Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement applies to your use of NZX's website www.nzx.com (NZX Site) including My NZX:

Non-Personal Information
When you use the NZX Site our server, our agent's or contractor's server or Fairfax's server (Server) logs the following information, which is provided by your browser:

  • your server's IP address (a number which is unique to the machine through which you are connected to the Internet) or your personal IP address
  • the type of browser and operating system you are using
  • the domain name of the referring site (e.g. the previous NZX Site that you visited). 

The Server also logs:

  • the date and time of your visit
  • the URL address of the pages accessed and the documents downloaded.

This information does not personally identify you. NZX and Fairfax analyse this non-personal information for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of the NZX Site users are visiting and how long they spend there, among other possible uses.

NZX will not try to identify you or your browsing activities except, in the event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider's logs or if your usage is causing technical issues for the NZX Site which may need to be resolved. NZX may in these circumstances identify your IP address to enable NZX to contact you.

My NZX Privacy and Personal Information
Provide Details: When you access My NZX you will be asked to voluntarily provide your name, e-mail address and mobile telephone number. NZX will not be able to provide you with My NZX Services if you do not provide these details.

My NZX E-mails: By providing NZX with your Login and Password and selecting the option to receive e-mails you consent to receive e-mails from NZX and/or Fairfax that relate to your My NZX subscription and to any functions of My NZX you choose (by express consent or otherwise). NZX and Fairfax may send you information based on the parts of the NZX Site that you visit or the securities or other financial products you click on.

Collection of other information: NZX will collect the personal information you provide to access My NZX. For the purposes of optimising the e-mails NZX and Fairfax may send you and tailoring those e-mails to your interests, NZX will also collect information about the securities, data, funds or other products you click on, read about or choose to receive information about.

Personal Information
There are times when NZX or Fairfax may need personal information from you, such as your name, postal address or email address, fax and phone numbers. You will be asked to supply that personal information voluntarily. NZX and Fairfax collect personal information from applications or other forms that you submit to NZX and Fairfax via the NZX Site, from your transactions with NZX or Fairfax, their affiliates, or others, and from consumer reporting agencies. When NZX or Fairfax collect personal information on the NZX Site, they will take reasonable steps to inform you of:

- the purpose for which the personal information is collected

- where applicable, any law that requires the particular personal information to be collected

- the main consequences for you if all, or part, of the personal information requested is not provided.

NZX and Fairfax will only use such personal information for the purpose for which you have provided it, unless you consent otherwise or they are required by law to disclose it.

NZX may provide your personal information to Fairfax (or Fairfax may collect it) to enable Fairfax to provide web site services to NZX.

NZX and Fairfax will not sell your personal information to, or share it with, any other company or third party agency, except as permitted by law. NZX discloses such personal information about you only to those employees who have a need to know.

Where NZX or Fairfax receive information about your session or about you, NZX or Fairfax may use that information to conduct market research surveys, for statistical analysis to determine NZX Site usage, to run competitions and for direct marketing purposes relating to our business, to tailor our services to match your needs and improve the NZX Site generally. NZX or Fairfax will ask you when provide personal information whether you wish to receive correspondence and information from NZX and/or Fairfax, this will generally be by way of an 'opt-out' box that will appear each time you are asked to provide personal information for additional purposes. Please tick this ‘opt-out' box if you do not wish your personal information to be used in this way. NZX does not collect sensitive information such as your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions or religious beliefs.

NZX (and Fairfax if applicable) will take all reasonable steps to allow you access to your personal information and we will correct personal information if NZX is satisfied that it is incorrect.

For more information please phone NZX on +64 4 472 7599 or e-mail NZX at info@nzx.com

April 2008