Privacy policy

Your engagement or continued use of this website provides your acknowledgement of this Privacy Policy and your consent to us collecting, storing, using, and disclosing your personal information in the manner set out below.

The terms of this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.

Young Hunter is bound by the Privacy Act 2020 and is committed to ensuring compliance with its obligations under the Act and other applicable privacy laws. 

This Privacy Policy sets out how Young Hunter will collect, store, use, disclose and protect personal information, and describes how Young Hunter will prevent and respond to privacy breaches.

Definitions

“Personal information” means information about an individual that can be used to identify the individual, such as contact details, identity information or financial information.

“You” and “your” refers to anyone who engages with Young Hunter, including partners, staff, contractors, clients, and other third parties.

“We” and “our” refers to Young Hunter.

Application

Engagement with Young Hunter indicates:

• acknowledgement of this Policy (published on Young Hunter’s website and updated from time to time).

• consent to Young Hunter collecting, storing and using personal information in accordance with the Act and this Policy.

Collection of personal information

Young Hunter collects personal information to conduct its business, to provide and market its services, and to meet its legal obligations. Young Hunter will not collect personal information unless it is necessary for those purposes.

We collect and hold personal information about (but not limited to):

• Clients, business associates and potential clients, and their employees, contractors, owners and directors.

• Individuals we deal with in the course of acting for clients and carrying on our business.

• Suppliers and their employees and contractors.

• Prospective employees, employees and contractors.

• Anyone who visits our website or comes into contact with Young Hunter.

Depending on the nature of your relationship with Young Hunter, the personal information that Young Hunter will collect and hold may include:

• Name, date of birth, address and contact details.

• Occupation.

• Payment details.

• Employment history.

• Education and qualifications.

• Testimonials and feedback.

• Nature of relationship to our client.

• Information necessary to comply with Anti Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism legislation

• Any other information which assists us in conducting our business, providing and marketing our services and meeting our legal obligations.

In some cases, if personal information that we request is not provided, it may adversely impact our ability to supply our services or perform our obligations.

In general Young Hunter will collect your personal information:

• From you directly when you provide information to us.

• Indirectly by email, phone, forms, face to face meetings, our social media channels and through Young Hunter’s website. 

• From third parties:

• through the use of cookies when Young Hunter’s website or social channels are visited. The cookies will collect information in respect of your use of our website, including the date, time and URL of the pages you visit, your IP address, your location and browser software.

• Through the use of APLYiD, to comply with AML/CFT requirements. In reporting provided about you, or an employment reference from another person.

• In the course of Young Hunter receiving security related services.

• From publicly available websites.

Security and storage

Young Hunter will take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is safe from loss, unauthorised access or use, modification, disclosure, and any other misuse by taking such security safeguards that are reasonable in the circumstances for us to take.  This includes personal information held or processed on Young Hunter’s behalf (such as in a cloud environment).

All information is stored electronically (requiring logins and passwords) or physically (in secured premises). Only authorised persons are permitted to access personal information.

All staff are required to sign a confidentiality statement which is included in their individual employment agreement. Staff are also required to confirm and agree that access to information is for official work purposes only.

The Partners and the Privacy Officer will, from time to time, check how often staff are accessing information and the information being accessed and will follow up on any unusual activity.

Retention of personal information

Young Hunter will retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected and as otherwise permitted or required by law.

Accessing and correcting personal information

If Young Hunter holds personal information about you, you have the right to access it and to request that it be updated or corrected. 

Young Hunter can be contacted to update any personal information it holds. 

Young Hunter may charge a fee for providing access and if so, the cost will be advised in advance.

Use of personal information

Young Hunter will use your personal information to conduct its business, provide, market, manage and enhance its services, engage third parties on your behalf, communicate with you, and to meet its legal obligations.

We may also use and disclose your personal information to third parties, including technology providers. Our technology providers assist us with delivering our services, may perform functions on our behalf, and may provide generative AI technologies to assist us with legal research, document review, document drafting and other legal tasks.

Our technology providers (including generative AI providers) may use your personal information to provide services to us, to administer, maintain, analyse, improve and/or develop their services, to undertake their business processes, to comply with their legal obligations and to conduct research. 

Unless we state otherwise, our technology providers will not use your personal information to improve AI training models, train, retrain or improve foundation models, improve third party products or services, conduct user profiling, advertising or similar commercial purposes, or to market products and services to you.Our technology providers may rely on and make your personal information available to their third-party providers (which may be located in countries other than New Zealand) in the course of delivering their services to us, including for hosting, cloud storage, email communication and web analytics purposes, such as the Azure Open AI Service operated by Microsoft. Our technology providers may share your IP address and other information about your device to Microsoft for security reasons.  Our technology providers may also share your personal information with their affiliates, any other entity that they merge with or sell their business or assets to, and other third parties (such as government agencies) if legally required to do so.

Disclosure

Young Hunter may need to disclose personal information for the purpose of effectively operating our practice, complying with its legal obligations, responding to questions in relation to its services, or as otherwise stated at the time of collection. We will not disclose your personal information, except in accordance with the law.

We may disclose personal information to third parties who:

• Perform checks that are necessary under law on our behalf;

• Provide services and perform functions on our behalf (data storage providers, consultants and barristers); and

• Maintain databases against which your identity may be verified (this may include overseas recipients). We will take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient does not breach relevant privacy law.

Young Hunter may also disclose your personal information to the courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, and anyone else to whom you authorise us to disclose it.

Complaints

If you have any concerns about the way in which we collect, store and use your personal information, or if you have any queries about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer Deborah Kinzett at dmk@younghunter.co.nz.

This Privacy Policy may be updated at any time. Last updated 28 November 2025.