Garden to Table Website Privacy Policy 

Privacy Statement 

 
Introduction 

Garden to Table Trust (“us” and “ourselves” and “Garden to Table”) is a charitable trust that supports primary and intermediate schools and kura to take learning out of the classroom and into the garden and the kitchen.  

Our schools teach thousands of kiwi kids knowledge and skills that have a transformative and lifelong impact on their hauora — wellbeing — and on the world around them. 

This privacy statement (“Privacy Statement”) applies only to the www.gardentotable.org.nz website (or the “website”).  

Garden to Table is committed to protecting your privacy.  

You warrant that all information and details provided by you via this website are true, correct, complete and accurate in all respects. 

 
What personal information do you collect when I visit www.gardentotable.org.nz? 

We do not require registration for general access to  www.gardentotable.org.nz , but if you participate in any of the activities or services offered by our website we will collect the personal information that we need in order to provide you with those services.  Failure to provide the information that we require in order to sign up to our programme may prevent or delay the provision of any services to you. 

The categories of information that we collect from you are: 

• Contact details, such as your name, job title, email address, employer's name, and telephone number. 

• Authentication and identification information, such as your user name, password, email address. 

• Information relating to the services we provide such as details of your requests, queries or complaints. 

Technical Information 

When you visit this website, we may collect technical information such as your IP (Internet Protocol) address, tracking data for statistical purposes, details of the pages you visit on www.gardentotable.org.nz.  

This website collects standard internet log and technical data to measure and improve the effectiveness of this web site, to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer this web site, to see where web site traffic is coming from and to identify our users.  We may also collect other information via www.gardentotable.org.nz such as website usage activity and preferences, also known as demographic or profile data, the date and time of your visits to our website, your clicks and activity on this site, the referring site if any through which you clicked through to this site, technical information on your browser, device and operating systems.  In this connection we may use "cookies" to collect this information. 

 
When do you collect personal information through www.gardentotable.org.nz? 

We collect personal information from you in the following circumstances: 

• When you subscribe to any of our events. 

• When you subscribe to any of our blogs. 

• When you register to attend an event. 

• When you enter a discussion forum. 

• When you contact us to request further information. 

• When you download a resource. 

• When you fill in any form on our site. 

We collect the minimum amount of information to enable us to deal with your request or to provide a service to you. We will indicate where the provision of information is voluntary or compulsory.  

How do you use my personal information? 

We use your personal information to: 

• Identify you and create a profile for you when you register with us to use our programme or to request information from us. 

• Verify your identity when you access our services/contact us. 

• Communicate with you with respect to the programme and information that we provide. 

• Provide, improve and personalise our services by analysing information about your use of the website to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive. 

• Deal with your enquiries and requests. 

• Comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject and cooperate with regulators and law enforcement bodies. 

• Contact you with marketing and offers relating to products and services offered by us (unless you have opted out of marketing, or we are otherwise prevented by law from doing so). 

• Personalise the marketing messages that we send to you to make them more relevant and interesting by analysing details of the services and information that you are receiving, and your transaction history, to make suggestions for other information that may be of interest. 

We must have a legal basis to process your personal information. In most cases the legal basis will be one of the following: 

• To provide services to you pursuant to the www.gardentotable.org.nz Website Terms and Conditions. 

• To meet our legitimate interests, for example to understand how you use our programme and our website and to help us to derive knowledge that helps us to develop the website. When we process your personal information to meet our legitimate interests we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. We may obtain your consent to collect and use certain types of personal information where we are required to do so by law (for example in relation to our direct marketing activities, or our use of cookies and tracking technologies). If we ask for your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details at the end of this Privacy Statement.  

Your Rights 

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to New Zealand law. These include the following rights to:  

• Request access to the personal information that we may process on www.gardentotable.org.nz. 

• Update or correct your details. 

• Restrict our use of your personal information.  

• Object to our use of your personal information.  

• To receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party.   

• Request that your personal details are deleted from our systems. 

You may exercise these rights by e-mailing info@gardentotable.org.nz.  We will treat all such requests in accordance with applicable local law. 

If you would like to opt not to receive promotional or marketing e-mail from us in the future, you may let us know by sending us an e-mail to info@gardentotable.org.nz stating the e-mail address you wish to be removed from our mailing list. However, your option not to receive promotional and marketing e-mail shall not preclude us from corresponding with you, by e-mail or otherwise, regarding your existing relationship with us. 

 
Will you provide my information to a third party? 

We may contract with other companies or individuals to deal with your enquiry or to otherwise operate this web site or our business activities. We may give such companies access to your personal information in connection with those purposes on our behalf.  From time to time, we may disclose personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. 

We do not provide information to third parties for their own marketing purposes and we do not undertake mailings for third parties. 

 
How long do you keep my information? 

We will keep your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you.  Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal information for a period of time that enables us to maintain our business records for analysis and/or audit purposes, comply with record retention requirements under the law, defend or bring any legal claims and deal with any complaints. 

We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required for these purposes. If there is any information that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete entirely from our systems, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further processing or use of the data. 

 
Is my information secure? 

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We require all employees and principals to keep personal information confidential and only authorised personnel have access to this information. 

 
Updating this Privacy Statement 

We may modify or update this Privacy Statement from time to time.  You will be able to see when we last updated the Privacy Statement because we will include a revision date.  Changes and additions to this Privacy Statement are effective from the date on which they are posted. 

Ngā mihi maioha to Garden to Table Sponsor, Brookfields Lawyers, for their support in the creation of this Privacy Policy.