Prestige Jones Auctions
Privacy Policy
Prestige Jones Auctions is a trading name for Jones & Jones Limted and is referred to by PJA within this privacy policy.
1. What information do we collect?
PJA collects personal information from you when you engage with us as a customer, potential customer (or as an employee of one), potential employee, or service provider, the personal information we may collect includes:
- your general information, such as your name, contact details (including email and phone number), billing address and billing information;
- email communications with us, and your written and verbal interactions with us, including instructions, meeting notes and voicemail files;
- any details you provide to us as part of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 due diligence process (CDD);
- where relevant, information about your health, accessibility requirements or dietary needs;
- your attendance at any of our events, online or at physical location;
- your business interests and areas of interest and expertise (if you provide these to us or they are publicly available);
- preferences for any email or marketing communications that you wish to receive from us;
- your credit history; and
2. How we use your information?
We may use your personal information:
to provide you with our services and information and to maintain and develop our business relationship with you;
to carry out customer due diligence and monitor our relationship with you for compliance with applicable laws. This includes any CDD and financial information collected as part of our identity checks, sanction screening and verification of address;
- for promotional and marketing purposes;
- to improve or update our services or business;
- for internal purposes (such as staff training);
- to contact you in relation to any enquiries you make;
- to confirm or update your contact details; and
- we may publish images of events we hold, and it is possible your image may be shown in our publications.
We may also send you newsletters, invitations or other information we think you may be interested in. These could include information that markets our events, people or services. You can unsubscribe at any time. You can do this through the unsubscribe feature at the bottom of every email you will receive.
3. Who do we disclose your information to?
- where you have authorised us to do so;
- where those third parties help us provide our services to you;
- where your personal information is not identifiable or in aggregate form, for example, for the purposes of reporting or responding to surveys; or
- if we are required to or permitted by law to disclose such information.
4. What happens when you visit our website?
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer's hard drive to allow us and/or the host of our website to record how many times a user or computers within a user's network of computers visit the website, the number of times various pages of the website have been accessed and other similar information. Cookies can also be used to remember information about your visit to the website. You may disable receipt of cookies using features of your web browser that disable or turn off cookies. We do not use cookies to retrieve information that is unrelated to your visit or your interaction with the website.
We also collect your IP address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer when you use the internet. The IP address data that we collect does not contain any personally identifiable information about you and is used to administer our site, to determine the numbers of different visitors to the site and to gather broad demographic data.
We do not presently provide any personal information collected via our public website or the non-public areas maintained on our website to any third parties outside of the website environment without the consent of those who provided the information.
For certain functions of our website, we collect your personal information in order to provide you with information relating to those functions and our company. When you visit the public areas of our website, you remain anonymous, however, if you use email links via the website, access password protected areas, or otherwise provide us with personally identifiable information on the website, you will not remain anonymous.
5. Other things you should know
We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Further, we will only retain your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to request to obtain, or have corrected, any personal information that we hold about you. If you want to make a request, please contact us.
From time to time, PJA will update this Privacy Policy. All revisions will be made available on the PJA website and will take effect from the date that the revision is made available. This Policy was last updated on 24th September 2024.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or how PJA protects your information, please contact the company's Privacy Officer. You can also find more information on the Privacy Commissioner's website at https://www.privacy.org.nz.