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privacy policy

Welcome to the DPS Consulting website.

This site and its contents are operated and owned by DPS Consulting.

This privacy policy provides details on the information we collect and process during your visit and how we use the information. By viewing and using this site, you agree to comply with the Terms and Conditions and privacy policy as outlined below.

For more details about the procedural provisions relating to access to and correction of personal information, refer to the Privacy Act 2020 (NZ) (New Zealand Legislation).

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Your personal information

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We maintain your personal information as long as it is necessary to provide you with the requested service, or for as long as you have given your consent unless otherwise prohibited by law.

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We may collect information from site users such as name, contact information, location, computer or network and interactions with us. This information is collected via the site to keep in touch with anyone interested in our work and will be used primarily for communication purposes. All new clients or subscribers will be signed up to automatically receive email marketing communications. You can choose to opt out of receiving email marketing communications at any stage.

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If you access any of our services including contacting us with a business enquiry or signing up for our newsletters, you will need to provide us with some or all of the following personal information:

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  • Your name

  • Your position or title

  • Your company

  • Your city and country

  • Your email address

  • Your phone number

Collectively, this is known as your 'personal information'.

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Using your personal information

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We collect and use your personal information to:

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  • Provide you with the resources, products and services you sign up for.

  • Conduct market research surveys, if you opt-in to receive them – we will contact you by email to invite you to participate.

  • Tell you about our new products, services, and promotions: for example, if you are opted-in to email marketing communications we may email you to let you know about new content you may be interested in.

  • To customise our marketing and advertising.

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Sometimes, we might want to use the messages you send us, or letters of recommendation, in our articles or marketing material. If so, we will endeavour to get your permission before copying or quoting your message.

No other personal information is made publicly available.

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Requesting your information

Any personal information collected via the DPS Consulting site will be kept safe on a secure server. You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold, and to request corrections if you think all or part of the information is inaccurate.

You may revoke your consent to the prospective use of your personal information, in part or in whole, at any time. If you wish to correct, update, revoke or in any way modify collected information, please email us here.

NB: Our data retention period follows requirements set by law and is in general set to ten years.

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Disclosing your personal information

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We will not sell or rent your personal information to any third party. But we will share your contact information with trusted third parties that work on our behalf to distribute our email or print communications, such as MailChimp or Campaign Monitor. We may also share your contact information with trusted third parties in order to customise our marketing and advertising.

We do not authorise third parties to use or disclose your personal information except for the purpose of providing the service we request from them. We require any third parties to contractually commit to protecting the security and confidentiality of your personal information. We disclose such information to government authorities only if required by law or court order.

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Children

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Personal information on children (persons under 18 years of age) may not be transmitted to our website without parental consent. We recommend that all parents and guardians should instruct their children on the responsible use of personal information when surfing the internet. We will not knowingly collect, process, maintain, or use personal information on children.

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Use of cookies and log data

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We collect information sent by your browser each time you visit our site. This data includes, but is not limited to, information such as your ISP, computer’s IP address, browser details, the pages visited on our site, the time, date and duration of your visit, your interactions on our site and other relevant statistics. For more information regarding cookies, refer to our Cookies Policy.  

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Contacting you

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We may contact you to:

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  • Clarify details about your digital access.

  • Respond to any enquiries you make.

  • Provide any information necessary for the operation and security of our website.

  • Send links to news updates, new products or promotions

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Links to other websites

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This Privacy Policy applies only to this website. Our website may provide links to other websites that might interest you. The contents of those websites are not under our direction or control. While we try to check external sites before providing links, their content and privacy policies may be subject to change.

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Any external sites, including those linked from this site, are outside of our responsibility. Before you disclose any personal information to another site, we recommend you check its terms and conditions, including its privacy and security policies.

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Facebook and LinkedIn

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We have included plug-ins for Facebook and LinkedIn on DPS Consulting. Facebook features the ‘f’ letter on the logo as its button and LinkedIn features the ‘in’ letters on the logo. DPS Consulting has no control over the information collected if you click the Facebook or LinkedIn buttons. If you are a registered user of Facebook or LinkedIn and do not want to have any information from your site visit of DPS Consulting available to either site, log out of the relevant account/s before using plugins on DPS Consulting.

 

Complaints

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If you are concerned this Privacy Policy may have been breached or your privacy has been compromised, please email us immediately at dyann@dpsconsulting.nz or via our Contact Us page.

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