PRIVACY POLICY
This is AP Group’s Privacy Policy and refers to all it’s associated companies and brand partners of AP Group Ltd.
At AP Group (“We”, “Us”, “Our”), we respect your personal information and share your concerns regarding data protection. We aim at all times to comply with the Information Privacy Principles which are found in the Privacy Act 1993 and expect all of our employees, AP Group authorised brokers, contractors, business partners and service providers to deal with all personal information in a compliant and confidential manner and in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993.
Responsibility
AP Group recognises its responsibility, and is committed to, ensuring the privacy of your personal information. When you enter personal information into the website in order to receive or use services the terms of this Privacy Policy will apply to that information.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (http://www.privacy.org.nz) provides further details of the New Zealand Privacy Act and how it protects personal information in New Zealand.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect personal information to provide you with the best possible products and services that we and our authorised businesses have to offer, to create a more personalised experience for you, and comply with our legal, regulatory, industry or workplace requirements.
We collect information reasonably necessary for or directly related to one or more of our functions or activities. We take steps to ensure that we collect personal information by lawful means, and obtain your personal information in various ways. You agree that AP Group may collect information about you including information you enter into the website and about your use of our website. AP Group will treat all personal information it collects in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information is provided by you when you register for services that we may offer. Providing this information is always optional, however, some services may not be available to you if you choose not to provide it.
Statistical Information is generated by our systems as they track traffic through our sites. When you visit our site, your Internet Protocol Address (IP address), domain name, date and time of visit, previous sites visited and browser type may be recorded. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to the personally identifiable information that you may have provided. We use this information to help us identify what parts of our site our users visit the most and determine how best to service our users.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
AP Group may, from time to time and in its sole discretion, modify, alter or otherwise change this Privacy Policy with or without notice to you. All such changes will be effective immediately upon the updating of the webpage on the site at which the privacy policy is contained. AP Group will include the date of the Privacy Policy to help you identify whether or not the Privacy Policy has changed. You agree to check the privacy policy and be bound by the privacy policy that is in effect at the time at which you access the site.
Collection and storage of personal information
You may browse and access information contained on the site without providing personally identifiable information. If you provide personally identifiable information (e.g. if you request a brochure, test drive or save the configuration of any vehicle) that personal information will be held in accordance with the requirements set out in the Privacy Act 1993. Your personal information may be held by AP Group electronically or in hardcopy on AP Group premises (in New Zealand or elsewhere) but in all cases AP Group will control that information.
Use of the Information
AP Group will use your personal information:
(a) for the purposes you provided it to AP Group;
(b) to send you messages to market or promote AP Group and its associated goods and services only if you have expressly signed up for the updates on any of our AP Group websites, or have supplied your details to us by other means for that purpose. The information collected by AP Group for this purpose (including email addresses) will not be shared with other parties and you may unsubscribe to communication at any time.
We have collected this information in order to provide the best possible service to you while you are visiting our sites. To this end we may use the information that you provide for the following purposes:
• To verify your identity if you need help with a forgotten password or you are having login problems with one of our site services.
• To help provide any other services that you have requested.
• To offer the most relevant information suitable to you and your interests.
• For any marketing, promotional, publicity, marketing or market research that we might undertake.
• For any other purposes for which you have given permission.
Related Entities
AP Group may pass your personal information on to any AP Group company or business brand partners to use for the purposes described within and on the condition of compliance with this Privacy Policy.
Third Parties
AP Group will not release your personal information to any third party except where required to, permitted to by law, where you have authorised us to do so or where disclosure is connected to the purpose for which the information was collected.
Length of time Information will be held
If you are or have been a customer of any authorised AP Group company your personal information will be used to update and will be held on AP Group’s customer database. If you have never been a customer of any AP Group and its brand partners your personal information will be held until you advise deletion.
Access to, editing and deleting personal information
We encourage you to actively engage with us and let us know when your details change or if your personal information needs correction or updating via our contact information provided below.
It is your responsibility to ensure that personal information provided to us is accurate.
At any time, you can request access to information we hold about you or if you wish to correct, alter or delete any personal information by sending a written request either e-mailed or posted to:
The Privacy Officer
AP Group Limited
56 Foreman Road, Hamilton
aphire@ap-group.co.nz
Cookies and Information Collected
Cookies are small files which are temporarily installed on your hard drive. This website uses cookies solely to retrieve aggregate information to perform analyses of the characteristics and behaviours of website users and in order to make improvements to the site.
AP Group uses cookies to keep track of their users’ preferences and thereby design the website to best meet users’ requirements. This information is not used to identify individual website users.
Information collected using cookies includes non-personal information such as:
(a) the Internet domain and IP address from which you are accessing the website;
(b) the browser and operating system you are using;
(c) the date and time you access the site;
(d) the pages you visit; and,
(e) whether you arrived at the AP Group website via a link from another site and the address of such site.
Consent
By using this website, you consent to AP Group’s collection and use of the information collected from cookies. However, you can prevent cookies from being saved on your hard drive by selecting the appropriate setting on your browser – simply follow your particular browser’s instructions. You may continue to use this website even if you deactivate cookies, however deactivating cookies may mean that you might no longer be able to enjoy offers from AP Group in their entirety.
Queries
If you have any further questions relating to this privacy policy, please contact the AP Group Privacy Officer or the AP Group head-office.