Privacy Policy

Welcome to Hetherington Johnston Ltd (HJL ) –  (the “Site”)
Hetherington Johnston Ltd are Certified Accountants who provide a personalised, full range of Business Advisory Services.

Wherever this Privacy Policy refers to “you”, “your”, “user”, or “visitor”, it means “you”, while “we” or “our” refer to HJL . We understand that privacy online is important to users of our site.

We arecommitted to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We will never give, lease, sell or otherwise disclose your personal information. Any information you give to HJL will be held with the utmost care. If we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

A more detailed explanation about how we safeguard your personal information is described below. If you have any questions at all about our privacy policy, please contact us.

Resale or Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

HJL does not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information collected by our website, including contact forms, download requests or email lists.

How Does the Site Use Personally Identifiable Information?

We use Personally Identifiable Information to customise the site, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfil information requests on the site. We may also use personally identifiable information to contact visitors in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.

Who May the Information Be Shared With?

Personally identifiable information about authorised customers may be shared only with other authorised third party service vendors for purposes to which you agree. These purposes may include, but are not limited to offering you related products or services that may be of interest to you.

How Do We Keep Personally Identifiable Information Secure?

Personally identifiable information collected by HJL is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties. While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to visitors for any such occurrences.

What Choices Are Available To Visitors Regarding Collection, Use and Distribution of the Information?

Visitors may opt out of receiving unsolicited information from or being contacted by us and/or our vendors and affiliated agencies by responding to emails as instructed, or by contacting us at team@hj.co.nz

Privacy of Email Lists

We may offer an email list. Individuals join our mailing lists and are added to our email database using the forms provided on this web site, or by emailing us. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our lists to anyone.

Email List Unsubscribe Policy

We strive to only send e-mail to those who want to receive it. If you would not like to receive future e-mails from us, please use the ‘unsubscribe’ link located at the bottom of our email communications.

Are Cookies Used On The Site?

Cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, are used for a variety of reasons. We use Cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our visitors and the services they select.  We do this to improve the value of our website and the materials available on the web site. We collect login information, including, but not limited to, IP addresses, ISPs, and browser types, to analyse trends, administer the site, track a user’s movement and use, and gather broad demographic information.

This website uses Google analytics to help analyse how users use the site. The tool uses cookies, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for HJL.

We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill in-form on our website.

Is Remarketing Used On The Site? No

What Happens If The Privacy Policy Changes?

We will let our visitors know about changes to our privacy policy by posting these changes on the site.

Links to Other Sites

This web site may contain links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, or you ask us to forward information to a third party site on your behalf you are moving to another web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.