Privacy Policy

Core Legal Limited is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy policy sets out how www.corelegal.co.nz uses and protects any information that you give Core Legal Limited both when you use this website and applies to any account, product or service provided by Core Legal Limited (“us”). You agree that your use of our website or use of any account, product of service provided by us indicates acceptance of this Policy and you authorise us to collect, use and share your personal information as outlined in this Policy.

We will only collect personal information that is associated with an activity we undertake and only collect what is necessary to perform that activity.

What data we collect

We may collect the following information:

• Contact Information: Data about your name, email, address, date of birth, contact telephone numbers and other personal information you provide to us during the provision of our products and services, and as acquired through other sources as outlined below. We also collect contact information about you through our website, as well as information necessary to conduct our customer due diligence.
• Website activity: Data about your browsing activity on our website.
• Device and browser information: Technical information about the device or browser you use to access our website. For example, your device’s IP address, and (in the case of mobile devices) your device type and mobile device’s unique identifier such as the Apple IDFA or Android Advertising ID.
• Ad data – The online ads we have served (or attempted to serve) to you. It includes the number of times this has been served, the page the ad appeared on, and whether you clicked or not on the ad.
• Data from Advertising Partners – This is data that we receive from other digital advertising companies that we work with to help us deliver ads to you and recognize you across browsers and devices.
• IP addresses, cookie identifiers, website activity that our site will collect.
• Information about you necessary to meet New Zealand and overseas legal obligations (for example, protecting your money and assisting in fraud and money laundering).

We use the data collected from our website to help our Advertisers identify and serve ads to you that are more relevant to you. We also use this data to operate, improve and enhance our products and services including enhancing the data points we or our Advertising Partners have about a partcular user, browser, or device, or to target, optimize, cap, or synchronize advertising.

Where possible, we will collect personal information from you directly.

Where we collect personal information from

We collect personal information about you directly from you (including via our website and any related account, product or service and through any personal contact with us, such as in person and via telephone calls and emails). We also collect personal information from third parties, agents and services providers we engage to help us with fulfilling any purposes set out in this Policy and information that is publicly available (Including for the purposes of conducting customer due diligence).

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to meet our legal obligations, understand your needs and provide you with a better product and/or service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• To obtain and/or verify your identity, perform customer due diligence and for other administrative purposes.
• To open and operate your client account.
• To provide products or services to you and to manage your relationship with us, including carrying out your instructions and otherwise to fulfil our professional duties
• For internal business purposes, and financial transactions undertaken in relation to your account, for example to supply and invoice for products and services ordered by you and to collect payment.
• For Internal record keeping purposes.
• To respond to your communications.
• To protect our rights, property and safety and or/enforce our rights and interests (including defending any claim) and to protect our employees, contractors, other clients and uses of our website or our products and services
• To customise, measure, and improve our website and services.
• To improve our products and services.
• To periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• To use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
• To deliver targeted marketing to you.
• To contact you by email or phone about your account or our services including to market our services to you.
• So that third parties (that we specifically engage) may place cookies on your browsers for targeted advertising purposes.
• To obtain a description of the types of data (IP addresses, cookie identifiers, website activity) that your site will collect.
• For any other purpose authorised by you or the Privacy Act 2020.
• To comply with any legal requirement, including any applicable law, court order, other judicial process or the requirements of a regulator, and as otherwise permitted by law, including meeting the obligations, if any, of the Anti-money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (AML/CFT), the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), the Automatic Exchange of Information and the Common Reporting Standard (AEOI and CRS), managing the Tax Statement with Landonline on your behalf, complying with the requirements to complete a statutory declaration with respect to the 2015 bright-line regime and obtaining any Residential Land Statement that may be required from you in terms of the Overseas Investment Act 2005).

Data Sharing

We may disclose information about you:

• To other parties: To others involved with your matter or for the purposes you have engaged us, including your other professional advisors (real estate agents, accountants), banks and other financial providers.
• To identification verification and screening agencies and providers.
• To any document issuer, official record holder, credit bureau, and authorised third party data providers for the purposes of customer due diligence.
• With our service providers: Companies we contract with who help with parts of our business
  operations. We require that our service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us. This includes our IT system provider, data management, processing and storage provider, auditors, banks and other financial, other
  third parties associated with the provision of our services (such as barristers, for example),Court or tribunal, regulatory enforcement agencies and government agencies.
• With your service providers: Companies under contract with, or acting on your behalf, who handle data (such as a customer lists) on your behalf.
• With our subsidiaries and related companies.
• In connection with legal proceedings: When we are under a legal obligation to do so, for example to comply with a binding order of a court, or where disclosure is necessary to exercise, establish or defend the legal rights of us or our Advertisers or any other third party.
• In connection with a sale of our business: If a third party acquires some or all of our business or assets, we may disclose your information in connection with the sale.
• To your United States Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) or Common Reporting Standard (CRS) status or other FATCA or CRS matters to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) and to our banks if they request information to be able to meet their FATCA or CRS obligations. If you do not provide any such information that we request, you authorise us to report your non-response, identity and reportable balance to our banks and IRD.

We also share technical data that we collect about your browsing habits and your device (such as data relating to our cookies, tracking pixels and similar technologies) with other advertising companies in the digital advertising ecosystem. This enables them and us to better target ads to you. You authorise us to disclose aggregated, anonymized information to third parties.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies: How We Use Them

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Core Legal uses traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. By visiting Core Legal, third parties (that we authorise) may place cookies on users’ browsers for targeted advertising purposes.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you do not want to receive any targeted advertising from Core Legal, you can modify your browser seƫng to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website.

Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information and opting out

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at: help@corelegal.co.nz.
• We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may opt out of targeted advertising by emailing us at help@corelegal.co.nz. and we will provide you with further instructions to implement an opt out.

You do not have to provide us with, or permit us to collect personal information about you, however if we are unable to collect the necessary information, we may be unable to provide to you the products and/or services you require.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under applicable laws of New Zealand. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at: help@corelegal.co.nz.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Core Legal may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 May 2026.