Privacy Policy
- Your consent: By using our website and signing up to email newsletter/s, offer alerts or other alerts and/or using BNH’s services, you consent to our collection, use, disclosure, and processing of your personal information as described in this privacy policy.
- If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
- Cookies and web tags: Cookies are small bits of data that are deposited on a user’s browser. Our website utilises cookies, IP addresses and other interactive techniques such as web tags to collect information on how you use our website for specific functions, including running analytics and targeting messaging on social media. The cookies and tags we use do not collect personally identifiable information, and we do not use them to determine your identity. Cookies permit users to store their password and other user information without having to constantly re-enter this data. Cookies also permit us to tailor our website to your needs. Most browsers permit users to decline to accept cookies, although the default setting is typically to accept them. You may choose to decline the cookies, but refusing cookies may limit your ability to use our website in their entirety.
- Information collection: If you do nothing during your visit but browse through our website and read the information contained on the web pages, then we may gather certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We may automatically gather the internet domain (for example, “companyx.co.nz” if you use a private internet access account, or “myschool.ac.nz” if you connect from a university’s domain), IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web) from which you access our website, and the date and time you access our website and the pages you visit. This information is used in statistical and aggregate formats to assess the effectiveness of and improve our website and BNH’s services, to determine our visitors’ preferences and interests, and to help us target messaging on social media.
We may collect non-public personal information from you when you voluntarily provide personally identifiable information to us though our website, such as when entering competitions or submitting a membership application. We limit use of such information to the purposes for which the information was provided and/or intended for. If you send an email that includes personally identifiable information, for example, in an email containing an inquiry, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry. Remember that email is not necessarily secure against interception. - Business member registration: If you register as a business or commercial property owner member through our website (https://businessnh.org.nz/), you will need to provide BNH with personal information such as your name, mobile number and email address, or you will not be able to register as a member. This information is your responsibility to administer at all times by logging on to your profile or contacting BNH directly. You are able to choose what information is published and what is used for membership communications only. All information you provide will only be used for the purpose for which it is provided and will not be shared with third parties, except as related to the purpose of its supply.
- Offensive content and membership removal: You agree that at all times during which you are a member of our website, you will use a name and/or profile picture and/or business logo which is not defamatory, indecent, objectionable or otherwise offensive. You also agree that no content you create on our website will be defamatory, indecent, objectionable or otherwise offensive. You acknowledge that BNH, in its sole and absolute discretion, may remove you as a member of our website, or remove any content you create, at any time without notice to you should you breach these Terms.
- Newsletters: When you subscribe to our newsletter mailing list, your details become part of BNH’s email newsletter mailing list. Being part of this list enables us to send you information about including but not limited to offers, events, shopping, dining, nightlife, attractions, accommodation, advocacy and news. The information you have provided will remain confidential and will be used only for the purpose of communication, as well as for targeting our messaging on social media via de-identified means (e.g. using Audiences on Facebook). Once subscribed to these mailing lists, you may unsubscribe at any time.
- Access: You may ask to see the personal information that BNH holds about you at any time by contacting us. You are entitled to ask BNH to correct, alter or delete any personal information that we hold about you by contacting us at Unit 2, Level 1, 322 Rosedale Road, Rosedale, Auckland, New Zealand or [email protected].
- Competition: Any personal information collected as part of a competition or survey will be held by BNH in accordance with its obligations under the Privacy Act 2020 and will not be shared with third parties.
