PRIVACY POLICY

 

Updated March 1st, 2021

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ABOUT

Oak & Thistle is committed to our users’ rights to privacy.

The following is a collection of resources regarding your use of our sites and services as well as information about how we may use data along with our partners.

Our complete Privacy Policy is below, and here is a link to our Terms and Conditions.

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GDPR COMPLIANCE

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018, and we support these regulations for a safe and secure browsing experience across the Internet. The details below outline what we are doing to comply with the new regulations.

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PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

Our Website typically collects two kinds of information about you: (i) information that you provide that personally identifies you; and (ii) information that does not personally identify you that we automatically collect when you visit our Website or that you provide to us.

In a few instances, we may require personally identifiable information to use certain features of our services. For example, we may ask for an email address to subscribe to one of our newsletters or to create an account that will allow you to purchase our products.

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NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

In addition to any personally identifiable information or other information that you choose to provide to us on our Website, we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies, now and hereafter devised, that automatically collect certain non-personal information whenever you visit or interact with our Website.

We use non-personal information in a variety of ways, including to help analyze site traffic, understand user needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional activities and to improve our products and services. We may use your non-personal information by itself or aggregate it with information we have obtained from others.

If data collection is not required for the functionality of our site, we do not collect it. At any time, you may request your information to be exported and sent to you for review, and we promptly honour any requests by you to have your information deleted and forgotten.

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COOKIES

Oak & Thistle uses “cookies” in conjunction with its Websites and Services to obtain information. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device (e.g., your phone or your computer) for record-keeping purposes. For example, a cookie could allow the Websites to recognize your browser, while another could store your preferences and other information.

Your browser may allow you to set how it handles cookies, such as declining all cookies or prompting you to decide whether to accept each cookie. But please note that some parts of the Websites or Services may not work as intended or may not work at all without cookies.

1. Oak and Thistle Cookies and Third Party Cookies

Oak and Thistle may place our cookies on your device via our Websites and Services. Accordingly, our Privacy Policy will apply to our treatment of the information we obtain via our cookies.

We may also allow our business partners to place cookies on your device. For example, we use Google Analytics for web analytics. This service may also set cookies on your device.

2. Uses for Oak & Thistle Cookies

Oak and Thistle use cookies for some purposes, such as the following:

• to enable, facilitate and streamline the functioning of our sites across different webpages and browser sessions;

• to simplify your access to and use of our sites and make it more seamless;

• to monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of our sites, so that we can improve and optimize them; and

• to show you content that is more relevant to you

3. Other Technologies

Our sites may also use other technologies with similar functionality to cookies, such as web beacons and tracking URLs to obtain anonymous data about users. We may also use web beacons and tracking URLs in our messages to you to determine whether you have opened a certain message or accessed a certain link.

4. Disabling Cookies

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to turn off cookies. If you choose to decline turn off, please note that some interactive features of our sites may not function properly.

5. Changes to this Cookie Policy

If there are any material changes to this Cookie Policy, you will be notified by email, on our sites, or by posting a prominent notice on our Websites before the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our cookie practices. Your continued use of our Websites constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Cookie Policy. If you do not accept the terms of this Cookie Policy, you can discontinue use of our Websites, or disable cookies and be subject to a potentially degraded experience.

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OTHER NETWORKS

Our Website may use third parties such as links to articles on our Website and may use traffic measurement services to analyse traffic on our Websites. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to our Website and other websites you have visited. Third-party sites enable us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. Our Website’s third-party providers, advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies and other technologies on your computer and track certain behavioural information regarding users of your computer via an IP address or other device identifier. These third-party cookies and other technologies are set to, among other things: (i) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (ii) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (iii) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third-party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third-party cookies, web beacons and other third-party technologies are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one.

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CONTACT AND OPT-OUT INFORMATION

You may contact us at info@oakandthistle.co.nz if: (i) you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy; (ii) you wish to make corrections to any personally identifiable information you have provided; (iii) you want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including emails, from us or our affiliated companies; or (iv) you wish to withdraw your consent to share your personally identifiable information with others. We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable.