Personal information is information about an individual who can be identified. This privacy policy provides information on how we may collect, store, use and disclose personal information about our prospective, current and former customers, suppliers and others doing business with us, in accordance with relevant laws, including the Privacy Act 2020 (the Act). As someone who deals with us and provides us with personal information, you agree to be bound by this policy.

1. What information do we collect, and how?

<div class="terms"> <h4>The information we collect</h4> <p>In order to provide products and services to the best of our ability, we collect a range of information from different people. We may collect and hold personal information about:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>current, prospective and former customers</li> <li>current, prospective and former suppliers and service providers</li> <li>individuals providing personal guarantees to us</li> <li>other people who deal with us from time to time</li> <li>employees and contractors of any of the above.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customers and guarantors</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective customer of Goldpine or an individual providing a personal guarantee to us, we may collect:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>identifying information about you, such as your name, date of birth, address and contact details</li> <li>payment details (including Farmlands card numbers or other similar payment methods) and other financial information</li> <li>information you provide to help us assist you with any application process, including a credit application, or as part of providing a personal guarantee</li> <li>information about your transactions with Goldpine</li> <li>customer relationship information to allow Goldpine to assess and better understand your requirements</li> <li>information you provide us during any requests, enquiries and complaints you make to us</li> <li>other information relating to your use of our products and services.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Suppliers and service providers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective Goldpine supplier or service provider, we may collect:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>contact details and any personal information provided when you commence a business or service relationship with us</li> <li>payment details and other financial information</li> <li>information you provide to help us assist you with any application or on-boarding process as a supplier or service provider to Goldpine</li> <li>information about your transactions with Goldpine.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Other</strong></p> <p>We may collect other personal information from time to time. We will only collect information where needed for us to deliver our products or services or where required by law.</p> <p>The personal information that we collect from you is held in accordance with the Act (in particular, the Privacy Principles contained in the Act).</p> <p>We may also collect personal information through surveillance footage (for safety and security purposes).</p> <p>Telephone calls to Goldpine may be recorded for training, quality assurance and record keeping purposes.</p> <p>Providing the above information is generally optional for you. However, if you do not provide information to us when requested, we may not be able to provide products and services to you or the service you receive may not be as appropriate or relevant as it could be.</p> </div>

<div class="terms"> <h4>How we collect your information</h4> <p>We may collect the personal information you provide us in a variety of ways.</p> <p><strong>Direct collection</strong></p> <p>We will generally collect personal information from you directly, including through the following means:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>when you first apply to become a customer (or provide a personal guarantee in connection with a customer application), or otherwise commence a business or service relationship with us</li> <li>while providing any of our products or services to you</li> <li>from website registration or contact forms and credit applications</li> <li>during your interactions and correspondence with us (including phone or in-person discussions with you and when you contact us to make any request, enquiry or complaint)</li> <li>when you use our website</li> <li>when you opt-in to receive marketing materials, monthly mailers, or job alerts from us</li> <li>through surveillance devices that may be situated on our premises</li> <li>while conducting customer satisfaction and market research surveys</li> <li>through promotions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Indirect collection</strong></p> <p>We may also collect your personal information from third parties where you have authorised this, this is permitted by law, or where the information is publicly available. This may include information from:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>trade references which you have provided</li> <li>your bank or lawyer to confirm your financial position, where you have authorised this</li> <li>a contractor or other third party helping to provide services to you</li> <li>credit reporting agencies, being at the date of this policy:</li> <li>Equifax Information Services and Solutions Limited of Level 10, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland</li> <li>Centrix Group Limited of Level 4, 56 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland</li> <li>suppliers of services to us.</li> </ul> <p>We may store the above information for possible future communications relevant to the purpose of collection.</p> <p>If you have provided us with information about another person, you must have that person’s permission to do so. As part of this you need to comply with your obligations under the Act. For example, you may need to tell that other person that you have done so, that they have a right to access their information and that we will handle their personal information in accordance with this policy.</p> </div>

