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This means we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:
Our Privacy Statement sets out full details of the other information we collect and how we use your personal information.
Two kinds of cookies are used on Southern Cross’ website: Session cookies and Persistent cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies - some cookies are essential for Southern Cross to use in order to provide you with secure access to certain areas of our website (e.g. My Southern Cross). These cookies use a unique identifier to ensure the privacy and security of your personal and or health information once you have logged into the website. If your browser is configured to reject all cookies you will be unable to log on to certain areas of the Southern Cross website e.g. My Southern Cross.
Analytical/performance cookies - these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors interact and move around and use our website. These cookies are used for web enhancement and optimisation purposes and to aggregate statistics on how our visitors reach and browse our websites. This type of information allows us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily and to help us understand what interests our users, and measure how effective our advertising is;
Functionality cookies - these cookies allow our website to remember choices you have made previously in order to improve your online experience. Southern Cross example: If you enter information about your age, gender and number of dependent children in our “Plan comparison tool” to get a quote on a health insurance plan option, a cookie is used to remember this information if you want to get a quote on a different health insurance plan option.
Advertising / targeting cookies - These cookies collect information about your browsing habits, which assists in the delivery of more relevant advertising. Third party organisations, including Google, collect certain information when you visit our website in order to display our advertisements when you visit other websites. Advertising features that Southern Cross uses include Google AdWords and Analytics Remarketing and Google Display Network Impression Reporting.
Please note that some cookies on the website are managed by third parties, including, for example, advertising networks, features such as videos, maps and social media, and providers of external websites like web traffic analysis services. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You should refer to such third parties’ own cookie and privacy policies for information about how they may use your information.
If you decide to disable or block cookies, parts of our website will not function correctly, or at all, (e.g. you will be unable to access your My Southern Cross login).
Should you choose to disable or block our cookies you can do this through your browser. Most browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences from the browser settings.
More on how Google uses cookies and how to opt out of targeted advertising.
We may change the content of this cookie policy at any time without notice, and any revised terms located on the website from time to time will apply to your use of the website or any website services.
This version: July 2021
Southern Cross Medical Care Society (trading as Southern Cross Health Society) is a licensed insurer and a licensed financial advice provider. For more information about the financial advice service we provide and a copy of our public disclosure statement please visit southerncross.co.nz/disclosure-statement.
Southern Cross Medical Care Society (trading as Southern Cross Health Society) has an A+ (Strong) financial strength rating given by Standard & Poor’s (Australia) Pty Limited. The rating scale is: AAA (Extremely Strong), AA (Very Strong), A (Strong), BBB (Good), BB (Marginal), B (Weak), CCC (Very Weak), CC (Extremely Weak), SD or D (Selective Default or Default). Ratings from ‘AA’ to ‘CCC’ may be modified by the addition of a plus (+) or minus (-) sign to show relative standing within the major rating categories. Full details of the rating scale are available at www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/about/intro-to-credit-ratings. Standard & Poor’s is an approved rating agency under the Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2010.
