Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION
We may collect, retain and use your personal information (including your e-mail address, name and phone number) from time to time. This Privacy Policy sets out our practices regarding the collection, use, storage and disclosure of your personal information in compliance with the Privacy Act 2020.

Please read this Privacy Policy before using this website or submitting your personal information to this website. By using this website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. This privacy policy is subject to, and must be read in conjunction with, our Terms and Conditions.

Information we may collect and retain
We may collect and retain your personal information in the following circumstances:

when you complete forms on this website;
in the course of receiving questions, comments or other communications from you; and
as you navigate through this website, certain information may be passively collected (that is, gathered without your active participation) using various technologies and means, such as Internet Protocol addresses, cookies, Internet tags, and navigational data collection. Information collected may include server addresses, top-level domain names, dates and times of visits to the website, pages accessed and documents downloaded, previous websites visited and the type of browser used.

Disclosure of personal information

We may collect and retain your personal information in the following circumstances:
We will not disclose your personal information except in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020). We may use or disclose your personal information if you have authorised us to do so, or in any of the following circumstances:

we have given you notification of the intended use or disclosure and you have not objected to that use or disclosure;
we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance of their functions;
we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce any legal rights we may have, or is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of you, us, or others; or
we are required or permitted by law to disclose the information.

Publishing aggregate (non-personal) information

We may use and publish non-personal aggregate statistics and group data about people who access this website and their usage of the website, subject to the further terms of this Privacy Policy. NZKGI will not share or make public information about you without your prior permission.

Third Party Websites
This website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites. We are not responsible for the content of such websites, or the manners in which those websites collect, store, use, and distribute any personal information you provide. When visiting a third party website from hyperlinks displayed on this website, we encourage you to review the privacy statements of those websites so that you can understand how the personal information you provide will be will collected, stored, used and distributed. Storage of personal information

The information collected on, or through, this website is stored on secure servers. In accordance with the Privacy Act 2020, NZKGI may store your personal information for as long as it may lawfully be used by NZKGI.

Security
No data transmissions over the Internet are completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure the security of information transmitted from or to you. However, once we have received your personal information, we will use reasonable efforts to protect the information against loss or misuse, and against unauthorised access, use, modification, or disclosure.

Right to access and correct your personal information
You may request access to, or correction of, any personal information we hold about you by contacting our privacy officer at: info@knzkgi.org.nz. To ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date, notify us of any changes to your personal details as soon as possible.

Changes to our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update, change or revise this Privacy Policy, at any time. Changes to this privacy policy will take effect immediately once they are published on this website. Please check the Privacy Policy periodically for
changes. Your continued use of this website or our services following the posting of any changes to the Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of those changes. This Privacy Policy was last updated August 2021.

Other Terms
Your use of this website is subject to our Terms and Conditions