Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us at Grow Your Business and we want to be sure that you understand the terms and conditions relating to the way in which we collect information and use that information.
This Privacy Policy tells you what information we collect what we do with it and your rights to view, correct or change it.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (http://www.privacy.org.nz) provides further details of the New Zealand Privacy Act and how it protects personal information in New Zealand.
What information do we collect?
Through the website www.growyourbiz.co.nz we gather certain types of information about the users of the website:
1. Personally Identifiable Information:This is information which is provided by you when you register for services that we may offer.
2. Collected Data: This information is generated by our systems as they track traffic through our sites. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to the personally identifiable information that you may have provided.
Who do we share this information with ?
Grow Your Business does not sell, rent or provide your personal identification information to third parties and we only release account and other personal information when we believe release is necessary to comply with law; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Grow Your Business, our users, or others.
What do we do with personally identifiable information?
We collect this information in order to constantly improve our service to you while you are visiting our website. To this end we may use the information that you provide for the following purposes:
1. To verify your identity if you need help with a forgotten password or you are having login problems with one of our site services.
2. To process any transactions that you might make on our site.
3. To help provide any other services that you have requested.
4. To offer the most relevant information suitable to you and your interests.
5. For any marketing, promotional, publicity, marketing or market research that we might undertake.
6. For any other purposes for which you have given permission.
Email - Opting in and opting out
Grow Your Business may send a regular newsletter to members as well as other informative emails and/or product offers. Newsletters and other emails will contain clear and obvious instructions for how the member can remove himself or herself from that mailing list so you will always have the option to opt in to certain services and to opt out of those services at any stage. This means you may change your mind at any stage about participating in any of our member services.
If you wish to have your membership removed from our directory for any reason, simply send us an email requesting to be removed. Alternatively, members may de-register themselves on the web site.
What about cookies?
A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer and is recognised by our server when you visit the Grow Your Business website. A cookie does not provide us with any personally identifiable information. It does provide details of your IP address, the computer platform that you use (eg Mac or Windows), the browser that you use (eg Microsoft Explorer or Netscape) and what domain you are accessing our sites from. With this information we can do the following:
1. Track traffic patterns to our site.
2. Ensure that the most relevant content is being shown.
3. Allow you to enter certain site member services without having to log in each time you visit.
4. Deliver information and fresh content specific to your interests
If you would rather we did not use cookies with you, you can refuse them by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You will still be able to visit our sites.
Cookies are widely used on major Web sites.
What about our business partners?
This Privacy Policy only relates to our sites. You should be aware that we are not responsible for the practices of our business partners. Our site may contain links to other sites. You should check their privacy policies before providing personally identifiable information to them or any other third party.
Your right to access your information
The Privacy Act of 1993 gives you the right to access and correct your personal information. To find out more about how to do this, please contact us by phone on (03) 366 6465 or by email jo@growyourbiz.co.nz. Grow Your Business also provides you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc online. However it is necessary for Grow Your Business to retain previous email addresses to match against your profile to ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions – in particular to ensure that the use of one account per member is complied with.
Who controls your password?
You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address and password, including fees. You agree that you will not disclose your password to any third parties. If you do share your user name, email address and password with third parties you are responsible for all actions taken with this information.
To protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer ensure you log off when you have finished visiting Grow Your Business using a shared computer.
If you believe that you password has been obtain by a third party please contact us so that privacy of your personal details can be protected.
Credit Card Security
Your credit card details are not held by Grow Your Business and can not be accessed by Grow Your Business staff. Protection of your credit card information is vital so we protect your credit card information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
Assignment
Grow Your Business may sell or otherwise assign its business or part of it’s business and shall be entitled to pass on all personal information held as part of the sale.
Can we change this policy?
In order to reflect the fact that our business is growing constantly, we reserve the right to change this policy at any time. We will notify site users of any changes to the Privacy Policy.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
1 These terms and conditions are designed to make www.growyourbiz.co.nz a productive and workable place for our Members.
2 ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
2.1 These terms and conditions are the terms on which Grow Your Business offers you access to the Services contained on the web site www.growyourbiz.co.nz.