2. How do we use your information?

<div class="terms"> <p>We may use the personal information we collect from you for a number of purposes connected with our business. These include the following.</p> <p><strong>General</strong></p> <p>In general we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to verify your identity and application details</li> <li>to supply or provide you with any products or services you have requested</li> <li>to administer your account (including processing, administering and collecting payments from or making payments to you, debt collection and registering and maintaining any security interest we may have on the Personal Property Securities Register)</li> <li>undertaking credit checks using a credit reporting agency, which may be undertaken on an ongoing basis and which may involve obtaining ongoing monitoring services from that credit reporting agency to receive updates if any of the information held about you changes</li> <li>to interact and communicate with you</li> <li>to engage third parties on your behalf where authorised</li> <li>to deal with your requests, enquiries or complaints and other customer care or business-related activities</li> <li>to provide trade references to third parties where you have authorised us to do so</li> <li>to improve our products and services</li> <li>to contact you about our products or other initiatives we think you might be interested in</li> <li>for marketing, publicity or market research that we might undertake</li> <li>to comply with our legal obligations, including our reporting obligations</li> <li>for other purposes for which you have given permission or which are allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective customer of Goldpine, we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to assist you to apply to be a customer and/or hold a credit account with us</li> <li>to assess your requirements and how we can best provide products and services to you</li> <li>to provide you with, or facilitate the provision of, products or services</li> <li>to maintain and administer our records, and your account with us (if applicable)</li> <li>as otherwise required or allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Suppliers and service providers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective supplier or service provider, we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to assist you in becoming a supplier or service provider to Goldpine</li> <li>to manage and meet obligations in relation to our suppliers and service providers</li> <li>to maintain and administer our records</li> <li>to purchase products or services</li> <li>as otherwise required or allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Other</strong></p> <p>We may use surveillance footage, if required, for monitoring the safety and security of our customers, suppliers, staff and property, and detecting and deterring inappropriate or criminal behaviour at our premises.</p> <p>We may also use your information in an anonymised aggregated form, to carry out analysis of our products, services and customer interactions.</p> </div>

3. Disclosure of your information

<div class="terms"> <p>We want you to know that any information you supply to us may be shared with and used by the following, where relevant to them:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>our employees, contractors, suppliers and agents</li> <li>affiliated and related companies</li> <li>other third parties who help provide products and services (including debt collection agencies)</li> <li>third parties to whom you have authorised us to provide trade references on your behalf</li> <li>our advisors</li> <li>a business that supports our services and products (e.g. a business that hosts or maintains our IT system, data centre or website)</li> <li>service providers commissioned to protect the rights, property or safety of Goldpine or others</li> <li>credit reporting agencies and debt collection agencies (including disclosing information about any default in your payment obligations to a credit reporting agency, which may give this information to other credit reporting agency customers)</li> <li>any court, tribunal or regulatory authority where disclosure is required or allowed by law</li> <li>any other person authorised by you or by law.</li> </ul> <p>We will not share your information with third parties, except as outlined in this policy, or where you have authorised that disclosure.</p> <p>Your information may be hosted with third party service providers. We seek in our agreements with them to prohibit the information that we collect from you being used by them in a way that we have not authorised.</p> </div>

4. Transfer of personal information outside New Zealand

We may from time to time transfer personal information to third parties outlined above who are located outside New Zealand. If we do so, we will ensure your personal information will be protected by comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand law. If your personal information will not be protected by comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand law, we will tell you that this is the case, and only transfer your personal information with your consent.

5. Storage and protection of your information

<p>We may record and store personal information we collect from you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is stored securely and is protected from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.</p> <p>We cannot promise that your personal information will be completely free from access by an unauthorised person (e.g. a hacker). However, we use reasonable safeguards to minimise the risk of this occurring.</p> <p>If a privacy breach occurs which has caused or may cause serious harm to you, we will notify you of this as soon as practicable either directly or, if that is not reasonably practicable, by public notice.</p> <p>We may store your personal information using third party service providers (including providers outside New Zealand) and so your personal information may be held outside New Zealand. These providers are specialists in the areas of data storage and protection and are therefore well-placed to maintain systems that protect your information.</p>

6. Your right to access and correct your information

<div class="terms"> <p>We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate, complete and up-to-date.</p> <p>Aside from some circumstances set out in the Act, you have a right to access and correct the personal information we hold about you. To do so, please mail or email our Privacy Officer at the following address or email address:</p> <p> Goldpine Industries Limited<br> 18 Oxford Street<br> Richmond<br> Nelson 7020<br> Email: privacy@goldpine.co.nz </p> <p>In some cases, there may be a charge associated with providing copies of your personal information to you. If so, we will let you know before sending your information to you.</p> </div>

