Privacy policy.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.websitesforbuilders.co.nz. This website is owned by Business Directors Ltd.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information you have provided us with. This might be your e-mail address, phone number, name, billing address, home address, etc. – information that is necessary for delivering you our services or to enhance your customer experience with us.
Cookies
We collect information automatically collected about your interaction with our website. This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your IP address, your contact history (if there is any), etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.
Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.
Contact forms
We collect information that you give us when using a contact form on our website. This information is emailed to us and may also be kept in our website database. You can request us to remove this information from our records at any time. We use this information to make contact with you by phone and/or email, and provide our services to you.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to gather information on who uses our website, how they interact with our site and other information that Google collects on our behalf. You can read Google’s privacy policy here.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data in order to enhance your customer experience; fulfil an obligation under law or contract; and provide our service to you. For example, registering your account, providing you with other products and services that you have requested, providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services, communicating and interacting with you, and notifying you of changes to any services.
We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your consent. On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
to identify you;
to provide you a service or to send/offer you a product; and
to communicate either for sales or invoicing.
On the grounds of legitimate interest, we process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
to send you personalised offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
to administer and analyse our client base (purchasing behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/services offered; and
to conduct questionnaires concerning client satisfaction.
With your consent, we process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners); and
for other purposes we have asked previously your consent for.
We process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law, and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised.
Who we share your data with
We value your privacy. Therefore we keep your information in confidence, except where we need to supply our third-party partners information in order to provide our services to you. We work with the following third parties who may be given relevant information that you supply us: Mail Chimp, Facebook, Instagram and Google.
Auckland Building Specialists work with various third-parties like Instagram, Facebook and Google to see what actions you take on third party websites to deliver our personalised ads to you via third party websites. We use demographics and Interest reporting features in Google Analytics to anonymously track users on our websites, collect information such as which pages were visited and how long was spent there. This information helps us to improve our websites to give you a better experience.
How long we retain your data
We retain your anonymised data indefinitely.
We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law, but no longer than is absolutely necessary.
You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Even though we try our best we cannot guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
If you have an account with us, including website administrative login, please note that it is your responsibility to ensure your username and password remain secret and are not shared with anyone unless there is assurance of their ability to protect this information and use it for the purposes you allow them.
Subscription
You may choose to subscribe to our newsletter by giving us your name and email address. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter/s, please follow the unsubscribe link within our emails, or contact us so we can do so for you.
Behavioural Advertising
We may use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by going to the following links:
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal here.
Our contact information
You can contact us at info@websitesforbuilders.co.nz or via our contact page.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy. Last modification was made on 14 September 2020.