Terms and Conditions of Site Use

Terms and Conditions
These terms and conditions apply to the use of this website. By using this website, you agree to be bound by these
terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must refrain from using this website.
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· We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to time. Amendments will be effective immediately upon notification on this website. 
Your continued use of the website following such notification will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the terms and conditions as amended.
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· This website, all content, copyright and all relevant copyright works are owned by WHANAKE HOUSE (Invercargill, NZ) unless otherwise stated. 
All rights reserved. 
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· WHANAKE HOUSE provides this website service with the aim of promoting and providing information to website visitors about our web design services. 

· WHANAKE HOUSE will use reasonable endeavours to ensure the website is always available but will take no responsibility for any system failure or for any loss incurred as a result.
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· Links from this website to other sites including social media beyond the control of WHANAKE HOUSE provided for the convenience of the user. Such links do not represent any official endorsement or approval of any such website, product, organisation or service. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any such website.
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· To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied in these terms and conditions is hereby excluded. WHANAKE HOUSE accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage, costs or expense (whether direct or indirect) suffered or incurred by you as a result of or in connection with your use of this website or any linked websites or your reliance on any information contained or accessed through this website. This disclaimer does not attempt or purport to exclude liability arising under statute of law if, and to the extent, such liability cannot be lawfully excluded. 
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· All information on the site is subject to change without notice. 
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· WHANAKE HOUSE reserves the right to edit any uploaded and displayed content and will not permit content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, torturous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful or racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate.
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· WHANAKE HOUSE reserves the right to terminate any services without notice. 
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· Under no circumstances will WHANAKE HOUSE be liable in any way for any content including, but not limited to any errors in any content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted to and communicated from this website service.

· You agree not to use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or to engage in any conduct that is likely to impair or cause damage to the operation of this website whether by way of a virus, corrupted file or through use of any other software or program. Furthermore, you agree not to alter, modify, reproduce, transmit or otherwise deal with the content, software, text, graphics, layout or design of this website without our prior written approval.

· Intellectual Property: The materials displayed on this website are protected by copyright and other laws of New Zealand, and under similar laws and international conventions abroad. You acknowledge and agree that all copyright and other intellectual property rights that may subsist in this website including text, illustrations, photographs, video, music, sounds, layout, designs, source code, belong to us or to our licensors (together, ‘our intellectual property’). Except with our prior written permission, you may not in any form or by any means:
a) use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, print, display, perform, publish, or create in any way any works contained in any part of this website; or
b) commercialise any information, products or services obtained from any part of this website.

· These terms of use are governed by the laws of New Zealand and the courts of New Zealand shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute arising in relation to these terms of use.

· These terms of use were last updated 19.12.2023

PRIVACY POLICY
This website is owned and operated by WHANAKE HOUSE and will be referred to as “We”, “our” and “us” in this Privacy Policy. By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy of this website, which is set out on this web page. The Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your visit on the website. 
 
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the website. We do not make any representations about third party websites that may be linked to this website. 
 
Information
We gather various information about users of our website. This information includes:
· Personal information through your voluntary use of the website and the contact process (such as your first and last names and email);
· Personal information provided to us by you through any other method, incl. social media or text message
· Aggregated data, which tracks traffic to the website, and cookies; which are pieces of information transferred to your computer hard drive for record-keeping (such as your preferences on our website). 
 
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
 
Use of your Information
We will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
 
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in a browser related file on your computer’s hard drive when you use our website. Cookies are widely used on most major websites. Overall cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic.

If you post on our site or Facebook or any other social media site about us or your experience with us, we may collect that information for the purposes of improving our service and the end user experience.
 
Access and Removal of Information
You have the right to seek access to personal information held about you and to advise us of any inaccuracy. There are some exceptions to this right set out in the Privacy Act. If you make an access request, we will ask you to verify your identity and specify what information you require. 
 
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
 
Updates to our Information Practices
We reserve the right to change this policy. By continuing to use the website, you agree to be bound by the amended policy.
​You should check from time to time to see if the policy has changed.