Privacy Policy

The Media Access Charitable Trust (“Able”, “we”, “us”, “our”), is committed to respecting your privacy when you use and submit Personal Information to us, including via (the “Website”). We have structured our Website so that, in general, you can visit the Website without identifying or revealing any Personal Information. Once you choose to provide us with any information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using the Website and/or any of the associated services. By using the website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of the Website is also subject to the Terms of Use.

In this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual. All Personal Information that we hold about you will be collected, held, used and disclosed in accordance with all applicable privacy law.

You do not have to provide personal information to access the Website, but if you do not supply certain information then you will not be able to access some of the areas and facilities on the Website.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.

Collection of your Personal Information

Information you provide to us
We collect and store Personal Information you submit when using the Website or provide to us in some other manner. This may include information such as your name and email address when you are subscribing to the Newsletter on the Website.

If you choose to provide us with Personal Information via this Website or otherwise, this information will be collected and held by Able and other permitted third party service providers as identified in this Privacy Policy.

Information collected automatically

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Most internet browsers give you the option to reject all cookies, accept all cookies, erase cookies stored on your computer or be notified before a cookie is stored on your computer. However, if you reject or erase the cookies referred to above some Website features or services will not function properly or may not be fully available. Please refer to your internet browser instructions if you want to find out more about rejecting or erasing cookies.

Use of your Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with Personal Information via this Website or otherwise, this information will only be used or disclosed for certain purposes which include the following:

• to analyse the use of the Website to ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • to monitor and/or keep records of our e-mail communications and other correspondence with you. If you send us correspondence that contains Personal Information, we may use that Personal Information to address the nature and purposes of the correspondence;
  • to provide you with customer service, and to address any complaints you may have;
  • if you opt-in to receive promotional information and/or newsletters from us, we may use such Personal Information to contact you by email and post with the information you have opted-in to receive;
  • in order to prevent illegal activity that threatens our computer systems or networks; and
  • in order to comply with any applicable laws and/or regulations.

Marketing

If you opt-in to receive promotional information and/or newsletters from us, we may use such Personal Information to contact you by email and post with the information you have opted-in to receive.

Unless you tell us otherwise, we may also contact you to help us understand your needs and interests and how we can improve this Website and our products and services.

How to opt-out

You can choose not to receive communications from us at any time by:

• using the unsubscribe facility in an email (or other electronic communication from us);
  • sending an email to [hello@able.co.nz]; or
  • writing to Able at the address set out at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

In each case, as soon as is reasonably practicable after you opt-out, we will remove you from our marketing lists.

Disclosure of your Personal Information

We will not disclose Personal Information to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy, unless we have your consent to do so or such disclosure is required by law.

Where we do disclose your Personal Information to third parties, we do so for a permitted purpose only and will use reasonable efforts to make those parties aware of the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Organisations/Companies: We may share your Personal Information with certain service providers who provide services for us or perform administrative or marketing activities on our behalf, or who develop, host or maintain the Website. These service providers may be granted access to some or all of the Personal Information you provide or we collect, but shall be restricted from using the Personal Information you provide other than as is reasonably necessary to perform their services for us.

We may also use service providers to assist us in aggregating and anonymising such information, so that it does not include any information from which any individual can be identified. We do not consider such aggregated and anonymised information to be Personal Information, and its use is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

Links to other websites

Our Website or emails which we send to you may contain links to other sites operated by third parties and those third parties may use cookies on their own websites. It is the responsibility of those third parties to collect appropriate consents from you in order to permit their own cookies (to the extent this is required by law) and to inform you about the cookies they use. You should check the privacy policy on all third-party websites to ensure you are comfortable with third-party cookies.

We are not responsible for the accuracy and content of external websites and specifically disclaim responsibility for their content, privacy practices, and terms of use, and we make no endorsements, representations, or warranties about their accuracy, content or thoroughness. You should check the privacy policies on third party website to ensure you are comfortable with how your Personal Information will be used. Your disclosure of Personal Information to third party websites is at your own risk. It will be governed by the terms and conditions and it will be subject to the privacy policy on those third party websites.

Access and update of Personal Information

You can ask to access and review the Personal Information we hold about you or our third-party service providers hold on our behalf. You can also request us to update or correct any Personal Information we hold about you or our third-party service providers hold on our behalf.

You can lodge a request for access by sending an email to [hello@able.co.nz] or by writing to Able at the address for Media Access Charitable Trust set out at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

Modification of Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on the Website so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Your use of the Website following any updates constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy as amended. We therefore advise you to regularly review the policy when you visit the Website.

Media Access Charitable TrustMedia Access Charitable Trust is a Charitable Trust registered in New Zealand. Our postal address is PO Box 68817, Auckland, 1145.
Email address to request access to or correction of Personal Information: hello@able.co.nz.