Privacy Policy Purpose
1. The purpose of this privacy policy is to let users of this website (the “Site” or the “Website”), a website hosted and operated by Tait Electronics Limited (”we”, “our”, “Tait”). and of all Tait domains and subdomains, including but not limited to, http://taitradio.com , http://taitworld.com www.tait.com.cn know when we collect personal information and what we do with it. We do not use, share or transfer personal information except as set out in this policy.
Collection of Information
2. The Site can be viewed and its RSS or Atom feeds can be subscribed to without the need to disclose any personal information to us.
3. However, if you subscribe to email notifications of updates to the Site, you will need to disclose your email address, either to us or to a third party service that manages email notifications. Similarly, you may choose to disclose personal information when adding a post to the Site or when commenting on the posts of others. That information will be viewable by Site administrators, certain Tait staff and, if published, members of the public. Please do not post or otherwise transmit personal information of a sensitive nature. If you do not want to receive e-mail, direct mail or targeted advertisements regarding our products and services, simply tell us when you provide your personal information or by following the directions on our web sites to remove your name from our mailing list(s).
4. We automatically log personal data by means such as programming or we link information automatically logged by such means with personal data about specific individuals.
5. We may also ask for your personal information when you express an interest in employment opportunities at Tait.
6. When you enter our site, our server may attach a small text file to your hard drive — a cookie. Your unique cookie tells us that it is you whenever you re-enter our site, so we can recall where you have previously been on our site, and what, if anything, you have in your shopping cart. Cookies help us deliver a better web site experience to our users. We use cookies to store personal data and we link information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals.
7. We may also use cookies to measure traffic patterns, and which areas of the Tait site you have visited, and your visiting patterns. We use this information to understand how our users navigate our site, and to determine common traffic patterns, including what site the user came from. We use this information to make site navigation and product recommendations, and to help redesign our site in order to make your experience on our site more efficient and enjoyable.
8. We may also use this information to better personalize the content, banner ads, and promotions that you and other users will see. This helps Tait deliver you the content you want when you want it, in order for you to make better purchasing decisions.
9. You have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your Internet browser preferences, you have the ability to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. Please note that, if you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those services or engage in activities that require the placement of cookies.
10. We may also collect information about you from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.
11. We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us personal data.
12. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification, or unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
13. All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.
14. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.
15. Tait has sites and users all over the world. The personal information you provide may be transmitted, used, stored and otherwise processed outside of the country where you submitted that information, including jurisdictions that may not have data privacy laws that provide equivalent protection to such laws in your home country. Whenever Tait handles personal information, regardless of where this occurs, we take appropriate steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Use, this Privacy Statement and all applicable laws and regulations.
16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Statistical information
17. We may also collect statistical information about your visit to help us improve the Site. This information includes:
- your IP address;
- the search terms you used;
- the pages you accessed on our website and the links you clicked on;
- the date and time you visited the site;
- the previous site you visited;
- your operating system (e.g., Windows XP, Mac OSX); and
- the type of web browser you use (e.g., Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox).
18. That statistical information will be viewable by site administrators and certain other Tait staff. It may also be shared with other government agencies.
Use of Information
19. We collect your personal information for the following purposes:
- Technical administration of the Web site;
- Research and development to improve our services;
- Customer administration to improve our services;
In this regard, we may send emails to specific users who have signed up to email notifications for the purpose of obtaining feedback on existing or proposed services or inviting input into content to be added to the Site.
20. Feedback is important and is used to evaluate and improve the Site. If you provide feedback on the Site directly to Tait, that feedback will be sent to appropriate staff at Tait. We may pass on relevant comments to other people within Tait who administer, have contributed content to, or are otherwise interested in, the Site. This could include your email address and other identifying information.
21. We also use the information we collect to help target valuable marketing and advertising offers. This kind of advertising may be done with banner ads as well as promotional emails sent by Tait, or by third parties under contract with Tait. Tait may also match user information with third party data to help us better understand our customers.
22. We do not use or disclose our your personal data for new purposes without giving you the opportunity to consent to those new purposes.
Data Storage and Disclosure
23. Personal information that you provide will be held by Tait. In addition, email addresses for those subscribing to email notifications of updates may be held by a third party service that processes email notifications. Email addresses provided for email notifications and held by that third party service are not made available to the public. Unless required by law, we will not disclose the names or email addresses of individuals who subscribe to email notifications of updates to the Site.
24. Except as outlined in this statement or on our web sites, we do not provide your personal information to third parties without your consent. We do share the information you provide with Tait subsidiaries and related companies. We may also share your personal information with third-party business partners so that they may provide services to Tait that are consistent with this statement and our web sites, or as part of a specific product, service, or promotion. In addition, we may disclose personal information in special cases, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
25. Where we disclose your personal data to third parties we provide you with the means to opt-out of disclosure by visiting this url ( http://go.taitradio.com/UnsubscribePage.html )
Access to the personal data we may hold about you
26. You can ask us, by sending an email ( commercial@taitradio.com ) whether we are keeping personal data about you. Upon request, which you can indicate by sending an email ( commercial@taitradio.com ) we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a week, although we may before require proof of your identity. We will provide the information without any charge.
27. We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data erased (except where it relates to your purchase or credit history with us), rectified or amended, completed.
28. We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal.
29. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.
30. If you are not satisfied with Tait’s response to any privacy-related concern you may have, you can contact the Privacy Commissioner (see below).
Privacy Compliance
31. Our privacy policy is compliant with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993.
32. In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instruments, we are:
- voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure
- subject to an Independent Data Protection Authority supervision
Self Assessment procedure
Name/designation of the privacy policy person: Commercial Manager
Address: 558 Wairakei Road, Christchurch, 8053
Country: New Zealand
Email address: commercial@taitradio.com
Independent Data Protection Authority supervision
Designation of the authority: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner
URL: www.privacy.org.nz
Address: P.O. Box 466, Auckland
Country: New Zealand
33. If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact:
Name/designation: Commercial Manager
Address: 558 Wairakei Road, Christchurch, 8053 New Zealand
Phone Number: +64 3 3583399
Fax Number: +64 3 358 0340
Email address: commercial@taitradio.com
If you are not satisfied with our response to your concern you may wish to contact The Office of the Privacy Commissioner ( www.privacy.org.nz ) or you may wish to contact Tait Electronics Ethics office ( ethics@taitradio.com )
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This Privacy Statement is subject to change without notice.
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