This Privacy Policy (Policy) sets out how Commercial Realty Limited (Commercial Realty, we, us, our) collects, uses, stores and discloses personal information about our clients, potential clients, persons associated with our clients, suppliers and others (collectively, you). We are bound and committed to complying with the Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act,) and the privacy principles set out in the Privacy Act.
What is your personal information?
When used in this policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act. In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and profession or occupation. If the information we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.
What personal information do we collect and hold?
Generally, this personal information may include (but is not limited to) your name, mailing or street address, email address, telephone number, age or birth date, details of the products or services you have enquired about, property value, rental amounts, insurance details, photo identification and bank account details.
We may also have to ask you for further financial information such as source of funds, to meet our obligations under the Anti Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009.
How do we collect your personal information?
We collect your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so. When collecting personal information from you, we may collect this in ways including:
·Through your access and use of our website
·By telephone, letter, fax or email
·During conversations between you and our representatives
·By contracting with us
We may also collect personal information from third parties including:
·From third party companies such as credit reporting agencies and government entities
·Your representatives (lawyers, accountants, and financial advisors)
·Publicly available sources of information
What happens if we can’t collect your personal information?
If you do not provide us with the personal information as described above, some or all of the following may happen:
·We may not be able to provide the requested products or services to you, to the same standard or at all:
·We may not be able to provide you with information about products and services that you may want; or
·We may be unable to tailor the content of our websites to your preferences and your experience of our website may not be as enjoyable or useful.
For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
We collect personal information about you so that we can perform our business activities and functions and to provide the best possible customer service.
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
·To provide products and services to you;
·For communicating to you;
·Marketing our existing and new products or services;
·To perform a contract with you;
·For verifying your identity;
·Engaging third–parties on your behalf;
·Complying with our legal obligations.
Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this policy.
To whom may we disclose your information?
We may disclose your personal information to:
·Our employees, contractors and suppliers;
·Other companies or individuals who assist us in providing services or who perform functions on our behalf (such as mailing houses, hosting and data storage providers, specialist consultants and legal advisors)
·Other companies or individuals who perform checks (such as but not limited to compliance reviews and audits) that are necessary or desirable under law on your behalf;
·A credit agency for the purpose of carrying out a credit check on you
·Professional advisors such as accountants, lawyers or auditors
·Anyone else to whom you consent us disclosing your information; and
·Where we are required to do so by law.
How is your personal information collected by the Commercial Realty website?
Our website uses cookies. We use this information to remember who you are, your preferences, to advertise, to tailor offers and content to you, and to assess how our site is used.
We may also use third-party web analytics services on our website, such as Google Analytics. These help us analyse how you use the website. The information obtained for this purpose (including your IP address and other information collected by automated means) will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers.
The providers of third-party plug-ins and widgets on our sites, such as embedded videos and social media sharing tools, may use automated means to collect information regarding your use of the sites and your interactions with the plug-ins and widgets. We may also receive information you have made available to those third party services, including the geographic location of your mobile device and other information about you (such as name, email address, gender, locale, time zone, languages, social media profile, URL, personal website URL, biographical information, birthday, photo, list of devices, education history, work history, hometown, interests, current city, political views, favourite athlete and teams, relationship status and information, religion, name of significant other, and certain security settings information) and your contacts on those services. This information is subject to the privacy policies or notices of the third-party providers of the plug-ins and widgets.
Our website may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy, security or handling of your personal information via those websites. You should review the privacy policy and terms of use for those websites each time you visit them.
Storage, Security and Retention
Personal information may be stored in hard copy and/or electronic form including with third party data facilities and in cloud storage located in and outside New Zealand. When you provide us with your personal information you give us your consent to store your information outside of New Zealand and in third party facilities.
We take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse and loss from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We have implemented policies and procedures to safeguard the secure storage and processing of data and have verified the security arrangements of our outsourced data providers.
We will retain your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you and for a period afterwards where we have an ongoing legal or business need to retain it - for example to comply with your anti money laundering obligations.
Access and Correction of your personal information we hold
We will endeavor to ensure that the personal information that we hold is accurate, complete and up to date. You have the right to correct any personal information we hold about you in accordance with the Privacy Act.
Subject to the exceptions set out in the Privacy Act, you may seek access to the personal information which we hold about you by contacting our Privacy Officer (contact details below).
Once a request for access to personal information is received, we will review your request as soon as reasonably practicable. If we are unable to give you access to the information that you have asked for, we will give you the reasons for this decision when we respond to your request.
Opting out or Unsubscribing to Marketing Communications
By subscribing to emails and/or text communication, or otherwise providing your email address and/or mobile number, you consent to receiving emails and/or texts which promote and market our products and our services from time to time. You can unsubscribe from the email or text communication at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link or by replying unsubscribe in any email or text from us. You can also contact our privacy officer to do this.
Concerns and Complaints
If you have any concerns about privacy or the use or collection of your personal information by us, please contact our Privacy Officer:
Privacy Officer
Email: Reception@commercialrealty.co.nz
Post: PO Box 51870, Pakuranga, Auckland 2140