PRIVACY POLICY

We at Manaakitanga are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your online experience is powerful and safe. Information about the website Mannakitanga and its use is governed by this Statement of Privacy. You acknowledge that you are consenting to the data practices described in this statement by visiting the Manaakitanga website.

Collection of your Personal Information

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

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

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Mannakitanga public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

Mannakitanga will only use the personal information for the purpose for which you provided it. We will not use it for any other purpose without your consent.

We may transfer personal information to certain partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

We will protect your personal information, and will only collect, use, store, and share it in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.

Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies to achieve a variety of technology and marketing objectives, without linking the information stored in cookies to any personally identifiable information about our users. Depending on the Web browser, users may be able to accept or reject cookies, although this may have the unintended effect of preventing some functionality from working.

Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won’t know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. Cookies cannot read unrelated information from your computer.

Use of Anonymous Information

To monitor the website’s use, Mannakitanga automatically collects anonymous information, such as the number and frequency of visitors and pages visited. As a result of this collective data, we are able to learn how much our audience utilizes other parts of the site, which we can use to improve the website to make it as appealing to as many users as possible. Data aggregated by Mannakitanga may be published or made available to others by their Service Provider.

Security

Member accounts are secured by Member-created passwords. Security precautions are taken, and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol is used to protect Member account information. Despite our best efforts, we cannot guarantee the security of Member account information. It is possible for Member information to be compromised at any time by unauthorised entry, malfunctioning hardware or software, and other factors.