Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas Web site.

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

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas and Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas collects and uses your personal information to operate the Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas and its affiliates. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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, Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas, in order to determine what Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas Web sites 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas Web site 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas pages, or register with Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas site or services, a cookie helps Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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 Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas 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 Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Rimu Creek & PacaVista Alpacas at alpacasnz@pacavistaalpacas.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.