We have adopted this Privacy Policy to ensure that we have standards in place to protect the personal information that we collect about and from you. This policy has been developed in accordance with New Zealand Privacy Act (1993) and relevant data protection laws

Collection

We collect personal information directly from you when you:

• register or subscribe for a service, list or account;
• contact us by email, phone or contact us form;
• enter a contest or other trade promotion;
• attend an event; or
• visit our website.

The type of information we collect varies based on your activity:

• when you subscribe to a list, service, account or enter a contest, we may collect your name, location, date of birth, nationality, residential or postal address, email, phone number, or other information you disclose to us;
• when you visit our website or view our social media accounts, we may collect statistical information to analyse your online and offline preferences, habits, movements, trends,  and other information for statistical purposes.

If we obtain personal information without an individual’s knowledge we will either delete/destroy the information, or inform the individual that we hold such information.  We will hold any information acquired in this manner in accordance with this policy.

When personal information is used and disclosed

The primary purpose of collection is determined by the reason we collected and/or submitted the information.  For example, if you subscribed to our mailing list, we will use your personal information to send you emails.

Other reasons include:

• verifying your identity if you enter a contest or subscribe to our mailing list;
• communicating with you in general:
• retargeting marketing campaigns; or
• enabling pixel tags so that when we send emails, it is in a format you can read and allow us to know if an email has been opened.

We will also disclose personal information in the following situations:

• third party websites when you have selected a link from our website to be redirected to their website;
• sponsors of contests to allow the sponsor to award the prize of the contest or trade promotion.
• we may disclose or receive personal information or documents about you to/from law enforcement agencies to assist in the prevention of criminal activities or for any other lawful requirement or purpose, including to government agencies or regulators;
• we may disclose your personal information to employees, a related company and professional advisors, including lawyers; or in order to sell our business (in that we may need to transfer Personal Information to a new owner).

We will not use your information for purposes other than described above unless we have your consent or there are specified law enforcement or public health and safety reasons.

Overseas Disclosure

We may disclose your personal information to our related entities in New Zealand and other oversea entities where those entities are contractors or service providers with whom we have a business association.

We may utilise third-party service providers (such as Gmail from Google, Inc., and MailChimp from The Rocket Science Group LLC) to communicate with you and to store contact details. These service providers are located in the United States of America.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Opting “In” or “Out”

At any time, you may request for us to stop using some or all of your personal information.

To opt-out of receiving emails, please contact us or select the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the email.  For all other types of services, please contact us.

Please note, that by removing your personal information, we may be unable to offer you the same level of service or in some instances, this will terminate your access to those services.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Security of your personal information  

We store your personal information using secure servers protected from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

While we endeavour to only hold personal information that is accurate, complete and up-to-date, if you become aware this information is no longer accurate, complete or up-to-date please contact us to correct the information.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Disposal of personal information not required

If we hold personal information about you, and you ask us to erase that information, we do not need that information for any purpose or we have received the information other than as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify that information, in accordance with the APP and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation unless we are prevented from doing so by law.

How to access your personal information  
Upon your request, we will provide access to your personal information we hold except in certain prescribed circumstances, including emergency situations, specified business imperatives, or law enforcement.

Amendments

We may amend the Privacy Policy at our sole discretion. If you continue to use the website or interact with us after receiving notice from us of such an amendment, you agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy as amended.

Questions and Contact

If you would like further information about the way we manage personal information we hold OR would like access to your personal information held by us please contact us at info@newzealandguide.co