We have created this privacy statement in order to show our commitment to our and your privacy. This page discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the website pukeatua-farmstay.com.
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Information Automatically Logged
Visitor statistics (Matomo)
This website uses a web analytics tool called Matomo to help us analyse how visitors use the site. This tools use ‘cookies' (see cookies below), which are text files placed on your computer by your internet browser, to facilitate the collection of standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.
The information about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to our own server only. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Pukeatua-Farmstay.com. We will never (and will not allow any third party) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. The Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the web analytics Vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form (contact or booking form and similar) on our website. Please refer below to “Personal Information”.
Cookies
The information stored by the cookie is a unique user id that helps us to identify returning visitors.
We may also store another cookie on your system that contains information about your selected colour theme (dark/light) if you decide to click on the theme selector icon. Should you not choose a theme, our website will try to detect your system settings and apply a theme automatically without storing a cookie.
Disabling and enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser.
If you are unsure how to dis- or enable cookies in your browser, please consult your browser help pages or search the internet.
Cookies used by this site
ls_smartpush
This cookie is set by the litespeed cache wordpress plugin for Litespeed Server and allows the server to store settings to help improve performance of the site.
Expires typically within a month and does not store any user-idetifyable information but helps speeding up the website by enabling enhanced caching for litespeed.
_pk_id.*
This cookie is set by the Matomo analytics plugin, see above.
Expires typically within 13 months and contains a randomly generated visitor id to identify you as a returning visitor within that timeframe.
It helps us to determine how often visitors return to our site or whether visitors are a one-off. As it is randomly generated, it contains no user-identifyable information.
_pk_ses.*
This cookie is set by the Matomo analytics plugin, see above.
Expires typically within 30 minutes and contains a randomly generated session number that helps us identifying what pages within a certain timeframe a visitor visits. This in turn helps us improve our pages for our audience.
It contains no user-identifyable information.
Works in tandem with the above cookie and in lay words means something “A visitor visited last three months ago and this time visited pages x, y and z in that order”.
External Links
This site contains (affiliate) links to some other sites. Pukeatua-Farmstay.com and its authors are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Personal Information
When you comment or subscribe to an email list, we ask for your name & email address. When you book accommodation through us, we will ask for your name, contact details and email address as well, and we might gain some other info like your website's URL. Your email and any other information will only be used to contact you about your booking with us. Your personal information will not be distributed by us to anyone for any purpose. When you are making an online payment through our website, certain personal information like name, address, email address and credit card information will be sent in encrypted form to stripe.com to process your payment. Please refer to stripe.com for their respective privacy policy.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.
Contacting Pukeatua
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us using our contact form.