7. Internet use and cookies

<div class="terms"> <p><strong>Cookies</strong></p> <p>A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer and can be used by a website to remember things like your preferences for that site. For example, a cookie can be used to store registration information so that you do not need to re-enter that information on a subsequent visit to the site. We may send cookies to your computer while you are accessing our website.</p> <p>Except as set out in this policy, we do not use cookies to collect any personal information about you. We may collect non-attributed (anonymous) information regarding your use of our website.</p> <p>For example, we may use third party cookies from third party services such as Google Analytics. These cookies may collect anonymous data, including users’ browsing activities, in order to give us insight into behavioural information relating to users’ interests in our products and services and use of our websites. This helps us to understand browsing behaviour and customer preferences to improve users’ experience while using our services, including making our website easier to navigate.</p> <p>Some web browsers enable you to decline the receipt of cookies. If you use this function, you will still be able to visit our website but some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on the website.</p> <p><strong>Links to third party sites</strong></p> <p>This privacy policy only relates to our website and products and services. Our site may contain links to other third party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites. You should check their privacy polices before providing personal information to them or any other third party.</p> </div>

8. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the policy on our website. Any change applies from the date we post it on our website.

Personal information is information about an individual who can be identified. This privacy policy provides information on how we may collect, store, use and disclose personal information about our prospective, current and former customers, suppliers and others doing business with us, in accordance with relevant laws, including the Privacy Act 2020 (the Act). As someone who deals with us and provides us with personal information, you agree to be bound by this policy.

1. What information do we collect, and how?

<div class="terms"> <h4>The information we collect</h4> <p>In order to provide products and services to the best of our ability, we collect a range of information from different people. We may collect and hold personal information about:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>current, prospective and former customers</li> <li>current, prospective and former suppliers and service providers</li> <li>individuals providing personal guarantees to us</li> <li>other people who deal with us from time to time</li> <li>employees and contractors of any of the above.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customers and guarantors</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective customer of Goldpine or an individual providing a personal guarantee to us, we may collect:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>identifying information about you, such as your name, date of birth, address and contact details</li> <li>payment details (including Farmlands card numbers or other similar payment methods) and other financial information</li> <li>information you provide to help us assist you with any application process, including a credit application, or as part of providing a personal guarantee</li> <li>information about your transactions with Goldpine</li> <li>customer relationship information to allow Goldpine to assess and better understand your requirements</li> <li>information you provide us during any requests, enquiries and complaints you make to us</li> <li>other information relating to your use of our products and services.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Suppliers and service providers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective Goldpine supplier or service provider, we may collect:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>contact details and any personal information provided when you commence a business or service relationship with us</li> <li>payment details and other financial information</li> <li>information you provide to help us assist you with any application or on-boarding process as a supplier or service provider to Goldpine</li> <li>information about your transactions with Goldpine.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Other</strong></p> <p>We may collect other personal information from time to time. We will only collect information where needed for us to deliver our products or services or where required by law.</p> <p>The personal information that we collect from you is held in accordance with the Act (in particular, the Privacy Principles contained in the Act).</p> <p>We may also collect personal information through surveillance footage (for safety and security purposes).</p> <p>Telephone calls to Goldpine may be recorded for training, quality assurance and record keeping purposes.</p> <p>Providing the above information is generally optional for you. However, if you do not provide information to us when requested, we may not be able to provide products and services to you or the service you receive may not be as appropriate or relevant as it could be.</p> </div>

