This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit, book an appointment, or sign up at https://www.givingarchitects.com/ (the “Site”).

When you book a chat or subscribe to our mailing list, we will hold your personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.

Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or services that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

Additionally, when you book an appointment with us through our site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, company name, email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Personal Information.” When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Personal Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Personal Information that we collect generally to communicate with you on meeting bookings and also sharing newsletters in line with the preferences you have shared with us, and also to provide you with information or advertising relating to our services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimise our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We share your Personal Information with third parties such as Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by following the below links:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

CONTACT US

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong.  

If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected,or for more information about our privacy practices or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at marie@givingarchitects.com or by mail to P.O. Box 133018, Mission Bay, Auckland 1146, New Zealand.