Cookies
Browser or ‘web’ cookies are small text files that are sent by a website and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are generally used to improve your experience on a website (e.g. by remembering preferences you’ve set) and to track site usage.
How we use cookies
EQC does not use cookies to gather any personally identifiable information. We use cookies to gather data about trends in site usage using a tool called Google Analytics.
Read more about Google Analytics at the Google website.
We use Google Analytics to help analyse how customers use our site. This analytical tool uses "session cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website, including your IP address, is transmitted to and stored by Google outside New Zealand. The tracking data is stored in a database managed by Google. The tracking data is then used by Google to compile statistical reports on website activity for us to evaluate site use. This allows us to:
- discover what information is most and least used
- determine technical design specifications, and
- help make our sites more useful to visitors.
We won't use web analytics tools to track or collect any personal information of visitors to our website.
We won't associate any data gathered from our site with any personal information from any source as part of our use of the web analytics tools. We won't link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
Disabling/enabling cookies
You can accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser. Disabling cookies will not affect your ability to use our websites.
You can manually disable cookies at any time – check your browser’s ‘Help’ section to find out how:
Google Chrome > Settings > Show advanced settings > Privacy > Content settings
Mozilla Firefox > Options > Privacy > History (Use custom settings for history)
Safari > Edit > Preferences > Privacy
Internet Explore > Tools > Internet Options > Privacy
Amazon Alexa Skills
Skills are voice-driven Alexa capabilities. When you use our skill, information such as your post code or the content of your requests may be recorded by Amazon.
How we use Alexa skills
EQC’s Natural Hazards Skill does not have access to any personal information stored by Amazon.
Learn how to manage your Alexa privacy settings on the Amazon website.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may change this privacy statement from time to time. Any updated versions of this privacy statement will be posted on our website. This statement was last updated in February 2019.