Our Commitment To Your Privacy

At “The Big Exhale Ltd t/a The Breath Effect (we, us, our)” respect your privacy, and are committed to protecting any personally identifying information you may share with us. Our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when providing personally identifying information as a visitor or registered user at thebreatheffect.com, while using our various services, or while accessing or using other site features such as through email.

What Do We Do With Your Information?

We collect solicited personal information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter, purchase an item from us, respond to a survey or fill out a form. When interacting with our website, where appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, phone number and other personal information where it is reasonably necessary for one or more of the business’s functions or activities. You may, however, visit our site anonymously or choose to use a pseudonym. Should The Breath Effect receive unsolicited personal information that does not meet the conditions set above, we will destroy the information as soon as practicable but only if it is lawful and reasonable to do so.

Any of the necessary information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

• To personalise your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs).
• To address feedback (we may contact you in response to your feedback submitted through our surveys)
• To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
• To send periodic emails. The email address you provide may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information.
  • Review the personal information you have supplied us
  • Request that your personal information may not be used to contact you
  • Request that your personal information be removed from any solicited list used by us
  • Request that your personal information be deleted from our records
  • To opt out of being contacted by us

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy. When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

All personal information you provide to us is stored in our secure database. Reasonable steps have been implemented in order to protect your personal information from interference, misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification, and disclosure when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

Do We Disclose Any Information To Outside Parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

How Do We Protect Cardholder Data?

All transactions on the website use industry best-practice encryption and security including SSL/TLS. We do not store cardholder data for longer than is necessary to process the payment through our payment gateway, and these details are never stored in our database at any time. The Breath Effect staff, contractors and developers have no access at any time, under any circumstances to any card data entered into the website.

Third Party Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google Analytics

The services contained in this section enable The Breath Effect to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

Opting Out And Unsubscribing

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include an unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email. You may also choose to contact us using the contact information provided under the section ‘Contact’.

Personal Details

We take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal details are up to date, correct, and complete. At any time, you have the right to:

• • • Review the personal information you have supplied us
    • Request that your personal information may not be used to contact you
    • Request that your personal information be removed from any solicited list used by us
    • Request that your personal information be deleted from our records
    • To opt out of being contacted by us

Correction Of Personal Information

You may, at any time, request access to the personal information, which we hold about you by sending an email to exhale@thebreatheffect.com We will respond to such request within a reasonable time of it being received by us, without any charge to you. We will take such steps as are reasonable to correct information to ensure that it is accurate, up to date, complete, relevant and not misleading.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

TheBreath Effect welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, need to update your personal details or would like further information, please contact us by any of the following means during business hours Monday to Friday: www.thebreatheffect.com/contact

The Breath Effect Team

PO Box 79
Glenorchy,
Otago, New Zealand.
E: exhale@thebreatheffect.com

P: +64 (021) 686 431

Making A Complaint

If you wish to make a complaint, you should contact us by mail, email, or telephone at the details above. We will take such steps as are reasonable to investigate complaints, within a reasonable time of such complaint being received by us. We will give you a written notice of the investigations, which have been carried out, and the outcome of your complaint.