<div class="terms"> <h4>How we collect your information</h4> <p>We may collect the personal information you provide us in a variety of ways.</p> <p><strong>Direct collection</strong></p> <p>We will generally collect personal information from you directly, including through the following means:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>when you first apply to become a customer (or provide a personal guarantee in connection with a customer application), or otherwise commence a business or service relationship with us</li> <li>while providing any of our products or services to you</li> <li>from website registration or contact forms and credit applications</li> <li>during your interactions and correspondence with us (including phone or in-person discussions with you and when you contact us to make any request, enquiry or complaint)</li> <li>when you use our website</li> <li>when you opt-in to receive marketing materials, monthly mailers, or job alerts from us</li> <li>through surveillance devices that may be situated on our premises</li> <li>while conducting customer satisfaction and market research surveys</li> <li>through promotions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Indirect collection</strong></p> <p>We may also collect your personal information from third parties where you have authorised this, this is permitted by law, or where the information is publicly available. This may include information from:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>trade references which you have provided</li> <li>your bank or lawyer to confirm your financial position, where you have authorised this</li> <li>a contractor or other third party helping to provide services to you</li> <li>credit reporting agencies, being at the date of this policy:</li> <li>Equifax Information Services and Solutions Limited of Level 10, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland</li> <li>Centrix Group Limited of Level 4, 56 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland</li> <li>suppliers of services to us.</li> </ul> <p>We may store the above information for possible future communications relevant to the purpose of collection.</p> <p>If you have provided us with information about another person, you must have that person’s permission to do so. As part of this you need to comply with your obligations under the Act. For example, you may need to tell that other person that you have done so, that they have a right to access their information and that we will handle their personal information in accordance with this policy.</p> </div>

2. How do we use your information?

<div class="terms"> <p>We may use the personal information we collect from you for a number of purposes connected with our business. These include the following.</p> <p><strong>General</strong></p> <p>In general we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to verify your identity and application details</li> <li>to supply or provide you with any products or services you have requested</li> <li>to administer your account (including processing, administering and collecting payments from or making payments to you, debt collection and registering and maintaining any security interest we may have on the Personal Property Securities Register)</li> <li>undertaking credit checks using a credit reporting agency, which may be undertaken on an ongoing basis and which may involve obtaining ongoing monitoring services from that credit reporting agency to receive updates if any of the information held about you changes</li> <li>to interact and communicate with you</li> <li>to engage third parties on your behalf where authorised</li> <li>to deal with your requests, enquiries or complaints and other customer care or business-related activities</li> <li>to provide trade references to third parties where you have authorised us to do so</li> <li>to improve our products and services</li> <li>to contact you about our products or other initiatives we think you might be interested in</li> <li>for marketing, publicity or market research that we might undertake</li> <li>to comply with our legal obligations, including our reporting obligations</li> <li>for other purposes for which you have given permission or which are allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective customer of Goldpine, we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to assist you to apply to be a customer and/or hold a credit account with us</li> <li>to assess your requirements and how we can best provide products and services to you</li> <li>to provide you with, or facilitate the provision of, products or services</li> <li>to maintain and administer our records, and your account with us (if applicable)</li> <li>as otherwise required or allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Suppliers and service providers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective supplier or service provider, we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to assist you in becoming a supplier or service provider to Goldpine</li> <li>to manage and meet obligations in relation to our suppliers and service providers</li> <li>to maintain and administer our records</li> <li>to purchase products or services</li> <li>as otherwise required or allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Other</strong></p> <p>We may use surveillance footage, if required, for monitoring the safety and security of our customers, suppliers, staff and property, and detecting and deterring inappropriate or criminal behaviour at our premises.</p> <p>We may also use your information in an anonymised aggregated form, to carry out analysis of our products, services and customer interactions.</p> </div>

3. Disclosure of your information

<div class="terms"> <p>We want you to know that any information you supply to us may be shared with and used by the following, where relevant to them:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>our employees, contractors, suppliers and agents</li> <li>affiliated and related companies</li> <li>other third parties who help provide products and services (including debt collection agencies)</li> <li>third parties to whom you have authorised us to provide trade references on your behalf</li> <li>our advisors</li> <li>a business that supports our services and products (e.g. a business that hosts or maintains our IT system, data centre or website)</li> <li>service providers commissioned to protect the rights, property or safety of Goldpine or others</li> <li>credit reporting agencies and debt collection agencies (including disclosing information about any default in your payment obligations to a credit reporting agency, which may give this information to other credit reporting agency customers)</li> <li>any court, tribunal or regulatory authority where disclosure is required or allowed by law</li> <li>any other person authorised by you or by law.</li> </ul> <p>We will not share your information with third parties, except as outlined in this policy, or where you have authorised that disclosure.</p> <p>Your information may be hosted with third party service providers. We seek in our agreements with them to prohibit the information that we collect from you being used by them in a way that we have not authorised.</p> </div>

4. Transfer of personal information outside New Zealand

We may from time to time transfer personal information to third parties outlined above who are located outside New Zealand. If we do so, we will ensure your personal information will be protected by comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand law. If your personal information will not be protected by comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand law, we will tell you that this is the case, and only transfer your personal information with your consent.

