Privacy Policy & Data Protection Agreement
NZMarketplace (online) Table of Contents
- Data Protection Agreement
- Who We Are
- Information We Collect
- Sources of Information and Tracking Technologies
- How We Use Your Information
- How We May Share Information
- Advertising and Analytics
- Ads on the Service
- Data Security
- Data Retention
- EU & NZ Privacy Rights
- Age Limitations
- Changes to this Privacy Policy
- Newsletters
- Storage of Information
- Contact Us
Thank you for visiting the Privacy Policy of NZ Marketplace Online. By accessing or using our Services (including classifieds, gigs, subscriptions, and affiliate tools), you agree to this Privacy Policy and the inherent Data Protection Agreement outlined below. This explains how we collect, use, and share your information while respecting your rights under GDPR (EU/UK), the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, and similar laws. Users are responsible for any third-party data they provide or share through the Services and confirm they have the third-party's consent to provide such data to us. Data Protection Agreement As part of agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you enter into this binding Data Protection Agreement with us. It ensures your data is handled fairly, transparently, and securely—core principles of GDPR and NZ privacy law.
- Our Commitments to You: We process your data only for legitimate purposes (e.g., account management, ad fulfilment, affiliate tracking). We minimise collection (only what's necessary), keep it accurate/updated, limit storage time, and protect it with industry-standard security. No data is sold without consent.
- Your Consent: By registering or posting (as a guest/recruit or Agent), you consent to data use as described. Withdraw anytime via account settings or email.
- Your Rights in Action: Beyond GDPR/NZ rights (detailed below), you can request data audits, portability (e.g., export your EVO Tokens balance), or restrictions (e.g., pause affiliate sharing). We'll respond within 30 days.
- Breach Response: If a breach occurs, we'll notify you within 72 hours and mitigate impacts.
- Enforcement: Disputes go to the NZ Privacy Commissioner or your local authority. This agreement evolves with our Services—check for updates.
Stay lethal, stay private—your data is your shield. Who We Are NZ Marketplace Online is operated on the nzmarketplace.online domain.
The data controller is [Sharn Sutherland], reachable at
Information We Collect We may collect and combine information about you when you access or use the Services, including:
| Data Collected | Purpose (Legal Basis) | Stored For |
|---|---|---|
| Username, email, password | Account creation & login (contract) | Until account deletion |
| Name, phone, address (optional) | Fulfilling classifieds/gigs, contact form delivery (contract / legitimate interest) | Until account deletion |
| Profile photo/avatar | Public display on your Agent Card (consent) | Until you remove it |
| IP address & browser data | Security, spam prevention, analytics (legitimate interest) | 12 months |
| Classified adverts/messages | Providing the service (contract) | Until you delete them |
| Subscription & payment data | Processed by Stripe/PayPal – we never see full card numbers (contract) | Required by law (7 years) |
| EVO Tokens / points balance | Rewards for subscriptions, promotions, affiliates (contract / legitimate interest) | Duration of account + 1 year post-deletion |
| Referral / affiliate data | Tracking legion recruitment (consent) | Until the program ends or you opt out |
Sources of Information and Tracking Technologies We collect information that you directly provide to us, such as when you submit a form or send us a message with your information. We may also receive information about you from our partners, including but not limited to distribution partners, data services, and marketing firms. We may combine this information with other information we collect from or about you. In these cases, our Privacy Policy governs the handling of the combined information. our partners and we may collect the information noted in this privacy policy using cookies, web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies. These technologies are used for authentication, to store your preferences or progress, for analytics, and for advertising and analytics. Cookies are small text files stored on the User’s computer. Users can set their browser to reject cookies altogether, to reject our cookies in particular, or to delete cookies. However, this may cause some or all of our Services not to function on such a user’s computer or device. How We Use Your Information {#how-we-use-your-information}We use information we collect about you to provide, maintain, and improve our Services and other interactions we have with you.
