Introduction
Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to ensuring that your personal information is protected.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and disclose the personal information that we collect from you or which we have obtained about you from a third party. It sets out various rights that you have in relation to that personal information. Please take a moment to read and understand it.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal information
When visitors leave personal information on the site we collect the data sh, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
We collect only the personal information (including for example your name, date of birth, address, email address, and contact telephone numbers) you give us, and as acquired through the other sources or means mentioned above. We may also keep a record of any information that you acquire from us.
If you are providing us with personal information about someone else, it may be necessary to make sure that person is aware that our acting for you may involve collecting, using, and disclosing their personal information. Please ensure you comply with your privacy obligations relating to the personal information of others that you provide to us. We can discuss this with you if the matter arises.
How we collect personal information
We collect personal information in the following ways:
- directly from you or from third parties acting on your authority or who you authorise us to make contact with about you:
- when you contact us seeking information about us, our products or services or anything on our website (including when you register on our website to receive our news and updates service or to access information made available only to registered users);
- in the course of conducting customer due diligence;
- in the course of providing our products and services to you; or
- when you apply to work at Jason Yang;
- publicly available information searched as part of carrying out customer due diligence or as part of the provision of our products or services to you;
- indirectly through your use of our website and the services and functionality offered through it;
- the agents and service providers that we may engage to assist us with fulfilling any of the purposes recorded in this policy; and
- third parties connected with the substance of the matter(s)/purpose(s) for which you have engaged us.
How we use your personal information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- to verify your identity, perform customer due diligence and for other administrative purposes;
- to reply to your queries;
- to carry out your instructions, deliver our products and services to you and otherwise fulfil our professional duties;
- to improve, develop, market and provide information about us and our products and services (subject to any confidentiality requirements), including:
- working with you to develop ways in which we can improve our products and services and the way we deliver them, for you specifically and generally; and
- addressing any particular matters you raise with us in connection with our products and services;
- for recruitment purposes, including assessing a candidate’s suitability for a position with us;
- to enforce our agreements with you (including to supply, and invoice for, products and services ordered by you, and to collect payment);
- to protect our rights, property or safety or those of third parties, including our employees, contractors, other clients, and users of our website or our products or services;
- any specific purpose which we notify you of at the time personal information is collected; and
- to comply with any legal requirement, including any applicable law, court order, other judicial process, or the requirements of a regulator, and as otherwise required or permitted by law.
- In providing our products and services to you, or in carrying out any of the other functions mentioned above, we may also disclose your personal information to our contractors or agents, and other organisations, including:
- other parties involved in the matter(s)/purpose(s) for which you have engaged us;
- identification verification and screening agencies including credit reporting agencies (who may retain the personal information we share with them on their databases for use in the provision of their credit reporting services);
- third party service providers such as:
- IT systems or services providers;
- data management, processing and storage service providers;
- auditors;
- banks and other financial service providers; and
- third parties engaged in the course of providing our services (such as barristers, mediators, arbitrators, witnesses and subject-matter experts).
- service providers that assist us with client insight analytics;
- a court or tribunal;
- regulatory and enforcement agencies; and
- government agencies.
- We do not sell information that identifies you personally.
Cookies
We use cookies, log files and other technologies to collect personal information from the hardware and software you use to access our website or receive our news updates.
A cookie is a small data file that the website sends to your browser, which may then store it on your system for later retrieval by the website. Cookies track your movements through different websites; they do not record any other personal information about you. Cookies are widely used on websites to help with navigation and to help personalise your experience when you visit a website.
We also use cookies in our electronic direct mail messages, including any newsletter updates you may subscribe to. These cookies help us gain insight about the content we send and how it is received, which in turn helps us to improve the content we create and the way we deliver it to you.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our website and/or receive our electronic direct mail messages, but your experience may be affected, and your ability to use some areas of our website may be limited.
How you can access/amend your personal information
You may request access to any of your personal information we hold by emailing us at admin@jasonyang.co.nz. Subject to any lawful grounds for withholding, we will provide you with a copy of the personal information we keep about you.