Privecy policy
LEGAL INFO
In this Privacy Policy, “us”, “we”, or “our” means Sepideh Adami and each of its subsidiaries, Sepideh Adami Ltd. This Privacy Policy outlines how we implement practices, procedures, and systems that ensure compliance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993, Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), provisions in the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) (the Act), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to our collection, use, holding, and disclosure of personal information and sensitive information. We collect information about you when you use our mobile applications, websites, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy will be reviewed from time to time to take account of new or amended laws, new technology and/or changes to our operations and practices, and the changing business environment. All personal information held by us will be governed by the most recently updated policy.
1. SCOPE AND PURPOSE
This notice applies to personal information we may collect and process such as:
- Full name
- Contact information (work or home postal address; work, mobile or home telephone number; work or personal email address)
- Employer or agency, industry, and job title
- Delivery and payment information
- Survey response data
- Education and experience information (CV information; professional experience; employment history; education; certifications; personal interests)
- Engagement information (order, engagement and collaboration history; contractual relationship information; inquiries, feedback and comments; content contained in email exchanges with us)
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Location data
- Cookie data (including third-party cookies and related data)
- Information available from Social Media use
We do not use, share, or disclose personal information collected or received through this website except as described here.
As a Data Subject, you have rights under the GDPR. These rights can be seen below in section 11. Sepideh Adami will always fully respect your rights regarding the processing of your personal data and has provided below the details of the address to contact if you have any concerns or questions regarding how we process your data, or if you wish to exercise any rights you have under the GDPR.
2. HOW WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND WHY WE HAVE IT
We collect personal information you provide directly to us, such as when you create or modify your account; become a subscriber; submit a contact form through our website; complete a survey or questionnaire; request services; provide us with your business card at a trade show; contact customer support or sales by phone, online, or through chat; or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include name, email, phone number, postal and physical address, company trading name, and other information you choose to provide.
We also receive personal information indirectly such as when generated by your activity on our website and online services (e.g., the amount of time spent on a particular page of our website); when shared with us by our business partners (e.g., email marketing vendors, trade show sponsors, HR staffing agencies) or when available through publicly available sources (e.g., information shared by you on LinkedIn).
You can use Sepideh Adami websites without disclosing any personal information. If we do collect personal information, we’ll ask you first (for example, via a contact form). We don’t collect personal information without your knowledge.
We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you create or modify your account; become a subscriber; complete a survey or questionnaire; request services; contact customer support or sales by phone, online, or through chat; or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include name, email, phone number, postal and physical address, company trading name, and other information you choose to provide.
If you provide personal or other information about someone other than yourself at any time, you must have that person’s consent to provide such information for the purpose for which you provide it to us.
If you voluntarily provide personal information, it may be seen by site administrators, our staff (as appropriate), and third-party contractors.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the applicable lawful bases for our processing of your personal data includes the following:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting:
Privacy Officer
Sepideh Adami
5 Sir Gil Simpson Drive
Christchurch 8053
New Zealand
(b) We have a contractual obligation.
(c) We have a legal obligation.
(d) We have a legitimate interest
3. HOLDING OF INFORMATION
Unless otherwise indicated, personal information will be held by Sepideh Adami. It may be stored or accessed on our behalf by authorized third parties, if necessary. We will keep your information secure in accordance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993, Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), provisions in the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) (the Act), and GDPR, and any agents will be subject to our information security and privacy requirements.
Sepideh Adami implements and maintains reasonable restrictions on the retention of personal data and generally disposes of such personal data once it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or further processed.
4. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Sepideh Adami will generally only use personal information provided to us through this website for the purpose you provided it. Our primary purposes for collecting the information about you include:
- Providing, maintaining and/or improving products and/or services; including sending invoices, developing new features, providing customer support, sending product and platform updates, and administrative messages.
- Provide you with details on our products or services; this may include contacting you for a demonstration of a product, to discuss a service offering to your company, and to provide you with news and information about our services that may be of interest to you.
- Performing internal operations; including prevention of the abuse of our services, to troubleshoot software bugs and operational problems, report statistics, analyze trends, and diagnose problems.
