Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us

It is Our Little Village’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to ourlittlevillage.org.nz (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “ourlittlevillage.org.nz”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of service posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Our Little Village collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our Little Village’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Our Little Village’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Our Little Village may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Our Little Village also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blog posts. Our Little Village only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Our Little Village’s websites choose to interact with Our Little Village in ways that require Our Little Village to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Our Little Village gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who leave a comment at Our Little Village to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Our Little Village discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Our Little Village’s behalf or to provide services available at Our Little Village’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Our Little Village’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Our Little Village will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Our Little Village discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Our Little Village believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Our Little Village, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of our website and have supplied your email address, Our Little Village may occasionally send you an email to solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Our Little Village. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Our Little Village takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Our Little Village may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. Our Little Village may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Our Little Village does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Our Little Village uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Our Little Village uses cookies to help Our Little Village identify and track visitors, their usage of https://ourlittlevillage.org.nz, and their website access preferences. Our Little Village visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Our Little Village’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Our Little Village’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Our Little Village’s use of cookies.

Donations

Those who engage in transactions with Our Little Village through donations, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Our Little Village collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Our Little Village. Our Little Village does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Our Little Village may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Our Little Village’s sole discretion. Our Little Village encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Contact Information & Credit

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us via email or phone.