PRIVACY POLICY 

Who We Are

Our website is: https://ChineseNameWise.com/. It is a service division of 2WAYS Company Limited registered in New Zealand on 28 August 2002.

We respect your privacy and we’re committed to protecting your privacy. We believe this is a best practice to maintain trust with our website visitors and clients.

All your information we collect will be kept strictly confidential and secure in accordance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.

If you choose not to provide us with some types of personal information, in many cases we will not be able to provide you with our services or respond to any queries you may have.

What Personal Information We Collect

Information we collect may include: 

• a person’s name, address, contact number(s), email address, and career;
• images or voice recordings of a person;
• information about your preferences for goods or services we provide;
• a record of any queries you have made.

How We Collect Personal Information

Information may be collected from many sources, including: 

• When you contact us with questions or comments in the contact form.
• When you comment on a post directly on the website.
• When you fill in a registration, application, or assessment form.
• When you schedule a phone call.
• When you sign up to our e-newsletter.
• When you place an order for products or services.
• When you complete a feedback form.
• Referrals from your relatives, friends, colleagues, or acquaintances.
• We may see certain personal information from third party services (like email provider, web host) that allow us to monitor website traffic, email conversion, and other analytics data.

What Do We Process Your Information For?

​We will never sell, trade or transfer your information to any third party. Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:​

• to personalise your experience – your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs and to provide you with products and services you have requested.
• to process transactions – your information, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, other than service providers who deliver the purchased product or service requested.
• to create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our services, content and advertising, and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes.
• to keep you informed of our latest services announcements, updates, and upcoming events.
• to administer a contest, promotion, or survey.
• to release by law to government authorities.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies and Other Technologies

We use cookies and other technologies to remember personal information when you use our website, and online services. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with us more convenient and personal.

You can disable cookies in your web browser. Please note that disabling cookies may prevent the site from working efficiently.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Third‑Party Sites and Services

This website may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Our services may also use or offer products or services from third parties. Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.).

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Information collected by third parties, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about their privacy practices.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Protection of Personal Information

When your personal data is stored by us, we use computer systems with limited access housed in facilities using physical security measures.

Access to Your Information

You can contact us to access, amend, or erase any personal data we hold about you or unsubscribe our e-Newsletter. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Latest update: 8 January 2023