Privacy Policy

Stadium Cars Limited (referred to as “We Buy Cars,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the information it holds about each of its customers, including their “personal information”.

“Personal information” is defined in the Privacy Act 2020 (the Privacy Act), and means all information about an identifiable individual.

We are committed to ensuring that our customers’ personal information is only collected, held, used and disclosed in accordance with the Privacy Act and this Privacy Policy, which outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information you provide to us through our website.

By using our website and submitting your information, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

We collect personal and vehicle information directly from you for the purpose of providing a quote for the purchase of your vehicle. Some information might come from forms you fill in, other information such as your IP or browsers information will be collected automatically when you visit the website. The types of information we may collect include:

  • Personal Information: Your name, contact details (such as phone number, email address and city where you reside), and any other identifying information you provide.
  • Vehicle Information: Details about the vehicle you wish to sell, including make, model, year, registration number, and other relevant vehicle information.

We do not collect more information than is necessary to provide you with a quote and complete any associated transactions. You do not have to provide us with the information we request, however, it may affect the services we can provide to you.

How We Use Your Information

We have controls in place to ensure that you personal information will be used only for the purposes for which it was collected.

Generally, these purposes will be:

  • To evaluate and provide you with an accurate quote for your vehicle;
  • to contact you regarding your quote, follow up on your request, and address any queries;
  • to improve our services and understand our customers’ needs;
  • to comply with laws, rules or regulations in New Zealand or overseas, including any laws, rules or regulation that we reasonably expect to be put in place;
  • for direct marketing purposes;
  • to exercise our rights and fulfil our obligation under any agreements with you or at law; and
  • generally to do business with you.

Unless you inform us that you do not wish to be contacted by us, we may use your personal information to contact you, including by mail, email and telephone (including SMS) to provide you with information about and discuss other products or services provided by the Stadium group, or products and services provided by selected third parties in which we think you may have an interest.

We will not use or act on any of your personal information without taking reasonable steps (having regard to the purpose for which the information will be used) to ensure that the information is accurate, up to date, complete, relevant, and otherwise not misleading. If we believe that your information is inaccurate, not up to date, incomplete, irrelevant or otherwise misleading, we will ask you (or, with your consent, another person or organisation) to verify that information before we use it.

How We Protect This Information

We will take all practicable steps to safeguard the personal information of our customers. This may include engaging a third party to provide services relating to the security and storage of that information.

We will not continue to store personal information when it is no longer required for any of the purposes for which it may be used.

Disclosure of Your Information

As a We Buy Cars customer, you consent to your personal information being disclosed to or obtained from other organisations or people we consider appropriate for the purposed listed above.

Those organisation or people include:

  • our related companies;
  • third party service providers who assist us in providing our services, including vehicle information to obtain additional pricing information for your quote;
  • government departments, government bodies or agencies in New Zealand or overseas (including tax authorities);
  • the New Zealand Transport Agency’s “Driver Check” service;
  • any organisation or person providing us with guarantees or security under any agreement with you;
  • our existing and potential business partners;
  • any organisation or person to whom we consider assigning or transferring any of our rights under any agreement with you;
  • any other organisation or person you authorise your personal information to be disclosed to or obtained from.

There are two two ways that you can restrict access to your personal information on the Motor Vehicle Resister in certain circumstances, namely:

  1. Opting-out
  2. Obtaining Confidential status

Opting out is a very limited form of restricting access to your information, and it does not mean that the New Zealand Transport Agency will never disclose your information to third parties. For more information about who can access your personal information on the Motor Vehicle Resister, and ways to restrict access to your personal information, visit www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/how-the-motor-vehicle-register-affects-you/who-can-access-register-informaiton/.

We may disclose your information where that disclosure is permitted under the Privacy Act, such as where the disclosure:

  • is necessary to facilitate a sale of all or part of Stadium’s business; or
  • is necessary to prevent a serious or imminent threat to public health or safety;
  • is authorised by the Privacy Commissioner;
  • is of information which is already publicly available; or
  • is of information which is not in a form which identifies you.

Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights in relation to your personal information. These include:

  • Access and Correction: You may request access to your personal information and ask us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Deletion: You may request the deletion of your personal information where it is no longer needed for the purposes outlined above, unless we are required to retain it by law.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as by emailing webuycars@webuycars.co.nz.

Cookies

Our website will place “cookies” (small data files) on a user’s computer’s hard drive. Your browser’s user agent along with the IP you’re coming from will be logged for statistical and security reasons. These are used to enhance functionality as well as track statistical information about navigation to and throughout certain areas of our website.

Third-Party Websites

From time to time, our website may contain links to third-party websites. Should you follow a link to a third party website from the We Buy Cars website, the website privacy policy of that third party applies, and we accept no liability for breaches of privacy once such a link has been followed.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Your continued use of our website after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at webuycars@webuycars.co.nz.