Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Tekkie Ties website. By using our website you are acknowledging that you have read, understood and agreed to these terms and conditions. Acceptance of these terms and conditions/our privacy policy does not affect your statutory rights.
The rights to this website, as well as any copyright, is owned by or licensed by Tekkie Ties. Any use of its content other than for your own personal use without our consent is strictly prohibited.
We respect your personal information that we may store manually/electronically and will at all times protect it. If at any time you wish to amend or retract the personal information we hold, please do so in your Tekkie Ties account, alternatively, you can contact us at hello@tekkieties.com.
This privacy policy describes how www.tekkieties.com collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from the site.
Why we collect your personal information
When visiting the site, we collect certain information about you and your device, your interaction with the site and the necessary information to process your purchase.
Collecting of personal information
Personal information: the types of personal information we collect will depend on the purpose(s) for which we are collecting it. For example, we may ask for your:
- Name
- Contact details: including email address, postal address and telephone number
- Date of birth
- Demographic information such as postal code
- Credit card or other payment details (if you are buying a product from us)
- Preferences and opinions; and any other information requested on this website or otherwise requested by us or provided by you.
Non-identifiable information
When you visit our website, we automatically record non-identifiable information that your browser sends. This data may include:
- Your computer's IP address
- Browser type
- The webpage you were visiting before you came to our website
- The pages within tekkieties you visit
- The time spent on those pages, items and information searched on our website, access times, dates and other statistics.
Non-identifiable information is collected for analysis and evaluation in order to help us improve our website and the services and products we provide.
How we collect your information
We may collect your information in a number of ways, including but not limited to when you:
- Browse our website
- Register on our website
- Log into the website once registered
- Make a purchase from us
- Contact our customer care team
- Interact with us on social media; or
- Have a conversation with our team members
How we use your information
We use your information for purposes including:
- To create orders, transaction records, agreements for the sale of products or services, accounts, tax invoices or receipts.
- To communicate with you about your product and services, competition results, special offers, and events that may interest you.
- To perform research and analysis.
- For market research and business development, including website development and gauging website traffic and trends.
- To deliver personalised site content to you.
- For marketing, including direct marketing.
- To run competitions or offer additional benefits to you; and
- To comply with law and regulations or to comply with any directions given by regulation and authorities.
Data protection and third-party sharing
Your privacy and confidential information will under no circumstance be unnecessarily shared with a third party. We may disclose your personal information to:
- Delivery service providers, to assist us with providing your products ordered
- Credit reporting agencies and courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities where customers fail to pay for goods or services provided by us to them.
- Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement offices as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
- Market research and marketing strategy analysis providers.
- Our payment provider, Stitch. Data supplied through the payment process is secure. We will not pass your card details onto anyone other than parties stipulated.
Where we disclose your personal information to third parties for these purposes, we will ensure that they follow this privacy policy when handling your personal information.
Consent
When you register an account with Tekkie Ties by submitting your name, address and email address, you have the right to opt in to receiving our newsletters. We love sharing our latest Tekkie Ties news, but if at any time you wish to stop receiving these, please unsubscribe from your account with us or click the unsubscribe button on one of the emails we have sent you.
Changes to privacy policy
We may amend this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Any updates to this privacy policy will be posted on our website. Changes take effect immediately upon their posting on our website. Your continued dealings with us, for example use of our website, will signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy as amended.