First Financial Planning Ltd 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 First Financial Planning Ltd website and governs data collection and usage. By using the First Financial Planning Ltd website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

First Financial Planning Ltd collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. First Financial Planning Ltd also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

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

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

First Financial Planning Ltd encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from First Financial Planning Ltd so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. First Financial Planning Ltd is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the First Financial Planning Ltd and First Financial Planning Ltd family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

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

First Financial Planning Ltd does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. First Financial Planning Ltd 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, First Financial Planning Ltd 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 First Financial Planning Ltd, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

First Financial Planning Ltd does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

First Financial Planning Ltd keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within First Financial Planning Ltd, in order to determine what First Financial Planning Ltd services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within First Financial Planning Ltd to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

First Financial Planning Ltd website 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 First Financial Planning Ltd or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of First Financial Planning Ltd; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of First Financial Planning Ltd, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The First Financial Planning Ltd website uses "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 First Financial Planning Ltd pages, or register with First Financial Planning Ltd site or services, a cookie helps First Financial Planning Ltd 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 First Financial Planning Ltd website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the First Financial Planning Ltd 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 First Financial Planning Ltd services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

First Financial Planning Ltd secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. First Financial Planning Ltd 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 websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

First Financial Planning Ltd will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. First Financial Planning Ltd encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how First Financial Planning Ltd is protecting your information.

Contact Information

First Financial Planning Ltd welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that First Financial Planning Ltd has not adhered to this Statement, please contact First Financial Planning Ltd at annette.bovey@ffpl.co.nz. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.