OUR PRIVACY POLICY 2019

PRIVACY POLICY INTRODUCTION

George Street Real Estate Limited aims to always comply with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when managing and handling all personal information which includes information about any individual (real person). This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose and safeguard your personal information, however this privacy policy does not limit or exclude any of your personal rights as set out under the Act. If you wish to seek further information on the Act, please kindly visit www.privacy.org.nz.

VARIATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

George Street Real Estate Limited may amend this policy by replacing a revised policy onto the website. The changes to the policy will apply from the date that the new policy is uploaded.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED

We collect personal information about you from:

  • You, when you make available that personal information to us, via the website and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any direct contact with us (e.g. telephone call, txt, or email), or when you buy or use our services and products.
  • Third parties where you have authorised this or the information is publicly available.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use your personal information:

  • To check your identity.
  • To offer/provide services and products to you.
  • To market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose).
  • To improve our services.
  • To invoice you and to collect money that you owed to us.
  • To answer communications from you, including any complaints.
  • To conduct company research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis).
  • To protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim.
  • For any other purpose authorised by you or the Act

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to:

  • Another company within our group.
  • Any business that supports our services and products.
  • Other third parties (for anonymised statistical information).
  • A person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority).
  • Any other person authorised by the Act or another.
  • Any other person authorised by you.

PROTECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.

ACCESSING AND AMENDING PERSONAL INFORMATION

Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold and to request a correction to your personal information. Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates. In respect of a request for correction, if we think the correction is reasonable and we are reasonably able to change the personal information, we will make the correction. If we do not make the correction, we will take reasonable steps to note on the personal information that you requested the correction.

If you want to exercise either of the above rights, please contact us at admin@georgestreet.co.nz.

INTERNET USE

While we take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk. If you post your personal information on the website you acknowledge and agree that the information you post is publicly available. If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal information.

COOKIES

We use cookies (an alphanumeric identifier that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive so that we can recognise your browser) to monitor your use of the website. You may disable cookies by changing the settings on your browser, although this may mean that you cannot use all of the features of the website.

We use cookies to:

  • Remember and process information.
  • Understand and store preferences for future site visits.
  • Keep track of marketing advertisements.
  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off, Some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly and your site experience may be less efficient and not function properly.

CONTACT US

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below:

George Street Real Estate Limited
admin@georgestreet.co.nz