Privacy Policy
Young Links value your business and your trust. We recognize that your privacy is very important to you and to most people who use the Internet. This section of our privacy policy is detailed below and we suggest that you read it thoroughly. This policy addresses what information we collect, how we use it, how to correct or change it, and how we protect the changes posted.
This policy may change from time to time and all changes will be posted here on www.younglinks.co.nz. When so posted, they shall become effective immediately. It is your duty to monitor the changes posted.
Consent
All users must create a confidential password during registration at our website. You shall maintain the confidentiality of any user name, otp or password provided. You shall immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of these identifiers, or any other breach of security. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under these Identifiers. We are not responsible for any misuse of your account by someone who uses your Identifiers.
DATA COLLETED & USAGE
When you visit our website, information might be collected in two ways through information automatically gathered from your computer or through information you voluntarily provide at this Site. Automatically gathered information are navigational information about where visitors go on our website, how many visits were made and other non-personally identifiable information (for example domain type, browser version, service provider, IP address).
Our general policy includes collection of individually identifiable information (voluntarily information) that is absolutely necessary for a transaction or which is useful for our own internal operations. At the time you register to become a Registered User of the Site, you will be asked to complete a registration form which requires you to provide information such as your name, address, contact number, email address, credit card number (where applicable).
If you purchase a product from this website, we may collect additional information including billing information, credit card numbers and expiration dates and any other details required for the transaction.
The collected information will be used to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, website usage statistically usage, content and product offerings and to website's content customisation, and services. We may also use the collected information to service your account with us, including but not limited to investigating problems, resolving disputes and enforcing agreement with us. We do not sell, rent, trade or exchange any personally identifying information of our users for monetary gains. We may share certain aggregate information based on analysis of collected information with our partners, customers, advertisers or potential users. We may use the collected information to execute marketing campaigns, promotions or advertising message on behalf of third parties; however, in these circumstances, the collected information will not be disclosed to such third parties unless response is made to the marketing, promotion or advertising messages.
We may use third parties to help us monitor website activity, to respond to your requests for specific information, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. If personally identifiable information (for example, name, address, email address, telephone number) is provided to any of these third parties, we will require that such information be maintained by them in confidence.
We may use your Registration Information to provide services that you request or to contact you regarding additional services about which we think that you might be interested. Specifically, we may use your email address, mailing address, phone number or fax number to contact you regarding notices, surveys, product alerts, new service or product offerings and communications relevant to your use of our Site. We may generate reports and analysis based on the Registration Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions. If you never want to receive any announcements or special offers from us, please visit our registration page to change your preferences. Remember to change your preferences for each of the email accounts you have given us.
All your publishing information will be publicly available on the website and therefore accessible by any internet user. Any Publishing Information that you disclose to us becomes public information and you relinquish any proprietary rights (including but not limited to the rights of confidentiality and copyrights) in such information. You should exercise caution when deciding to include personal or proprietary information in the Publishing Information that you submit to us.
We will share your Payment Information with banks or vendors relevant to the transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed. In addition, we may use Payment Information to determine your credit-worthiness and, in the process of such determination, we may make such Payment Information available to banks or credit agencies. Any credit card information that you provide through the Website is directly submitted to a payment server of the credit card processing bank. We do not maintain electronic or physical copies of your credit card information. While we have in place up-to-date technology and internal procedures to guard your Payment Information against intruders, there is no guarantee that such technology or procedure can eliminate all of the risks of theft, loss or misuse. We shall not be liable to you or any other person for any damages that might result from unauthorized use, publication, disclosure or any other misuse of Payment Information, including credit card information.
We use Statistical Information to help diagnose problems with and maintain our computer servers, to manage our Website and to enhance our Website and services based on the usage pattern data we receive. We may generate reports and analysis based on the Statistical Information for internal analysis, monitoring and marketing decisions. We may provide Statistical Information to third parties, but when we do so, we do not provide personally-identifying information without your permission.
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Terms & Conditions (unless, or course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that we, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We reserve the right to disclose information collected to the relevant authorities where we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be infringing or threatening to infringe, or who may otherwise be causing injury to or interference with, the title, rights, interests or property of www.younglinks.co.nz, our users, customers, partners, other web website users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you in response to a subpoena or other judicial order or when we reasonably believe that such disclosure is required by law, regulation or administrative order of any court, governmental or regulatory authority.
If we have reason to believe that a user is in breach of the terms of the User Agreement or the Terms and Conditions or the Distributors Rules and Regulations or the DC Rules and Regulations or the SP Rules and Regulations or any other agreement with us, then we also reserve the right to make public or otherwise disclose such information collected or gathered from a user in order to pursue our claim or prevent further injury/damage to us or others.
Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from distributor for commercial purposes.
Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have the opportunity to choose not to share the information. By using our Website, you shall be deemed to have given your consent to the collection and gathering and use of information collected or gathered by us.
SECURITY
When you place orders or access your account information, we offer the use of a secure server. The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. SSL also confirms the identity of the server and tells us that the message arrived safely. This is the most secure system available and offers the strongest possible deterrent against fraud and hackers. Furthermore, all of the customer data we collect is protected against unauthorized access.
PROMOTION
We will periodically send out promotional message to our users. In fact, these will be great offers on selected merchandise currently featured on www.younglinks.co.nz Since we have no intention of sending unwanted mail, these messages will only be sent to people who have requested to receive them. Unless you have requested to receive such information from us, we will not rent or sell this list to any third parties. If you have requested to receive such messages from us, you have consented to our sharing, giving, selling, or renting of your name and email address to third parties. If you do not specifically request these messages, they will not be sent to you. If after choosing to receive these email messages from us, you later decide that you wish to stop receiving them, you can easily unsubscribe from the mailing list by following the instructions at the bottom of any of the message and you will be promptly removed from the list.
COOKIES
We use a browser feature known as a cookie which assigns a unique identification to your computer. It is not uncommon for websites to use cookies to enhance identification on their users. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer hard drive. It is used to help track clicks as you go through the pages within the Website. A cookie can be sent to your computer hard drive only if you access our website using the computer. If you do not de-activate or erase the cookie, each time you use the same computer to access our website, our web servers will be notified of your visit to our Website and in turn we may have knowledge of your visit and the pattern of your usage. Generally, we use cookies to identify you and enable us to access your Registration Information, Publishing Information or Payment Information so you do not have to re-enter it; gather statistical information about usage by users; research visiting patterns and help target advertisements based on user interests; assist our partners to track user visits to the Website and process orders; and track progress and participation in promotions.
You can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring your browser which is installed in the computer you are using to access the Website. If you desire, you can change those configurations in your browser. By setting your preferences in the browser, you can accept all cookies, you can be notified when a cookie is sent, or you can reject all cookies. If you reject all cookies by choosing the cookie-disabling function in your browser, you may be required to re-enter your information on our website more often and certain features of our Website may be unavailable.
