Privacy & Security

Privacy

In order to provide products and services related to precious metal, commemorative coins and jewellery, New Zealand Mint will require selected information, including personal and payment information.
New Zealand Mint abides by the New Zealand Privacy Act (1993). New Zealand Mint is committed to ensuring your privacy and all information collected is used only for New Zealand Mint's business purposes.
New Zealand Mint recognises the importance of keeping personal and payment information private, protected and secure. The following outlines our policies with regards for protecting your personal and business information.
 

Information Collected

General Use

When you visit the New Zealand Mint website, we collect information about your IP address and standard information such as the pages you have accessed within our website and your browser information.

Registration

When you sign up to the New Zealand Mint website we may ask for your personal, business and preference information. This information is only used to provide you with offers, products and services relevant to you.

Purchases

When you make a purchase using our website, DPS (New Zealand Mint's payment provider) will collect payment information. This information is collected for the purpose of obtaining authorisation for the transaction from the issuing bank in order to complete the sale. New Zealand Mint does not store any payment information but may use past purchase details to determine products that may be of interest to you in the future.

Cookies

New Zealand Mint may place small data files called cookies on your computer when you access our website.
Cookies help us to recognise you if you visit multiple pages on our site during the same session, to assist with navigation and log in information. Once you log out or close your browser, this cookie expires and no longer has any effect.
You are free to decline New Zealand Mint cookies by adjusting your browser's security settings. This may affect the efficiency of your use of our website.
 

Information Security

New Zealand Mint is committed to maintaining the security of information that you provide by using our website. We may share aggregate statistics about our sales, traffic patterns and related site information with other businesses, but these statistics include no personally identifying information.

Information Sharing

We will never pass on your personal information by means of sale or rent. However there are limited cir stances under which we will share your information.
•    When required by law.
•    When your communication is harmful to others.
•    When we suspect fraud or other illegal practices that should be passed on to government authorities.
 

Information Use

As a registered member, you will occasionally receive e-mail updates about New Zealand Mint services, products and website information. If you would rather not receive this information, you can easily unsubscribe by logging in to your account and editing your profile.