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Privacy Policy
1 Details of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to Animates NZ Holdings Ltd, trading as Animates and Animates Vetcare, and collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Animates”, “our”, “us” and “we”. Animates respects your right to privacy and understands the need to protect your personal information.
Our Privacy Policy applies to all your dealings with Animates whether through our stores, clinics or websites (www.animates.co.nz and www.animatesvetcare.co.nz) (“Websites”), or any of the other ways you may interact with us as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
When we refer to personal information throughout this Privacy Policy, we mean personal information as defined in the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (“Privacy Act”), being any information about an identifiable individual (“Personal Information”).
This Privacy Policy sets out how we manage the Personal Information that we collect about you. It also describes, in general terms, the types of personal information we hold, for what purposes and sets out how that information is collected, used, stored, and disclosed by Animates. This Privacy Policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Privacy Act.
When you provide your Personal Information to us in the ways outlined in this Privacy Policy, you agree to accept this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is available on our Websites at www.animates.co.nz and www.animatesvetcare.co.nz. You are encouraged to review the Privacy Policy on our Websites to make sure that you understand how any Personal Information you provide will be collected, used, stored, and disclosed.
2 Collection of your Personal Information
You can choose not to provide us with your Personal Information; however, we may not be able to provide products, services, information, respond to customer service requests, or otherwise carry out our general business functions.
We will collect Personal Information from you in the following ways:
a) When you are an Animates customer
When you are an Animates customer, we will collect Personal Information that you provide us with in the course of your interaction and/or engagement with us. Personal Information may include, without limitation, your name, email address, physical address, contact number and details about your pet/s (including name, age, breed, gender, vaccination status, whether your pet is desexed or not, healthcare information and/or microchip number).
We collect Personal Information about you directly from you - this can be in person at one of our Animates Stores or Animates Vetcare clinics, through completing a form at one of our Animates Stores or Animates Vetcare clinics, through interacting with our Customer Service Team, submitting forms on our Websites, enrolling your pet in Animates Puppy Preschool, enrolling your Pet at an Animates cattery, social media channels, emails, telephone calls, live chat, or when you enter a competition or trade promotion with us.
When you visit an Animates store and/or Animates Vetcare clinic (including carparks), we may collect video footage and/or still images of you through video surveillance systems (wherever you see video surveillance systems and/or a sign notifying you ‘CCTV IN OPERATION’, or similar, including in store, in clinic, and in carparks).
When you sign up to be an Animates Account holder through our Websites, you also apply to become a member of the Animates Petpoints (“APP”) Loyalty Programme. You can also apply to become a member of the APP Loyalty Programme in participating Animates stores and/or Animates Vetcare clinics.
If you are a member of the APP Loyalty Programme, you may be eligible to qualify to save on products and services through our Frequent Feeder and Frequent Groomer Programmes.
We encourage you to read our APP Loyalty Programme, Frequent Feeder Programme and Frequent Groomer terms and conditions here: Promotion Terms and Conditions | Petpoints| New | Animates Pet Supplies and Frequent Feeder FAQ and T&C | Animates Pet Supplies.
b) When you visit and submit Personal Information on our Websites
When you browse our Websites, we do not collect personally identifiable information from you. However, we do collect information from your device for the purposes of understanding how you use our Websites and to enhance your interaction with our Websites.
This website information is collected through the use of cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text that is placed within the memory of a computer and can be later retrieved by web page servers.
Cookies may record information about your visit, including the type of browser and operating system you use, the previous site you visited, your server’s IP address, the pages you access, and the information downloaded by you. While this anonymous statistical data may be aggregated and used in broader statistical analysis by us and our third party service providers to improve our services, at no time can we personally identify you as the source of that data.
You can disable cookies by setting your browser to not accept them. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features on our Websites.
Website information may also be collected through the use of analytical tools and automation platforms that we may operate, including but not limited to Google Analytics. Google has its own privacy policy, which you are recommended to view here: Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google
When you submit information through our Websites, including when you book an appointment at an Animates Vetcare clinic, enrol your pet in Animates Puppy Preschool, sign up to be an Animates account holder or APP Loyalty Programme member, or submit an enquiry form, we will collect Personal Information directly from you. This includes but is not limited to your:
- name;
- email address;
- physical address;
- contact number;
- information about your pet (including name, age, breed, gender, vaccination status, whether your pet is desexed or not, healthcare information and/or microchip number); and
- browsing data.
c) When you purchase products or services (online / in-store / in-clinic)
When you make a payment to purchase products or services through our Websites, you do so either through Windcave, PayPal, Afterpay or Laybuy.
These third parties have their own privacy policies, which you are recommended to view here:
We do not store any payment details from you when you make a purchase or payment online, in-store or in-clinic.
When setting up a subscription payment for products or services, either by way of credit card or debit card, we receive a payment token from third party provider Windcave that is linked to your credit or debit card details. Animates does not collect or store your credit or debit card details.
Animates takes reasonable steps to protect Personal Information against unauthorized access by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology when you make purchases through our Websites. Each time Animates collects any Personal Information when you make a purchase on our Websites, your details are encrypted and securely communicated to us.
For more information on how Animates protects your payment details, please review our Security Policy at https://www.animates.co.nz/security-policy.
