ORA - Original Registry Application

O-RA Privacy Statement

For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, unless the context requires otherwise:

references to 'you' and 'your' are references to you as the person accessing this Site;
references to 'we', 'our' and 'us' are references to Identity Connection Evolution Limited and includes our employees, contractors, representatives, or other authorised personnel;
the Act means the Privacy Act 2020;
Personal Information has the meaning given to that term in the Privacy Act 2020; and
the Site is our website, website accessible at www.o-ra.io and includes any functions, software, applications or other programmes owned by us that can be accessed from that website.

This privacy statement applies to personal information that we collect through the Site.

Collection, maintenance, use, disclosure, and storage of Personal Information by us through this Site is governed by the Act. Protecting Personal Information provided to us is important. This privacy statement is to help you understand how we collect, maintain, use and disclose your personal information. This Privacy Statement is supplemented by, and is subject to, any other privacy statements that apply to any services or features offered by us.

By accessing the Site or using any of the services or features provided on or in connection with the Site you authorise our collection, use, storage and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Statement and to the extent not prohibited by the Act.

This privacy statement may be updated from time to time. The revised version will be published on the Site with the date of the latest update.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

If you use or access our website from an email or other personalised communications sent to you or provide us with Personal Information (for example, by completing a form online) we may be able to identify you. The Personal Information we may collect from you in connection with this Site includes:

identification details;
payment information;
demographic information;
whakapapa;
contact details (such as postal address and physical address, email and contact phone number);
proof of identification (such as driver’s licence, passport, 18+ card, birth certificate); and
email and phone correspondence with us.
land share interests.

This information is collected by us for the purpose of dealing with your request or for related purposes.

Personal Information that is collected by us may be disclosed to third parties, including service providers, that may analyse and use that Personal Information for the purposes of ensuring your access to and use of the Site. The use of that Personal Information will only be in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

We may also collect the following Personal Information for research and statistical purposes, including the following:

device and location information;
site usage information (collected by cookies); and
information provided by advertisers and marketers (such as information collected by cookies).

BROWSING ACTIVITY PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS

When visiting the Site, we collect personal identifiers from your browsing activity such as:

requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on the Site, and these requests are recorded;
information to your: geographical location, internet service provider and IP address; and
information about the software you are using to browse the Site, such as the type of computer or device.

We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on the Site and how we perform in providing content to you.

OVERSEAS PARTIES

Although it is unlikely, we may use third-party providers located outside of New Zealand, including cloud service providers, software providers, accountants, and other service providers. This may mean some of your Personal Information may be disclosed, held and/or processed outside of New Zealand. Where these service providers are based overseas, we will take reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that they are subject to privacy laws that, overall, provide comparable safeguards to those in the Act and aligned to our tikanga.

COOKIES

We may collect information about you through the use of cookies. This Site has been designed to automatically issue a 'cookie' to visitors. A cookie is a small data file that a website sends to an online visitor's hard drive while they are viewing the website. A visitor's cookie details are subsequently logged alongside visitor navigation throughout the website.

Cookies do not personally identify users of our website. Cookies allow us to gather the following information: the date, time, duration and frequency of your visits and the pages you access on this website. We use cookies for storing and honouring your preferences and settings, enabling you to sign-in, providing interest-based advertisement, combating fraud, analysing how our products perform and to analyse overall visitor activities and other legitimate purposes on our Site.

You can generally configure your web browser to accept cookies, reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. You should refer to the help menu of your web browser if you require details as to how this can be done.

If you choose not to accept cookies, we shall not use them for your visit except to record that you have not consented to their use for any other purpose. If you choose not to use cookies or prevent their use through your browser settings, you will not be able to use all the functionality of the Site.

INFORMATION ABOUT OTHERS

If you provide us with Personal Information about another person (for example a spouse or relative) then you are responsible for ensuring you have authority to do so and that person consents to our use of their Personal Information as set out in this Privacy Statement.

You must also make that person aware that you have disclosed their Personal Information to us and that we will use their Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Statement,

ACCESS AND CORRECTION

Subject to the Act, you may request a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you by writing to us at the address below.

To ensure the integrity and safety of a member’s Personal Information, we will only disclose information to a member if our internal procedures for disclosure of information are satisfied and where we are entitled by law to do so.

You can contact us by emailing [email protected]

STORAGE AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

You are responsible for ensuring that all information that you provide to us (including your email address) is accurate, complete and up-to-date. You must advise us as soon as possible if your email address or other contact details change by updating your profile information. Any changes may be subject to verification by us.

You are responsible for ensuring the security of the Personal Information held on your computer, mobile or other device.

We are committed to keeping your Personal Information secure. We will take all reasonable steps with its physical, technical, organisational and electronic security to protect your Personal Information against loss, damage, misuse, unauthorised access, erroneous disclosure, alteration and destruction. Personal information is held in secure electronic databases. We use a range of security processes to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information that we hold.