Wise Pre-Pay
Our Privacy Policy
Wise Prepay privacy policy
Wise Prepay is committed to protecting our customers’ personal information. This Privacy Policy will help you understand how we collect, use, disclose, store and protect your personal information when you visit our website and/or use our energy and energy-related services (such as electricity, natural gas, and services related to those products, including the rental of any energy supply equipment). In this privacy policy, the terms ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘our’ refer to Wise Prepay.
By using this website, you acknowledge that you have received notice of this policy.
Personal Information
In order to supply you with energy and energy-related services, we need some information from you. The types of personal information we collect from you will depend on the circumstances in which you provide your personal information and the type of energy and energy-related service that you have requested from us.
In general, the personal information that we may collect about you includes, but is not limited to your name, your contact details (including phone numbers, email addresses and physical address) and your banking details.
If you provide personal information to us about another person (such as a spouse or relative) then you are responsible for making that individual aware that you have disclosed their personal information to us and that we can use their information as set out in this policy. Please direct them to this policy.
If you choose not to provide us with your personal information then we may not be able to provide you with our energy and energy-related services.
Uses of Personal Information
Unless we have your permission (or it is otherwise required by law) your personal information will only be used by us for purposes related to supplying you with energy and energy-related services, including, but not limited to:
- confirming your identity, creditworthiness and other aspects of our assessment of your application to become a customer, or to continue to supply you with energy and energy-related services;
- contacting you with updates and news regarding our website, our energy products and energy-related services;
- enabling third parties to provide you with information about our products and services;
- invoicing, account maintenance and on-going credit control activities; and
- improving our customer services and for carrying out market research
You may, at any time, elect not to receive marketing or promotional emails from us.
Protection of personal information
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information we collect, use or disclose is secure, accurate and up to date and is protected against loss, theft and unauthorised use or modification.
Third Parties
Other than as stated in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose, sell, distribute or share your personal information with third parties, except where we are required to do so by law, or where authorisation has been given by you. In order to fulfil the purposes listed above, we may disclose your personal information to (but not limited to) the following:
- our related companies;
- agents who are responsible for carrying out, on our behalf, any of the purposes' listed above, including our associated metering companies;
- the Electricity Authority, the Commerce Commission, the Electricity and Gas Complaints Commissioner Scheme, or any other industry regulator, industry body or complaints scheme;
- credit risk assessment agencies (credit reporters) / debt collection agencies; and
- other energy retailers.
Also, if you have told us, or it appears to us, that you are reliant on electricity to prevent a clear threat to your health and wellbeing or you have mains powered critical medical equipment, we may also disclose your personal information to Work and Income, District Health Boards and other social agencies and private healthcare providers.
Where we disclose your personal information to third parties for the above purposes, this will be on a strictly confidential basis.
Updating your personal information
You have the right to seek access to and to update the personal information that we hold about you. If you make an access request we will ask you to verify your identity. If you would like to seek access to personal information that we hold about you or if you have any questions of complaints about how we collect, use, disclose, manage or store your personal information, you can contact us.
Links to other websites
Our website provides links to other websites for your convenience and assistance. If you use these links then you will leave our website. Please note that these websites may have different security and privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility and/or any liability for any information that you divulge to these websites and how these websites or the organisations that own and manage those websites may collect or use your personal information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these websites.
Other information
When you visit this website we or third parties may use automated tools and methods (such as first party and third party cookies and tracking code) to collect and transmit anonymous information about you (e.g., age, gender and your interests) and your interactions with this website. Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose such information other than in an aggregated form.
We may gather more extensive information if we are concerned about activities on our website, for example, abnormal website usage patterns or attempted website security breaches.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses automated tools and methods (including by issuing cookies from their own servers), to track information about visitors to our website. This means that when you visit this website, these automated tools and methods will collect and transmit anonymous information about you, your use of and interactions with, this website and the internet to Google’s data collection servers. Wise Prepay then receives aggregated forms of this data. If you want more information regarding Google Analytics, please review How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
We do not control these automated tools and methods, or the data that they store. Please refer to Google Analytics for more information on how to safeguard your data. If any personal information is disclosed to Google for the purposes of analysing website usage, such information is stored by Google in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy.
Wise Prepay currently uses the following Google Analytics Advertising Features:
- Remarketing: This feature enables Wise Prepay and other third parties, to show Wise Prepay’s advertisements to you, while you browse the web, based on your previous visits to Wise Prepay’s website and your interests.
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting or DoubleClick Campaign Manager: This feature reports on the interaction between you, Wise Prepay advertisements on the web generally and your visits to this website so as to enable us to assess how effective our advertisements are.
- Demographics and Interest Reporting: This feature collects demographic information about you (age, gender and interests) to enable us to analyse behaviour by attribute and (if we choose to utilise Google’s Remarketing feature in the future) enable targeted interest-based website advertising to you.
