Privacy
Use of your information
SerialSearch does not and will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate for legal compliance and law enforcement (including to government agencies with statutory law enforcement responsibilities); to facilitate court proceedings; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of SerialSearch.co.nz, our users, or others. Government agencies with statutory roles enabling them to request data from us includes but is not restricted to Police, IRD and the Ministry Of Economic Development. Members can contact SerialSearch.co.nz to ask whether such information has been provided.
Email
SerialSearch only uses emails when the user has agreed to be sent either marketing material or reminders about items the user owns, user have the ability at any stage to opt out of this feature. SerialSearch reserves the right to send out emails where a service or account breach may affect the user identity or personal details.
Updating Your Personal Information
SerialSearch.co.nz provides you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc. If you feel your acount has been breached you need to contact SerialSearch immediately.
Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address, password and items. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your SerialSearch.co.nz password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in a browser-related file on your computer's hard drive when you use our web site. We use cookies to improve the member experience. We also use them to deliver information and fresh content specific to your interests. Cookies are widely used on most major Web sites.
SerialSearch.co.nz mostly uses "session" cookies, which are removed from your computer once you leave SerialSearch.co.nz. These are used so our service can remember if you have logged in already and prevent you doing so more frequently. The technology we use (PHP), requires the use of session cookies. Session cookies expire and are deleted after 30 minutes of no activity on your account.
SerialSearch.co.nz also uses persistent cookies to personalise the user experience, to help protect our members and to provide us with research information (such as how often members visit SerialSearch each month).
Other information we collect
We use additional information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.
Users who login have their IP addresses recorded. This information will only be provided to legal authorities in cases of suspected fraud or for law enforcement purposes. This information is stored securely and will not be provided to other members or non-authorised parties.
Membership Removal
If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, you may send us an email requesting this. You may be required to prove your identity.
Google Analytics
SerialSearch.co.nz, like most New Zealand websites, uses the Google Analytics system to collect information such as the number of visitors per day or the number of pages requested per day. To do this, SerialSearch.co.nz has a small piece of code on each page which counts these statistics.
Serial Searches
All searches completed on serial search will record your current IP address, if an item is tagged as stolen you will be given the option to forward an email to us discribing when and where you saw the item so we can hand the information onto the owner and/or the NZ Police.
Updates to our information practices
From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our Web site. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at SerialSearch.co.nz.