Privacy Policy
Your personal data is important to us
Southgate Partners places great importance on protecting the privacy of its clients. Its procedures are designed to ensure adherence to both the letter and spirit of the Privacy Commissioner’s National Privacy Principles and the Privacy Act 1988.
We recognise that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take that seriously. Unless you directly give us consent to do otherwise, Southgate Partners will only collect and use your personal information as set out below.
Collecting information about you
Almost all information collected by Southgate Partners relates to businesses rather than individuals. However, some personal information about individuals is collected in the course of providing our services. This information will generally be limited to:
– Name, addresses and telephone numbers
– Tax file number
– Correspondence sent by you
Using and disclosing your personal information
Your personal information is confidential. Southgate Partners passes your personal information to other parties only in very limited circumstances. Southgate Partners will only use or disclose your personal information for the purposes that you provided it, or purposes directly related to the purpose for which you provided the information unless:
– required by law;
– we believe it is necessary to implement our terms of service; or
– to protect the rights, property or personal safety of any member of the public or Southgate Partners, or its directors, staff or contractors.
We are not involved in the selling, trading or alternative unauthorised use of personal information.
Storage and security of personal information
Southgate Partners will endeavour to keep secure any information, which we hold about you.
Website data
Southgate Partners is the sole owner of all information collected on this website. You acknowledge and consent that any Information provided to Southgate Partners in connection with the use of this website may be used by Southgate Partners for its own purposes, including but not limited to marketing purposes, planning, product development and research purposes. Southgate Partners may release this information to third parties as reasonably required. This includes, but is not limited to, where Southgate Partners is required to release information under any applicable law or in connection with Southgate Partners’ own purposes.