Privacy Policy

Use of Personal Information

We may collect and retain your personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and as necessary in order to perform our services. We may also use your information for the following reasons:

to send news and information about our activities which we believe may be useful to you;
to process any queries you may have;
to verify your identity;
to distribute publications, newsletters and promotion of our products and services;>
to manage the safety and security of other users;
to conduct competitions or promotions; and
to provide to third parties such as sponsors and strategic partners but only if you have authorised us to do so,
share with our staff members and/or agents to assist us in arranging promotions and programs;
to improve our Website and our services;
to detect, prevent, mitigate, and investigate fraud or any prohibited activity which in turn protects you and other users.

Submitting Data

When you submit data through the Site, we will maintain your Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to access and ask us to correct any of your personal information provided to us in connection with your use of this site.

Please drop us an email at info@whangaicafe.co.nz

If you do not want your personal information used in the above manner.
If you'd like to obtain a copy of your personal information.
If you'd like to update your personal information.
If you'd like to be removed from our electronic mailing list.

You are responsible to ensure that all information you provide us is current, complete and accurate. Unless required to, we will not verify that the information you have provided is current, complete and accurate. However, if we believe that the information you provide is not current, complete, or accurate, we reserve the right to decline access to information or services, deny access to certain parts of the our Website, and/or deny entry into our promotional events, until current, complete or accurate information is provided.

Collection of personal information not mandatory

Providing some information is optional. If you choose not to enter your personal information, we may not be able to provide certain information or services you have requested

We also collect your personal information in the following ways:

you providing it directly to us,
your conversations or email interactions, between you and our staff,
your access and use of our Website, apps and other sources.

Use of Device Information

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing your personal Information

We share your personal information with third parties to help us use your personal information, as described above. (For example, Google Analytics). You can opt-out of Google Analytics by sending us an email at info@whangaicafe.co.nz

We may share your personal information with third parties if you have authorized us to. This will be for the purposes related to the provision of our services, competitions that we may run, promotions, information and marketing. Third parties may include sponsors, and strategic partners. We do not share your information if you do not provide your consent.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information or Device Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Copyright Statement

We, Mārama and Shane Hooper, owners of Whāngai Cafe, hereby state that we either own the rights, or have permission, to publish all content provided in this website. All media and copy are created by us or legally ours to pubklish in the manner that we have done. Music, photos and video content on this site, not created by us, have been obtained through creative commons resources and have been credited either through necessity of the lisencing terms or to simply show appreciation to the author and/or provider. Any content provided that is not owned by us has been used in accordance with the licensing terms and is correctly and clearly referenced.