We understand how important it is to protect your personal information. This document sets out our privacy policy commitment in respect of personal information we hold about you and what we do with that information. We recognise that any personal information we collect about you will only be used for the purposes we have collected it for as allowed under the law. It is important to us that you are confident that any personal information we hold about you will be treated in a way which ensures protection of your personal information. Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the New Zealand Privacy Principles for the protection of personal information, as set out in the Privacy Act 1993 (the Privacy Act) and any other relevant law. The use of the Meridian Mall website is subject to our website terms and conditions. If there is any conflict between this privacy policy and the website terms and conditions, the website terms and conditions will prevail. Collection of information 1.1 Information collected through our website may include personal information about you (including identifiers, as set out in section 2 below). For example, personal information may be: (a) provided by you through registration for a centre competition (b) collected by us through click tracking in relation to your use of our website, including the tracking of the content you access and any services you utilise; and (c) collected by us through log files or cookies (as set out in sections 3 and 4). 1.2 Failure to provide necessary personal information when requested may result in certain services not being available to you. 1.3 We may also collect aggregated information generated by our systems, which tracks traffic to our website but does not relate to you personally (see section 6 below). Identifiers Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of the website (such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the internet), location, browser type and user name) will be recorded when you log in to our website. This information may be used to identify you. We will treat this information as personal information. Log files We use log files in order to enhance your experience on our website and to analyse trends. Log files gather information, such as which URL you just came from, which URL you visit next, what browser you are using and your IP address. This information is used to analyse trends and to administer and operate our website. Users who log in to our website also have their IP address recorded. An IP address can be used to identify a user; however we will treat this information as personal information. Cookies When you access our website, we may send a “cookie” (which is a small summary file containing a unique ID number) to your computer. This enables us to recognise your computer each time you visit our website. We may use the information we obtain from the cookies in the administration of our website and to improve the usability of our website. Our cookies may record information such as your IP address, your device and browser type, operating system, the pages or features of our website to which you have browsed and the time spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which the website is used by you, the search terms that you have used, the links on our website that you have clicked on or used, and other usage statistics. Some browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. However, this may have a negative impact on the usability of our website. Google Analytics Our website uses Google Analytics website measurement software. Google Analytics uses both first and third party cookies to record standard internet traffic information such as when, how many times, you have visited our website. The services are used to anonymously aggregate.