Privacy Policy

This notice is applicable to all websites that we own and operate including any products and services we may provide.

Generate Zero Limited (NZCN 8717086) (we, us or our),understands that protecting your personal information is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or collected by us, when interacting with you.

The information we collect

Personal information: is information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable.

The types of personal information we may collect about you include:

Identity Data including your name, age, profession, amount remaining on mortgage, and gender.
Contact Data including your telephone number, address and email.
Technical and Usage Data when you access any of our websites or platforms, details about your internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser session and geo-location data, statistics on page views and sessions, device and network information, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour, access and use of our website (including through the use of Internet cookies or analytics), and communications with our website.
Interaction Data including information you provide to us when you participate in any interactive features, including surveys, events.
Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
Professional data including where you are a worker of ours or applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience.

How we collect personal information

We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:

when you interact directly with us, including face-to-face, over the phone, over email, or online;
when you complete a form, such as registering for any events or newsletters, or responding to surveys;
when you apply for a job with us;
from third parties, including our partners, such as details of your use of any website we operate (from our analytics providers);
from publicly available sources, such as social media or the New Zealand Companies Office

Why we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information

Personal information: We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

to enable you to access and use our software, including to provide you with a login;
to do business with you, including to dispatch and deliver our products to you, register your attendance at our events, assess your application, manage your appointments;
to contact and communicate with you about our business, including in response to any support requests you lodge with us or other enquiries you make with us;
to contact and communicate with you about any enquiries you make with us via any website we operate;
for internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes;
for analysis and reporting purposes, including creating anonymised analytics that may be shared with other parties;
for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our events and information that we consider may be of interest to you;
to offer additional benefits to you;
if you have applied for employment with us, to consider your employment application;
to comply with our legal obligations or if otherwise required or authorised by law;
to understand how users interact with our website and platform so we can optimise and improve them; and
to detect and prevent malicious or fraudulent activity on our website.

Our disclosures of personal information to third parties 

We may disclose your personal information to third party service providers that assist us in operating our website, delivering services or communications to you. We may also disclose personal information as required by law to government agencies, regulators or law enforcement bodies. Where permitted, we will notify you of such disclosures.

Personal Information

We store personal information in Australia using Microsoft Azure. Before disclosing any personal information to an overseas recipient (such as Microsoft Azure), we will comply with Information Privacy Principle 12 and only disclose the information if:

you have authorised the disclosure after we expressly informed you that the overseas recipient may not be required to protect the personal information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those in the Privacy Act 2020;
we believe the overseas recipient is subject to the Privacy Act 2020;
we believe that the overseas recipient is subject to privacy laws that, overall, provide comparable safeguards to those in the Privacy Act 2020;
we believe that the overseas recipient is a participant in a prescribed binding scheme;
we believe that the overseas recipient is subject to privacy laws in a prescribed country; or
we otherwise believe that the overseas recipient is required to protect your personal information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those in the Privacy Act 2020 (for example pursuant to a data transfer agreement entered into between us and the overseas recipient).

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Your rights and controlling your personal information

Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to do business with you.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Restrict and unsubscribe: To object to processing for direct marketing/unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

Access: You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to withhold access to your personal information. If we cannot provide access to your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal. If we can provide access to your information in another form that still meets your needs, then we will take reasonable steps to give you such access.

Correction: If you believe that any information, we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to not correct your personal information. If we cannot correct your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal.

Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take in response to your complaint. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.

Storage and security

We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures, to safeguard and secure personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as needed for our business purposes and ongoing relationship. Except where required by law, compliance obligations, or contract, we will delete or anonymise your data after a maximum of 7 years if there is no ongoing business relationship.

Cookies

We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do recognise you when you return to our online website and allow third parties to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. If and when you choose to provide our online website with personal information, this information maybe linked to the data stored in the cookie.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other party’s websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Amendments

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our website. We recommend you check our website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

For any questions or notices, please contact us at:

Generate Zero Limited (NZCN 8717086)

Email: hello@generatezero.com

Address: 7 St Benedicts Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland 1010

Last update: 18 October 2024

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