We may collect and combine information about you when you access or use the Services, including:
How We May Share Information We may share your Personal Information in the following situations:
- Third Party Services Providers. We may share data with service providers, vendors, contractors, or agents who complete transactions or perform services on our behalf, such as those that assist us with our business and internal operations, like shipping and delivery, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, gift cards, experiences, personalisation, marketing, and advertising.
- Change in Business. We may share data in connection with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, joint venture, corporate reorganisation, insolvency or bankruptcy, financing or sale of company assets;
- To Comply with Law. We may share data to facilitate legal process from lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement demands as permitted by law.
- With Your Consent. We may share data with third parties when we have your consent (e.g., affiliate referrals).
- With Advertising and Analytics Partners. See the section entitled “Advertising and Analytics” below.
Advertising and Analytics We use advertising and analytics technologies to better understand your online activity on our Services to provide personalised products and services that may interest you. We may allow third-party companies, including ad networks, to serve advertisements, provide other advertising services and/or collect certain information when you visit our website. Third-party companies may use pseudonymized personal data (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visit to this website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you, on this website and others. To learn more about Interest-Based Advertising or to opt out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN or http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Some third-party companies may also use non-cookie technologies, such as statistical IDs. Please keep in mind that your web browser may not permit you to block the use of these non-cookie technologies, and those browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on such techniques. If the third-party company uses the non-cookie technologies for interest-based advertising, you can opt out at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Please note the industry opt-out only applies to use for interest-based advertising and may not apply to use for analytics or attribution. Some websites have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to those signals. Ads on the Service We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit our website. To opt out of interest-based advertising, please see the section entitled “Advertising and Analytics” above. Data Security We implement commercially reasonable security measures designed to protect your information, including encryption for payments and access controls for EVO Tokens/subscriptions. Despite our best efforts, however, no security measures are completely impenetrable. Data Retention {#data-retention}We store the information we collect about you for as long as necessary for the purpose(s) for which we collected it or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations (e.g., 7 years for financial records). EU & NZ Privacy Rights {#eu-nz-privacy-rights}Individuals located in certain countries, including the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, have certain statutory rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 in relation to their personal data. To the extent information we collect is associated with an identified or identifiable natural person and is protected as personal data under GDPR or NZ law, it is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Data”. Data Subject Access Requests
Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may have the right to request:
- a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you;
- to correct the Personal Data we hold about you;
- to delete your Account or Personal Data;
- to object to the processing of your Personal Data for certain purposes;
To access your privacy rights, users may submit a Privacy Information Request (/privacy-request). We will generally process requests within one month. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and/or the jurisdiction in which you reside. If your request is complicated or if you have made a large number of requests, it may take us longer. We will let you know if we need longer than one month to respond. Legal Bases For Processing Personal Data
We may process your Personal Data under applicable data protection law on the following legal grounds:
- Contractual Necessity: we may process your Personal Data to enter into or perform a contract with you.
- Consent: where you have provided consent to process your Personal Data. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate interest: we process your Personal Data to provide our Services to you, such as to provide our online user experience, communicate with you, provide customer service, market, analyse and improve our business, and to protect our Services.
Age Limitations {#age-limitations}Our Service is intended for adults aged 18 years and above. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child under 13 has given us information, please email or write to us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please mark your inquiries “COPPA Information Request.” Changes to this Privacy Policy {#changes-to-this-privacy-policy}Operation Black Knight EVO may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to visit this page to stay informed. If the changes are material, we may provide you with additional notice to your email address or through our Services. Your continued use of the Services indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy. Newsletters {#newsletters}You can opt out of receiving our marketing emails and/or newsletters by contacting us as described under “Contact Us” below. We may still send you transactional messages, which include Services-related communications and responses to your questions. Storage of Information Information we maintain may be stored both within and outside of the United States. If you live outside of the United States, you understand and agree that we may transfer your information to the United States, and that U.S. laws may not afford the same level of protection as those in your country. Contact Us {#contact-us}If you have questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:
- https://www.nzmarketplace.online/support (/support)
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