Data Privacy

Data (Privacy) Protection Policy

Your privacy is important to Ausmove New Zealand Ltd. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we collect, use, disclose and protect the information that you provide to us, in compliance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.

In the course of serving you, Ausmove New Zealand Ltd may obtain personal information about you. Acquiring this information enables us to provide the highest level of service to you, but at the same time we acknowledge and respect the privacy rights of individuals relating to personal information.

Our Privacy Policy outlines the personal information we may collect about you, the purposes for which we use this information, the circumstances in which we may share the information, and the steps we take to safeguard the information to protect your privacy.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Ausmove New Zealand Ltd collects personal information to understand and meet our customers and potential customer’s needs and to fulfil our business objectives. This information is collected by various sources including information provided by its customers, agents other representatives or any third party agents authorised to act on behalf of Ausmove New Zealand Ltd.

Personal Information may include your name, address, email address, phone number, identification number, passport details, date of birth, Job or Title and may also include financial information, such as credit card or other bank account data, or any other data provided related to the performance of moving, storage, relocation or other associated services. However, Ausmove New Zealand Ltd limits its collection of Personal Information to that which is necessary for its intended purpose and thus does not collect any information that is not relevant to the business or objectives in delivering approved services.

When you visit our website www.ausmove.co.nz your browsing information (your browser type and the pages of the website that you visit) will be collected.

THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your personal information will allow us to provide and manage your required needs. It will also enable us to analyse the information we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business. This use of information may include:

Administer this website
Personalise the website for you
Enable your access to and use of the website services
Supply to you services that you purchase
Send to you statements and invoices
Collect payment from you
Send you marketing communications
Provide the moving, relocation or storage services requested.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Ausmove New Zealand Ltd does not share your personal information with any third parties except as disclosed in this policy.

We may provide personal information to Ausmove New Zealand Ltd subcontractors and Global moving partners (which shall be bound by privacy obligations) in order to facilitate and carry out authorised services.

We will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information you provide to us without your consent, except subject to the categories listed below.

Any person to whom we are compelled or required to do so under law or in response to a legitimate instruction from a government agency
Government entities, courts or other entities, such as in response to summons or other legal or regulatory processes, or to protect against fraud
Pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction
Where applicable, third parties who provide related services or products in connection with our business
Government agencies, statutory authorities and industry regulators
Our sub-contractors or third party service or product providers as may determine to be necessary or appropriate
To debt collection agencies to assist with collection of overdue or unpaid debts due to Ausmove New Zealand Ltd

SECURITY

Personal information is stored in a combination of paper and electronic files. Personal information held by Ausmove New Zealand Ltd is not accessible publically. We take reasonable measures to protect personal information against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, including credit card information that is submitted to us through defined procedures and appropriate technology designed for that purpose.

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural guidelines to protect your Personal Information.
We assess our security standards and procedures from time to time to protect against unauthorised access to Personal Information.
We store Personal Information only as long as needed for legitimate business purposes, or as required by contractual or legal requirements.
We limit access to Personal Information on need to know basis only that is required to provide services to our customers.

Ausmove New Zealand Ltd will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this website will be protected by encryption technology.

Ausmove New Zealand Ltd makes no representations or warranties with regard to the sufficiency of these security measures. Ausmove New Zealand Ltd shall not be responsible for any actual or consequential damages that result from a compliance breach of this Privacy Policy due to a security breach or technical malfunction.

CHOICE AND CONSENT

By engaging Ausmove New Zealand Ltd, you willingly authorise the collection, use, retention and disclosure of your personal information to Ausmove New Zealand Ltd and 3rd parties within the Supply Chain for the purpose of performing your relocation. You may choose not to allow the sharing of your Information with third parties (“Optout”). If you Opt-out of the sharing of your Information, Ausmove New Zealand Ltd will be unable to provide services to you. Your option allowing or denying the Information to be shared may be changed at any time by contacting Head Office at move@ausmove.co.nz

IN THE EVENT OF A DATA BREACH

We treat breaches seriously and have defined set of procedures in place in the event of a data breach. There is no single way of responding to a data breach, each breach will need to be managed relative to the situation.

A data privacy team will be assembled to investigate, manage, and respond to the personal data breach.

Data breaches may be caused by employees, parties external to the organisation or computer system errors. If a data breach occurs, Ausmove will notify the individuals whose personal data has been compromised and third parties such as banks, credit card companies or the police where relevant. These individuals will be notified as soon as practical to allow them to take necessary actions early to avoid potential abuse of the compromised data. After steps have been taken to resolve the data breach, Ausmove will review the cause of the breach and evaluate if existing protection and prevention measures and process are sufficient to prevent similar breaches from occurring, and where applicable put a stop to practices which led to the data breach.

ACCESSING INFORMATION

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information held about you and you may ask us to make any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and up to date, by contacting Head Office at move@ausmove.co.nz, or writing to us at: PO Box 44 350, Pt Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand.

When you visit our website we may use cookies to collect certain browsing information about your use of the Ausmove New Zealand Ltd website. A cookie is information that a website stores on your computer’s hard drive so that it can remember something about you at a later date. Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and do not harm your computer. The cookies used on our website do not collect any personal information about you that others could read or access.

The cookies used on our website help us to understand the popular paths that user’s take to our site which in turn helps us to improve the users experience and further enhance our site.

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

EU citizens have the right to:

withdraw consent, if consent was the lawful basis for processing;
require us to erase your personal information;
require us to restrict or object to our data processing activities;
receive from us the personal information we hold about you which you have provided to us, in a reasonable format specified by you, including for the purpose of you transmitting that personal information to another data controller; and

If you withdraw consent, we may not be able to assist in any insurance claims, and this could affect the efficiency in which your removal is processed.

Please note that these rights may be limited by data protection legislation, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exemptions apply. All requests should be made to our Data Protection Officer: dpo@ausmove.co.nz

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Ausmove New Zealand Ltd reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the revised policy on the website. If such amendments affect how Ausmove New Zealand Ltd use or disclose personal information already held by us in a material way, we will obtain consent.

This Privacy Policy was last updated as of 17 October 2024. Your continued use of the website signifies your consent to this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions or feedback concerning Ausmove New Zealand Ltd Privacy Policy, please contact Head Office at move@ausmove.co.nz

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