Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to BIZVAL. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that BIZVAL collects, and the ways in which BIZVAL uses that personal information.

INTRODUCTION

BIZVAL Limited complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 (the Act) when dealing with personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person). This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act. If you wish to seek further information on the Act, visit the website of The Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

WHO DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM?

We collect personal information about you from:
  • you, 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 buy or use our services and products
  • third parties where you have authorised this or the information is publicly available.
If possible, we will collect personal information from you directly.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use your personal information
  • to verify your identity
  • to provide services and products to you, including the preparation and delivery of your valuation report
  • to market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose)
  • to improve the services and products that we provide to you
  • to bill you and to collect money that you owe us
  • to initiate communications with you via email or phone pertaining to your valuation report
  • to respond to communications from you, including a complaint
  • to conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis)
  • to both administer and / or personalize the Bizval website
  • to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
  • for any other purpose authorised by you or the Act.

DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to:
  • any business or independent contractor or agent 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
  • other third parties (for anonymised statistical information)
  • a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority)
  • any other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement agency)
  • any other person authorised by you.
Where BIZVAL discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement. A business that supports our services and products may be located outside New Zealand. This may mean your personal information is held and processed outside New Zealand.

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold 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.

UPDATING THIS POLICY

BIZVAL may change and/or update this Privacy Policy by posting a new version on the BIZVAL website. The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

CONTACT BIZVAL

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the treatment of your personal information by BIZVAL, please contact us in writing via:
Email
info@bizval.co.nz
This Privacy Policy is provided for the clients, agents and sub-contractors of BIZVAL and was last updated in April 2019.