3 Use of your Personal Information
What we do with your Personal Information depends on the purpose for which it was collected. We will not use or disclose your Personal Information except in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Act. The Personal Information that we hold about you may be used for any of our business purposes, and related purposes, including but not limited to:
- ·process and fulfil any one-off or repeat orders placed through our Websites, or in our Animates stores and/or Animates Vetcare clinics;
- to communicate with you about orders, programmes, products, services, marketing, promotions, and special offers;
- to provide our services to your pet at our Animates stores, Animates Vetcare clinics, Animates Puppy Preschool and/or Animates catteries;
- to provide and improve upon our customer service and our Websites and to seek your feedback in relation to customer satisfaction and our relationship with you;
- for statistical and analytical purposes;
- to comply with our regulatory reporting and legal obligations;
- to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim; and
- for any other purpose authorised by you or the Privacy Act.
4 Disclosure of Personal Information
Animates does not sell, rent, lend, exchange or trade your Personal Information. Animates will not disclose Personal Information to third parties to market their goods and services.
Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties for the purposes outlined above at clause 3, and for directly related purposes, including those required by the Privacy Act.
Some of these third parties include, but are not limited to:
- third party services providers, suppliers, or contractors who we conduct ordinary business with (including payment systems operators, freight and logistics providers, communications providers, and courier companies);
- advertising and marketing providers that require non-identifiable data to provide relevant advertising or analytical information; and
- selected providers and vendors authorised by us to carry out our business activities.
We will primarily collect and store Personal Information in New Zealand.
If at any time we need to send Personal Information outside of New Zealand to an overseas agency that may use the information for its own purposes, we will:
a) take steps to ensure that we believe on reasonable grounds that the overseas agency receiving the Personal Information is subject to privacy protections that, overall, provide comparable safeguards to those provided under the Privacy Act;
b) enter into a binding contractual agreement with the overseas agency receiving the Personal Information confirming that it will protect the Personal Information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those provided under the Privacy Act; or
c) obtain the express authorisation of the individual concerned to disclose their Personal Information overseas after expressly informing them that the overseas agency may not be required to protect the information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those provided under the Privacy Act.
5 Storage and Security of your Personal Information
We take the security of your Personal Information seriously and ensure that we comply with our legal obligations to protect your Personal Information. Access to your Personal Information is limited to those who specifically need it to conduct their responsibilities.
We have implemented appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security procedures in order to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
While we take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information, no data transmission over the Internet can be entirely secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of Personal Information that you send to us or your use of our Websites. Any Personal Information you send us is at your own risk, but once we receive it, we take appropriate steps to safeguard it.
6 Storage and Security of your customer account details
If you are an Animates account holder, you are responsible for your customer login details, including your email address and password. You are responsible for all actions taken using your customer login and you should not share your customer login details with anyone else.
7 External links from our Websites
Our Websites may contain links to websites which are owned and operated by other parties. While we endeavour to check that the content of these websites is suitable, we are not responsible for the information on, or the privacy practices of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies on these websites to understand how your Personal Information will be collected, stored, used, and disclosed.
8 Retention and destruction of your Personal Information
We will retain Personal Information that we collect for as long as it is required for the purpose/s for which it was collected, or otherwise as required by law. Once your Personal Information is no longer required, Animates will take reasonable steps to destroy or delete all identifying details, so that only anonymised data is retained.
9 Accuracy, and Your Right to Access or Correct Personal Information
Animates takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information we hold is accurate, up to date, complete, relevant, and not misleading.
If you are an Animates account holder, you can access some of the Personal Information we hold on you by logging into your account through our Websites.
For most requests, your Personal Information will be provided free of charge, however, Animates may charge a reasonable fee to cover its costs in relation to your request.
Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Privacy Act, if you believe your Personal Information held by Animates is not accurate, complete, or otherwise requires amendment, please do not hesitate to contact Animates by email or post on:
The Privacy Officer – Animates NZ Holdings Ltd.
2 Robert Street, PO Box 11-959, Ellerslie, Auckland, 1051, New Zealand
Email: customerservices@animates.co.nz
10 Opt-out of receiving marketing and promotional material
Animates acknowledges and respects its customers' choice to opt-out of receiving marketing and promotional materials from Animates. All emails, SMS, and newsletters from Animates allow you to opt-out of further mailings by clicking on the link or responding ‘unsubscribe’, to particular communication or groups or all communications. If you are an Animates account holder, you can elect to opt-out of receiving marketing by logging into your account on our Websites.
If you have any concerns about opting out of receiving marketing and promotional material from Animates, please contact our Privacy Officer on the contact details outlined below.
11 Mandatory reporting of notifiable privacy breaches
If your Personal Information is involved in a privacy breach which we reasonably believe is notifiable or must be reported in accordance with the Privacy Act (“Notifiable Privacy Breach”), we will inform the affected individual/s and report the Notifiable Privacy Breach to the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
12 Privacy Policy changes
Animates reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time.
We will inform you of any changes by publishing the updated Privacy Policy on our Websites.
We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on Animates’ privacy practices.
13 Contact, complaints and resolving your privacy concerns
If you are concerned with the way your Personal Information has been handled, please contact our Privacy Officer on the details below. We will investigate and respond to any complaints or concerns as soon as possible and in accordance with the time frames and procedures set out in the Privacy Act.
The Privacy Officer – Animates NZ Holdings Ltd.
2 Robert Street, PO Box 11-959, Ellerslie, Auckland, 1051, New Zealand
Email: customerservices@animates.co.nz
If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your complaint, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. https://www.privacy.org.nz/about-us/contact/