Privacy Policy

PRIVACY & SECURITY

ABOUT THIS SECURITY AND PRIVACY STATEMENT

This Security and Privacy Statement applies to this website which is operated by TF Industries Ltd under the domain name www.tubefab.co.nz. TF Industries Ltd understands and appreciates that you, as a Tubefab website visitor, are concerned about your privacy and about the confidentiality and security of information we may gain about you online. TF Industries Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy. This TF Industries Ltd Security and Privacy Statement explains how your personal information will be treated as you access and interact with the Tubefab website.

As the Tubefab website develops and as technology evolves, TF Industries Ltd will continue to strive to provide you with better and more customised services and with a more effective website. TF Industries Ltd encourages you to review the Security and Privacy Statement periodically because the Security and Privacy Statement may change from time to time. The TF Industries Ltd Privacy Policy explains how TF Industries Ltd generally protects your privacy and confidentiality. The principles set out in the TF Industries Ltd Privacy Policy also apply to Tubefab websites. In addition to the provisions of this Security and Privacy Statement, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions which apply to certain sections of the Tubefab website. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, you should review them wherever they are accessible by you on the Tubefab website. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Security and Privacy Statement and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.


SECURITY OF INFORMATION
TF Industries Ltd takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance with the Tubefab website Terms of Use and this Security and Privacy Statement. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted). If secure transmission is indicated, TF Industries currently uses Secure Stripe for all online monetary transactions . All credit card transactions are therefore handled through a secure server. TF Industries Ltd regularly reviews developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although TF Industries Ltd strives to protect such information, TF Industries Ltd cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.


INFORMATION COLLECTED
The information that TF Industries Ltd collects about you is dependent on how you use the facilities offered by the Tubefab website. If you visit an unsecure area of the TF Industries Ltd website (that is, an area where you are not required to log on) to read, browse or download information, our system will record the date and time of your visit to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. In addition, our system may record personally identifiable information while not logged in. If you complete any fields in online forms or surveys on the Tubefab website , the information that you enter into the online form or survey will be stored in the TF Industries Ltd database.
  
COLLECTION OF IP ADDRESSES
It is necessary for TF Industries Ltd to collect your IP address for your interaction with various parts of the Tubefab website. Your IP address is the identifier for your computer when you are using the internet. For instance, TF Industries Ltd collects and stores your IP address when you log into Tubefab. As part of our security for TF Industries Ltd we use this information when we attempt to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions. We store your IP address for security and audit purposes. Your IP address will not be used by us or released to any third party except in the case of security, inappropriate behaviour or fraud issues, such as unauthorised access to your or our computer systems or fraudulent transactions.

COOKIES
We use cookies as a fundamental part of our interaction with your Internet browser. The purpose is to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective website. A “cookie” is a small text file placed on your computer by our web page server. A cookie can later be retrieved by our webpage servers. Cookies are frequently used on websites and you can choose if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring your preferences and options in your browser. TF Industries Ltd uses cookies for two different purposes. We allocate a cookie to each Internet browser that visits the Tubefab website. This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you. Accordingly, if you wish to make full use of the Tubefab website, it is required that you accept cookies.

HOW WE HANDLE EMAIL
We will preserve the content of any e-mail that you send us, if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Your e-mail message content may be monitored by our TF Industries Ltd employees for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected; our response to you may be monitored for quality assurance issues.

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We will only use or disclose personal information or information generated by cookies in accordance with the TF Industries Ltd Privacy Policy, specific and additional provisions relating to privacy which apply to certain areas of the TF Industries Ltd website and as otherwise set out in this Security and Privacy Statement.


ACCEPTANCE AND CHANGES TO SECURITY AND PRIVACY STATEMENT
You acknowledge and accept that your use of the Tubefab website indicates your acceptance of the TF Industries Ltd website Terms of Use and the Security and Privacy Statement. This is the current Security and Privacy Statement. It replaces any other Security and Privacy Statement for the Tubefab website published on the Tubefab website to date. TF Industries Ltd may at any time vary the Security and Privacy Statement by publishing the varied Security and Privacy Statement on the Tubefab website. You accept that by doing this, TF Industries Ltd has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.