5. Storage and protection of your information

<p>We may record and store personal information we collect from you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is stored securely and is protected from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.</p> <p>We cannot promise that your personal information will be completely free from access by an unauthorised person (e.g. a hacker). However, we use reasonable safeguards to minimise the risk of this occurring.</p> <p>If a privacy breach occurs which has caused or may cause serious harm to you, we will notify you of this as soon as practicable either directly or, if that is not reasonably practicable, by public notice.</p> <p>We may store your personal information using third party service providers (including providers outside New Zealand) and so your personal information may be held outside New Zealand. These providers are specialists in the areas of data storage and protection and are therefore well-placed to maintain systems that protect your information.</p>

6. Your right to access and correct your information

<div class="terms"> <p>We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate, complete and up-to-date.</p> <p>Aside from some circumstances set out in the Act, you have a right to access and correct the personal information we hold about you. To do so, please mail or email our Privacy Officer at the following address or email address:</p> <p> Goldpine Industries Limited<br> 18 Oxford Street<br> Richmond<br> Nelson 7020<br> Email: privacy@goldpine.co.nz </p> <p>In some cases, there may be a charge associated with providing copies of your personal information to you. If so, we will let you know before sending your information to you.</p> </div>

7. Internet use and cookies

<div class="terms"> <p><strong>Cookies</strong></p> <p>A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer and can be used by a website to remember things like your preferences for that site. For example, a cookie can be used to store registration information so that you do not need to re-enter that information on a subsequent visit to the site. We may send cookies to your computer while you are accessing our website.</p> <p>Except as set out in this policy, we do not use cookies to collect any personal information about you. We may collect non-attributed (anonymous) information regarding your use of our website.</p> <p>For example, we may use third party cookies from third party services such as Google Analytics. These cookies may collect anonymous data, including users’ browsing activities, in order to give us insight into behavioural information relating to users’ interests in our products and services and use of our websites. This helps us to understand browsing behaviour and customer preferences to improve users’ experience while using our services, including making our website easier to navigate.</p> <p>Some web browsers enable you to decline the receipt of cookies. If you use this function, you will still be able to visit our website but some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on the website.</p> <p><strong>Links to third party sites</strong></p> <p>This privacy policy only relates to our website and products and services. Our site may contain links to other third party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites. You should check their privacy polices before providing personal information to them or any other third party.</p> </div>

8. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the policy on our website. Any change applies from the date we post it on our website.

Personal information is information about an individual who can be identified. This privacy policy provides information on how we may collect, store, use and disclose personal information about our prospective, current and former customers, suppliers and others doing business with us, in accordance with relevant laws, including the Privacy Act 2020 (the Act). As someone who deals with us and provides us with personal information, you agree to be bound by this policy.

1. What information do we collect, and how?

<div class="terms"> <h4>The information we collect</h4> <p>In order to provide products and services to the best of our ability, we collect a range of information from different people. We may collect and hold personal information about:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>current, prospective and former customers</li> <li>current, prospective and former suppliers and service providers</li> <li>individuals providing personal guarantees to us</li> <li>other people who deal with us from time to time</li> <li>employees and contractors of any of the above.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customers and guarantors</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective customer of Goldpine or an individual providing a personal guarantee to us, we may collect:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>identifying information about you, such as your name, date of birth, address and contact details</li> <li>payment details (including Farmlands card numbers or other similar payment methods) and other financial information</li> <li>information you provide to help us assist you with any application process, including a credit application, or as part of providing a personal guarantee</li> <li>information about your transactions with Goldpine</li> <li>customer relationship information to allow Goldpine to assess and better understand your requirements</li> <li>information you provide us during any requests, enquiries and complaints you make to us</li> <li>other information relating to your use of our products and services.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Suppliers and service providers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective Goldpine supplier or service provider, we may collect:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>contact details and any personal information provided when you commence a business or service relationship with us</li> <li>payment details and other financial information</li> <li>information you provide to help us assist you with any application or on-boarding process as a supplier or service provider to Goldpine</li> <li>information about your transactions with Goldpine.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Other</strong></p> <p>We may collect other personal information from time to time. We will only collect information where needed for us to deliver our products or services or where required by law.</p> <p>The personal information that we collect from you is held in accordance with the Act (in particular, the Privacy Principles contained in the Act).</p> <p>We may also collect personal information through surveillance footage (for safety and security purposes).</p> <p>Telephone calls to Goldpine may be recorded for training, quality assurance and record keeping purposes.</p> <p>Providing the above information is generally optional for you. However, if you do not provide information to us when requested, we may not be able to provide products and services to you or the service you receive may not be as appropriate or relevant as it could be.</p> </div>

