Privacy Policy
Here you will find how we collect, use and disclose your information, and how you can correct or change your Personal Information.
This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions.
1. About our Privacy Policy
- We provide our website www.mysolarquotes.co.nz (Website) as an independent venue where we connect customers looking to install solar power solutions with credible solar power solution installers, and provide various information about solar power (Services). We need information from you to perform our Services as best as possible.
- We also collect information from you when you visit our Website, to facilitate contact between Users and to contact you or to otherwise market services to you.
- By using our Website and Services or otherwise providing information to us, you agree to the use and disclosure of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy.
- You agree and confirm that you have read and accepted our Privacy Policy. If you have not read, or if you do not accept, our Privacy Policy, you are not authorised to use our Website or to otherwise deal with us.
- We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and we encourage you to regularly check the Privacy section on the Website to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy. You should check from time to time to see if the Privacy Policy has changed. By continuing to use the Website, you agree to be bound by the amended Privacy Policy.
2. Collection of Information
- We collect various information about you. This information includes:
- a. Information that personally identifies you such as your name and address (Personal Information), being:
- i. Personal information provided by you in the process of requesting solar quotes; or
- ii. Personal information provided by you for any other reason, including enquiries you submit; and
- b. Information that does not personally identify you (Non-Personal Information), being:
- i. Non-personal information provided by you when using our Website or for any other reason, including enquiries you submit;
- ii. Information collected by us through click tracking in relation to your use of the Website, including the content you upload and the content you access;
- iii. Aggregated data, which tracks traffic to the Website, including your device identifier, server address, IP address, domain, the platform you are using, browsers used when accessing our Website, search terms you use, pages accessed on our Website, links that are clicked, and time and date of visits; and
- iv. "Cookies", which are pieces of information transferred to your computer hard drive for record keeping (more information about "cookies" is provided further below).
- By allowing us to use your information, including Personal Information, we can provide you with the relevant Services you require and market our Services to you. Failure to provide, or allow us to obtain, information (including Personal Information) may result in certain functions of the Website or our Services not being available to you.
3. Use of Personal Information
- The Personal Information we collect may be used for the following purposes:
- a. Verification of your identity;
- b. To answer enquiries you submit on the Website;
- c. To facilitate contact between you and solar power installer companies for the provision of quotes;
- d. To help you compare quotes from Solar Installers;
- e. To follow up on your dealings with Solar Installers;
- f. To request feedback on our services and services of Solar Installers;
- g. To send you information we think you may be interested in;
- h. To assist in providing better services to you by tailoring them to meet your needs;
- i. To keep the Website relevant and of interest to users;
- j. To provide further information to you about the Website or other websites we or our related companies (Affiliates) own and services we or our Affiliates provide;
- k. To promote or market special offers related to our services or solar power in general, including services provided by others;
- l. To protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim made by you; and
- m. For any other use that you authorise or that is otherwise authorised under the Privacy Act 2020 or any other relevant laws.
- If you do not wish to receive communications from us for any of the purposes described above (excluding communications that are necessary for us to provide our Services to you), you may unsubscribe from receiving any such communications.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
- We may disclose your Personal Information for the purposes described above including sharing your Personal Information with our employees and officers and between our related entities and their employees and officers. In particular, if you submit a request for a quote through the Website, we will disclose your Personal Information to Solar Installers to provide you with a quote.
- When you deal with Solar Installers facilitated through our Website, you acknowledge you are subject to the privacy policies of any such company and that we are not responsible for how your information is dealt with by any such company.
- We may also disclose your Personal Information to our contractors and other businesses we work with in relation to our Services or that otherwise support our business, including:
- a. Marketing agencies, analytics providers and market research providers;
- b. Our lawyers, accountants, auditors, insurers, financiers and other professional advisors; and
- c. IT service providers and any person that hosts or maintains any underlying IT system or data function, including cloud-based software, storage and/or systems which are associated with our functions and or activities.
- We may also disclose any and all information that we collect from you when we believe release is appropriate to comply with laws or regulations, enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others or to satisfy legal processes or governmental requests.
- We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information we collect from unauthorised access, loss or misuse. However, as no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit or receive through the Website. These activities are conducted at your own risk.
5. Accessing and Updating your Personal Information
- You have rights of access to and correction of your Personal Information that we hold. We offer the ability to correct or change the information collected at any time if we still hold that information. You may request that we do so by contacting us via email: [email protected] or visit the contact us page.
- No fee is required to exercise the rights outlined above in clause 5.1. However, we may charge a fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive or we may refuse your request.
6. Advertising and Links
- Our Website may contain links to other sites, which may not follow the same privacy policies as us. We recommend that you check any relevant privacy policies before providing your personal information to any third party.
- You acknowledge that we have no control over the privacy policies of other businesses, including Solar Installers, and you agree it is your responsibility to review such privacy policies prior to submitting any personal details to them.
- The Website is linked to various social networking sites. Your personal information may be accessed and viewed by users of those sites if you submit your information on those sites. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for protecting your personal information on these sites.
7. Non-Personal Information
- By accessing the Website, some Non-Personal Information such as your IP address, device, browser and domain and the date and time of your access may be recorded in a "cookie" file.
- We may use the information generated by "cookies" to:
- a. Track traffic patterns to and from the Website including information like the pages you visit, the time you spend on each page, the date and time of your visit, and referring pages (pages you came from or go to);
- b. Ensure advertising is being shown to the most appropriate person and limit the frequency of display for certain advertisement formats;
- c. Enable you to enter our sites and use certain services without having to log on each time and to visit restricted areas of the Website;
- d. Pre-populate information to make the processes on our Website easier for you;
- e. Identify and maintain certain views and options for user preference; and
- f. Enable us and our affiliates or partners (such as Google and Facebook) to serve targeted advertising to you and to "remarket" to you (on our Website and elsewhere).
- You can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. However, without cookies, our Website may not function as intended and you may not be able to use our Website.
8. Use and Disclosure of Non-Personal Information
- You acknowledge and agree that we may provide or licence to any third party Non-Personal Information and related rights. But, subject to clause 9.2, we will not provide or licence to any third party any Personal Information other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
9. Rights to Information
- The information we hold about you and the related rights we have in relation to that information (as outlined above) are held by My Solar Quotes Limited. My Solar Quotes Limited is the controller and is responsible for your Personal Information.
- You acknowledge that we may transfer or licence the information (including Personal Information) and related rights to Affiliates or to any third party, including in the process of sale or part sale of the My Solar Quotes business.
10. Further Information
- If you require any further information, or if you have an issue or complaint, please contact us via email: [email protected] or visit the contact us page.
- You have a right to make a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand. However, we would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns before you approach the Privacy Commissioner.
