Privacy policy
The following statement explains Trendsideas.com privacy policy.
a) Privacy and security statement
b) Visitor information
c) Cookies
d) Personal information
e) Storing and handling information
f) Access to personal information
a) Privacy and security statement
Trendsideas.com is committed to
protecting your privacy and any information you provide to
Trendisdeas.com will only be used within the company. Trendsideas.com
reserves the right to amend this privacy policy at any time and without
notice, so you are encouraged to review this policy frequently.
b) Visitor information
We collect general non-personal, non-individual information during
the course of your visit to Trendsideas.com like the amount of visitors
to the site, most popular pages and length of visit for statistical
analysis. This information allows us to monitor the performance of the
website, measure visitor profiles and help us to provide a better
service.
c) Cookies
Cookies are text files that identify
your computer to our server. This information is collected in order to
keep track of the pages visited by each user and to allow us to analyse
traffic to the website.
d) Personal information
You will be asked to provide personal
information about yourself in order to use our My Trends online
service. Registration is optional and membership allows you to open an
online portfolio, buy books in our shop and provides you with access to
special content features and promotions. By entering your details such
as your name and email address in the fields requested, you enable
Trendsideas.com to provide you with the service. Whenever you provide
such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance
with this policy.
If you choose to register:
Trendsideas.com only collects
information we need to set up your personal portfolio and to deliver
any book purchases from the shop.
- We need your email
address and a password combination as a secure log in for your My
Trends portfolio and in order for us to identify you in our database.
- We ask the location of
the country you’re in so that we can collect accurate demographic data
about our myTrends members for research purposes and so that we can
provide you with relevant content.
- The optional questions help us to provide a better service by identifying our members’ specific interests and backgrounds.
- If you register as a
design industry professional, we ask you for your occupation and to
tell us if you belong to any organizations. This is in order to measure
the percentage of professional membership and to identify members of
organizations with which we have established relationships.
- When you register you
have the opportunity to sign up for regular articles, emails and
newsletters on various subjects from design articles, website news,
company news and products and professional services information. (If
you do want to receive this information, just tick the appropriate
boxes at the bottom of the membership registration form.)
- Trendsideas.com reserves
the right to contact My Trends members for service administration
purposes, this means that we may deliver messages to your My Trends
inbox for various purposes related to the service you have signed up
for. For instance, we may wish to provide you with password reminders
or notify you that the service is being updated or amended.
· When you buy a Trends book online, we
ask for a mailing address for shipping purposes and add this customer
information into our database, so that you don’t have to enter an
address each time.
· Once you have provided basic
information for your My Trends portfolio, we keep it in your personal
account file so you don't have to re-enter it next time, although you
can view, change and delete your account details at any time.
· If at any time you no longer wish to receive emails or newsletters from
Trendsideas.com, you can choose to unsubscribe from specific mailings
by clicking on the Unsubscribe link from any email newsletter we send
to you.
e) Storing and handling information
We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely and in accordance with New Zealand’s Privacy Act 1993. By
using this web site you consent to application of the laws of New
Zealand for all purposes, including but not limited to the gathering,
storing and dissemination of information submitted by you to us and
collected by us, or by others for us, during your use of the website.
We will not send you promotional
material or contact you for marketing purposes, unless you specifically
agree to be contacted for such purposes by checking the
appropriate boxes during myTrends registration. Trendsideas.com will
hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use
the requested service, and remove it in the event that you no longer
wish to continue your registration. We will not supply your personal
information to any third party without your permission.
Your use of this website is subject to
the law of New Zealand and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand for any claims, disputes,
actions or causes of action for any damages or injuries of any nature
whatsoever, and any claimed violation of any legislation, statute,
ordinance, code, directive or other law of any country, state,
municipality or other governmental body, arising from or related to
your use of this website, the terms and conditions for use of this
site, the storage, transmission or dissemination of information
collected through this website, any transactions instituted through
this website, or any other claimed acts or omissions by us of any
nature whatsoever.
f) Access to personal information
Under the provisions of the Privacy Act
1993 (subject to specific country legislation), you may request access
to and correction of your personal information. Requests must be in
writing, which includes by e-mail. We may charge a fee for the
reasonable costs incurred in responding to these requests, but will
disclose the costs to you before those costs are incurred.
Read our Terms & conditions of use.
