Protecting your personal information is important to us. So is following applicable privacy laws. This Privacy Policy tells you
how we will protect your privacy and collect and use your personal information (any reference to “we”, “us” or “our” is to
The Thinking Studio Limited (t/a Yabble) and Yabble’s related companies.
Any information that you share with Yabble about yourself or another individual is “personal information” (Personal
Information). Yabble is committed to protecting your personal information and complying with our obligations under
privacy laws.
To that end, we will protect your privacy and only collect, use, disclose and store your Personal Information in accordance
with this Privacy Policy and the applicable privacy laws.
This Privacy Policy applies to anyone in New Zealand who uses our websites (yabble.com, yabblezone.com or other
website operated by us) or the Yabble Platform (together the Websites), registers to use our Websites or otherwise
interacts with us. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions applicable to the services
you access or use. By using our Websites or any of our services or interacting with us, you consent to the terms of this
Privacy Policy.
YOUR RIGHTS
We’ll only use your Personal Information for the reasons that we collected it, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If
we don’t need your Personal Information anymore for those reasons, then we’ll stop using it.
If you don’t agree with our Privacy Policy or don’t want us to collect your Personal Information, then you shouldn’t use our
Websites, and shouldn’t interact with us. If you change your mind later and no longer agree with our Privacy Policy, then you
should immediately stop using our Websites, and not interact with us.
If you don’t agree to Yabble collecting and using your Personal Information, then you may not be able to use our Websites
or our Services.
Yabble may keep your Personal Information so long as it is required for the purposes for which the Personal Information was
collected or as required by law.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
At Yabble, the types of Personal Information we may collect about you include:
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Your name, contact details and residential address.
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Your date of birth, gender, ethnicity.
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Your service and product preferences.
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If you are a Yabbler, your feedback, survey results and ideas.
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Your account history with us, including, if you are a Yabbler, your activities as a Yabbler and the rewards you have
redeemed.
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Information about the webpages you visit on our Websites.
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Any other information you give us.
Please don’t give us Personal Information about someone else unless you have their express permission to do so and you
direct them to this Privacy Policy. It is best that any Personal Information about another person is directly provided to us by
the person concerned.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
There are 4 main ways that Yabble collect your Personal Information:
- From you directly: Personal Information you provide to us directly when you apply to use Yabble’s services, or
when you interact with us, including, if applicable, when you become a Yabbler and when you collaborate with us.
- From you indirectly: Personal Information we collect from you when you visit or use our Websites or interact with
us on social media and other platforms, including, if you are a Yabbler, when you post and share your ideas.
- From third parties: Personal Information collected and disclosed to us by our contractors and agents whom we
engage to perform services on our behalf, and our customers when they use Yabble’s services.
- From publicly available sources: From places where the information is publicly available.
HOW WE USE AND SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
Yabble will collect, use and disclose your Personal Information for a range of purposes in connection with the operation of
the Websites and Yabble’s business functions and activities, including the following:
- Applying to use our Products and Services: To determine whether your application to use our products or services
is successful and/or whether you qualify to become a Yabbler (as applicable).
- Administrating your Yabble account: To administer your account, to verify your identify when you login into your
account and, if you are a Yabbler, to record and administer your activities and transaction history as a Yabbler, to
manage and allocate Yabble points to you, to enable you to redeem your Yabble points for rewards.
- Market research: To carry out market research on various products and services on behalf of our customers,
including sending you targeted research projects, surveys and competitions for you to participate in, and analysing
that information for our customers’ business purposes.
- Communicate with you: To communicate with you about our Websites, market research projects, your Yabble
account and any queries you may have from time to time about Yabble and our Websites.
- Record keeping purposes: For our internal record keeping purposes, including for the maintenance of our data
security.
- Business sale: To facilitate the sale or other disposition of our business or assets.
- Legal compliance: To comply with our legal obligations.
- Other purposes: For any other purposes that you authorise.
(together, the Purpose).
We may disclose your Personal Information to the following third parties in connection with the Purpose:
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Yabble’s service providers, suppliers, employees, contractors, agents and professional advisors.
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Yabble’s related entities, affiliates and strategic and business partners.
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Yabble’s customers.
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Any other third party that you authorise.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION
From time to time, Yabble may aggregate results of our market research for analysis and statistical purposes. This may involve
“de-identifying” or anonymising your Personal Information. Aggregate information may be shared with third parties and used
in connection with the Purpose. Once we de-identify or anonymise your Personal Information, the information can no longer
be linked to you and will not be your Personal Information.
HOW WE SAFEGUARD YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND
From time to time, we may disclose your Personal Information to third parties located outside New Zealand in connection
with the Purpose. We make sure that the overseas third party is:
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a participant in a prescribed binding scheme for international disclosures of personal information; and/or
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is located in a country that provides comparable safeguards to New Zealand’s privacy laws.
If not, then we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas third party is required to protect your Personal
Information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those required under the applicable privacy laws.
Examples of these steps include a written agreement between us and third party or making reasonable enquiries regarding
data protection standards of the country in which the overseas third party is located.
COOKIES
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other electronic device to store data that can
be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. This data often consists of a string of numbers and letters
that uniquely identifies your device, but it can contain other information as well. Some cookies are placed by third parties
acting on our behalf. We may use cookies and similar technologies to store and honour your preferences and settings, enable
you to sign-in, provide interest-based advertising, analyse how our Websites perform, and fulfil other business functions or
operations set out in this Privacy Policy.
To enable some of the features and functionality on our Websites, you may need to permit us to place cookies on your
device. You can remove or block cookies by using the settings in your browser, but it may affect your ability to use our
Websites.
E-COMMUNICATIONS
You consent to receiving information from us about Yabble and the products and services we offer via email, text message
and social media. If you want us to stop sending you electronic communications, then you can simply unsubscribe at any
time by following the instructions included in the electronic communication.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We have reasonable protections in place against unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure and loss of your
Personal Information.
REQUEST ACCESS OR CORRECTION TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You’re allowed to see what Personal Information Yabble holds about you, and you can ask us to correct it if you think it’s
wrong. If there is a legal reason why we can’t let you see it, or if we don’t agree with your correction, then we’ll tell you.
PRIVACY COMPLAINTS
If you think that we haven’t properly protected your privacy, you can tell our Privacy Officer (Rachel O’Shea), or complain
to the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact our Privacy Officer at hello@yabble.com.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We may from time to time change our Privacy Policy. These changes may reflect, among other things, changes in laws, our
data collection practices, and/or changes to our business or Website functionality. We will post any updated policies on our
Website. The updated Privacy Policy will take effect 14 days after the date it is posted.
If you continue to visit our Websites or use our products and services, continue to be a Yabbler or continue to interact with
us after the updated Privacy Policy comes into effect, then this will indicate that you have agreed to our changes.
We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.