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Privacy Policy

Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices.

This privacy policy (“Policy”) for MyTrader NZ Limited (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) describes how and why we might collect, store, use and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you place advertisements through mytrader.co.nz (“the Site”).

This Policy applies to your use of this Site and our Services, and in using these you agree to be bound by its terms.

Questions or concerns? Reading this Policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@mytrader.co.nz.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS: 

  1. What information do we collect and how do we collect it?

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when using our Services. This may include:

  • Information required to set up your account and user profile such as your username and email address.
  • Any description, photographs, contact information and pricing information provided by you when you create an advertisement for publication through our Service.
  • Records of communication between you and us, such as voice recordings; copies of emails or other forms of electronic communication; or of other documents provided by or to you.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information. If personal information does not meet these criteria, or if you decline to provide this, then we may not be able to provide some or all of our Services to you.

We also collect certain information automatically when you use our services.

  • We automatically collect statistical information about people visiting this Site.
  • We may automatically issue you a “cookie” when you access this Site. Cookies are small text files containing data to store information or to track your browsing activity. This does not identify individual users, and it helps us to improve our Site and provide you with a better service. You may disable cookies by changing your Internet browser settings but if you do so that may lead to the Site not functioning as intended and we accept no liability to you for this.

From time to time, we may also collect information about you from public sources.

  1. Do we collect information from minors?

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using our Services, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete any such data from our records.

  1. How do we use your information?

We process your information to provide, monitor, improve, administer, and market our Services; communicate with you; for security and fraud prevention; for advertising and marketing purposes; and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We take all reasonable steps to make sure that your personal information is secure against unauthorised access or disclosure, or loss. Despite this, in using this Site you acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot prevent, and are not responsible for, interception or hacking of information by unauthorised third parties.

  1. Who do we share your information with?

As part of how we use your information we may need to share some of this with others. We will only share this where required or permitted by law; where you have authorised this; or where sharing of information is connected to the purpose for which the information was collected. This includes:

  • When we publish your advertisements, in which case any description, photographs, contact information and pricing information provided by you when you create an advertisement will be available to others through our Site. This may include both registered and unregistered users of our Site in New Zealand, as well as people who may access our Site from outside New Zealand and who may not be subject to New Zealand’s privacy laws or to equivalent laws.
  • When you or other users of our Site share your advertisement on social media platforms via plugins or other tools provided by our Site. If your advertisements are shared in this way then the contents of those advertisements may be seen by users of those platforms.
  • When we work with third-party service providers, in which case information may need to be shared with them by us in order to provide and manage our Services. In such situations we will ensure that those third parties will have privacy policies in place that comply with or are equivalent to the privacy requirements imposed by New Zealand law.
  • There may be situations where we are obliged to provide information to facilitate legal processes such for law enforcement purposes or civil proceedings. This may include assisting law enforcement agencies; complying with Court orders; complying with any positive statutory obligations that we may have that permits or requires disclosure of information; and to enforce or apply our terms and conditions or policies, including in any dispute with you.
  1. How long do we keep your information?

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined with this Policy unless otherwise required by law.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (e.g., if your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

  1. How do you access, or correct information held by us?

You may access or ask us to correct any personal information we hold for you by sending an email to info@mytrader.co.nz

  1. Links and Third-Party services

The Site, including advertisements placed on the Site by users, may contain links to external websites. Some of our services may also require you to provide information directly to third-party service providers without that information being provided to us, such as when using payment gateways for paying for our Services..  We do not endorse are not responsible for how external websites and third-party service providers handle your information, and you should familiarise yourself with their policies around this as these may be different to our own. Remember that some providers or websites may be located in different jurisdictions to us and that your information might be subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.

  1. Updates and Modifications

We may update or modify our Privacy Policy at any time without giving you notice. Such changes are effective immediately upon publication. By continuing to use this Site and/or our Services, you accept this Privacy Policy as it applies from time to time.