2.2 By registering as a Member of Grow Your Business you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions and you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions as well as any other guidelines, rules, additional terms referenced herein including any amendments made to them from time to time.
2.3 If you do not accept or are unwilling to be bound by these terms and conditions then you must not use or access the Site or the Services.
2.4 By accepting these terms and conditions you will receive a Grow Your Business email newsletter on a regular basis. If you do not wish to receive these emails, please reply to them with unsubscribe in the header. The newsletter will be used to promote special offers from Grow Your Business that are available to our Members.
3 FUTURE AMENDMENT OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
3.1 Grow Your Business may amend these conditions in whole or in part from time to time in our sole discretion and we recommend that you check them on a regular basis. Amendments will be effective immediately upon posting of the amended terms and conditions on the Site. You are responsible for ensuring you are familiar with the latest version of the terms and conditions. You agree to check the terms and conditions each time you use the Services and you will be taken as accepting the then current terms and conditions each time you choose to use the Services.
4 TERMINOLOGY
In these terms and conditions, the following words have the meanings set out as follows:
"Member" means a registered member of Grow Your Business.
"Services" means any one or more of the services offered by Grow Your Business from time to time by way of the Site or otherwise, including NEEDZ™
and CONTROL™ , Forums, consultancy services, seminars, training programmes and any other service that Grow Your Business may offer.
"Site" means the website known as "www.growyourbiz.co.nz"
"we", "us" and "our" are a reference to RGrow Your Business.
"you" and "your" are a reference to you.
5 Grow Your Business' Services
5.1 Grow Your Business provides the Site for Members to:
(a) Purchase Services
(b) Obtain business development advice and feedback
(c) Offer contributions and solicit comment from, and share comments with other Members.
6 BECOMING A MEMBER
6.1 Membership is available to all client/customers of Grow Your Business. However, you may only register as a Member if you can form a legally binding contract that is enforceable against you. By registering as a Member, you warrant that you can form a legally binding contract and you acknowledge that by becoming a Member you are contractually bound by these terms and conditions
6.2 Accurate Membership Information and Security
(a) You warrant that the information provided when you registered was and remains complete and accurate. You must maintain and update your personal information held by Grow Your Business to ensure it is current at all times. You must not register multiple identities or use another person’s name and personal details. Grow Your Business may phone or mail you to verify these details.
(b) You are responsible for keeping your login information, including your email address and password, secret and secure. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree:
(i) Not to permit any other person to use your user name or Membership; and
(ii) Not to disclose your password, or any information to any other person that may allow them to use your Membership.
6.3 Termination of Membership:
River Empowerment reserves the right to decline to register or to terminate your Membership without providing you with any warning or entering into discussions with you. By way of example and not limitation, River Empowerment may terminate your Membership if a serious complaint is received about you from another Member or Members, you breach these terms and conditions (regardless of whether you were aware that you were breaching these terms and conditions at the time of the breach), or if we deem your behaviour to be unacceptable. Members who have registered under multiple aliases will have all of their aliases disabled
7 AT YOUR OWN RISK
7.1 Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained though the use of the Service is accessed at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such material. We will take reasonable care to ensure that information provided through the Services is accurate, reliable, adequate, complete and current but we cannot and do not represent or warrant that this will always be the case.
7.2 Grow Your Business does not control the content posted by Members, including the content of any comment or advice, and does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content. Contact between you and other Members is conducted entirely at your own risk.
7.3 You expressly understand and agree that Grow Your Business gives no undertakings, representations, or warranties in relation to products or Services sold on the Site, including:
(a) that the Services will meet your requirements;
(b) that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error–free;
(c) as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Service
(d) as to the identity of any of the or Members; or
(e) as to the accuracy or truth of Member’s contributions
(f) that any errors in the software will be corrected.
