Our website 4babies.co.nz, we provide use technologies such as pixel tags, cookies or similar identifiers and local storage (collectively termed as “Cookies”) to differentiate between you and other users of our Website. This process enables us to offer a good experience to you while you browse our Website and also helps us to secure our site and make improvements. These technologies and services may also be used for a variety of purposes by third parties that you interact with.
- We may change this policy from time to time and therefore would request you check back here from time to time to be updated with our latest information about these technologies and their uses.
- Appropriate settings related to these technologies may be offered by your browser or device. For detailed information on these settings and their availability, how they work etc. browse through your browser’s help material. We may not always respond to or recognize your browser or the device signals around tracking and some of these settings may interfere with the features that we offer. Moreover, a browser or device’s settings and often are applicable only to that particular browser or device.
- Small files that are placed on your browser or device by the website or app you are using are called cookies. Small blocks of code on an app or webpage are called pixel tags (also called GIFs, web beacons or pixels) which allow the webpage or app to perform activities like reading and placing other cookies and transmitting information to us or our partners. The resulting connection may include such data like a device’s IP address, the time in which a person viewed the pixel, an identifier associated with the browser or device or the type of browser that is being used. The technology which allows an app or website to retrieve data or store data in the computer or mobile phone of an individual is called local storage. Some examples can include device or HTML5 local storage and caching.
- We use the following types of Cookies:
- The Cookies that we use can be categorised as:
- When you continue to browse our Website and Apps, you agree to our use of Cookies but also you should note that you can block these by activating the setting on your browser that enables you to refuse Cookies. However, you should note that:
- “Persistent Cookies” – These Cookies are stored on your computer or device and are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This helps us with our security services and also allows us to personalise content for you , greet you by your name and also remember your preferences (like your region) and provide personalised features such as start page, or provide advertisements that could be relevant too you.
- “Session Cookies” – These cookies are stored in your device or computer’s memory temporarily and used as an integral part of the identification process of our services. The purpose of this is security to determine that you are who you say you are and also to provide your confidential account information during a session. You should know that no personal information is stored in the Cookie and the Cookie is also not written to your hard drive. The Cookie is no longer valid when you are logged out of your session and is discarded when you close your browser.
- “Essential” – These Cookies are required so that our Website operates properly. They include authentication Cookies that allow you to log into secure areas of our Website, make use of our e-billing services or use a shopping cart. For instance, they help is protection of your account from access by anyone else other than you, and also let us know when multiple individuals have logged in from the same computer. With login approvals, if anyone else logs in from another browser which has not been used by you, we can block them and ask for more information. They also assist in implementing login notifications, so that you can be notified when your account is active and also disable any active sessions.
- “Analytical/performance” – These Cookies enable us to recognize and keep a count of the number of visitors and to see how the visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This in turn helps us in improving the way our Website and Apps work, for instance by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for effortlessly.
- “Functionality” – The Cookies are used to recognize you when you come back to our Website or Apps. This also helps us to personalise our content for you and also greet you by your name and remember your preferences, such as your region. For instance, we may store information in a Cookie that is located on your browser or device so that you can view the site in your preferred language.
- “Targeting” – These Cookies keep a record of your visit to your Website or Apps, the pages you have visited and all the links that you have clicked. We will make use of such Cookies to make our Website, Apps and advertisements more relevant and targeted to your interests. We can also share this information with third parties for purposes such as these but will never disclose any information that will enable you to be identified.
- If you use the settings of your browser to block all Cookies including the “essential” ones, you may not be able to access all parts or features of our website or Apps, or they may operate more slowly or also require re-entering of data already entered previously on other occasions.
- We still use some Cookies if you do not have an account or have logged out of your account. For instance, if you have logged out of your account, we use Cookies to help:
- Cookies may also be used by third parties including advertising networks and providers of external services like Web traffic analysis services, over which we have no control. These are most likely analytical or performance Cookies or targeting Cookies. Apart from essential Cookies, all other Cookies that we use will expire after they are not required anymore for their original purpose
- Identify the account of spammers and disable them;
- Recover your account in case you have lost access to it;
- Provide extra security features such as login notifications and login approvals;
- Prevent individuals who are underage from signing up into our Website with false birth date;
- Identify computers which are publicly used so that we can discourage people from using ‘’Keep me logged in’ and putting their account at risk; and
- Generate insights about people who make any interactions with our services, Website or Apps, any other services that we provide and the websites of our advertisers and partners.