Privacy

Tommy’s Real Estate (“Tommy’s”) operates the tommys.co.nz website, which provides the service. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information if anyone decided to use our service.

What is personal information?

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual. It includes information that could be used to identify you, such as your name and contact details. If the information we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service.

Purpose

The purpose of this privacy policy is to let users of tommys.co.nz know when we collect personal information and what we do with it.

Collection of your personal information

We collect your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so. When collecting personal information from you, we may collect in various ways including:

through your access and use of our website
by telephone, letter, fax or email
during conversations between you and our representatives
via social platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram
by contracting with us or completing relevant forms
by entering competitions, promotions or requesting information or material from us
completing surveys, providing feedback or complaining to us.

In some circumstances information may also be collected from third parties where:

you authorise the collection of information from a third party which may be your representatives such as lawyer, accountant, financial adviser or employer: and
the information is already publicly available: and
collection is necessary to enforce the law, or for court proceedings, or to protect public revenue

Terms of use

You can use the site — including completing user research tasks — without disclosing any personal information.

What purposes do we use your personal information?

We use your personal information to:.

provide products and services to you and to send communications requested by you;
answer enquiries and provide information or advice about existing and new products or services;
assess the performance of the website and to improve the operation of the website;
for the administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), planning, product or service development, quality control, survey and research purposes of Tommy’s Real Estate, related bodies corporate, contractors or service providers;
update our records and keep your contact details up to date;

Your disclosure of personal information

Tommy’s may use and share your personal information with a range of organisations including:

authorities such as regulators
government agencies
courts or the police
external dispute resolution schemes
suppliers and services that may be required to administer our relationship with you such as IT systems administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors, debt collectors
professional advisors such as lawyers, accountants, financial advisers, bankers and other consultants as it relates to the services provided to you
comply with laws and regulations, including any New Zealand or overseas laws, rules or regulations
people of organisations that you expressly give permission to share your personal information with

Don’t send us sensitive personal information or include any sensitive personal information in any submission forms.

Feedback

Feedback is important and is used to evaluate and improve the site. If you provide feedback by email, that feedback is sent to the Companies administration team.

Links to Other Sites

Our service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Statistical information and cookies

We may collect statistical information about your visit to help us improve the site. This information is aggregated and doesn’t identify you personally. It includes:

your IP address
the search terms you used
the pages you visited on our site and the links you clicked on
the date and time you visited the site
the referring site (if any) from which you clicked through to this site
your operating system, for example Windows XP, Mac OS X
the type of web browser you use, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
other things like your screen resolution and the language setting of your browser.

Use of statistical information

The statistical information referred to above can be viewed by site administrators and certain other analysis personal contracted to the Companies.

Cookies

This site generates persistent session cookies (that is, they have an expiry date and are removed on that date) for the purpose of monitoring site usage. The cookies don’t collect personal information. You can disable them or clear them out of your web browser without affecting your ability to use the site.

Correcting your personal information

Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to access and ask us to correct any of your personal information provided to us in connection with your use of this site.

you would like to see or change your personal information we have stored, or
you have any concerns regarding your privacy
we may require proof of your identity before being able to provide you with any personal information.

The Privacy Officer

(04) 381-8600

If you have a privacy complaint

If you’re not satisfied with our response to any privacy-related concern you may have, you can contact the Privacy Commissioner.

Contact details for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner are:

https://www.privacy.org.nz/about-us/contact/

Applicable law

This Privacy Policy is governed by New Zealand law. Your personal information will be collected, used, stored, shared and retained in accordance with this Privacy Policy and New Zealand law. The courts of New Zealand have non-exclusive jurisdiction.