Upstock privacy policy

Introduction

Upstock Limited (we, us, our) complies with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (the Act) when dealing with personal information. Personal information is information about an identifiable individual (a natural person).

This policy sets out how we will collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information.

This policy does not limit or exclude any of your rights under the Act. If you wish to seek further information on the Act, see www.privacy.org.nz.

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy by uploading a revised policy onto upstock.app. The change will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy.

This policy was last updated on 30 November 2020.

Who do we collect your personal information from

We collect personal information about you from:

you, when you provide that personal information to us, including via the website, upstock application and any related service, through any registration or subscription process, through any contact with us (e.g. telephone call or email), or when you buy or use our services and products
third parties where you have authorised this or the information is publicly available.

If possible, we will collect personal information from you directly.

How we use your personal information

We will use your personal information:

to verify your identity
to provide services and products to you
to share with your suppliers for them to fulfill your orders
if you place orders on Upstock personally rather than through a company, to list you on the buyer directory (note you can opt out of being listed in settings)
to market our services and products to you, including contacting you electronically (e.g. by text or email for this purpose)
to improve the services and products that we provide to you
to undertake credit checks of you (if necessary)
to bill you and to collect money that you owe us, including authorising and processing credit card transactions
to respond to communications from you, including support requests or a complaint
to conduct research and statistical analysis (on an anonymised basis)
to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim
for any other purpose authorised by you or the Act.

Disclosing your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to:

another company within our group
any business that supports our services and products, including any person that hosts or maintains any underlying IT system or data centre that we use to provide the website or other services and products
any of your suppliers for them to fulfill your orders
if you place orders on Upstock personally rather than through a company, to list you on the buyer directory (note you can opt out of being listed in settings)
a credit reference agency for the purpose of credit checking you
other third parties (for anonymised statistical information)
a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority)
any other person authorised by the Act or another law (e.g. a law enforcement agency)
any other person authorised by you.
a business that supports our services and products may be located outside New Zealand. This may mean your personal information is held and processed outside New Zealand.

Protecting your personal information

We will take reasonable steps to keep your personal information safe from loss, unauthorised activity, or other misuse.

Accessing and correcting your personal information

Wherever it is practical we will allow you to access and correct your personal information within the Upstock application within settings.

Subject to certain grounds for refusal set out in the Act, you have the right to access your readily retrievable personal information that we hold and to request a correction to your personal information. Before you exercise this right, we will need evidence to confirm that you are the individual to whom the personal information relates.

In respect of a request for correction, if we think the correction is reasonable and we are reasonably able to change the personal information, we will make the correction. If we do not make the correction, we will take reasonable steps to make a note on the personal information that you requested the correction.

If you want to exercise either of the above rights, email us at privacy@upstock.app. Your email should provide evidence of who you are and set out the details of your request (e.g. the personal information, or the correction, that you are requesting).

We may charge you our reasonable costs of providing to you copies of your personal information or correcting that information.

Internet use

While we take reasonable steps to maintain secure internet connections, if you provide us with personal information over the internet, the provision of that information is at your own risk.

If you post your personal information on Upstock’s community, you acknowledge and agree that the information you post is publicly available.

If you place orders on Upstock personally rather than through a company, your information will be listed on the buyer directory (note you can opt out of being listed in settings)

If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide personal information.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, you can contact us at privacy@upstock.app.