PRIVACY POLICY

Protecting your personal information is important to us.  We want to be sure you understand the terms and conditions relating to the information we collect, how we use it, safeguard, and store it.
Below you’ll find our formal policy which follows New Zealand’s privacy laws.

This Privacy Policy tells you how we will protect your privacy and collect and use your personal information (any reference to “we”, “us” or “our” is to Your builder) Our Privacy Policy applies to anyone who uses this Website (www.yourbuilder.co.nz) (website).

“Personal Information” means any information that can directly or indirectly identify you or another person.

YOUR RIGHTS

Our privacy policy applies to personal information which may be collected or held by us. In this document the term “personal information” refers to information of an identifiable individual, which is the definition contained in the Privacy Act 1993. Accordingly, the term “personal information” in this context does not refer to information about companies and other legal entities.

We may be holding your personal information as a consequence of your dealings or communications with us, for instance by registering for or using services. You may have supplied us with personal information by using our websites, mobile applications, products or services. If you do any of these things or otherwise supply personal information to us, or authorise or permit us to have it, you consent to this privacy policy and in doing so you authorise the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and use of your personal information, as set out below. You have a right at any time to opt out of some or all of this policy, and by doing that to withdraw any authority or consent within it. However, if you do that, we may be unable to provide you with all the services and benefits that you would otherwise have access to, such as receiving information or market updates or offers of goods or services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

• Personal information through your voluntary use of the website (Your name, contact details and IP address.)
• Personal information, provided to us by you through any other method (including without limitation correspondence and discussions)
• Personal information collected by us through click tracking in relation to your use of the website, including the content you upload and the content you access; and
• Aggregated data, which tracks traffic to the website; and cookies, which are pieces of personal information transferred to your computer hard drive for record keeping (such as your preferences on our website).
• Personal information collected from third party sources.
• Feedback you give us and your responses to our customer surveys.
• Any other information you give us.

Please don’t give us Personal Information about someone else unless you have their permission, and they know about this Privacy Policy.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

• From you directly (e.g.: when you provide your details to us).
• From you indirectly (e.g.: when you interact with us on social media).
• From other people (e.g.: contractors and agents that work for us).
• From places where the information is publicly available.
  
  

WHY WE USE AND SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

• To help you use our Website.
• To respond to your questions and to tell you more about us.
• To operate and maintain our Website.
• For our internal records.
• To comply with our legal obligations.
• For any other purposes that you authorise.

Sometimes we might share your Personal Information with our contractors and agents to help do these things, but we won’t share your Personal Information with anyone else, unless the law requires us to.

WHERE THE INFORMATION IS HELD

The agency holding your personal information is Your builder Ltd. Our address is recorded at the bottom of this policy. Information may be collected by or for other entities, including companies in the Your builder Ltd group of companies i.e.:  Your home, in accordance with this policy.

SHARING OR PASSING ON INFORMATION OR SECURITY

Personal information may be hosted with a service provider. Our agreements with them are intended to protect the information that we collect from any unauthorised use.
We may pass personal information we receive from you onto our related companies or business partners, and, if necessary, credit agencies. We will do this for the purposes set out below. However, we will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We collect personal information to provide the best possible service to you while you are visiting our sites. We may also use this information for the following purposes:

• To help provide the services you request.
• To offer the most relevant information suitable to you and your interests.
• For any market research that we might undertake.
• For advertising, such as providing customised advertisements and sponsored content.
• From time to time we may wish to use your personal information for other purposes that we consider beneficial for effective provision of goods and services, and you authorise us to do that.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We have reasonable protections in place against unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure and loss of your Personal Information.

SEEING OR CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION

You have the right to access and correct your personal information at any time or opt out of receiving further communications from us. There are some exceptions to this right set out in the Privacy Act. To find out more about how to do this, email us at hamid@yourbuilder.co.nz or mail your corrections, Attention: Privacy Policy Updates, Your builder, 1b Williamson Avenue, Belmont, Auckland 0622.

PRIVACY COMPLAINTS

If you think that we haven’t properly protected your privacy, you can tell our Privacy Officer here (hamid@yourbuilder.co.nz), or complain to the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner. https://www.privacy.org.nz/your-rights/making-a-complaint/complaint-form/



PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time. We encourage you to check back often to see if the policy has been updated – check the “effective date” posted at the bottom of this document to see when it was last updated.
We will make every effort to communicate any significant changes to you directly. Your continued use of the services and website will be deemed acceptance of any updated policy.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER AND OTHER NOTICES

We may send emails throughout the purchasing process and other newsletter emails you elect to receive. In addition, we may send out promotional material to you promoting new or amended material on our site where we think that may be relevant to you. It is our policy to immediately remove any person from any mailing list upon the person’s request.

INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTY SOURCES

We may receive personal information about you from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you. We may also receive personal information about you from third-party social networking services when you choose to connect with those services.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small file that stores information on your device, mobile, PC or tablet. It is recognised by our server when you visit our sites. A cookie does not provide us with any personal information, but it does tell us what browser you are using, and your IP address.

Cookies enable us to do the following:

• Track traffic patterns to our site.
• Ensure that the most relevant content is being shown.
• Allow you to enter certain site member services without having to log in each time you visit.

We may use personal information contained in cookies to make assumptions about the user of the computer and to provide users of that computer with focused advertising that we believe may be of interest, based on that information.
If you would rather, we did not use cookies with you, you can refuse them by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You will still be able to visit our sites.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimise, and serve ads on the internet based on someone’s past visits to our website. Personal information is not stored by us or any third parties.
You are free to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s opt out page. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. (NAI Consumer Opt Out (networkadvertising.org)) However, if you do so that may restrict some of our services and market analysis.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other sites of interest. Such sites are not governed by this privacy policy so you will need to check their privacy policies before providing personal information to them or any other third party.
We may also make available to you certain products or services (e.g., apps) developed by third parties. Your builder Ltd. is not responsible for these third-party products or services.

BUSINESS TRANSFERS

In the unlikely event of a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency, then we may transfer or share your personal information. In this case, we will let you know before your personal information is transferred and becomes part of a different policy.

ANY QUESTION OR FURTHER ASSISTANCE?

If you have any further questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at hamid@yourbuilder.co.nz or at our mailing address below:

Attention: Privacy Policy Updates
Your builder
 1b Williamson Avenue
 Belmont
 Auckland 0622.

Effective: October 2021