Privacy Policy

1. In this policy:

+ “we”, “Central Economic Development Agency” or “CEDA” means the Central Economic Development Agency Ltd providing you our services;
+ “you” means you, the person using our services, or visiting our website;
+ “services” means all goods or services we provide and anything else we do for you, including allowing you to access our website.

2. Other policies applying to our services

In addition to our Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use Policy apply to your use of our service. It is important that you are familiar with that Terms of Use Policy. Please read it in conjunction with this policy. It includes our site management rights. You can link to our Terms of Use here.

3. Information we collect?

CEDA requires personal information only in limited circumstances

We collect personal information that you freely give us through:

Submitting an online form, entering a competition, completing a survey or application through the website, or otherwise submitting information to us through the website or posting or uploading to the website.

Automated Collection

When you visit, navigate through, and interact with this website, we use automated data collection technology (such as monitoring software, cookies, and sessions) to collect and store certain information about your visit. If you disable cookies, it may limit your access to some of the website’s content and features. You can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser and/or deleting them from your hard drive. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our website, but your experience may be affected.

Advertising services provides by partners

We advertise in a number of ways, including online through managed social media presences and on other unaffiliated sites and mobile applications. To understand how our advertising campaigns are performing, and better understand the visitors to our website, we work with partners who provide us with advertising services. We collect information via our advertising service providers to help us understand how users interact with our services, to serve advertising on our behalf across the internet, and measure the performance of these advertisements.

4. How will we use your data?

We may use your personal information for any purpose which is stated to you at the time of collection, or that you otherwise authorise, and to:

• communicate with you;
• analyse usage of this website;
• provide you with further information, news, and promotional material;
• carry out marketing, promotional and publicity purposes including direct marketing, market research and surveys;
• to show you advertising and information that is most relevant to you and your interests;
• improve the content of this website; and
• to customise this website to your preferences.

We will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties. Your personal information will be made available internally for the above purposes and we may also disclose your personal information to trusted third parties or subcontractors, who have agreed to treat your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy, for similar purposes.

5. Who CEDA discloses your information to

We may disclose your personal information to third parties where appropriate for the purposes described above, including to:

• information technology and data storage providers;
• research and statistical analysis providers;
• marketing/advertising agencies and contractors;
• Local Government authorities that fund CEDA

6. Storage / security

Personal information collected on this website is collected and held by CEDA. We will take reasonable efforts to protect personal information that is held by us from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method is completely secure, and while we take reasonable measures we cannot completely ensure or promise the security of any information we collect from you.

7. Marketing

If you have agreed to receive marketing from us, you have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, you can:

Send an email to: [email protected]
Use the unsubscribe feature found on all marketing emails sent from us.

8. Data Access and correction

Under the Privacy Act 1993 (and other applicable laws) you have the right to access and correct personal information that we hold about you. This can be done by contacting us at [email protected].
To ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current, please notify us of any changes to your personal information as soon as possible.

9. Cookies

We refer to a cookie as a piece of data sent from our website, to the web browser used to view our website. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

10. Privacy policies of other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, we encourage you to read their privacy policy.

11. How to contact us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at:[email protected]

sending postal mail to:
CEDA
PO Box 12005
Palmerston North 4444
New Zealand
calling this telephone number: +64 6 350 1830

12. Changing this policy

We may change this policy at any time by changing or removing existing terms or adding new ones. Changes may take the form of a completely new policy. We will tell you about any changes by posting an updated policy on our website. Any change we make applies from the date we post it on the website.

This privacy policy was last updated on 5 December 2022