At the Generation group of companies, including Generation New Zealand Limited and our related companies (Generation), we are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy tells you what personal information we collect, what we do with it, who we disclose it to and your rights to correct or change it when you use our website.
By visiting our website, you agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the terms outlined below.
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual. The information we collect depends on why you have contacted us:
* the region you wish to build in is not ‘personal information’ but we think it is important to explain why we ask you for information.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to understand how people are using our website and to improve how our website works. You may disable cookies by changing your browser settings. If you do this you may be unable to use some features on our website.
We may use your information to:
• communicate with you;
• provide you with products such as our Lookbook;
• conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis);
• other purposes you authorise from time to time.
We also use third party cookies and other technology to gather analytics and to advertise online to you. These allow Google and Facebook to show ads from us to you on other internet sites and platforms. Cookies are used to optimise and inform those ads based on your visits to our website. Information collected may include your IP address, search terms you use, pages you access and links you click on, your operating system and browser type. You can opt out of these by following the instructions below:
Google: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/142293?hl=en
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/help/search/?q=opt%20out%20
We also collect anonymised and aggregated data. This information is generated by our systems as they track traffic through our sites. This information does not identify you personally and is not linked to the personally identifiable information that you may have provided.
The information you provide to us may be shared with:
• our employees and related companies in order to respond to your requests or comments;
• a business that supports us such as our website host and IT system provider where it is necessary for that business to have access in order to provide services to us;
• a person who can require us to provide your personal information such as a regulatory authority;
• any person authorised by you.
We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity or other misuse. The information we collect through our website is stored by a cloud services provider who implements industry best practices in relation to network and physical security and complies with international guidelines and in order to ensure your personal information is protected.
Our site may contain links which you may choose to click on to take you to that party’s site. We recommend you check that party’s privacy policy before providing personally identifiable information to them or any other third party. This Privacy Policy only relates to our site.
You will always have the option to opt in to certain services and to opt out of those services at any stage. This means you may change your mind at any stage about participating in any of our services.
In order to reflect the fact that our business is growing constantly, we reserve the right to change this policy at any time. The current version will always be available on our website.
Your right to access your information
Subject to certain grounds of refusal set out in the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to access and correct the information we hold about you. If you wish to exercise this right you can contact us at the address below. Your message should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with Generation Homes, you can contact us at:
Privacy Officer
Generation New Zealand Limited
hello@generation.co.nz
L3, 306 Cameron Road, Tauranga, 3110
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.
Last updated August 2022.