Privacy Policy

1 Introduction

1. McKenzie Global Ltd. (MGL) is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and complying with your choices. Both personal and non-personal information collected is safeguarded according to the highest privacy and data protection standards adopted worldwide. Whilst we have always had a robust and effective data protection programme, we recognise our obligations in updating expanding and explaining this programme to meet the demands of the GDPR and corresponding data protection legislation globally, including the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (the Act).
2. The purposes of this site and the persons to whom it is aimed are set out in the Background to our Terms and Conditions. Please read that background and those Terms and Conditions of use, in which this Privacy Policy is incorporated, carefully before proceeding to use this site.
3. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person).
4. This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.
5. Our site will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here and in a manner that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law. 
6. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of Our Site. If you do not accept and agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using Our Site immediately.
7. This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act.  If you wish to seek further information on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz. 

2 Changes to this policy

We may change this policy by uploading a revised policy onto the website.  The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy. 

This policy was last updated on 06 April 2021

3 Who do we collect your personal information from

1. We collect personal information about you from:
   1. you, when you provide that personal information to us, including via the website and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any contact with us (e.g. telephone call or email), or when you buy or subscribe to use our services and products
   2. third parties, where you have authorised this, have obtained the appropriate consents, or the information is publicly available.

4 Our commitment

1. Your information will not be shared, rented or sold to a third party
2. We use effective security measures to protect your information from unauthorised use
3. We give you the possibility to control the information that you shared with us
4. We will clearly inform you when information that personally identifies you (“personal information”) is asked for and you will have the choice to provide it or not. Generally, this information is requested when you install/download or subscribe to products, updates or other online services. 

5 How we use your personal information

1. We will only collect and use your personal information about you when the law allows us to:  Most commonly, we use it where :
   1. The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her information
   2. Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract
   3. Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
   4. Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority
   5. Processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests, including the provision of correct services 
   6. to provide services and products to you
   7. to market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose) 
   8. to improve the services and products that we provide to you and alert you to software upgrades, updates, discounts or other services provided by MGL
   9. to undertake credit checks of you (if necessary)
   10. to bill you and to collect money that you owe us, including authorising and processing credit card transactions, should that be necessary
   11. to respond to communications from you, including a complaint
   12. to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
   13. for any other purpose authorised by you or the Act.

6 Consent

When you provide your personal information, you consent that it can be used for the above purposes and that MGL is an authorized holder of such information. If you choose not to register or provide personal information, you can still use our website but you will not be able to receive additional services or access certain areas e.g. subscription that requires registration. When you activate your account, you are providing your consent to occasionally receive information from us. In each communication you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from further communications; Alternatively, you may contact us to express your choices at the address or email link provided below.

7 Protecting your personal information

1. We will take all reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.
2. We only keep your personal data for as long as we need in order to provide the services as described above and for as long as we have your permission to keep it. 
3. MGL is strongly committed to protecting your information and ensuring that your choices are honoured. We have taken strong security measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. 
4. Secure Sockets Layer SSL technology (HTTPS)is employed when you place online orders or transmit sensitive information meaning that your information is secure and encrypted and that you may safely share your data with our website. SSL is one of the safest methods of passing information over the Internet.
5. The website is hosted on third party servers, currently on Linode via Superstar Websites.
6. Our operational security policy ensures that all of our members are knowledgeable about data security, including email security, passwords, two-factor authentication, device encryption and VPN’s.

8 What we do with the information you share

1. Your information is never shared outside the company without your permission. Inside the company, data restored behind multiple firewalls on secure servers with restricted user access. 
2. When you register to our website, you are asked to provide your contact information, including a valid email address. We use this information to send you updates about your MGL order confirmations and information about our services. When you place online orders, we will ask for your credit card number and billing address information- we use this information only to invoice you for the product ordered at that time and that information is secure and encrypted as described above so that you may safely share your data with our website. 
3. We may on occasion require the assistance of other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as shipping and delivery of physical products. We will only provide such companies with the information required for them to perform these services; these service providers are bound by strict privacy policies and are prohibited from using your information for any other purpose. 
4. In very rare instances MGL may 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:
   1. conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with legal process served on MGL;
   2. protect and defend the rights or property, both tangible and intellectual, of MGL;
   3. act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of UMSL, its website, or the public at large. 

9 Your individual rights – Accessing and correcting your personal information

1. In this section, we have summarised the rights that you have under GDPR and equivalent global legislation, including the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020. Some of these rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
2. Your principal rights under GDPR and associated legislation are:
   1. Right to Access
   2. Right to Rectification
   3. Right to Erasure
   4. Right to Restrict Processing
   5. Right to Object
   6. Right to Data Portability
3. You have the right to confirmation as to whether we process your personal data and where the data has been processed, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information.
4. This additional information includes details of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected we are able to supply you with a copy of your personal data.
5. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
6. Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold and to request a correction to your personal information.  Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates.
7. In respect of a request for correction, if we think the correction is reasonable and we are reasonably able to change the personal information, we will make the correction.  If we do not make the correction, we will take reasonable steps to note on the personal information that you requested the correction.
8. If you want to exercise either of the above rights, email us at info@mckenziemethod.com
9. Your email should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request (e.g. the personal information, or the correction, that you are requesting).

10 Internet use

1. While we take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.
2. If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information.  We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal information.

11 Analytics

1. We use third-party analytics tools to better understand who is using our website and how it is being used so we can make improvements. These tools may use cookies (an alphanumeric identifier that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive so that we can recognise your browser) and other technologies to collect information about your use of the website along with your preferences and activities. These tools collect information sent by your device and other information that assists in improving the website. This information may be used to analyse and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity, among other things.
2. You may disable cookies by changing the settings on your browser, although this may mean that you cannot use all of the features of the website.
3. We use Google Analytics to better understand who is using the website and how it is being used. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and store information such as the website pages visited, time spent on each page, Internet Protocol address, type of operating system used, location-based data, device ID, search history, gender, age and phone number. We use this information to improve the website and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Please see http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ for information about how Google Analytics uses this information and visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for information about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on. Google may track your activity over time and across websites.  

12 Contacting us

1. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, you can contact us at info@mckenziemethod.com
2. We take any complaints about our collection and use of personal information very seriously.
3. If you think our collection or use of personal information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate, or have any other concern about our data processing, please raise this with us in the first instance.
4. To make a complaint, please admin@mckenziemethod.com