Privacy policy

This website is owned by McDonald Real Estate Limited of 288 Broadway, Stratford (NZCN 330478)

You can use this site without disclosing any personal information. There is no need to disclose personal information except in the instance of submitting forms, enquiries, alerts or applications. You will only be asked to submit personal information that is relevant to these activities.

Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our website, social media channels, application forms, products, services, and when interacting with our team.

McDonald Real Estate Limited (“McDonald Real Estate”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and this privacy statement.

Please read this privacy policy before using the website, our social media channels and submitting any personal information to us. By accessing or using the website, our social media channels you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.

Note: the privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy cover your interaction with members of our team, our website, and social media channels. If you click on links to other websites or social media channels, including those which display properties or services on our behalf, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites. In addition, your access and use of the social media platforms that we use (including, Facebook, Youtube, Linkedin, Instagram) will be subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the companies that operate those platforms.

What information do we collect?

When you interact with our team, visit our website or access, interact with or follow our social media channels you may provide us with different types of information:

• Personally identifiable information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis
• Anonymised website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse or interact with our website or our social media channels.

Personal information you choose to provide:

Registration information

You will be asked to provide us with information about yourself, your firm or company, when you register for certain services, such as email newsletters and document downloads. You may also provide additional comments on how you see McDonald Real Estate servicing your needs and interests. You can unsubscribe from newsletters and alerts at any time.

Email information

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

Email newsletters you sign up for

When you sign up to email newsletters we may track your interaction with the emails we send for the purposes of improving the content we deliver you. You can unsubscribe from email newsletters at any time.

Website use information

Cookie and tracking technologies are used for gathering anonymous information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the website, and understanding how visitors use the website.

We may use cookie and tracking technology depending on the features offered. Cookies also help us to customise the website for visitors.

We use Google Analytics features that associate anonymous data from the Google accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purposes of personalised advertising.

• Third party vendors, including Google and Facebook, show our ads on sites on the internet
• Third party vendors, including Google and Facebook, may use cookies on our website to serve ads on other sites on the internet based on a user’s prior visits to our website
• Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page and control the way that Facebook shows ads using Facebook’s ad settings.
• Google account holders may view and control their activity by visiting their My Activity page

Personally identifiable information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology, however, if you provide personally identifiable information, cookies and the data that they and other tracking technology collect may be connected to you using that information.

Social media information

 When you follow or like our social media channels or like, comment on, share or otherwise interact with any of our posts or other content on our social media channels, you may provide information to us about yourself, including your name, profile information and profile picture. The information that you make available can often be controlled through the settings for your account on the relevant social media platform.

Our social media channels are public and everything you share on our posts can be seen by everyone else. Please do not share any personal, confidential or sensitive information when posting on any of our social media channels.

What we do with the information we gather

We use the information you provide for our business purposes, to understand your needs and provide you with a better service.

We also use the information you provide to us to market and promote our products, services, and other offerings. For example, we use the information, like your email or physical address, to send information or content to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means and send you marketing communications relating to our business.

You may opt out of receiving this promotional content by following the instructions contained in each communication that we send to you or by contacting us at privacy@eieio.co.nz. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, we will continue to contact you regarding administrative matters, and to respond to your requests.

We may also phone you to ask about your customer experience or to promote other products or services you may be interested in.

Where required by law, we will only send marketing communications with your consent. Otherwise, we will market and advertise our products and services on the basis of our legitimate business interests.

We receive information from third party service providers and other sources such as third party providers of business information and publicly available sources. We may receive and use this information from these service providers and other sources in combination with other information we collect through other means described in this Privacy Policy for the purposes of providing you with products, services, updates, and an improved user experience.

Distribution of information

McDonald Real Estate may share personal information with the third parties that we work with to provide or promote our products and services, including using information matching and other techniques to identify potential audiences for our products and services. Your personal information will only be shared on a confidential basis for the purposes of our business and promotions and will not be sold to or shared with a third party for that third party’s promotional purposes.

We may share personal information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or, (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or, (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. Personal information is not provided to these entities for marketing purposes.

Commitment to Data Security

We have put in place physical, electronic and organisational processes to protect your personally identifiable information. Only authorised employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) are granted access to this information. All emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.

Right to Access Your Personal Information

You have the right to access personal information that we hold about you and to request correction of that information.

Contacting us

 If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or feedback regarding the treatment of your privacy, please contact our Privacy Officer using the details set out below.

We will treat your requests or complaints confidentially. Our representative will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved. We will aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved in a timely and appropriate manner.

Please contact our Privacy Officer at:

Privacy Officer

Email: privacy@eieio.co.nz

Post: PO Box 120, Stratford 4352

If you’re not satisfied with our response to any privacy-related concern, you can contact the Privacy Commissioner. Contact details for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner are:

https://www.privacy.org.nz/about-us/contact/

Disclaimer

Please note McDonald Real Estate may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

While care has been taken in the preparation of this website, no responsibility is accepted for the information included on the website. McDonald Real Estate makes no representation, warranty or undertaking concerning the accuracy, completeness or up to date nature of the information provided. Interested persons should make their own enquiries and satisfy themselves in all respects about any information that is of importance to them.

McDonald Real Estate accepts no liability whether direct or indirect for any loss or damage a person suffers because that person had directly or indirectly relied on any information provided on this website.