Document 1.3 published 1 January 2004

This is the web site of Webmarkworld.com a Webmark New Zealand Limited wholly owned company.
(hereinafter also called 'we' or 'our')
This document details our Privacy Policies as they apply to use of this Web Site and dealing with our company.

We respect and maintain your right to privacy, with the highest regard. 
Our company is founded and continues to operate on the fundamental tenet of total confidentiality. 

Our Web Server is set to automatically not recognize nor store any information regarding the domain or e-mail address of any visitor to our Web Site. We therefore have no ability to store specific information about your visit, nor may we contact you in any way as a direct result of that visit. However, in the case of an order being placed via our secure commerce server, or a web-form being filled, that server will record the IP address of the connection making that order or submission, solely for the purposes of fraud detection and prevention.

Logs and cookies: Our web server log files record non-specific user information of a generic nature in an aggregated-only form. Such information is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our Web site, or used to customize the content and/or layout of our site for a category of user. We do not share such information with other third parties.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user-visit and may be used if a visitor's browser is set to enable cookie usage.  Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site.  A cookie does not give us any personally identifiable  information about you. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies to enable a more complete browsing experience for our users. Persistent cookies can be prevented or, removed by the user, following Internet browser help file directions.
We do not use the methods generally described as "web-bugs" or "traceable clear gifs",  to track individual information about a user's entry to, or, passage through our Web Site.

E-mail:  We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, or who submit information by filling web-based forms. Such information is used to provide service to those people and may be used by us to contact consumers for marketing or customer relationship purposes.
If you do not wish to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending an email to us, calling us at  the published  telephone number or writing to us at the published address and telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our company.

Third parties: Where we use an outside credit card processing company (bank) to bill users for services, such company does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Links: This Web site may contain outbound links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.  We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.  This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site. 

Business Transitions:  In the event that our company goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users’ personal information, if any, will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.  

Security:  We appreciate that our customers and potential customers reveal commercially sensitive information to us in order to effectively use our services. Such information is considered totally confidential by our directors and all members of our staff. It will be treated with the highest regard.
This Web site and company uses our best endeavours to take every precaution to protect our users’ information.  When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.
When our request for service or order form asks users to enter financially sensitive information (such as credit card or bank account number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL.  While on a secure page, as an indication, the lock or key icon on the foot of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked or unbroken, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when users are just ‘surfing’. 
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line.  All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Our offices are alarmed and monitored and all hard-copy and digital information, and records are secured.  Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable or commercially sensitive information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices and are contractually bound to uphold them.  Any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our users’ information is protected.  Finally, the servers that store or process personally identifiable information are in a secure environment, in a locked, guarded and monitored facility. 
If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an email to  mail@webmarkworld.com

Correcting, Updating, Deleting, Deactivating Personal Information: If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users’ personally identifiable information. 
A user may ask us to provide a copy of such information as we might hold about them and we undertake to correct such details as may be irrelevant or no longer correct .
This can be done  by emailing us: mail@webmarkworld.com 

Notification of Changes: If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, on this page, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. 
If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email and by posting a notice on this Web site for 30 days.

Disclosure required by legal authority: Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site or company.

Effect of law: If any provision of this document is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the document remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of our services must be filed within six (6) months after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

The section titles in this document are included for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

Our postal address is:

Webmarkworld.com
Administration Headquarters
15 Cochrane Avenue
Hibiscus Coast 
Auckland 1463
New Zealand

We can be reached via e-mail at:
mail@webmarkworld.com 

You can reach us by telephone at:
+64 21 932 627

This document details our usage policies as they apply to use of this Web Site.
A separate document | Agreement | details the terms under which subsequent service is provided.  
A separate document | Terms of Use | details Our Terms and Conditions of Usage Statement and Policy.

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