1. Privacy Policy: Endemic Limited (“Endemic”) is committed to protecting your privacy. With that in mind, we have established and implemented information handling practices that we believe are consistent with the highest standards and best practices of organisations doing business on the Internet. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out the basis on which Endemic collects information from you and also the basis on which any such information collected from you is dealt with. By accessing this website, you are deemed to have read and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

2. Terms and Conditions: As well as this Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions also govern your access to and use of this website. You should ensure that you read the Terms and Conditions in conjunction with this Privacy Policy. By accessing this website you are deemed to have read and agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions as well as this Privacy Policy. In addition, if you wish to purchase any of the goods offered by Endemic through this website, you should ensure you read the Terms of Purchase as by purchasing any of the goods offered by Endemic through this website you are deemed to have read and agree to be bound by the Terms of Purchase.

3. Amendments: Endemic reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Amendments will be effective immediately upon being placed on this website. Your continued use of this website following such amendments being placed on this website will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the Privacy Policy as amended. Such amendments may include replacing this Privacy Policy with an entirely new Privacy Policy.

Endemic does not collect personally identifiable information on our website, such as your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number, without your knowledge. Such information is collected only when you knowingly and voluntarily submit it to us (as, for example, when you contact us via e-mail). Endemic uses such voluntarily submitted information for the purposes for which it was submitted.

When you place an order Endemic will ask you to provide certain information about yourself, such as your name, mailing address, or e-mail address. The personal information you submit when placing your order is treated as confidential. We use this information to process your transaction, and we share the information with Visa, Mastercard, etc. in order to process your order.

5. Further Collection: Where possible, information will be obtained directly from you. However, you acknowledge that by accessing this website information may be collected from you as a result of the workings of the website and the attached systems and software.

6. Use of Information: Endemic uses the information provided by you or generated by your use of the website to provide you with any goods you may purchase from Endemic. Endemic also uses information collected from you to assess the performance of the website and to ensure that the website serves your needs in the most efficient manner possible. Endemic abides by the terms of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 and will only send you additional information relating to Endemic and the products offered by Endemic if you sign up for the Endemic newsletter.

7. Cookies: Endemic may also place cookies on your computer. Cookies are alpha numeric identifiers which are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable Endemic to recognise you whenever you access this website and therefore better personalise your access of the website. A cookie does not identify you personally but it does identify your computer. The help portion of your browser’s toolbar should tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. You should note however that if you do not allow the use of cookies or do not wish to provide certain information to Endemic, you may not be able to take full advantage of this website and the range of goods offered by Endemic.

8. Statistics: Although Endemic may use and publish non-personal aggregate statistics and group data about those people who access this website and their usage of the website, subject to the further terms of this Privacy Policy, Endemic will not share or make public information about you without your prior permission.

9. Data Transmission: Endemic uses stringently tested technologies to ensure the security of information transmitted via our website are maintained in our possession. When you place your order "checkout" you will see a lock icon appear on the status bar of your browser. This indicates that the data that is submitted is encrypted while in transit. In addition, when we receive that data, it is stored on a separate location to the web server so that it can only be accessed by us.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst Endemic strives to protect such information, we do not warrant and cannot ensure complete security of any information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk. Nevertheless, once we receive your transmission, we will take all reasonable steps to preserve the security of such information.

10. Accessing Information: You are entitled to access any information which Endemic may hold about you and Endemic is obliged to provide this information to you as long as it has such information and such information can be readily retrieved. You are also entitled to request Endemic to correct any inaccuracies in any information which Endemic holds about you. Endemic is entitled to charge you for the reasonable costs of retrieving, providing this information and as applicable correcting this information.

11. Providing Information: You agree that Endemic may provide any personal information it collects about you to its related companies (as defined in section 2(3) of the Companies Act 1993 (NZ)), debt collection and credit reference agencies and any other parties it deems necessary in relation to providing you access to this website, your purchasing of goods from this website, recovering any money you owe to Endemic and exercising any lawful right Endemic, its related companies or debt collection and credit reference agencies may have.

12. Disclosing Information: You also agree that Endemic is entitled to disclose information it holds about you without your prior permission if Endemic reasonably believes that such disclosure is necessary to:
(a) meet legal requirements;
(b) comply with legal process or help to maintain the law;
(c) protect Endemic’s rights or property or that of Endemic’s related companies; or
(d) enforce the Terms and Conditions or the Terms of Purchase.

13. Combining Information: Endemic may combine any information which it collects from you with information collected by its related companies.

14. Failure to Comply: Endemic accepts no liability for any failure to comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy, where such failure is due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control.

15. Waiver: If Endemic waives any rights available to it under this Privacy Policy on one occasion, this does not mean that those rights will automatically be waived on any other occasion.

16. Severability: If any provision of this Privacy Policy is held to be invalid, void, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, such provision shall be deemed to be severed from this Privacy Policy and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force.

17. Queries: If you have any queries in regard to our Privacy Policy please don’t hesitate to contact us.

18. Trends, Tracking and Sharing Information: Endemic uses standard software for monitoring statistical information such as how many visitors we have to our websites and what countries they are coming from. These statistics are viewed on an aggregate basis and help us get general overviews of customer trends. We do not look at individual customer data. Personal information specific to each Vendor's sales is treated as strictly confidential and will only be reviewed or examined in the event of a dispute, claim, error or customer request.