Privacy Policy

We take your personal data and your privacy seriously.

The following explains our privacy policy with respect to the collection and use of your data.

Please read it carefully, as your use of the website will be deemed to be an acceptance by you and your voluntary consent to, our privacy policy.

Use and sharing of the information you provide.

With respect to any information provided by you (including on any forms), we may use such information for several purposes such as:

to help you quickly find services or information on our website.

to send you updates including newsletters etc relating to the website and our products and services, if you have subscribed to such services. If you want to stop receiving promotional material from us, then please email us.

to respond to your questions or comments.

to develop, customise, and deliver content on the website, to make the website better, to improve the website’s functionality, to support and maintain the website, to develop and inform users of new products and updates, and to contact you when you have received an error while using our website, so we can help you solve the problem.

to assist third parties in maintaining and updating the website. These third parties are not authorised to retain, share, store, or use identifiable information for any purposes other than as instructed by us.

Explicit consent

When you click on our homepage you are immediately presented with a banner that tells you that Active Components shares information with Google Analytics (explained below) and asks you to consent to the use of cookies (explained below).

The banner gives you the chance to choose not to consent, or withdraw consent, to cookies and other information gathering.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file transferred by a website to a user’s computer hard drive. The website sends a cookie to the user’s computer hard drive when a user visits, makes requests or personalises information on our website. A cookie cannot read personal data off a user's hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites; the only identifiable information a cookie can contain is information about the user and/or that the user supplies.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a tracking device that tracks data (i.e. information) about users of our website.

It uses cookies to remember a user’s behaviour and generates reports on who visits our website and what they do once they get there. It can tell us for example, who visits our website, how the website is used, what’s popular and what’s not popular on our website and whether visitors return to our website.

It gives us a broad-picture of how our website is performing, which is essential for devising an overall marketing strategy.

How Google Analytics uses and processes data is displayed on the site “How Google uses data when you use our partners” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, or any other URL Google may provide from time to time.

Data security

We use a variety of security technologies to protect a user's identifiable information, including secure servers or firewalls. Unfortunately, there is always a potential risk in sending information through any channel or retaining information on any storage device, and we cannot guarantee that communications between user and us or information stored on our resources, including identifiable information, will be free from unauthorised access by third parties.

What is our liability?

You agree that we are not liable to you or any third party for any loss (including monetary loss), damage or consequential loss you may incur as a consequence of your use or reliance on our website, including viruses alleged to have been obtained from our website, or as a consequence of any unauthorised access, illegal or unauthorised use of information, including your personal identifiable information. If Active Components are nevertheless deemed to be liable for any loss of any kind, then it is agreed that our total cumulative liability to any user or any other party for any loss or damages resulting from claims, damages or actions arising out of or relating to the use of our website, will not exceed $500 (NZ).