Privacy Statement

This privacy policy explains how NZCT Inc collects, stores, uses, and discloses any personal information that you provide to us when using this website.  

NZCT Inc complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (the Act) when dealing with personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person). This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act. If you wish to seek further information on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz.  

Personal information 

NZCT Inc requires your personal information only in limited circumstances when you: 

• Sign up for newsletters 

• Submit an enquiry through the contact us page 

• Submit an online form, request information, complete a survey or application through the website or otherwise submit information to us through the website or post or upload to the website 

• Provide feedback or report a problem with this website. 

You may decide not to provide some or any of your personal information to us.  If you choose not to enter an address or your riding levels and interests, we'll be unable to provide information tailored to your location and interests. 

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at [email protected]. 

Automated collection 

Additionally, when you visit, navigate through, and interact with this website or third-party sites and mobile applications on which we advertise, we use automated data collection technology (such as usage monitoring software, cookies, and sessions) to collect, match, and store certain information about your visit.  

If you disable cookies it may limit your access to some of the website’s content and features. You can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our website, but your experience may be affected. 

Social media  

Our website includes social media features. These features may collect your IP address, which pages you visit on our site, and how long for. If you're a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your visits to this site with other personal information. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the third party providing it and to the maximum extent permitted by law we are not responsible for the actions of those third parties. 

How your information is used 

We may use your personal information for any purpose which is stated to you at the time of collection or that you otherwise authorise and to: 

• Send you newsletters 

• Communicate with you for general contact or feedback enquiries 

• analyse usage of this website 

• Provide you with further information, news, and promotional material 

• carry out advertising and marketing activities and other promotional and publicity purposes, including direct marketing, market research, analytics, and surveys 

• To personalise our communications with you, and show you advertising and information through our website and other mediums that is most relevant to you and your interests 

• Improve the content of this website and to customise this website to your preferences 

• Track the effectiveness of our advertising by sharing and receiving anonymised data with our conversion partners and 

• Combine it with information about you that is publicly available and/or our third-party service providers have (such as your email address), for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. 

For example: 

• E-newsletters: The personal data collected as part of registration for our e-newsletter will be used to personalise our e-newsletter to you. That data may be used alongside your website behaviour to further personalise your user experience on our website, and in our advertising programs. 

Your personal information will be made available internally for the above purposes and we may also disclose your personal information to trusted third parties or subcontractors, who have agreed to treat your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy, for similar purposes.  

However, we will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties. 

An example of this is: 

• Cookies and IDs: We use cookies and anonymised IDs (e.g., hashed email or phone numbers) to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic and the effectiveness of our advertising, including sharing such anonymised data with our partners. 

• We also share information about your use of our website with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website. 

We will only use or disclose personal information that you have provided to us, or which we have obtained about you for the above-mentioned purposes, or: 

• If you have authorised us to do so 

• If we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance of their functions 

• If we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce any legal rights we may have, or is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of us, our customers, or others  

• If we are authorised, required or permitted by law to disclose the information. 

Storage and security 

Personal information collected on this website is collected and held by NZCT Inc. We will take reasonable efforts to protect personal information that is held by us from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method is completely secure, and while we take reasonable measures we cannot completely ensure or promise the security of any information we collect from you. 

Third party advertising and links to websites 

This website contains hyperlinks to third party websites. Some of these links may request or record information from users or use cookies or other methods to collect information from you.  

We have no control over and are not responsible for the content of such websites, or for the manner in which those websites collect, hold, use, and distribute any personal information you provide.  

When visiting a third party website either from hyperlinks displayed on this website, or otherwise, we encourage you to review the privacy statements of those websites so that you can understand how the personal information you provide will be will collected, held, used, and distributed. 

Competitions 

We will collect personal information provided by you if you participate in any of our promotions and competitions. We collect this information in order to conduct the promotion or competition. We may disclose such information to third parties, such as agents, contractors, service providers and prize suppliers to conduct the promotion or competition.  

We may also use and disclose this information as set out in this privacy policy. Entry is conditional on providing this information. If the information is not fully supplied the entry may be void. 

If you provide us with the names and contact details of any other people that you would like to have participate in our contests or promotions, we will also collect this information. You promise that you have their permission to provide us with this information and for us to use if for this purpose. 

Commercial electronic messages 

When you submit an online form to provide us with your personal information (including electronic contact details), to the extent that form is not in itself a request by you for us to send you commercial electronic messages, we will ask you if you would like to receive commercial electronic messages from us for any of the purposes set out in this privacy policy. You can opt-out of receiving commercial electronic messages from us at any time using the “unsubscribe” link we provide (where relevant), or by sending an email to [email protected] 

Similarly, the subscription to our e-newsletter may be terminated by you at any time by using the ‘unsubscribe’ link found in the relevant NZCT Inc email. Your consent to the storage of personal information, which you have given for receiving the newsletter, may be revoked at any time (again by using the ‘unsubscribe’ link found in the NZCT Inc email). 

Data access and correction 

Under the Privacy Act 2020 (and other applicable laws) you have rights of access to and correction of personal information that we hold about you. This can be done by contacting us at [email protected] 

To ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current, please notify us of any changes to your personal information as soon as possible. 

Changes to our privacy policy 

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update or revise this privacy policy at any time. Changes to this privacy policy will take effect immediately once published on this website. Please check this privacy policy regularly for modifications and updates.  

This privacy policy was last updated on 02 September, 2025. 

Contacting us 

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]