<div class="terms"> <h4>How we collect your information</h4> <p>We may collect the personal information you provide us in a variety of ways.</p> <p><strong>Direct collection</strong></p> <p>We will generally collect personal information from you directly, including through the following means:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>when you first apply to become a customer (or provide a personal guarantee in connection with a customer application), or otherwise commence a business or service relationship with us</li> <li>while providing any of our products or services to you</li> <li>from website registration or contact forms and credit applications</li> <li>during your interactions and correspondence with us (including phone or in-person discussions with you and when you contact us to make any request, enquiry or complaint)</li> <li>when you use our website</li> <li>when you opt-in to receive marketing materials, monthly mailers, or job alerts from us</li> <li>through surveillance devices that may be situated on our premises</li> <li>while conducting customer satisfaction and market research surveys</li> <li>through promotions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Indirect collection</strong></p> <p>We may also collect your personal information from third parties where you have authorised this, this is permitted by law, or where the information is publicly available. This may include information from:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>trade references which you have provided</li> <li>your bank or lawyer to confirm your financial position, where you have authorised this</li> <li>a contractor or other third party helping to provide services to you</li> <li>credit reporting agencies, being at the date of this policy:</li> <li>Equifax Information Services and Solutions Limited of Level 10, 48 Shortland Street, Auckland</li> <li>Centrix Group Limited of Level 4, 56 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland</li> <li>suppliers of services to us.</li> </ul> <p>We may store the above information for possible future communications relevant to the purpose of collection.</p> <p>If you have provided us with information about another person, you must have that person’s permission to do so. As part of this you need to comply with your obligations under the Act. For example, you may need to tell that other person that you have done so, that they have a right to access their information and that we will handle their personal information in accordance with this policy.</p> </div>

2. How do we use your information?

<div class="terms"> <p>We may use the personal information we collect from you for a number of purposes connected with our business. These include the following.</p> <p><strong>General</strong></p> <p>In general we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to verify your identity and application details</li> <li>to supply or provide you with any products or services you have requested</li> <li>to administer your account (including processing, administering and collecting payments from or making payments to you, debt collection and registering and maintaining any security interest we may have on the Personal Property Securities Register)</li> <li>undertaking credit checks using a credit reporting agency, which may be undertaken on an ongoing basis and which may involve obtaining ongoing monitoring services from that credit reporting agency to receive updates if any of the information held about you changes</li> <li>to interact and communicate with you</li> <li>to engage third parties on your behalf where authorised</li> <li>to deal with your requests, enquiries or complaints and other customer care or business-related activities</li> <li>to provide trade references to third parties where you have authorised us to do so</li> <li>to improve our products and services</li> <li>to contact you about our products or other initiatives we think you might be interested in</li> <li>for marketing, publicity or market research that we might undertake</li> <li>to comply with our legal obligations, including our reporting obligations</li> <li>for other purposes for which you have given permission or which are allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Customers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective customer of Goldpine, we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to assist you to apply to be a customer and/or hold a credit account with us</li> <li>to assess your requirements and how we can best provide products and services to you</li> <li>to provide you with, or facilitate the provision of, products or services</li> <li>to maintain and administer our records, and your account with us (if applicable)</li> <li>as otherwise required or allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Suppliers and service providers</strong></p> <p>If you are a current or prospective supplier or service provider, we may use your personal information:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>to assist you in becoming a supplier or service provider to Goldpine</li> <li>to manage and meet obligations in relation to our suppliers and service providers</li> <li>to maintain and administer our records</li> <li>to purchase products or services</li> <li>as otherwise required or allowed by law.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Other</strong></p> <p>We may use surveillance footage, if required, for monitoring the safety and security of our customers, suppliers, staff and property, and detecting and deterring inappropriate or criminal behaviour at our premises.</p> <p>We may also use your information in an anonymised aggregated form, to carry out analysis of our products, services and customer interactions.</p> </div>

