When you embark upon the road trip of a lifetime with New Zealand Frontiers, you're somewhere special. And at New Zealand Frontiers, we also recognise that every one of our guests is someone special.
We are committed to providing our clients with a world-class experience, and part of that is ensuring your privacy is protected and respected.
To maintain the high service standard that our clients have come to expect from the New Zealand Frontiers Experience, we have established a charter of key principles that guide how we collect and use personal information to tailor that experience. We have prepared this Privacy Statement to explain how we collect and manage this information.
This Privacy Statement addresses our compliance with privacy laws in New Zealand (where we operate); New Zealand’s Privacy Act has been recognised by the European Commission as “EU Adequate” meaning that our privacy regulations are of an internationally recognised standard. We also adhere to the Global Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to protect the privacy of our European Union customers.
This statement applies to services supplied directly to you by New Zealand Frontiers.
In most cases, New Zealand Frontiers is the data controller.
This Privacy Statement provides a general overview of our privacy practices. When we collect personal information from you as part of a product or service, we may tell you other things about the way we’ll manage that information (for example, where we’re seeking consent to use information included in a review you may have supplied to us). It is important that you read and understand this statement and any other privacy notifications. When you use our products and services, you are deemed to have done so.
We've developed the following key principles in order to meet privacy regulations and guide the way in which we handle personal information.
No matter where in the world your journey with us starts, or where you call home, we’ll apply these principles to the information entrusted to us.
This Privacy Statement explains how New Zealand Frontiers puts these principles into action. It explains what personal information we collect about you, how we use and share it, how we protect it, and how you can take some control of the way we manage your information.
During the process of making an enquiry or booking with New Zealand Frontiers, we will be contractually obliged to ask you for some personal information in order to fairly or accurately respond. This may include contact details, date of birth, nationality or information relating to other guests in your party.
We also need to process some personal information to meet our legitimate interests, including making sure we’re providing the best products and services we can and managing your health and safety. This may include preferences such as preferred vehicle delivery or linen requirements.
We rely on your consent to process personal information for marketing purposes.
Some of the information New Zealand Frontiers collects from you is essential to ensure we can deliver the services you’ve requested, such as confirming your age complies with driver licensing requirements. Without this information, we may not be able to provide what you want.
Some of the information we request is optional, and we ask for this so that we can make your experience more personalised and meaningful. You can decide whether you wish to share this information with us.
You will probably arrange your road trip yourself via the New Zealand Frontiers website, however you may use an online travel or booking agent, or your reservation might be arranged by a travel agent on your behalf. No matter how you choose to book your vehicle, personal information will be collected and processed so we can arrange your rental or other services you’ve requested from us.
This information may include:
During your rental, we may collect information about you in addition to 5.1. This is to manage your road trip and ensure we can provide the services you request or remedy any problems that may arise while you’re traveling with us. We collect some of this information directly from you upon vehicle delivery or return. You will also generate personal information during your stay, by using products or services provided by New Zealand Frontiers or on New Zealand Frontiers websites or applications.
This information may include:
We collect information about you to help us deliver exceptional service. We aim to understand your preferences and the activities you enjoy. We collect this information from you when you make a reservation, use our website, or tell us about your stay.
This information is important to us because we want to be able to learn from your experiences and continuously improve the service we offer. We also want to be able to tell you about products and services that we think you might like in the event that you choose to return.
You can opt out of this process at any time. See 9.1 below, under ‘Managing your privacy preferences.’
This information may include:
Our website uses Cookies which identify you from other users. Cookies are small data files that our website sends to your browser, which may then be stored on your system for later retrieval by our website. Cookies are widely used and give websites the ability to provide a good online experience by saving your preferences or customising the content or experience of our website. Cookies track your movements through websites but do not record any other personal information about you. By continuing to use our website, you agree to our use of cookies.
We take particular care with the collection of personal information about minors. In New Zealand, anyone under the age of 18 is considered a minor.
The law treats personal information about minors differently because of their limited ability to understand the consequences of providing personal information to us. We limit the information we collect about minors to that which is absolutely necessary.
This information may include:
We rely on responsible adults, such as parents or guardians, to ensure that minors in their care do not send any personal information to us without their consent.
We need to use your personal information in certain ways in order to meet our lawful purpose, some of which are obvious (like using your name for a booking) and some less so (like ensuring that you’re old enough to book a rental vehicle and to contact your next of kin in the event that your driving falls below the standard required to remain on the road).
In general, we will only use your information in the ways outlined in this Privacy Statement. From time to time, we may need to use your information in other ways but will only do so with your permission or if required by law.
Here are the ways in which we use personal information to deliver the services you request from us, including making sure our vehicles can run safely and efficiently. New Zealand Frontiers cannot deliver these services without carefully and responsibly using the personal information entrusted to us by our clients.