(g) that any information provided on the Site is correct, error-free or reliable;
7.4 You agree that Grow Your Business takes no responsibility or liability for any misconduct or breach of these terms and conditions by any of its Members including, without limitation, Members that have made false registrations or who attempt to mislead or defame you or otherwise waste your time.
8 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND DISCLAIMER
8.1 River Empowerment does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted by Members using the Site.
8.2 You understand that by using the Service you may be exposed to content that is inaccurate or misleading. Under no circumstances will River Empowerment be liable in any way for any content, including any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content. River Empowerment will endeavour to remove any content which is offensive, objectionable or clearly incorrect as soon as such content is brought to its attention
8.3 You understand that River Empowerment may or may not pre-screen Content submitted, but that River Empowerment shall have the right in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, or move any Content, that is available via the Site. River Empowerment has the right to remove Content that violates the terms and conditions or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by River Empowerment or submitted to River Empowerment, including without limitation information in the forum.
8.4 To the maximum extent permitted by law, any and all liability of Grow Your Business which arises in connection with these terms and conditions, or in connection with the, the Site, another Member's acts or omissions, or your use of or inability to use, the Services or the Site is excluded. Furthermore, Grow Your Business' liability is excluded in respect of any incidental, punitive, and consequential damages, whether direct or indirect, including, without limitation, , loss of data, business interruption, loss of business loss of profits or anticipated savings, general and special damages, and consequential or incidental loss.
9 INDEMNITY
9.1 You agree to indemnify Grow Your Business and keep Grow Your Business indemnified Grow Your Business at all times hereafter from and against all actions, claims, costs (including all solicitor/client legal costs and expenses) losses, damages, liabilities or demands suffered or incurred by Grow Your Business arising out of or in connection with your failure to comply with these terms and conditions, - including any failure which relates to your use of any forum, message boards and chat rooms on the Site, or arising out of any content you submit, to the Site.
9.2 On any default or failure by you to observe and perform any of the covenants terms and conditions of these Terms you will forthwith on demand by Grow Your Business pay to Grow Your Business and make good all losses and expenses sustained or incurred by Grow Your Business by reason of or in consequence of any such breach, default or failure by you.
10 RULES
10.1 You are responsible for complying with all laws applicable to the content you submit to the Site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the content, integrity, and accuracy of such content.
10.2 All contributions and other communications made through the Site shall be made in good faith. In posting content you should be objective and truthful. You must not submit false or misleading information to the Site. You should be detailed and specific, and give other Members a feel for your experience.
10.3 You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.
10.4 You must not market or export any content to any web site other than the Site. Linking your content from other websites will be considered a breach of these terms and conditions.
10.5 You must not post or offer specific content about yourself or include any contact details or personal information in your contributions to the forum.
10.6 You must not attempt to interfere with or harm the Site or Services, or any network, or system underlying or connected to them.
10.7 You must not use the Services or the Site to promote items for sale outside the Services.
10.8 You may not modify, adapt, translate or reverse engineer any portion of the Site.
10.9 You may not collect any information about other users or Members (including usernames and/or email address) for any purpose other than to share contributions with other Members.
10.10 You must not create a user account by automated means or under false or fraudulent pretences.
10.11 You must not create or transmit unwanted electronic communications such as “spam” to other users or Members or otherwise interfere with other user’s or Member’s enjoyment of the Site.
10.12 You must not submit any third party materials or content without that third party’s prior written consent.
10.13 You must not use a robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Site or information feature on it for any purpose.
10.14 You understand and agree that you will not be entitled to a refund of any money paid to Grow Your Businessor compensation in respect of any unfavourable content or content that is posted against you by other Members.
10.15 Grow Your Business Memberships are not transferable and therefore can not be sold or traded.
11 NO GUARANTEES OR ENDORSEMENTS OF SITES OR SERVICES LINKED TO THE SITE OR THAT THE SITE LINKS TO
11.1 Links to third party websites are provided for convenience only. Links should not be construed as any endorsement, approval, recommendation or preference by us of the owners or operators of the sites, or of any information, products or Services referred to on those other sites or otherwise posted on this website, unless specifically stated.
