Privacy Policy

Site privacy policy

Wilshire Group has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This document discloses our information gathering and usage practices. For additional information about Wilshire Group, please review our Terms and Conditions.

Use of your information

Wilshire Group does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

Wilshire Group collects personal information about you through your use of our sales showrooms, sales enquiries and website, including your registration details and information relating to your use of the Website and the content you access.

Wilshire Group may use this personal information to help us provide the Services to you, to verify your identity, to enforce or apply our terms and conditions, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Wilshire Group and associated project websites, our users, or others, for internal research purposes, for promoting and marketing other Wilshire Group products and Services to you, and for any other use that you authorise.

We release personal information only when we believe release is appropriate for legal compliance and law enforcement (including to government agencies with statutory law enforcement responsibilities); to facilitate court proceedings; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Wilshire Group Limited, our users, or others. Government agencies with statutory roles enabling them to request data from us includes but is not restricted to Police, IRD and the Ministry Of Economic Development. Members can contact Wilshire to ask whether such information has been provided.

Email

It is the policy of Wilshire Group to send users communications via email. Further, it is our policy to remove any user from any mailing list upon the user's request. Wilshire Group, and our associated development entities,  may send e-newsletters and other electronic communications to users. E-Newsletters will contain clear and obvious instructions for how the user can remove himself or herself from that mailing list.

Registration

Our site's registration form requires you to provide us contact information and may also require demographic information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.

Updating your personal information

Wilshire Group provides you with ways in which you can update your personal information, including changing your email address, phone number, etc. 

Cookies and local storage

Wilshire uses various technologies, including cookies and local storage, to collect and store information about you when you visit our Wilshire website or associated project website..

Cookies and local storage allow us to store information (including your personal information) in a file on the device you use to access Wilshire. We use cookies and local storage to deliver information and fresh content specific to your interests and to improve the experience of using Wilshire. Cookies and local storage are widely used.

Wilshire participates in Google's AdWords pay-per-click advertising programme. AdWords advertisements appear on Google's search result pages and on the Google Display Network.  Wilshire ads may also appear on other websites in the Google Display Network.  Google uses cookies to target ads to you, including to measure the number of Google users that click on certain advertisements and visit certain Wilshire pages.

Google provides this data to Wilshire Group without identifying users. View Google's privacy policy.

Third party links

Wilshire contains non-advertising links to a variety of third party sites to enhance the user experience. Wilshire has no control of either the content or privacy policies of such sites, nor should such links be considered an endorsement of these sites except where otherwise noted.

Other information we collect

We use additional information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.

Users who login have their IP addresses recorded. This information will only be provided to legal authorities in cases of suspected fraud or for law enforcement purposes. This information is stored securely and will not be provided to other members or non-authorised parties.

Registration removal

If you wish to have your details removed from our directory for any reason, you may send us an email requesting this.

Updates to our information practices

From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our website. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at Wilshire. If you have any questions about our privacy policies or any other matter, please contact us.