This Privacy Policy governs the use of personal information by Kiwrious Limited (Kiwrious).
Your privacy rights
- Kiwrious is committed to complying with its obligations under the Privacy Act 1993, and from 1 December 2020, the Privacy Act 2020 (as relevant, the Privacy Act) when dealing with your personal information. Any personal information you provide to us will be stored, used and disclosed by Kiwrious in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with any applicable terms and conditions relating to the use of and access to our websites, www.kiwrious.com or learn.kiwrious.com, and other products or services (collectively, Services).
- If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to access or amend the personal information that we hold about you please contact us at hello@kiwrious.com
Acceptance of this privacy policy
- You acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy, and consent to the collection, use, disclosure, storage and retention of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy when you access or use our Services, or otherwise provide us with any personal information.
Amendments to this privacy policy
- We may amend and update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised version on our website. Any changes will apply from the date we post the updated Privacy Policy on the website. If we make any significant changes, we will provide you with reasonable notice of such changes through the website, or via other means such as email. By using our Services after such notice period, you will be deemed to have accepted the updates to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any change, you must stop using and/or accessing our Services.
How we collect information about you
- Your personal information will be collected and held by Kiwrious Limited, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Cloud 9, 70 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010.
- The type of personal information that we collect will depend on the purpose for which it is collected, but may include:
- name and contact details (including your email address, phone number and postal address);
- if you are a student, your name, email address and details of the school you attend;
- if you are a student, your name, email address and details of the school you attend;
- if you are a teacher or educator, your name, email address and details of the school where you are employed;
- payment details and transaction history; and
- any other information you may provide to us when you provide us with feedback or respond to our surveys.
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We may collect Personal Information about you when:
- you access our websites, www.kiwrious.com and learning platform, learn.kiwrious.com;
- you subscribe to any newsletter or publication of Kiwrious or enquire to learn more about our kits, upcoming training workshops and webinars;
- you register a Kiwrious account through our website;
- you purchase one of our kits;
- you complete surveys, other research or provide details to us in any feedback or contact us form;
- enter competitions or register for promotions;
- you otherwise contact us through social media, email, telephone or other means;
- you apply for employment position with us; or
- we are required to do so by law.
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When you use our website we may collect information that is sent to us by your computer, mobile device or other access device. The information that is sent to us may include your computer IP address, referral URL, geo-location and data about the webpages that you access. Generally this information is not personally identifiable data, but to the extent that it is considered personal information for the purposes of any applicable law or regulation, we will comply with our obligations under any such law or regulation when processing that information.
- If you choose not to provide personal information to us on request, we may be unable to provide certain Services to you, or it may affect the quality of those Services
How we use and disclose information that we collect about you
- We will only use and disclose your personal information in accordance with your authorisation and/or for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, which shall include:
- to provide you with access to and use of our Services;
- to communicate with you (for example to provide customer support or to ask you for feedback about our Services);
- to facilitate your use of our Services and help provide a more personalised experience;
- to facilitate, develop, run and improve the Kiwrious Science Experience which includes our Inquiry Editor and Sensor kit, webinars, workshops, and competitions operated by Kiwrious;
- to research and help improve and enhance our Services;
- to undertake administrative functions associated with our business;
- to conduct market analysis and perform data analytics on customer behaviour and insights in relation to our Services;
- to comply with any legal obligations or as otherwise permitted by the Privacy Act; and
- subject to you providing your consent (in accordance with the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007), sending you electronic messages to promote and market our Services.
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Where you consent to us using your personal information for marketing and promotional communications, you can opt out at any time by notifying us at hello@kiwrious.com or by clicking the unsubscribe function included in our marketing communications.
Who we may disclose your personal information to
- We may disclose your personal information to:
- any service providers that we have engaged to provide a service to us in relation to our Services. For example, we may engage third parties to provide us with IT, marketing or customer support services;
- our professional advisors, including accountants, insurers and lawyers;
- any other person or organisation that you have authorised us to disclose your information to; and/or
- any other third party where such disclosure is permitted under the Privacy Act and/or any other applicable law.
Access, correction and retention of your personal information
- You agree that any information you give to us will be accurate, correct and up to date. You must inform us if any of your personal information changes, to ensure that the details we hold about you are up to date and correct.
- You are entitled to access the personal information we hold about you, and to request that we amend it if it is incorrect. If we are not willing to correct errors that you have identified in your personal information, you may request that we take reasonable steps to attach a statement to the personal information noting the correction sought.
- We will only retain your personal information for as long as it is required to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law.
Security of information
- Although we take reasonable steps to ensure personal information in our possession is protected and held securely, we do not make any warranties in relation to the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us and we are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information where our security measures have been breached. Any transmission of personal information is conducted at your own risk.
- We generally hold your information in New Zealand. However, certain personal information may be transferred and/or stored outside of New Zealand by our third party service providers, such as MailChimp and Google who host our data in their servers in the United States. Where personal information is transferred outside of New Zealand we will ensure that such third party is subject to comparable privacy laws to New Zealand or is required to protect the personal information in a way that is comparable to New Zealand’s privacy laws.
Cookies
- Like many other websites on the internet, we use cookies to store and track information about you when you are on our website for the purposes of:
- providing more customised content and material to you on our website; and
- conducting business and marketing analysis.
- All information collected via cookies will be held by us. This information will not be made available to any third party in a manner that enables you to be identified. If you do not wish to allow cookies you may change your browser settings to disable cookies. However if you disable cookies some parts of the website may not function properly.
Links to other sites
- Our website may have links or references to third party websites or material. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites, and any information collected by such third parties is governed by that third party’s privacy practices or policies. We accept no responsibility or liability for the content or privacy practices of any third party websites.
How to contact us
- If you have any queries or concerns about our Privacy Policy or our handling of your personal information please contact our Privacy Officer at Kiwrious Limited, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Cloud 9, 70 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010 or by emailing us at hello@kiwrious.com.
- If you have concerns that we have not met our obligations to you as required by the Privacy Act and the Information Privacy Principles of that Act, you may contact us and make a complaint at the address and/or email listed above.
- More information about your rights and our obligations in respect to privacy and information on making a privacy complaint are available from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.org.nz or by emailing investigations@privacy.org.nz.
Last Updated: 28 September 2020
