Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

At SME Growth we value our clients and respect your privacy. We collect information about you through our website in an effort to improve your experience, as well as to communicate with you about our services. To demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy, we have a Privacy Policy as set out below so that you to know how we handle, gather, store and use your personal information. By using our website, you acknowledge that your personal information will be treated in accordance with the details of this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy please contact us.

How do we use your information?

•  To communicate with you and to send you information by email, postal mail or other means about our services and promotions, unless you have directed us not to contact you. 

•  To help us learn more about your shopping preferences.

•  To help us address problems with and improve our website design and services.

•  To enhance your website experience.

•  To customise our advertising and content to you, so as to streamline your online experience at our site and to provide personalised marketing information.

•  To analyse trends and statistics, conduct analysis and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

•  To contact you if necessary.

SME Growth communications

By subscribing to SME Growth emails you can expect to receive an automated email confirming your details have been successfully added to the list. Email communications will be sent to you using the contact details provided, and will  contain information on services and other marketing communications. If you wish to opt out of our emails, you can also do so by clicking unsubscribe in the body of the email. SME Growth fully complies with the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorise any third party to use your email address without your permission.

If you feel you have received an email from us in error, please contact our web administration at info@smegrowth.co.nz. If contacting our web administration, please be sure to include your full name and the email address you used when you registered with or made a purchase from us. If you ask us to remove your name and address from promotional lists, we will maintain your name in a "do not contact" file to ensure that we can honour your request.

If you have unsubscribed from SME Growth emails and change your mind, you can start receiving promotional communications from us again by re-registering via this website.

Disclosure of information to other parties

All personal data held by SME Growth will be kept confidential and protected

How do we protect your information?

As required by the Privacy Act 1993, we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information, which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we are able to disclose sensitive information to you. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect such information and material, we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information or material which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information or material which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information and material.When you enter your personal information on our Website we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to protect your information as it is transmitted to us. Where an online retailer uses SSL technology, at the checkout the online retailer serves and your PC encrypts everything that you enter into your computer, such as credit card details, billing and delivery address. When it is encrypted, generally other computers are unable to make sense of it, therefore keeping the information private while it is being transmitted. To make sure you are accessing our secure server before you submit personal financial information, look at the lower left-hand corner of your browser. If you see an unbroken key or a closed lock (depending on your browser), then the SSL is active. To double check for security, look at the URL or Location line of your browser. If you have accessed a secure server, the first characters of the address in that line should change from "http" to "https". SME Growth give no warranty against third parties hacking into the data or any unauthorised access to the data by anyone.

Cookies

Our website uses ‘cookies,’ which are small data files that are stored on your computer when you visit a website. These enable you to visit our website and have an optimised or personalised experience. For example, cookies help to store your preferences, recognise you when you return to our website and monitor and maintain information about your use of our website. We also use first- and third-party cookies together to inform and optimise your visits to our website. We use Google Analytics for Display Advertising features (including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting), together with data from Google's Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender, and interests) to enhance your online experience. If you would rather we did not use cookies, you can set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise Google Display Network ads using Google's Ads Settings.

Links

Please note that the SME Growth website contains links to other sites. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Statement is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to the SME Growth website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies which may differ from that of the SME Growth website. We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our website nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website.