Site Privacy Policy
You may browse this website without providing any personal information. This policy explains how and when the Photoline: The New Zealand Railway Photo Archive (NZBN:9429053684370) (“we”, “us”, “our” or “The Photoline Archive”) collects personal information, what we do with it and your right to see or change it.
Collection and Storage of Personal Information
When you use certain functions of The Photoline Archive we will ask for your personal information. We will safeguard your personal information (information that identifies you as a natural person) and respect your rights under the Privacy Act 2020.
Use of Information
If you send us personal information, we will only use this personal information for the purpose for which it was provided after which time it will be removed.
We will keep the personal information you provide to us secure and will not disclose it to any other parties without your prior consent.
To enable licensing requests for imagery, your E-Mail address may be displayed to other registered users to allow them to contact you.
Information We Ask For
Information we ask for includes your:
- First and Last Names and E-mail address when you register to use our services.
Disclosure of Personal Information
This information is held by The Photoline Archive. Your full name can be viewed by site administrators, and reserachers in relation to content you have provided or uploaded, be it images or comments. Third-party contractors who administer or work on the site, or who work on special projects with us may also have access.
We use a third-party payment processor to handle your payment information when you make a purchase on this site. We do not retain any personally identifying or financial information, such as credit card numbers. All such information goes directly to STRIPE - www.stripe.com, our processor.
As well as this, we may gather statistical information on visitation to help us improve this site and our services. This information is aggregated and non-personally identifying. It may include:
• your IP address
• the search terms you used to find our site
• the pages you accessed on our site and the links you clicked on
• the date and time you visited the site
• the referring site (if any) through which you clicked through to this site
• your operating system (such as Windows 10, Mac OS)
• the type of web browser you use (such as Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, or Edge), and
• other incidental matters such as screen resolution, and the language setting of your browser.
• keywords, search terms and otherwise you may have entered on this site to find information.
If you would like any further information on privacy or the information that we collect, email photolinearchive@gmail.com
Cookies
This site generates session cookies for the purpose of monitoring site usage so we can understand how to improve the service, and for enabling users to login to the website. These cookies do not collect personal information. You can disable them or clear them out of the web browser you are using to view this site without affecting your ability to use the site, excepting where the cookie is required for validating your login status, clearing this cookie will force a logout.
Correcting your personal information
Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to access and ask us to correct any of your personal information provided to The Photoline Archive, in connection with your use of this site.
You can also view your recorded name and email address from your Account page and change it at any time, as well as request account and data removal.
Contacting Us
You can contact us if you;
you would like to see or change your personal information we have stored,
or you have any concerns regarding your privacy.
We may require proof of your identity before being able to provide you with any personal information.
Email: photolinearchive@gmail.com
Privacy Complaints
If you’re not satisfied with our response to any privacy-related concern you may have, you can contact the Privacy Commissioner.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner
PO Box 10094
Wellington 6143
Freephone: 0800 803 909 (NZ only)
Phone: +64 4 474 7590
Fax: +64 4 474 7595
Email: enquiries@privacy.org.nz