Animal Register Limited is committed
to protecting your privacy.
The information provided to Animal Register Limited
contains personally identifiable information that you share with us for the sole
purpose of repatriating your animal in the case it is lost.
Our policy is that we
recognise this purpose and undertake to comply with the laws of New Zealand in regard
to the protection and use of your details. In particular when using our web site
your information is protected by the Privacy Act 1993 and the four public register
privacy principles which limit:
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the manner in which information can be made available from public registers;
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re-sorting or combining public register information for commercial gain;
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electronic transmission of public registers;
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charging for access to public register information.
Animal Register Limited will not
sell, share or give away your personally identifiable information to any other party.
No information will be used for solicitation by third parties, and no solicitation
shall be made by Animal Register Limited without specific approval beforehand.
The
only exceptions to this policy are:
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That non-personal information may be used for statistical analysis of animal loss
and recovery patterns throughout New Zealand.
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In the event information is requested by law enforcement in the completion of a
valid investigation and with the proper legal requests.
Animal Register Limited is commited
to keeping your information accurate. Contact will be made annually to allow you
to log in and verify or amend the details stored. Access to your personal records
for verification is available without charge.
For security reasons this website
makes use of audit logs and may record user visits by login name, ip address, time
of activity, page views and/or database record searches. This information is only
used to ensure that the system is working correctly and that no misuse of the database
is occuring. No attempt will be made to identify the user except in the very unlikely
event that an investigation is necessary where there has been misuse of the database
or where a duplicate microchip records have been submitted.
Animal Register Limited
will not collect information from users by any method, other than that required
for the task. This site may make use of cookies, but such use will not store, collect
or later retrieve any information from a users computer that is not related to the
information provided for the Companion Animal Register. All Cookies will be session
based and only relate to the session you have logged in to complete the registration
process. Cookies’ are small pieces of text data that a web server can store on,
and later retrieve from, a user’s computer.
If you have comments or questions regarding
our privacy policy, please email:
info@animalregister.org.nz.
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