Privacy Policy

Crown Collections and Investigations is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Crown Collections and Investigations site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Crown Collections and Investigations site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Crown Collections and Investigations collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Crown Collections and Investigations also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Crown Collections and Investigations. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Crown Collections and Investigations for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Crown Collections and Investigations site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Crown Collections and Investigations public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Crown Collections and Investigations does not read any of your private online communications.

Crown Collections and Investigations encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Crown Collections and Investigations so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Crown Collections and Investigations is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Crown Collections and Investigations and Crown Collections and Investigations family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Crown Collections and Investigations collects and uses your personal information to operate the Crown Collections and Investigations Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Crown Collections and Investigations also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Crown Collections and Investigations and its affiliates. Crown Collections and Investigations may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Crown Collections and Investigations does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Crown Collections and Investigations may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Crown Collections and Investigations may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Crown Collections and Investigations, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Crown Collections and Investigations does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Crown Collections and Investigations keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Crown Collections and Investigations, in order to determine what Crown Collections and Investigations services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Crown Collections and Investigations to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Crown Collections and Investigations Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Crown Collections and Investigations or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Crown Collections and Investigations; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Crown Collections and Investigations, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Crown Collections and Investigations Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Crown Collections and Investigations pages, or register with Crown Collections and Investigations site or services, a cookie helps Crown Collections and Investigations to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Crown Collections and Investigations Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Crown Collections and Investigations features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Crown Collections and Investigations services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Crown Collections and Investigations secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Crown Collections and Investigations secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Crown Collections and Investigations will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Crown Collections and Investigations encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Crown Collections and Investigations is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Crown Collections and Investigations welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Crown Collections and Investigations has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Crown Collections and Investigations at office@crowncollections.nz. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.