Hawke's Bay Engravers is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Hawke's Bay Engravers site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Hawke's Bay Engravers site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Hawke's Bay Engravers collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Hawke's Bay Engravers also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Hawke's Bay Engravers. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Hawke's Bay Engravers for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Hawke's Bay Engravers site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Hawke's Bay Engravers public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Hawke's Bay Engravers does not read any of your private online communications.

Hawke's Bay Engravers encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Hawke's Bay Engravers so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Hawke's Bay Engravers is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Hawke's Bay Engravers and Hawke's Bay Engravers family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Hawke's Bay Engravers collects and uses your personal information to operate the Hawke's Bay Engravers Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Hawke's Bay Engravers also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Hawke's Bay Engravers and its affiliates. Hawke's Bay Engravers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Hawke's Bay Engravers does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Hawke's Bay Engravers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Hawke's Bay Engravers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Hawke's Bay Engravers, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Hawke's Bay Engravers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Hawke's Bay Engravers keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Hawke's Bay Engravers, in order to determine what Hawke's Bay Engravers services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Hawke's Bay Engravers to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Hawke's Bay Engravers Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Hawke's Bay Engravers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Hawke's Bay Engravers; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Hawke's Bay Engravers, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Hawke's Bay Engravers Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Hawke's Bay Engravers pages, or register with Hawke's Bay Engravers site or services, a cookie helps Hawke's Bay Engravers to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Hawke's Bay Engravers Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Hawke's Bay Engravers features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Hawke's Bay Engravers services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Hawke's Bay Engravers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Hawke's Bay Engravers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Hawke's Bay Engravers will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Hawke's Bay Engravers encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Hawke's Bay Engravers is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Hawke's Bay Engravers welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Hawke's Bay Engravers has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Hawke's Bay Engravers at Jmarsh@gfmweb.co.nz. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.