PRIVACY POLICY

Thirst Beverage Group Limited trading as Thirst Beverages (we, us or our) is committed to protecting and maintaining the privacy, accuracy and security of your personal information.

This privacy policy sets out details of how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information. By accessing and using our website or our products and services, you consent to the collection, use, storage and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy.


HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We will only collect personal information relevant to our business relationship with you. The personal information we collect will generally include your name, address, telephone numbers, email address, credit card or bank account details and information about your use of our products and services. You may choose to not provide us with this information, but not doing so may affect our ability to provide you with our products and services.

We will collect this information directly from you when you:
 

• register to use our products and services;
• use our products and services; or
• communicate or interact with us, whether by email, telephone or otherwise.

You are required to keep us informed of changes to your information to enable us to have proper administrative processes.

We may also collect aggregated information generated by our system, which tracks your use of our products and services but does not identify you personally. 


COOKIES
Our website uses server logs and web analytic tools (such as “cookies”). Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your device by websites that you visit. When you use our website, these tools collect information such as the browser and operating system that you use, the internet protocol address of the device you use to access the site, search terms, your location and the content that you view when visiting the website.

You can set your browser to block all cookies, including cookies associated with our website, or to indicate when a cookie is being set by us. If you set your browser to reject cookies you may not be able to access all the features of the website


HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use your personal information to:

We may use any information that we collect from you that is not personal information (so you cannot be personally identified from it) for our business purposes, including:
 

MARKETING
We may use your information to offer you products and services that we believe meet your needs. You can notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at admin@thirst.co.nz or writing to us at PO Box 100533 NSMC. We will act promptly on any such request.


WHO WE MAY DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION TO
We may disclose information we retain about you, including your personal information, to the following persons or their agents:
 

Some of the persons listed above may be located overseas. We will only transfer your personal information to a recipient that is obliged to protect your personal information with comparable safeguards to those contained in the Privacy Act 2020, or otherwise we will obtain your express consent to transfer or store the personal information.

We may disclose, sell or transfer to third parties any nonpersonal, aggregated information that we collect from you and our other customers.


YOUR INFORMATION IS SECURE
We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information secure and confidential. This includes the following:
 

PAYMENT
You will be directed to a secure Windcave site for payment that is independent of the business.

Windcave is committed to protecting your privacy whenever you buy goods or services from a merchant that uses Windcave payment solutions (“Merchant”). Merchants will generally use Windcave's payment solutions when customer uses a credit or debit payment card over the internet, telephone, fax, unattended or integrated electronic funds transfer at the point of sale (“EFTPOS”) system (collectively “Transactions”).

Windcave recognizes its responsibility to keep all personal information confidential at all times. Any information that Windcave acquires in connection with such Transactions is kept confidential, whether the information is acquired directly from a cardholder or Merchant. Windcave protects personal information - at a minimum - to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (“PCI-DSS”). To learn more about PCI-DSS, please see our PCI-DSS section below, or visit the PCI Security Standards Council’s website, at: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/.


ADVERTISING AND THIRD PARTY LINKS
Our website may contain links to a variety of advertising and third party website sources. Some of these links may request or record information from users or use cookies or other methods to collect information from you. We have no control over the content or privacy policy practices of those sites and encourage you to review the privacy policies of those sites before using them.


YOU HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION
You can access most of the personal information we hold about you and request corrections. This right is subject to some exceptions, for example, you may not obtain access to information relating to existing or anticipated legal proceedings. You can request access to your information by emailing us at admin@thirst.co.nz or writing to us at PO Box 100533 NSMC. This service is free unless the information you request requires significant research or preparation time. Before we act upon requests of this nature, we will tell you how much this service will cost.


WHAT TO DO IF YOU THINK WE HAVE MADE AN ERROR
We are committed to protecting your privacy and our policies, processes and systems have been developed with this in mind. However, if you think we have made an error, please email us at admin@thirst.co.nz or write to us at PO Box 100533 NSMC to let us know. Where we have made an error, we will endeavour to correct the error as soon as reasonably practicable.


QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS
If you have a question or complaint about the way we have dealt with your personal information, please contact us by email or in writing at the addresses above. We will endeavour to respond promptly to your question or complaint.


BREACHES OF YOUR PRIVACY
We take our privacy responsibilities seriously. In the unlikely event that a suspected or actual breach of your personal data occurs, we will investigate the breach. We will notify you and the Privacy Commissioner if we reasonably believe that the breach has caused you serious harm, or is likely to cause you serious harm.


CHANGES TO POLICY
We may change this policy at any time by publishing the amended policy on our website.