1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Hodgson Planning Consultants Ltd (we, us, our) complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when dealing with personal information.
1.2 This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.
1.3 We may change this policy by uploading a revised policy onto the website. The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy.

2. PRIVACY

2.1 We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.
2.2 Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that is held by Hodgson Planning Consultants Ltd and to request a correction to your personal information. Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates.

3. WHO DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM

We only collect personal information about you from you. This is collected when you provide that personal information to us, including via the website and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any contact with us (e.g. telephone call or email), or when you use our services.

4. HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED

4.1 We will use your personal information:
4.1.1 to provide services to you.
4.1.2 to market our services to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by email).
4.1.3 to improve the services that we provide to you.
4.1.4 to respond to communications from you, including a complaint.
4.1.5 for any other purpose authorised by you.

5. DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

5.1 If necessary, we may disclose your personal information to:
5.1.1 any business that supports our services and products, including any person that hosts or maintains any underlying IT system or data centre that we use to provide the website or other services and products.
5.1.2 any other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement agency).
5.1.3 any other person authorised by you.

6. INTERNET USE

6.1 While we endeavour to take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.
6.2 If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We suggest that you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal information.