Privacy Policy

We at OneDeposit.co.nz (from hereon “we”, “the site”) value our readers’ privacy. We work hard to keep everyone’s information as safe as possible during their stay on our website. This page, Privacy Policy, aims to explain the process of collecting, storing, and securing our visitors’ data. If you have any questions regarding the data you’ve shared with us, this page is bound to help you out. If your questions are left unanswered, don’t hesitate to contact us directly.

We advise you to read our Privacy Policy carefully. It contains valuable info that will help you understand how we collect cookies and which security measures we use to collect and store users’ data during their visits. By using the site, you agree that you’ve read and understood our Privacy Policy.

What Personal Data Do We Collect?

The site collects visitors’ data via cookies and third-party software like Google Analytics. The data is collected and stored safely, with the help of the latest security standards. We get data on our readers’ devices including operating system info, browser details, and language settings. Additionally, we also get data on our readers’, including their age, gender, and interests.

Personal Data

The site uses tools for collecting and storing the visitors’ personal data. This includes approximate locations, gender, age group, and other interests. Keep in mind that we don’t have access to individual user tracking. Google strictly prohibits sending Personally Identifiable Information. Instead, it assigns unique IDs which offers far superior data privacy.

Device Data

The site also uses tools for collecting and storing the visitors’ device data. By that, we’re referring to information on the device’s operating system, browser version, browser language, internet service provider, IP address, etc.

On-Site Interactions

The site might use tools like Google Analytics to track users’ on-site interactions. This includes the time spent on the page, mouse movements, mouse clicks, and visited pages. We use this data for optimizing navigation and user interface on our site to make it more intuitive for our visitors.

How We Collect Personal Data

Now that you know what data we collect, here’s how we collect it:

Online Forms

If you fill out one of our online forms, the data you submit will be used in a wide array of analyses and tests. The most common data we collect from our online forms are email addresses, age groups, and preferences.

Cookies

We use cookies and text files for distinguishing users and gathering data so we can identify trends, improve user experience, and track user behaviour. Cookies help us understand our users’ browsing actions, page-to-page navigation, and much more.

Third-Party Sources

The site uses third-party tools for tracking user interactions, on-site behaviours, and other crucial pieces of information. Why are they crucial? Because they help us better understand our key audience.

Third-party tools most commonly used in this field are Google Analytics and HotJar. They offer valuable insight into our visitors, data on navigational patterns and other browsing actions.

How We Use This Data

We use user data in several ways. It all comes down to on-site improvements from which our users benefit the most. If you’d like to know the details, you’re welcome to read about the main ways we use this data:

  • Analysing Trends – The main use of certain pieces of user data is to help us analyze the trends. The analysis doesn’t just touch on the on-site behaviour, but users’ recent browsing activity, redirections, and web browsing in general.
  • Improving User Experience – By analyzing the trends using collected user data, we’re able to improve the user experience in one or several ways. We’re mainly referring to further simplifying the interface, minimizing unnecessary page-to-page navigation, and creating personalized offers.

Purpose of Information Usage

The primary reason why we collect data is to improve the overall user experience on our platform. By analyzing your interactions and shared cookies, we can provide you with content that’s more relevant to your specific needs. This includes but is not limited to delivering personalized on-site content and targeted promotions.

Needless to say, our website takes security very seriously. We are equipped with the latest security standards. All user data is heavily encrypted and we have no access to personal information on individual users that can in any way “connect” to their “true identity”.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Browser cookies are minuscule text files stored on web browsers. Their purposes are numerous. Some of the key reasons websites use cookies are as follows:

  • Cookies help manage sessions
  • Cookies allow websites to remember a user’s preferences
  • Cookies help track user interactions, on-site behaviours, and other analytical patterns
  • Cookies can store authentication data to prevent unauthorised access

If you don’t want to share such information with this site, you can opt out of using cookies. If you’re using Google Chrome, click on the top right menu icon, select settings, site settings, cookies, and uncheck “Allow sites to save and read cookie data”.

Legal Compliance

Your information is stored and used as long as we continue using it for our analyses. In other words, there is no definitive retention period. Certain data points are kept far longer than their peers.

We conduct thorough evaluations of how long the data should be retained based on its sensitivity and legal obligations. Furthermore, we also take into account the potential risk in case of an unauthorised breach.

In some cases, private details are anonymized but we continue using the data for research purposes. Finally, users may not exercise the right to access, copy, erase, rectify, or transfer their information after the retention period expires.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change and revise the content of our Privacy Policy at any given time without any prior notice. If you want to stay up to date with our policies on user data privacy, we recommend you visit this page regularly.

Most changes won’t come with messages on the site’s homepage. Significant updates, on the other hand, will either be featured on the homepage or sent to our registered users via email.

Should you have any questions regarding this site’s Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us. There are two main ways you can do so: by filling out the contact form or sending an email to our support team.