Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to NZIQ.co.nz. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how NZIQ.co.nz collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for a newsletter, purchase a product or service, or take part in a survey.

 

Controller

NZIQ.co.nz is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "NZIQ.co.nz", "we", "us", or "our" in this privacy policy).

 

Contact Details

Our full details are:

  • Full name of legal entity: New Zealand Industry Qualifications Limited

  • Email address: info@nziq.co.nz

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), the New Zealand regulator for data protection issues (www.privacy.org.nz). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the OPC so please contact us in the first instance.

 

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data

  • Contact Data

  • Financial Data

  • Transaction Data

  • Technical Data

  • Profile Data

  • Usage Data

  • Marketing and Communications Data

 

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions

  • Automated technologies or interactions

  • Third parties or publicly available sources

 

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

 

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

 

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

 

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to processing, and the right to data portability.

8. Age Restriction
If New Zealand Industry Qualifications provides online services to a child (under 13), we will need the child’s parent/ legal guardian consent for this, and may ask for a parent’s or legal guardian’s email address, in order to obtain such consent.

 

9. Glossary

Lawful Basis

  • Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience.

  • Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

  • Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.


Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at info@nziq.co.nz.