Privacy policy

Who we are

Civil Trades is a certification scheme that is owned and operated by Civil Contractors New Zealand, the national association for civil contractors, under registered trade mark.

Our primary website address is: https://civilcontractors.co.nz, and the website address for our Civil Trades certification platform is https://civiltrades.co.nz. Our postal address is PO Box 12-103, Wellington 6144.Our physical address is 21 Fitzherbert Terrace, Thorndon, Wellington 6012, New Zealand.

What personal data Civil Trades collects and why we collect it:

We collect personal information from you, including information about your:

name
contact information
billing or purchase information (note:
Personal credit card information is not held by us. We use a third party gateway provider Windcave (previously DPS) which manages personal credit card details).
Civil Trades certification details, employment details

We collect your personal information in order to:

provide Civil Trades certification and continuing professional development to tradespeople
manage Civil Trades applications

Besides our staff, we share this information with:

Civil Trades evaluators in order to evaluate their certification, under our agreement with these evaluators.
the person's employer, where consent is provided by the person in order to allow the employer to administrate the application. This permission is only granted for the administration of Civil Trades applications, and any use of this information beyond its intended scope — such as sharing, storing, or repurposing for activities that are unrelated to administering Civil Trades applications — is strictly prohibited and may breach privacy regulations and organisational policies under the Privacy Act 2020. If we are made aware of any use outside of this information outside of administering Civil Trades applications, administrator privileges may be revoked, and depending on the situation, further action may be taken.

The ability for employers to access application information is optional, and can be administered using the 'Employer may manage my Civil Trades applications' check box on the 'My Details' tab after logging in. This page can be accessed at https://civiltrades.co.nz/my-details/21162/.

Providing some information is optional. If you choose not to provide information that is required for the application, including contact details, we'll be unable to provide Civil Trades certification.

We keep your information safe by storing it in our database and only allowing direct access to the data to administrators working for Civil Trades, as part of Civil Contractors New Zealand.

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. You can access any information we hold on you by logging in. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at info@civiltrades.co.nz, or 0800692376, or PO Box 12 013, Thorndon, Wellington, 6144.

Other data

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

If you become Civil Trades certified, your certification will be publicly notified at https://civiltrades.co.nz, on our register of certified Civil Tradespeople.