Privacy Policy - Eco Wanaka Adventures

Privacy Policy

Throne Brown & Cochrane Ltd  (Eco Adventures Wanaka) has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. This statement outlines our information gathering and dissemination practices for the web site.

What We Collect and Where:

Our site may use forms that our guests can use to request information, products, and services. From these forms, we collect the following information: Visitors’ contact information (like e-mail addresses), unique identifiers (like customer name and contact numbers).

IP Addresses:

No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect server logs. The statistics and log files may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the information supplied by the Eco Adventures Wanaka.
When this website receives information about your session or about you, via your consent we may also use it for research in order to improve our site and the services we offer you.

How Secure is the Information We Collect?

Eco Adventures Wanaka makes every effort to follow industry standard security measures in order to prevent loss or misuse of the information under our control. Once Eco Adventures Wanaka receives information from you via email or any other means, the information is kept in a secure environment accessible only to internal employees. Your personal information will not be released unless Eco Adventures Wanaka believes in good faith that the law requires it or your permission is granted.

What Do We Use This Information For?

Contact Information and Unique Identifiers: your contact information and unique identifiers will only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which you have provided it (to send requested information about our services and to get in touch with you when necessary). We may use the information we collect through our “Guest Book” to improve the content of our web site and the services we offer you.

What About Cookies?

Eco Adventures Wanaka web site only uses session cookies during a search query of the site and during the building of an inquiry regarding services offered by Eco Adventures Wanaka. Administrators of the website (not members of the general public) will also have session cookies stored on their machine for the duration of each log-in.
Upon closing your browser, the session cookie set by this web site is destroyed and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our web site at a later date. Our server cannot find out a name or email address, or anything about a user’s computer, by using cookies. Cookie information is not stored or collected by Eco Adventures Wanaka Credit Card Payments:

Payments are processed through the secure Stripe payment system. Any credit card details stored for payments are done so on the Stripe payment system. Only tokenised  card information is stored which prevents unlawful use. The Stripe Privacy policy is here
Encryption protection is managed with an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate, industry standard 128bit encryption software. Any credit card details stored for payments are done so on the Stripe system. We do not hold customers’ credit or debit card details in any format that is not password protected with heavily restricted access. In the event you email your card details we will delete this email as soon as we have charged your card.

Privacy Act Statement 1/10/24:

We collect personal information from you, including information about your:

  • name
  • contact information
  • billing or purchase information

We collect your personal information in order to:

  • Identify you and communicate any changes with your booking. We also store your card details to a secure payment system ( STRIPE). This data is kept secure in our secure booking system (Fareharbor) and is password protected.

Providing some information is optional. If you choose not to enter Payment and identification details, we’ll be unable to reserve a booking. We have the ability to take payments in person via the Strip system. We will still need to identify you to secure any booking.

We keep your information safe by storing in our booking  system and only staff members of TBC ltd have password/Facial recognition access.

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at explore@adventurewanaka.com or 0279231420.