Coates Associates Limited
Privacy
Coates Associates Limited Privacy Statement
This privacy statement explains how Coates Associates Limited collects, stores, uses and shares your personal information.
Openness and transparency are important to us.
The Privacy Act 2020 requires us to tell you certain things about the personal information we need to carry out our functions.
This is where we explain our privacy practices.
- Collection - we only collect the information we require to provide services or carry out necessary functions.
- Source of information - generally, we collect the information directly from you, however, we may also collect information from third parties, such as banks and Inland Revenue.
- Storage and security - we hold the information we collect securely. We store the information on infrastructure owned or controlled by us and maintained by a specialist IT firm.
- Access to information - we have a process in place to facilitate your request to access your information which is held by us.
- Correction of information - we have a process in place to facilitate your request to either correct or to add a statement of correction to your information which is held by us.
- Accuracy - we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we collect, use, and disclose is accurate, correct, relevant, up to date, and not misleading.
- Retention - we will hold your information only as long as we require it for the purposes for which it was collected or for a period specified to meet relevant legal requirements.
- Use - we use your information only for the purposes for which it was collected or if required by law.
- Disclosure - we will share your information within Coates Associates Ltd, with our authorised personnel or with third parties only in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or if it is required by law.
You can contact us at info@coates.co.nz for the following:
- request your information which is held by us,
- request a correction to your personal information held by us,
- ask questions about how we handle your personal information,
- or to make a compliant.