We may use your personal information to:
Here are the ways in which we use personal information to continuously improve the services we offer and ensure that any communications we send you are meaningful and relevant. We will only do this with your consent, which you can revoke at any time. See 9.1 below, under ‘Managing your privacy preferences.’
We may use your personal information to:
To use your personal information in the ways explained above, we may need to share your personal information with trusted third parties, such as ferry companies or other transport service operators. We only share personal information where absolutely necessary and we make sure that the third parties providing services to us can be trusted to protect the information.
Sometimes, we may also be required to share personal information in ways we have not anticipated. We’ve indicated below the scenarios where this might occur, including where we receive requests from government or law enforcement agencies. We will only ever share information in these cases if required or permitted by law.
We may share your personal information with:
New Zealand Frontiers takes information security and accountability very seriously. We know that we must take responsibility for your personal information, and will take reasonable steps to ensure it is protected, no matter where in the world it was collected or where it is held.
The personal information we collect about you is held by New Zealand Frontiers, as the data controller, and by our trusted information service providers, as our data processors. We hold personal information in a combination of physical and electronic formats, depending on the ways we may need to use it.
New Zealand Frontiers retains personal information relating to your reservation and the services provided to you.
The majority of the personal information we retain is stored in New Zealand, either on local servers or by New Zealand-based information service providers.
However, we may from time to time need to transfer personal information to service providers or systems located outside New Zealand. Where we can, we will only transfer personal information to service providers based in countries that have privacy regulations in place that are equivalent or stronger than those we adhere to. Where this is not possible, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the service provider will meet our privacy and security expectations, including the use of contracts and service agreements that protect information from unauthorised access or use.
We retain the personal information we collect only as long as we need it to meet our reasonable service obligations. For example, we may retain your information for a reasonable period of time after your road trip has ended, in order to respond to potential enquiries after your rental. For known regular clients, we will keep personal information for a longer period to ensure a high standard of service for those customers. When we no longer need your personal information, we or our service providers will securely destroy it.
We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information you entrust to us is protected against loss, unauthorised use, access or disclosure, and any other misuse. We recognise that information security is an important part of our role in upholding the privacy of your personal information, as well as your trust and confidence. We also recognise that security is about more than just the technical measures. We’ve taken steps to ensure that our people and processes are also fit for purpose.
Technical security measures include:
Security processes include:
We make sure our people can be trusted by:
We want to make sure you feel confident about the ways we collect and use your personal information. Where possible, we want to make sure you can control this. Privacy regulations all over the world focus on ensuring that individuals can access the information businesses hold about them, and can change their minds about how that information is used.
To exercise any of the rights listed below, please email us at privacy@newzealandfrontiers.com.
You can only access, correct or manage personal information about yourself, unless you have the consent of another person to do so on their behalf, so we may need to verify your authority or identity before responding to your request. We do this to protect your privacy and the privacy of other guests. Once we’ve verified your request, we’ll respond within 24 hours.
We deliver our services and make sure our vehicles can run safely and efficiently by carefully and responsibly using the personal information you entrust to us.
You may also have authorised us to use your personal information in other ways not directly related to the services you’ve requested. This may include using your information to generally improve the services we offer and ensure that the communications we send you are meaningful and relevant. We respect that you might change your mind, and we certainly don’t want to use information in ways that might make you uncomfortable.
You can revoke your consent at any time. If you believe we’re using your personal information in ways that are not directly related to the provision of a product or service you have requested, and you have not specifically authorised us to do this, you can also object to this data processing.
You have the right to request a copy of your personal information, and we’ll be as open as we can. On occasion we might need to withhold personal information, for example, where the information is legally privileged or includes personal information about other clients. If we ever need to withhold information from you we will tell you why.
If you think any of the personal information we hold about you is wrong, you can ask us to correct it.
Where we’ve retained your personal information for purposes that are not directly related to the provision of a product or service you have requested – such as for statistical purposes – you can ask us to delete it. If we are unable to correct or delete your information (for example, where we do not agree that it is wrong, or we need the information in order to deliver a service you have requested), we’ll tell you why. You can ask us to attach your correction request to the information as a statement of correction.
Where we have refused a request you’ve made to us about your information – whether you’ve sought to revoke consent, access your information, or have it deleted – or where you have any other concerns about the way we’ve handled your information, you can get in touch with us to make a complaint.
In the first instance, please contact our Privacy Officer by emailing privacy@newzealandfrontiers.com. We’ll do all we can to resolve your complaint and ensure that your privacy experience lives up to the New Zealand Frontiers promise.
If we can’t resolve your complaint for you, then you have the right to make a complaint to the Office of the NZ Privacy Commissioner, using either of the following channels:
We may update our Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect changes to privacy regulations or our business operations. This privacy statement was last updated in February 2020.
