Privacy Policy

Introduction

Booking Shaara Limited (we, us or our) understands that protecting your personal information is important. This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or collected by us, when interacting with you, in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.

The Information We Collect

Personal information is information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable. The types of personal information we may collect about you include:

• •Identity Data including your name, age, profession, pronouns, and gender.
• •Contact Data including your telephone number, email, address, and location (town/city and region).
• •Financial Data including bank account and payment card details (through our third party payment processor, who stores such information and we do not have access to that information).
• •Transaction Data including details about payments to you from us and from you to us and other details of products and services.
• •Technical and Usage Data when you access any of our websites or platforms, including IP address, login data, browser session and geo-location data, statistics on page views and sessions, device and network information, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour.
• •Interaction Data including information you provide to us when you participate in any interactive features, including surveys, contests, promotions, activities or events.
• •Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
• •Professional data including where you are a worker of ours or applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience.

How We Collect Personal Information

We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:

• •When you interact directly with us, including face-to-face, over the phone, over email, or online.
• •When you complete a form, such as registering for any events or newsletters, or responding to surveys.
• •When you complete our merchant 'Get in Touch' form or merchant onboarding process.
• •When you apply for a job with us.
• •From third parties, such as details of your use of any website we operate (from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers).
• •From publicly available sources, where relevant.

Why We Collect, Hold, Use and Disclose Personal Information

We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

• •To enable customers to create accounts and access our platform.
• •To facilitate the purchase of orders.
• •To manage merchant accounts, including tracking orders, customer purchases and merchant earnings.
• •To assess merchant applications and onboard new merchants.
• •To display merchant trading names, descriptions and contact details on our website.
• •To advertise and promote merchant deals on our website and other platforms including Google, Facebook, Instagram and X (Twitter).
• •To process payments via our third party payment processor and manage commission deductions.
• •To contact and communicate with you, including in response to enquiries via our "Get in Touch" form.
• •For internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes.
• •For analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our platform.
• •For marketing, including to send promotional emails to customers who have subscribed to receive them.
• •To comply with our legal obligations or if otherwise required or authorised by law.

Our Disclosures of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

• •Our employees, contractors and/or related entities.
• •IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers.
• •Marketing or advertising providers such as Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
• •Professional advisors, bankers, auditors, our insurers and insurance brokers.
• •Payment systems operators.
• •Merchants on our platform (limited to customer full name and voucher details only).
• •Our existing or potential agents or business partners or suppliers.
• •Sponsors or promoters of any promotions or competition we run.
• •Anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred.
• •Courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you.
• •Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law.
• •Third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel or other relevant analytics businesses.
• •Any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a subpoena.

Google Analytics

We have enabled Google Analytics Advertising Features. We and third-party vendors may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers together. These cookies and identifiers may collect Technical and Usage Data about you. You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features using a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on.

Overseas Disclosure

While we store personal information in New Zealand, where we disclose your personal information to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of New Zealand, including but not limited to, the United States and Australia. We will only disclose your personal information overseas in accordance with the New Zealand Privacy Principles.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

• •Your choice: If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to do business with you.
• •Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.
• •Restrict and unsubscribe: To object to processing for direct marketing/unsubscribe from our email database, please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.
• •Access: You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information.
• •Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below.
• •Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.

Storage and Security

We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Cookies

We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do recognise you when you return to our online website and allow third parties to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other party's websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Amendments

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our website. We recommend you check our website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the website after we publish changes, you agree to be bound by the amended Privacy Policy.