We will never sell or rent personal information collected to third parties for marketing purposes. Once the information is no longer of use to us and if there is no legal requirement to retain it, all reasonable steps will be taken to either destroy or de-identify the information.
Personal information may only be used or disclosed for the primary purpose for which it was collected. Using it for a secondary purpose is prohibited unless the individual has consented to that secondary purpose; the individual would reasonably expect the disclosure or use for the secondary purpose which is related to the primary use; or the secondary purpose is required or permitted by law.
5. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We will generally not share personal information that is provided or collected, except for the purpose for which you gave us the information (for example, to investigate a complaint) or where you consent.
We may disclose personal information to third parties:
- Engaged to perform functions or provide products and services on our behalf; some of these functions include customer relationship management, and email marketing/management (HubSpot, Dynamics), and other Services such as mail-outs, debt collection, marketing, research, and advertising.
- To provide you with products, services, or content on a joint or ‘co-branded’ basis. To access or use co-branded products, services or content, you may have to provide certain requested information which may be shared with our co-branded partners. You should read the individual privacy policies of our co-branded partners, as these may differ from our privacy policy.
- As part of any investigation; in relation to you or your activity, that we suspect to be a breach of any of our terms and conditions, serious misconduct, or unlawful (including disclosure to the police, any relevant authority, or enforcement body), or as required or permitted by any law or regulation (including the Privacy Act.) Some of these third parties to which we may disclose your personal information may be located in other countries, including the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
6. OPTING IN AND OUT
At the point we collect information from you, you may be asked to “opt in” to consent to us using or disclosing your personal information for purposes other than those that are expressly stated in this Privacy Policy. For example, you may be asked to opt in to receive further information or communications from our advertisers or supporters.
You will be given the opportunity to “opt out” from receiving communications from us or from third parties that send communications to you in accordance with the Privacy Act and other applicable privacy laws. For example, you will be given the option to unsubscribe to emails or newsletters sent by us.
You may also opt out of Google Analytics and customize your Google Display Network ads using the SETTINGS. You can also access Google Analytics currently available OPT-OUTS FOR THE WEB.
7. SECURITY
Our websites have security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of information we control. In order to maintain security, our systems (including this website) are subject to ongoing monitoring (including activity logging), analysis, and auditing. We may use information about your use of our websites and other IT systems to prevent unauthorized access or attacks on these systems or to resolve such events, even if you are not involved in such activity. Sepideh Adami may use services from third-party suppliers to monitor or maintain the security of systems and information.
If you suspect any misuse, interference or loss, unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure in respect of your personal information, or any other privacy breach, please let us know immediately
8.RIGHTS OF ACCESS AND CORRECTION
You have the right to:
- Find out from us whether we hold personal information about you
- Request corrections
If you would like to check personal information that we hold, please write to:
Privacy Officer
Sepideh Adami
5 Sir Gil Simpson Drive
Christchurch 8053
New Zealand
For more information on the privacy laws in New Zealand and contact details for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, visit the PRIVACY COMMISSIONER’S WEBSITE.
For Australia please visit the OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL DATA COMMISSIONER WEBSITE.
For the UK please visit the INFORMATION COMMISSIONERS OFFICE WEBSITE
A list of all European supervisory authorities and their respective contact information is also available HERE.
9. COLLECTING STATISTICAL INFORMATION USING COOKIES VIA GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We may use cookies to gather data about trends in website usage, using Google Analytics. This aggregated statistical information does not identify you personally. Any collected information is viewable by only Sepideh Adami and authorized service providers.
Browser or web cookies are small text files that are sent by a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive to collect information about how you browse the website. They:
- Measure how you use the website so we can update and improve it
- Remember which notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again. You can read Google’s privacy statement and access a Google Analytics opt-out tool at the GOOGLE SAFETY CENTER
You can manually disable cookies. Check your browser’s ‘Help’ to find out how (disabling cookies will not affect your ability to use this website).
Data collected may include:
- Your IP address
- Search terms
- Pages you accessed and links you followed
- Date and time of your visit
- Referring site (if any) from which you reached this site
- Device you used to access the site (for example, desktop or iPhone)
- Operating system (for example, Windows 10 or iOS)
- Web browser you use (for example, Google Chrome or Safari)
- Other things like your screen resolution and the language setting of your browser