Privacy Policy

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General

We are committed to protecting your privacy and the security of your personal information.

We are bound by the Privacy Principles (Principles) contained in the Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act).

This Privacy Policy sets out the practices that we have adopted in compliance with the Principles and the Privacy Act so that you can be confident that we will appropriately manage and protect your privacy and the security of your personal information.

Collection of Information

We may collect personal information about you when you enquire about or utilise our services and either directly or from third parties where you have authorised us to do so or where the personal information is in the public domain.

If you choose not to provide personal information when requested, we may be unable to respond to your inquiry or provide you with the services you require.

Your access to this website may also be monitored and tracked through the use of “cookies”.

You acknowledge that transmissions to and from this website may be monitored, intercepted or modified by other parties (for example by Google Analytics).

Use and Disclosure of Information

Any personal information we receive will be used primarily to respond to inquiries, to comply with our legal and professional obligations including in relation to anti-money laundering and counterfeiting of terrorism, to provides services to you, to provide you with news and information about us and our services and activities (if you have opted to receive such news and information), to respond to complaints, to improve this website and our services and for such other purposes as may be disclosed to you at the time the personal information is collected or as required by law.

We will not sell, trade or rent or give personal information to third parties (other than related entities), except to the extent that it is necessary for or incidental to the above purposes.

We will not disclose personal information about you or your browsing habits to any third party, without your permission unless required to do so to comply with our legal and professional obligations, for the purposes of providing our services to you or for the purpose of collecting any moneys owing to us or otherwise enforcing our rights against you although we may disclose aggregated and/or unidentified information about clients in general, including statistics related to this website to others.

Security and Storage

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal information that is collected. However, any personal information that you provide to us is at your own risk.

We cannot provide any assurances regarding data sovereignty and you acknowledge that your personal information may be stored by cloud service providers offshore.

We will keep your personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary, having regard to the purpose of collection, and in accordance with applicable legal requirements, our rules of professional conduct or professional indemnity obligations.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate, up to date, complete, relevant and not misleading. You have the right in most cases to gain access to and request the correction of personal information that we hold about you by contacting us. We will deal with requests for access to and correction of personal information as quickly as possible.

Emails

Emails are regulated by the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 and in compliance with this Act, we will not send you a commercial electronic message unless permitted to do so.

You can elect not to receive emails from us by choosing to opt out of any email subscription at any time via the link below.

Privacy Breaches

If your personal information is subject to unauthorised or accidental access, disclosure, alteration, loss or destruction or actions which prevent us from accessing it on a temporary or permanent basis (Privacy Breach), and such Privacy Breach is likely to cause you serious harm, we will notify you and the Privacy Commissioner in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act 2020.

Complaints

If you have any concerns or complaints about the manner in which your personal information has been collected or managed by us, please contact us.

We will endeavour to resolve any complaint to your satisfaction. However, if you are unhappy with our response, you may contact the Privacy Commissioner who may investigate your complaint further. Further information about the application of the Privacy Act can be found at the website of the Privacy Commissioner at http://www.privacy.org.nz.

How to contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to provide feedback about this Privacy Policy or would like to access or correct your personal information held by us, please contact us on +64 9 379 7333 or info@martellimckegg.co.nz.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time it may be necessary for us to review and revise this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically check this website where we will post the most up-to-date version of this Privacy Policy.