3. Disclosure of your information

<div class="terms"> <p>We want you to know that any information you supply to us may be shared with and used by the following, where relevant to them:</p> <ul class="disc"> <li>our employees, contractors, suppliers and agents</li> <li>affiliated and related companies</li> <li>other third parties who help provide products and services (including debt collection agencies)</li> <li>third parties to whom you have authorised us to provide trade references on your behalf</li> <li>our advisors</li> <li>a business that supports our services and products (e.g. a business that hosts or maintains our IT system, data centre or website)</li> <li>service providers commissioned to protect the rights, property or safety of Goldpine or others</li> <li>credit reporting agencies and debt collection agencies (including disclosing information about any default in your payment obligations to a credit reporting agency, which may give this information to other credit reporting agency customers)</li> <li>any court, tribunal or regulatory authority where disclosure is required or allowed by law</li> <li>any other person authorised by you or by law.</li> </ul> <p>We will not share your information with third parties, except as outlined in this policy, or where you have authorised that disclosure.</p> <p>Your information may be hosted with third party service providers. We seek in our agreements with them to prohibit the information that we collect from you being used by them in a way that we have not authorised.</p> </div>

4. Transfer of personal information outside New Zealand

We may from time to time transfer personal information to third parties outlined above who are located outside New Zealand. If we do so, we will ensure your personal information will be protected by comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand law. If your personal information will not be protected by comparable safeguards to those in New Zealand law, we will tell you that this is the case, and only transfer your personal information with your consent.

5. Storage and protection of your information

<p>We may record and store personal information we collect from you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is stored securely and is protected from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.</p> <p>We cannot promise that your personal information will be completely free from access by an unauthorised person (e.g. a hacker). However, we use reasonable safeguards to minimise the risk of this occurring.</p> <p>If a privacy breach occurs which has caused or may cause serious harm to you, we will notify you of this as soon as practicable either directly or, if that is not reasonably practicable, by public notice.</p> <p>We may store your personal information using third party service providers (including providers outside New Zealand) and so your personal information may be held outside New Zealand. These providers are specialists in the areas of data storage and protection and are therefore well-placed to maintain systems that protect your information.</p>

6. Your right to access and correct your information

<div class="terms"> <p>We take reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate, complete and up-to-date.</p> <p>Aside from some circumstances set out in the Act, you have a right to access and correct the personal information we hold about you. To do so, please mail or email our Privacy Officer at the following address or email address:</p> <p> Goldpine Industries Limited<br> 18 Oxford Street<br> Richmond<br> Nelson 7020<br> Email: privacy@goldpine.co.nz </p> <p>In some cases, there may be a charge associated with providing copies of your personal information to you. If so, we will let you know before sending your information to you.</p> </div>

7. Internet use and cookies

<div class="terms"> <p><strong>Cookies</strong></p> <p>A cookie is a small file that resides on your computer and can be used by a website to remember things like your preferences for that site. For example, a cookie can be used to store registration information so that you do not need to re-enter that information on a subsequent visit to the site. We may send cookies to your computer while you are accessing our website.</p> <p>Except as set out in this policy, we do not use cookies to collect any personal information about you. We may collect non-attributed (anonymous) information regarding your use of our website.</p> <p>For example, we may use third party cookies from third party services such as Google Analytics. These cookies may collect anonymous data, including users’ browsing activities, in order to give us insight into behavioural information relating to users’ interests in our products and services and use of our websites. This helps us to understand browsing behaviour and customer preferences to improve users’ experience while using our services, including making our website easier to navigate.</p> <p>Some web browsers enable you to decline the receipt of cookies. If you use this function, you will still be able to visit our website but some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on the website.</p> <p><strong>Links to third party sites</strong></p> <p>This privacy policy only relates to our website and products and services. Our site may contain links to other third party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites. You should check their privacy polices before providing personal information to them or any other third party.</p> </div>

8. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the policy on our website. Any change applies from the date we post it on our website.

Goldpine’s many guarantees are designed to ensure your satisfaction with our quality products and service. For more information on any of our Guarantees, or to speak to us in person call 0800 2 GOLDPINE. All goods and services supplied by Goldpine Industries Limited (“Goldpine”, “we”, “us” or “our”) to the Customer (“the Customer”, “you” or “your”) are supplied on the basis set out in these terms.