Effective Date: Aug 30, 2024
This Privacy Policy sets out the way that Personal Information is managed by Mint Innovation Limited in accordance with applicable privacy laws. For the purpose of this policy, “Mint”, “the Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us” means the New Zealand company, Mint Innovation Limited and extends to include any related entities (collectively referred to as “Mint”).
If you provide Mint with Personal Information, you consent to Mint collecting, holding, using, and disclosing your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We rely on your consent as the basis for our use of your Personal Information. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details in section 10.
Where applicable local legislation, regulations or governing authorities differ in the application and or interpretation of privacy requirements when capturing Personal Information, those rulings will supersede those set out in this policy.
Personal Information is any information or an opinion about an identified individual or an individual who can be reasonably identified from the information or opinion. Information or an opinion may be Personal Information regardless of whether it is true.
The information collected by Mint includes:
If you submit Personal Information to us about another individual, you must obtain permission from that individual and take reasonable steps to ensure that that person understands what Personal Information we will collect and use.
We will collect Personal Information directly from you, where reasonably practical, in some of the following ways:
As well as collecting Personal Information directly from you, where required, we also collect Personal Information from third parties in circumstances where we have your consent, for example, from an employment agency or background check provider, or where we are legally required to do so.
If you choose not to provide us with Personal Information which we have requested from you, we may be unable to fulfil any of the above purposes, responding to your requests or processing your application for employment.
Children: Our websites are not intentionally designed for or directed at children under the age of 18. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 18.
We (and authorised third parties) may use cookies and tools, such as web beacons and web server logs, to collect, store and monitor visitor traffic information and actions on our website. Cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer that allows our websites to “remember you” when you return to our websites. These cookies and tools are not used to record any Personal Information. They do record IP addresses which combined with other data may be considered Personal Information. Third party services may have their own privacy policies.
We use optional third-party marketing cookies to collect information on how you utilise our websites. Third parties use this information to perform statistical analysis of aggregate user behaviour, and effectively run, measure and improve products and advertising. We use this analysis to measure advertising and site effectiveness and relative customer interest in the various websites.
The information collected by these tools may include geolocation data, the IP address of the device you are using and information about websites that IP address has come from, the pages accessed on our website and the next website visited. We may use and combine this information to maintain, secure and improve our websites, enhance your experience when using our websites, display and deliver relevant content, services and advertising and understand the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising.
If you want to prevent cookies being used, you can change your browser settings to disable cookies. However, you may not be able to access all or parts of our websites, or you may experience reduced functionality when accessing certain services.
We store most information about you in computer systems and databases (including cloud service providers based in New Zealand, Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the European Union) operated by either us or our external service providers. Some information about you is recorded in paper files that we store securely.
We implement and maintain processes and security measures to protect Personal Information which we hold from misuse, interference, or loss, and from unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure.
These processes and systems include:
We will also take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify Personal Information once we no longer require it for the purposes for which it was collected or for any secondary purpose permitted under privacy laws.
We collect, use, disclose, store, and retain your Personal Information so that we can carry out our business activities and functions and provide you with our products and services in accordance with applicable privacy laws.
The purposes for which we collect, store, use and disclose personal and credit-related information is so that we can:
Some of the above grounds for processing your Personal Information will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your Personal Information.
You may access or request a correction to the Personal Information that we may hold about you by contacting our Privacy Officer, contact details are set out below. Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with a safe and secure means of accessing.
Please understand there are some circumstances in which we are not required to give you access to or correct your Personal Information, but we will advise you if these circumstances apply to your request.
If you are based in the United Kingdom or European Union, you may have the following additional data protection rights:
If you believe that we have breached, or potentially breached our privacy obligations, please contact the Privacy Officer in the first instance using the contact details set out below. Depending on the nature of the breach or potential breach, we may ask for further confirmation of identity, details of the complaint and/or that the request is submitted in writing for audit and compliance purposes.
We will endeavour to resolve your concerns however if you feel we have not addressed your concerns, you may contact the relevant supervisory authority.
If you are based in New Zealand, you can contact the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner using the online enquiry form at https://www.privacy.org.nz/about-us/contact-us/ or phone enquiries at 0800 803 909 or email at enquiries@privacy.org.nz
If you are based in Australia, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), GPO Box 5288 Sydney, NSW 2001, Phone enquiries 1300 363 992.
If you are based in the United Kingdom, you can contact to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Wycliffe House, Water Lane Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF or helpline number at 0303 123 1113.
If you are based in the United States, you may contact the relevant Data Protection Authority tasked, by law, with overseeing compliance with applicable data protection laws.
Transfers within Mint group of companies: The Mint group of companies are based in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. We may share your Personal Information between entities for administrative purposes and to provide the services to our customers.
All Mint entities will handle your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Sharing with Third Parties: The Personal Information you provide to us may be shared with third-parties to the extent necessary to carry out our professional and business needs, to complete your requests, where we are required to disclose that information by law or for safety reasons, with your consent or as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.
In particular, third parties we share Personal Information with may include:
In some cases, the third parties we share your Personal Information with may be located overseas, including but not limited to Australia and United States. We require these third-parties to take appropriate measures to protect the Personal Information and restrict how they use it, in accordance with our contractual obligations and all other applicable privacy laws.
Where we process or hold Personal Information solely on behalf of you or another organisation, we do as an “agent” under the New Zealand Privacy Act and to the extent applicable, a data processor under the GDPR. Where we process, use or disclose Personal Information for our own purposes, for purposes related to our business, we will be an agency governed by the New Zealand Privacy Act.
To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer:
Email: Aimee Crooks, aimee@mint.bio
Post: Mint Innovation,
6 Hotunui Drive,
Mt Wellington, 1060,
Auckland, New Zealand
We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review, and we reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our use of information and other business activities and the services that we provide. If the changes do not disadvantage you, we may notify you of the changes by publishing an updated version of this Privacy Policy on our website and it is your responsibility to review the current version of this Privacy Policy when you use our website.
If we make any other changes, we will take additional steps to bring the changes to your attention, such as by providing you with notice of our updated Privacy Policy with a notice on our website, or by other direct communication, such as email. By continuing to use this website after such changes have been made you are deemed to accept our updated Privacy Policy.