Privacy Policy for Southland Honda
1. Introduction
Welcome to Southland Honda. We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers’ data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website and use our services.
2. Information Collection
Personal Information: We collect personal information that you provide to us when you purchase our products or sign up for our newsletter. This information may include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and payment information.
Automated Information: When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device and interaction with our site. This includes data like your IP address, browser type, and browsing activity.
3. Use of Information
We use the information we collect for several purposes:
- Processing Transactions: To complete and manage purchases, orders, payments, and returns.
- Customer Support: To provide customer service and respond to your inquiries.
- Marketing: To send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information that may be of interest to you.
- Improving our Services: To better understand how users access and use our website, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve our services and respond to customer desires and preferences.
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
Service Providers: We share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, order fulfilment, and data analysis. Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You are free to decline our cookies if your browser or browser add-on permits, unless our cookies are required to prevent fraud or ensure the security of websites we control.
6. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information that we collect from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error-free.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in this Privacy Policy.
8. Rights of Users
You have the right to access, update, delete, or alter your personal information, either directly on our website or by contacting us to do so.
9. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
10. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
11. Payment Information Security
Security of Transmission of Payment Card Data
At Southland Honda, ensuring the secure transmission of your payment card data is a top priority. We are dedicated to providing a safe and secure environment for all transactions and have implemented a series of robust security measures to protect your personal and payment information.
Encryption and Data Security
- SSL/TLS Encryption: Our website uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, which encrypts all information transmitted between your computer and our servers. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using advanced transport layer security (TLS).
Third-Party Payment Processors
- To further secure your data, we use trusted third-party payment gateways to process our credit card transactions. These gateways are also fully compliant with the PCI DSS. By using these services, Southland Honda ensures that your payment data is processed securely without being stored on our servers.
- Our third-party processors are audited regularly and are required to keep your payment information secure. Information sent to these processors is encrypted using industry-standard technology, which is the best encryption software available today for online transactions.
Monitoring and Response
- We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly update our information security policies and procedures to safeguard our systems and your personal information against unauthorized access and use.
- In case of a data breach, we have in place procedures to minimize any impact and notify affected users in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
12. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- Email: admin@southlandhonda.co.nz
- Phone: (03) 214-4254
- Address: 77 Clyde Street, Invercargill, 9810