PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: 7 October 2026

At Actons Lawyers Limited, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled safely and transparently. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you visit our website, use our contact forms, or interact with our firm.

We operate in compliance with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.

1. Information We Collect

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

  • Identity & Contact Information: Your name, email address, phone number, and any details or messages you submit via our website contact forms.

  • Location & Network Data: Your location, as well as data regarding your computer or network (such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on our site).

  • Interactions & Transactions: Information regarding your interactions with us, alongside any billing or purchase information.

Providing some information is optional. If you choose not to enter a certain type of information, we may be unable to provide specific services to you.

2. How We Use Your Information

We collect and use your personal information in order to do things that relate directly to our legal services and business operations. This includes:

  • Responding directly to your inquiries, legal questions, or requests for advice.

  • Managing our ongoing professional business relationship with you.

  • Monitoring and maintaining the security, integrity, and performance of our website.

3. Information Sharing

Besides our staff, we may share this information with a third party in order to take actions connected to a purpose for collection. This includes our secure, third-party website platform and cloud hosting providers who automatically log technical data to ensure our site operates effectively.

We ensure our digital service providers treat your information securely in accordance with recognized international data privacy standards and New Zealand law. We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal information to outside parties for marketing purposes.

4. Cookies and Tracking

This website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies provided by our third-party platform host to optimize website performance and to understand how visitors interact with our content. You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings, though this may affect how the website functions.

5. Data Security and Retention

We keep your information safe by storing it in encrypted files and only allowing certain authorized staff to access it.

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or professional Law Society reporting and file-retention requirements.

6. Your Rights

Under the Privacy Act 2020, 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.

If you would like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at: