This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or otherwise collected by us, offline or online, including through our website ( Site). In this Privacy Policy we, us or our means Awhi Rōpū Consultants Limited; NZBN 9429046702371.
Awhi Rōpū Consultants are committed to treating the personal information we collect in accordance with the New Zealand Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 2020. This Privacy Policy sets out how Awhi Rōpū Consultants handles personal information. We use third party services provided by 2Shakes Limited to collect, verify and store some forms of client information. 2Shakes provides its account holders with a digital sign up, authority and AML Customer Due Diligence web application, that allows professionals to easily get set up, complete AML/CFT customer due diligence and act on behalf of their clients. Please read the 2Shakes Privacy Policy .
Awhi Rōpū Consultants may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect its current privacy practices.
Personal information
The types of personal information we may collect about you will depend on our dealings with you and may include:
- your name;
- your contact details, including email address, mailing address, street address and/or telephone number;
- your business information including business name, business addresses, NZBN, financial information, and more;
- your preferences and/or opinions;
- information you provide to us through customer surveys;
- details of products and services we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our response to you;
- information about your access and use of our Site, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our Site, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider;
- additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our Site, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information; and
- any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.
We may collect these types of personal information directly from you or from third parties and from time to time we may also ask you to provide us with additional personal information.
Collection and use of personal information
We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
- to contact and communicate with you;
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
- for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Site, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
- to provide you with information you request about us or the products or services we offer through the Website;
- from time to time we may also ask you to participate in surveys or questionnaires which will help us to improve our levels of service and to maximise the opportunities and benefits you can enjoy.
- allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site;
- provide you with notices about your subscriptions to the Services, including expiration and renewal notices;
- carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
- to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have;
- for any other purpose with your consent.
We may from time to time send electronic messages to you updating you about our services, based on the reasonable expectation through an existing business or other relationship with us that these will be relevant. All electronic messages will identify us.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
We do not disclose personal information to third parties for the purposes of allowing them to send marketing material to you. We may use personal information about you for a variety of purposes. We may disclose personal information to:
- our employees;
- anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
- third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics or other relevant businesses. This may include parties that store data outside of New Zealand.
By providing us with personal information, you consent to the disclosure of your personal information to third parties who reside outside New Zealand and acknowledge that we are not required to ensure that those third parties comply with New Zealand Privacy Laws.
Third parties are not subject to our privacy policy and procedures. You will need to review the relevant third-party privacy policy. Unless expressly advised, Awhi Rōpū Consultants does not endorse, approve or recommend the services or products provided on third party websites.
Your rights and controlling your personal information
Choice and consent: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting, holding, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you make an enquiry or subscribe to receive information about our services, events and industry updates or apply for a subscription to our services, provision of certain personal information will generally be required to facilitate such requests.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.
Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. As set out in the Privacy Act 2020. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information.
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.
Complaints: If you believe that we have breached the New Zealand Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint.
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.
Contact us: info@arconsultants.co.nz, or 07 242 7228, or 1227 Ranolf Street, PO Box 987, Rotorua 3010.
Storage and security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. We take reasonable steps to ensure personal information is protected from risks such as misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, use, destruction, modification or disclosure.
We cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Use of cookies allows a website to tailor its configuration to your needs and preferences. 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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Ads and Facebook Adverts. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
Amendments
We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our Site. We recommend you check our Site regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.
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.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
