This Privacy Policy sets out how Measured Land Surveys Limited (“MLS”) will  collect, store, use and disclose personal information that is collected in the course of our business activities, and your privacy when accessing our website.

Who we are

We are a business offering land surveying services.

Our website address is: https://measuredlandsurveys.co.nz/ (“Site”)
Company name: Measured Land Surveys Limited
Office location: Unit 8, 12 Frederick Street, Wanaka 9305, New Zealand
Email: stuart@measuredlandsurveys.co.nz
Phone: 027 5131 770

Collection of Personal Information

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under the Privacy Act 2020 (the “Act”) personal information means information about an identifiable individual.  We collect certain types of personal information about you, including (but not limited to):

• Contact details, including name, date of birth, address, phone number and e-mail address;
• Billing and invoicing information; and
• If you visit the Site, we will collect personal information that you submit, such as via online forms.

We may collect personal information in a number of ways, including:

• Directly from you via the Site, telephone, in writing or e-mail; and
• Indirectly from third parties, if necessary or from publicly available sources.

You authorise us to collect information from such third parties, such as those acting as your authorised representative or agent, for the purpose of providing our services.

Where you provide personal information about another individual you warrant that you are authorised to do so.

If the personal information that we request is not provided, then we may not be able to provide our services.

Use of Personal Information

We may use your personal information as follows:

• To enable us to provide our services to you or your authorised representative or agent;
• To invoice you for services provided, make payments to you or on your behalf and to collect money that you owe us;
• To comply with our legal and professional obligations;
• For recruitment and employment purposes;
• For marketing purposes;
• To check for and manage conflicts of interest;
• For any other purpose notified to you at the time of collection, authorised by you or the Act, or required by law; and
• If an online form is completed via the Site, we will use this to communicate with you.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to undertake any of the purposes set out above.  Recipients of your personal information may include (without limitation):

• Government and regulatory authorities;
• Professional indemnity or other relevant insurers;
• Third parties who help us to manage our business and provide our services, for example IT suppliers, solicitors, accountants, health and safety advisors and financial institutions;
• Debt collectors;
• Professionals or consultants involved in your project, such as planners, engineers, solicitors, architects, contractors; and
• Any other person authorised by you, notified to you at the time of collection, or as required by law.

Storage of Personal Information

Any information collected and held by us will be kept at our premises or such other places that we hold our client information, which may include the use of cloud storage (which may be in New Zealand or overseas).  We may use a third party (including an overseas provider) to store and process personal information on behalf of us.

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

Access to Personal Information

You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected or updated. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Your Privacy when using the Site

DEVICE INFORMATION

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

• “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
• “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
• “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

We use the Device Information that we collect to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our site visitors browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We may also share your data with Google Analytics to help us understand how our site visitors use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses this data here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

EMBEDDED CONTENT

Articles on the Site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. Embedded content behaves in exactly the same way as if you had visited the other website.These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Updates to this Policy

This Policy will be reviewed and amended when required with the latest version available on the Site.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at accounts@measuredlandsurveys.co.nz.