Loyalty New Zealand Limited, operator of the Fly Buys programme in New Zealand, respects the privacy of your personal information in our care and we adhere to strict guidelines as set out in this Privacy Statement.
We describe below:
This Privacy Statement may be updated from time to time.
You accept the terms and conditions of the Fly Buys programme, including this Privacy Statement, by continuing to use your Fly Buys membership card or any payment card linked to your membership card so you can AutoEarn Fly Buys points.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact details included at the end of the statement.
The types of personal information we collect and hold include:
Without this personal information we may not be able to provide certain benefits and services to you, such as:
When you visit the Fly Buys website or use the Fly Buys mobile application we may collect information using technology which is not apparent to you (such as “cookies”). Please see the section below on data collected in relation to digital services for more information about our use of this technology.
We use your contact details, information about your shopping with Fly Buys Partners and other types of information about you held by us (as described above) to promote to you products and services, provided by Fly Buys, Fly Buys Partners and other businesses that are relevant to you and that we think you may want.
We may use such information about you to provide marketing communications and targeted advertising to you by email, mail and/or telephone.
You can opt out of receiving offers from us anytime – either specific offers, offers from a particular business or from one particular channel (e.g. email or telephone) altogether.
There are a number of ways you can opt out.
We may use your contact details, information about your shopping with Fly Buys Partners and other types of information about you that we hold (as described above):
To operate the Fly Buys programme, we share personal information with some trusted providers of Fly Buys related services, including the operator of the Fly Buys Service Centre, mail-houses, our email deployment company, reward suppliers and providers of data analysis, data augmentation or data washing services in connection with Fly Buys marketing campaigns.
We may share your personal information with a provider of Fly Buys related services that is located in a country other than New Zealand, where we have made a business decision to use a trusted overseas based service provider that is in the business of providing data storage and/or data processing services (for example, the service provider that hosts our Fly Buys email marketing platform).
We ensure that any time we share personal information with Fly Buys service providers we do so securely and we take steps to ensure that all our service providers with whom we share personal information agree to protect the privacy and security of your personal information, destroy that data when it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was supplied to them and use that data only for the purposes for which it is disclosed.
From time to time we may share your personal information with a Fly Buys Partner (or its agent) if:
We may also share your Fly Buys membership card number with a Fly Buys Partner with whom you have an existing customer account, to link the accounts together so you can collect points for spend on that account and receive other benefits from that partner.
From time to time we may share your personal information in other circumstances where we are specifically allowed to under the Privacy Act 1993 (for example, in cases where the Police ask us for information to assist with its investigation of an alleged criminal offence).
We take data security very seriously. We have in place rigorous data security policies and practices aimed at mitigating the risks of unauthorised access to, and loss, misuse or wrongful alteration of, personal information held by us.
We take measures to destroy or anonymise personal information held by us if we no longer need to use it for any lawful purpose.
We are dedicated to keeping your Fly Buys membership details safe and secure from scams and fraud. If you are ever in any doubt about the authenticity of any communications that are or seem to be from Fly Buys please immediately email us at contactus@flybuys.co.nz and include a copy of the email in question.
We provide information and services relating to the Fly Buys programme through a range of digital and online services, including the Fly Buys website, social media channels like Facebook, and the Fly Buys app.
Information is collected via your use of the Fly Buys website, through cookies. Cookies are small data files that your browser stores on your computer when you visit certain websites. The cookies on the Fly Buys website allow us to collect information which we use to help us remember the information you enter. This means that as you use the Fly Buys website we can relay any information you entered earlier back to you at a later time. It is possible to disable the acceptance of such cookies from your web browser. However, doing so may restrict your ability to use some of the pages on the Fly Buys website.
We also promote Fly Buys products and services using third party vendors, such as Google Remarketing, as a method of targeting our advertising based on how you interact with the Fly Buys website. Both Fly Buys and these vendors may use cookies to help offer you online ads that are more specifically tailored to you when you visit other websites. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information, they cannot damage files, nor can they read information from the hard drive of a computer. You do not need to accept these cookies, however, and can find more information about opting out by visiting the Google cookies opt out page.
Our systems record a variety of information in relation to interactions with the Fly Buys website and the Fly Buys app. This can include information about software versions used, device types, device identifiers (like IP address), location data (where available and not disabled by the user), dates, times, file metadata, referring website, data entered, and user activity such as links clicked.
From time to time we may use your data to target you through social media channels, like Facebook. In this case, we match encrypted (hashed) email addresses with encrypted Facebook data to identify a match in a secure environment. The hashed data is deleted as soon as the match is complete and never kept or used by Facebook or shared with any third party.
Some information we collect in relation to our digital services is not related to an individual. In many cases, the information relates only to a device or is of an aggregated or statistical nature, and we will have no way of knowing the identity of the user. In other cases, we may associate information about your use of our digital services over time with your personal information, for example, when on any occasion you have logged in, followed a link sent to you by email, or we have otherwise been able to identify you.
Our online services may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of those sites and recommend that you review their privacy policies.
If you wish to access or correct any information we hold about you or have any feedback or concerns about privacy, please contact us as set out below. Where you seek a response from us, we will let you know who will be handling your matter and when you can expect a full response. In the case of access and correction requests, please provide as much detail as you can about the particular information you seek in order to help us retrieve it. Where we decide not to make a requested correction and you disagree, you may ask us to make a note of your requested correction with the information.
Phone: 0800 FLY BUYS (0800 359 2897), Mon – Fri, 8am – 6pm (excluding public holidays)
Post: Fly Buys Service Centre, PO Box 68679, Newton, Auckland