11.2 Grow Your Business is not responsible for the copyright compliance of any linked site. Grow Your Business will not be liable for any damages or loss arising in any way out of or in connection with or incidental to any information or third party Service provided by any third party.
12 ENDING, CHANGING OR SUSPENDING ANY SERVICES
12.1 Grow Your Business may at any time and without notice:
(a) Change the format and content of this Site and/or products or Services offered at the Site
(b) Stop providing, suspend or restrict your access to any Service if you do not meet any responsibility you have to us; or
(c) Terminate of suspend the operation of the Site and/or the Services (in whole or in part) temporarily, if we think it reasonable or necessary (e.g. for support or maintenance work or to update content) permanently if we decide to discontinue a particular Service.
(d) This will not affect any rights and responsibilities which are intended to continue, or come into force after that date or event.
13 GENERAL MATTERS
13.1 System Integrity:
Grow Your Business will use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Site and Services, are always available, subject to any downtime required for maintenance. Grow Your Business will endeavour to provide advance notice of planned maintenance; However, Grow Your Business takes no responsibility for any system unavailability, or for any loss that is incurred as a result of the Site or Services being unavailable. Further, Grow Your Business assumes no responsibility for the corruption of any data or information held by River Empowerment or you.
13.2 No Waiver:
If we do not exercise or enforce any right available to us under these terms and conditions, it does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
13.3 Partial Invalidity:
If any provision of these terms and conditions becomes or is held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, and in any respect, that provision shall be severed from the remaining terms and conditions, which shall continue in full force and effect.
13.4 Governing Law:
These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of New Zealand.
13.7 Intellectual Property Rights:
(a) Grow Your Businessowns all proprietary and intellectual property rights in the Site (including text, graphics, logos, icons and sound recordings) and the software and other material underlying and forming part of the Services and the Site. You may not without our prior written permission, in any form or by any means:
(i) Copy, distribute, display, publish or create derivative works from any part of the Site; or
(ii) Commercialise, copy, or on-sell any information, or items obtained from any part of the Site.
(b) Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. You agree not to breach any trade mark, copyright, patent, design or other rights in relation to all trade marks, information, images, logos and other intellectual property included in the Site.
(c) No logo, graphic or image from the Grow Your Business site may be copies or retransmitted unless expressly permitted in writing by Grow Your Business.
(d) Do not upload or copy any material unless you have the right or appropriate consent to do so.
(e) You agree not to download, copy, transmit or otherwise replicate any of the information on this Site, including comments, for any business purpose.
(f) If you post any material on this Site, you agree that we may reproduce, publish, modify and distribute that material and incorporate it in other works in any form but only for purposes reasonably associated with the posting and the operation of the Services.
(g) If you do not own the material, you must get the owner’s consent before you post or upload it.
13.7 Entire agreement
These terms and conditions supersede all previous conditions, understandings, commitments, agreements and representations whatsoever whether oral or written, and constitutes the entire agreement, between the parties, relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions.
13.8 Specific Agreement will prevail
Where you have entered into an agreement with Grow Your Business ("Specific Agreement") then any conflicting provisions of that Specific Agreement shall prevail over this Agreement, except where particular matters are not dealt with in the Specific Agreement and in that case, this Agreement shall prevail.
13.9 Privacy
(a) Without limiting our Privacy Policy you agree that Grow Your Business may use personal information collected from you to assist us to provide the Services to you, to verify your identity, for promoting and marketing of additional River Empowerment products and Services to you, and for any other use that you authorise.
(b) Grow Your Business does not allow third parties to access your personal information without your consent, however you agree that Grow Your Business may disclose your personal information to the relevant authorities, parties and/or the applicable intellectual property right holders (or their representatives) if we consider that you are in breach of our privacy policy.
(c) You may contact us to request access to any information that we hold about you and you may also ask us to correct that information if you consider it to be inaccurate.
