Cookies and website analytics
This notice describes how MYOB NZ Limited (Company number 902338) (“MYOB” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects information on our website using cookies and website analytics.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device as an anonymous tag that identifies your device but not you. You can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. You can also set your browser to turn off cookies. If you do so, some pages on our website may not work properly.
What Cookies do we use and why?
Our website uses four categories of cookies. Some cookies may fulfill more than one of purpose.
'Strictly Necessary' cookies are used:
to let you move around our website and use essential features like our electronic shopping cart;
to identify you as being logged in to our website and authenticate you; and
for security purposes.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using our website.
'Performance' cookies are used to collect information about how you use our website (including which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors).
These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how the website works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties. You may be able to block these cookies using your browser’s settings.'Functionality' cookies are used to remember settings to improve your visit. For example, to remember if we have already asked you to fill in a survey.
Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties. You may be able to block these cookies using your browser’s settings. However, blocking functionality cookies may result in diminished functionality when you use our website.‘Targeting’ cookies are used to track your visit to the website, as well on other websites, apps and online services. We use targeting cookies to:
display targeted ads within our website or other websites; and
improve how we deliver personalised ads and content, and to measure the success of ad campaigns on the website.
Most of the targeting cookies used on our website are managed for us by third party advertising network partners and service providers.
Website analytics
We use Google Analytics data to help us analyse how our website is used. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. The information generated by cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google offshore, on servers in the United States. We have activated the “IP masking” feature in the Google Analytics code (“gat._anonymizeIp();”) to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, and compiling reports on your activity for us and third parties who help operate and provide services related to our website. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser as discussed in this notice. However, if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website.
Further information about Google Analytics can be found by reading the Google Analytics Terms of Service, the Google Privacy Policy, How Google Uses Cookies, and Google’s Business and Data Compliance Centre.
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.
Online advertising and marketing
We use the following service providers in conjunction with online advertising and marketing activities:
For more information about what LinkedIn collects when you use LinkedIn buttons on the website or visit pages on the website that include these buttons, please see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Facebook allows businesses to coordinate the display of targeted ads both on Facebook and elsewhere. For more information about what Facebook collects and your choices around Facebook Ads, please see: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/
Contact us
If you have any questions about how we handle your personal information, we encourage you to review our Privacy Policy. If you still have unanswered questions, you may contact us at privacy_office@myob.co.nz.