Privacy Policy

Biddick Limited (“Biddick”) is committed to protecting your privacy.

Last updated: 5 August 2021.

 

Purpose

This policy explains how Biddick handles personal information and complies with the requirements of the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 ("Privacy Act").

Questions and Contact

If you have any questions or concerns relation to this policy or its operation, please contact our Privacy Officer at info@biddick.nz or P O Box 12121, Christchurch 8242, New Zealand.

User Consent

By submitting personal data to Biddick, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Data in accordance with this policy.

Collection of personal information

Biddick collects and holds personal information when it is necessary for business purposes.

The personal information we hold includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses. While providing professional services to our clients, we may collect and hold more detailed personal information.

We collect most information directly from individuals when we deal with them. The personal information we collect may be provided in forms filled out by individuals, face to face meetings, email messages, telephone conversations or by third parties.


Use of Personal Information

The main purposes for which we collect, hold and use personal information are to:

  • provide our services;

  • respond to an individual's inquiries related to employment opportunities or other request;

  • maintain contact with clients;

  • keep clients and other contacts informed of the services we offer and other developments that may be of interest to them; and

  • send invoices and statements to you, and to collect payment from you.

If you choose not to provide us with personal information, we may be unable to do such things.

If we collect, hold or use personal information in ways other than as stated in this policy, we will ensure we do so pursuant to the requirements of the Privacy Act.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not routinely disclose personal information to other organisations unless:

  • it is necessary to provide you with a product or service which you have requested;

  • you give your consent; or

  • such disclosure is otherwise required or permitted by law, regulation, rule or professional standard.

We do not sell to or trade personal information with third parties.

Storage of Information in Cloud Systems

Biddick may store personal information within services provided by offshore cloud service providers (CSP).

Our Website

We do not collect personally identifiable information about you if you only visit our website. We do analyse non-identifiable web traffic data in order to help improve our website. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to any personally identifiable information that you may have provided.

Cookies

We use Cookies to collect information. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively.

Third Party Websites

We provide several links to websites and embedded content operated by third parties. Biddick is not responsible for the privacy practices or policies of those sites. We encourage you to review each website's privacy policy, especially if you intend to disclose any personal information via that site.

Analytics

We may use analytics software to help measure traffic patterns to, from, and within our website. This service is used to anonymously aggregate website statistics such as number of page views, the number of visitors, time spent on our site, browser types, and common entry and exit points into and from the website. To learn more about the analytics services currently in use please contact us at the email address provided above.

Security of Personal Information

Depending on the purpose for which we have collected personal information we may store some of the information electronically in our customer relationship management system. Some or all of this personal information may be available to our partners and authorised staff for use in accordance with this policy.

Biddick will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, whether electronically or in hard-copy, and to keep this information accurate and up to date.

It is our policy not to retain personal information once there is no longer a legal or business need for us to do so.

Access to Information

If at any time you want to know what personal information we hold about you, you may contact us by email at the above address.

We will provide access to personal information upon request by an individual, except in the limited circumstances in which it is permitted for us to withhold this information.

Changing or deleting Your Personal Data

You may change any of your Personal Data by contacting us directly using the contact information provided above.

You may request deletion of your Personal Data by us, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request. We may, however, be required to keep such information and not delete it, or to to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements.

When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives. We may also retain your information for fraud or similar purposes.

Effect of Policy

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional review and revision.

Biddick may update this privacy policy at any time by publishing an updated version on this website.