Rps027.co.nz is competition /event site set up and administered by Telecom Mobile Limited for the purpose of the text RPS game. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This RPS privacy policy ("Policy") governs data collection and usage for all Internet users visiting the rps.co.nz website ("Website"), and for all Telecom Mobile customers who register to participate in the rps027 text game. Your use of our Website shows your unconditional consent to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information in the manner set out below.

1 › Visitors
If you are just surfing and reading information on this Website, then we collect and store the following information about your visit:

• the IP address of your machine when connected to the Internet and the domain name from which you are accessing the Internet
• the operating system and the browser your computer uses, and any search engine you are using
• the date and time you are visiting
• the URLs of the pages you visit
• if you provide it, your email address.

We keep track of pages our customers visit within the Website in order to determine which pages and services are the most popular. We use that information to measure the number of visitors to different parts of our Website. Although we may publish aggregated information about usage patterns, we do not disclose information about individual machines except for the reasons set out below.

We may gather more extensive information if we are concerned, for example, about security issues.

We do not sell information that identifies you personally.

2 › Telecom Mobile Customers
Your registration in the game rps027, involves the collection by us of personal information about you, such as provided by you when registering for the game. We may also collect demographic information, such as your age, gender, preferences, and interests. Information collected by us may be combined with information obtained by our related companies ("related companies" has the meaning set out in section 2(3) of the Companies Act 1993).

We use this information for the operation of the game, to allow us to contact you in the event that you win in our weekly prize draws, the wildcard prize draw, or make it through to the final 8 players. It will also help to provide general statistics regarding use of this Website and to assist us to deliver further customised content and advertising to our customers.

Information will be obtained directly from you, or generated within or by the systems used to provide our Services.

You may decide not to provide information to us. However, if you do not provide it, we may not be able to contact you in the event that you have been a winner in the rps027 text game.

You may ask to see any information we hold about you and we will provide it as long as we have such information and can readily retrieve it. You may also ask us to correct any incorrect information we hold about you. We may charge you for the reasonable costs of retrieving and providing this information.

We may, directly or via a third party, keep you informed of any further games based promotions, and conduct, sales and marketing activities in relation to services available to, or planned for, you from us.

Although we may publish aggregated information relating to your participation in the game of rps027, such as usage patterns, we do not disclose information in a form that could reasonably be expected to identify you without your prior permission, unless you have won a prize in the weekly draw, the wildcard prize draw, or you are one of the 8 finalists in rps027. In any of these examples, the terms and conditions of playing in rps027 apply.

Personal information collected in relation to your participation in the game of rps027 may be stored and processed in New Zealand or any other country in which we or our related companies or agents maintain facilities, and by participating in the game, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

3 › Disclosure of information
We do not sell, rent or lease our visitor or customer information to third parties.

4 › Third party websites
We encourage you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our Website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites linked from our Website.

5 › Changes to our Policy
We may, at our discretion, update or revise this Policy at any time. Any changes will take effect immediately once they are posted on our Website. It is your responsibility to check this Policy regularly for any modifications or updates. Your continued participation in the game of rps027 after any changes have been posted on our Website indicates your acceptance of those changes.