11. The purpose of this privacy policy is to let users of our Website know when we collect personal information and what we do with it. We do not use, share or transfer personal information in connection with our Website except as set out in this policy.

12. Social Smarty may change this privacy policy from time to time in response to changes to technology, our data collection practices or the law. All changes will be posted to this website and may apply to previously collected information. Nothing in this policy prevents Social Smarty from passing on information gathered on this site to any successor organisations.

13. When you disclose personal information to us e.g. when you book a training session, purchase an online training or complete a contact form, such information will be viewable by administrators of our Website and our Contractors (including third parties providing services related to the administration, improvement, and/or securing of our Website and the information it contains (“Third Party Contractors”)).

14. Personal information that you provide will be held by us, and may be shared with, and held by, Third Party Contractors in New Zealand or outside New Zealand to the extent necessary for the services they provide related to the administration, improvement, and/or securing of our Website and the information it contains. Email addresses provided when completing online forms or when emailing feedback directly to us are not made available to the public. Unless required by law, we will not publicise the names or email addresses of individuals provided to us without their consent.

15. We may use the personal information you provide to us for the purposes of administering, evaluating, improving, and securing our Website and the information it contains, improving our Website and communicating with you. In addition to sending you marketing communications, we may also use your personal information to display targeted advertising to you online – through our own Website or through third party Website and their platforms.

16. Feedback is important and is used to evaluate and improve our Website. If you provide feedback on our Website directly to us via the supplied email address or contact form, that feedback will be sent to an appropriate team member, Contractor or Third Party Contractor. We may pass on relevant comments to other people within our business, who administer, have contributed content to, or are otherwise interested in, our Website. This could include your email address and other identifying information.

17. We use Google Analytics to measure the performance of our Website. The information collected by this service helps us understand how the Website is being used and what we could improve. This information is aggregated and non-personally identifying and may include:

● your IP address;

● the search terms you used;

● the pages you accessed on our Website and the links you clicked on;

● the date and time you accessed our Website;

● the referring site (if any) through which you clicked through to our Website;

● your operating system (e.g., Windows XP, Mac OS X);

● the type of web browser you use (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox); and

● other incidental matters such as screen resolution and the language setting of your browser

● demographic information such as age group and gender

Google may also use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

The information referred to above will be viewable by administrators of our Website. It may also be shared with Third Party Contractors for the purpose of administration, improvement, and/or securing of our Website.

18. Our Websites generate persistent session cookies for the purpose of monitoring site usage. The cookies do not collect personal information. You can disable them or clear them out of the web browser you are using to view our Website without affecting your ability to use our Website.

19. If you are logged into a Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Google, and/or LinkedIn account while you browse our Website, these companies will be able to connect your browsing behaviour to your profile. Our Website utilises remarketing tools to advertise to you online. We allow third-party vendors, including Google, LinkedIn and Facebook, to show ads to you on sites across the Internet. These ads are shown to you based on your browsing behaviour on this Website.

These remarketing activities utilise first-party cookies (such as Google Analytics) and third-party cookies (such as the cookies used by our Facebook Pixel) together to inform, optimise and serve ads based on your past visits to this Website.

You can opt out of ads that are based on web behaviour, that are served by Google, Facebook and LinkedIn by clicking on these links:

● Opt out of Facebook remarketing

● Opt out of Google remarketing

● Opt out of LinkedIn remarketing

20. You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information or to have it corrected, please contact us at [email protected]

We may require proof of your identity before being able to provide you with any personal information.

21. If you are not satisfied with our response to any privacy-related concern you may have, you can contact the Privacy Commissioner: www.privacy.org.nz