Privacy Policy & Disclaimer

This website is operated by Duns Limited.

This website and information contained herein is provided in good faith and is intended as a general summary of information and an overview to our operations. It is not intended to replace qualified consultation undertaken directly with authorised representatives of Duns Limited.

Information contained on this website may be changed at any time without notice. While we have made every reasonable effort to ensure accuracy of information, all information should be verified before acting upon it.

The views and opinions expressed in this site do not necessarily reflect those of Duns Limited, its Directors, staff, contractors or agents.

Reference made on this website to independent agents, companies or organisations outside of Duns Limited through use of title, logos or photographic images does not necessarily constitute recommendation or infer association of them.

All material contained herein is the property of Duns Limited or suppliers and MUST NOT be downloaded, copied or used without prior permission in writing. For authorisation please click here.

This website contains links to other independent sites which are supplied in good faith. Duns Limited has no control over the content or privacy of these sites.

Website Privacy

Duns Limited is committed to protecting your privacy and handles personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the Information Privacy Principles. “Personal information” includes information about an identifiable individual.

  1. Duns Limited will use any information provided by visitors to this site for the specific purpose of communicating with them. Any information automatically retrieved, such as site browsing patterns etc, will only be used in total, without identifying individuals, for site modification and marketing purposes.
  2. The information we collect through this website may include your name, contact details, the organisation you represent and the content of any enquiry you send us. We collect this information directly from you for the purposes described in this policy, which are connected with our functions as a firm of accountants. You do not have to provide the information we request, but if you do not, we may be unable to respond to your enquiry or provide our services.
  3. No information provided by visitors will be passed on to third parties, with the exceptions of points 4–6 below.
  4. Where visitors subscribe to a marketing database via this website, it may be necessary to forward information on to a third party for organisational purposes. In all cases, visitors will be given the opportunity of declining to receive future communication from Duns Limited or related suppliers.
  5. We may disclose information to third-party service providers who support our business (for example, IT, cloud hosting and email providers). Some of these providers store or process information overseas (currently cloud hosting, email and website analytics suppliers). Before disclosing personal information to an overseas provider, we take reasonable steps to ensure the information will be adequately protected, for example by satisfying ourselves that the provider is subject to comparable privacy safeguards or by putting appropriate contractual protections in place.
  6. Duns Limited may be required by law to disclose site visitor information. We will only make this disclosure if we believe in good faith that we are legally required to do so, or where disclosure is otherwise permitted under the Privacy Act 2020.
  7. We hold personal information in secure electronic and physical systems and protect it with reasonable security safeguards against loss and against unauthorised access, use, modification or disclosure.
  8. We keep personal information only for as long as it is required for the purposes for which it may lawfully be used. As a firm of accountants, we are also required to retain certain records for minimum periods (generally at least seven years) under tax, company and anti-money laundering legislation, and we will retain information for those periods where they apply.
  9. You may ask us to confirm whether we hold personal information about you, to access that information, and to correct it if you believe it is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or misleading. To make a request, please contact our Privacy Officer using the details below. If we decline to correct information, you may ask us to attach a statement noting that you consider it requires correction.
  10. If a privacy breach occurs that it is reasonable to believe has caused, or is likely to cause, serious harm to an affected individual, we will notify the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the affected individuals as soon as practicable, in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.
  11. Please note that this site contains links to other sites that Duns Limited does not control and which may not share the same Privacy Policy safeguards as us.
  12. Duns Limited reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and will notify site users of the existence of a revised Privacy Policy by publishing a notice on this website.

Contact us: Our Privacy Officer is responsible for our compliance with the Privacy Act 2020 and for dealing with any privacy questions, access or correction requests, or complaints. You can contact us at info@duns.co.nz. If you are not satisfied with our response to a privacy concern, you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (www.privacy.org.nz).