Website Privacy Policy

Privacy and security

This privacy policy applies to the endoscopyak.co.nz and laparoscopyak.co.nz websites, which are owned and administered by Endoscopy Auckland Limited (Endoscopy Auckland), which is based in New Zealand.

No need to disclose personal information

You may browse and access information contained within this website without providing personal information.

Information provided when you contact us

Where you voluntarily provide personal information (eg, through online forms, newsletter subscriptions or email requests), we will only use your personal information for the purposes for which you gave it to us. This information will be held by Endoscopy Auckland.

We will hold your personal information in accordance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 and the New Zealand Health Information Privacy Code 2020. These Privacy Acts, Codes and Rights regulate us primarily through the Information Privacy Principles in the New Zealand Privacy Acts respectively, as to how we collect, use, hold, disclose, access, correct, manage and dispose of your personal information.

Viewing or changing your information

To view any personal information held by us, or if you have any concerns about personal information that we hold and wish to request its correction, please contact the Privacy Officer at:

Endoscopy Auckland Limited
148 Gillies Avenue
Epsom, Auckland 1023

Email: privacy.officer@endoscopyak.co.nz

Statistical information and cookies

We collect statistical information about your visit to our website to help us improve it. This information does not identify individuals. To collect this statistical information the site makes use of cookies.

Cookies

This website uses cookies for the purpose of monitoring website usage. A cookie is a piece of code that creates a file on your computer to track the pages that you view on our website. The cookies do not collect personal information. You can disable them or clear them out of your web browser without affecting your ability to use the website.

Google Analytics

We use Google Universal Analytics to collect and analyse details about the use of our website. The information Google Analytics collects includes:

• your IP address
• the search terms you used
• the pages you accessed on the website and the links you clicked on
• the date and time you visited the website
• the referring website (if any) through which you clicked through to this website
• your operating system (eg, Windows XP, Mac OSX)
• the type of web browser you use (eg, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox)
• other incidental matters such as screen resolution and the language setting of your browser.

No effort is made to identify individual visitors.

You may opt-out from having Google Analytics collect your information by disabling cookies in your browser, or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on.

Google Analytics privacy policy.

Feedback

Your feedback is important to us and is used to evaluate and improve the sites of Endoscopy Auckland. If you provide feedback by email or by using a feedback form, that feedback is sent to the appropriate Endoscopy Auckland staff member. We may pass on relevant comments to other people within Endoscopy Auckland who administer or contribute content to our websites. This could include your email address and other identifying information that you've provided. If you do not want this information to be passed on you need to let us know by contacting the Privacy Officer at the contact details above.

Use of statistical information

The statistical information referred to above will be viewable by website administrators and certain other Endoscopy Auckland staff, whose role requires them to view this data. Statistical information which does not identify individuals may be shared with other agencies.

Disclosure of your information to third parties

Your information may be shared with, and held by, third-party contractors to the extent necessary for those contractors to provide web services, such as website hosting and maintenance. We will not use or disclose your personal information for purposes that you did not give it to us for without your consent, unless authorised or required by New Zealand law.

If you have a privacy complaint

If you have a privacy complaint or concern please contact our Privacy Officer (refer above for contact details). If you're not satisfied with our response to any privacy-related concern you have, you can contact the Privacy Commissioner.

New Zealand
Office of the Privacy Commissioner
PO Box 10094
Wellington 6143

Freephone: 0800 803 909 (NZ only)
Phone: +64 4 474 7590
Fax: +64 4 474 7595
Email: enquiries@privacy.org.nz

Privacy Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, to reflect changes to privacy law or our business operations. This Privacy Policy was last updated in April 2022.