited).
This information does not personally identify you. We analyse this non-personal information for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of the website users are visiting, which features or services are most popular and to measure the effectiveness of advertising.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
Our website may contain links to third party websites that are not operated or controlled by us. Please note that Colony is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of those third party websites and the sites are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Changes to our Policy
We may, at our discretion, update or revise this Policy from time to time. Any changes will take effect immediately once they are posted here, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
If you have any questions about our privacy policies or any other matter, please email life@colonyone.nz