Kapiti Safer Community Trust is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Kapiti Safer Community Trust website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Kapiti Safer Community Trust website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Kapiti Safer Community Trust collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Kapiti Safer Community Trust also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Kapiti Safer Community Trust. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Kapiti Safer Community Trust for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Kapiti Safer Community Trust website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Kapiti Safer Community Trust public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Kapiti Safer Community Trust does not read any of your private online communications.

Kapiti Safer Community Trust encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Kapiti Safer Community Trust so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Kapiti Safer Community Trust is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Kapiti Safer Community Trust and Kapiti Safer Community Trust family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

Kapiti Safer Community Trust collects and uses your personal information to operate the Kapiti Safer Community Trust website and deliver the services you have requested. Kapiti Safer Community Trust also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Kapiti Safer Community Trust and its affiliates. Kapiti Safer Community Trust may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Kapiti Safer Community Trust does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Kapiti Safer Community Trust may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Kapiti Safer Community Trust may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Kapiti Safer Community Trust, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Kapiti Safer Community Trust does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Kapiti Safer Community Trust keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Kapiti Safer Community Trust, in order to determine what Kapiti Safer Community Trust services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Kapiti Safer Community Trust to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Kapiti Safer Community Trust websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Kapiti Safer Community Trust or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Kapiti Safer Community Trust; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Kapiti Safer Community Trust, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Kapiti Safer Community Trust website use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Kapiti Safer Community Trust pages, or register with Kapiti Safer Community Trust site or services, a cookie helps Kapiti Safer Community Trust to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Kapiti Safer Community Trust website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Kapiti Safer Community Trust features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Kapiti Safer Community Trust services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Kapiti Safer Community Trust secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Kapiti Safer Community Trust secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Kapiti Safer Community Trust will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Kapiti Safer Community Trust encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Kapiti Safer Community Trust is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Kapiti Safer Community Trust welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Kapiti Safer Community Trust has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Kapiti Safer Community Trust at info@safercommunity.org.nz. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.