Privacy policy

01 Who is responsible

The agency responsible for the personal information described here is Taste The Night, 44 Richard Street, Riverton South, Riverton/Aparima 9822, New Zealand, trading as Taste The Night at tastethenight.com.

For anything about your personal information — a request, a correction or a complaint — write to [email protected] or ring +64 3234 81 33.

02 What we collect

• What you send us in the enquiry form: your name, email address, and optionally your company and phone number, plus the format, date, town or venue, guest count, an optional budget figure and whatever you write in the message field.
• Correspondence: the emails, calls and messages that follow, and the documents we exchange while planning an event.
• Agreement and billing information: for clients, the details needed to issue and keep an invoice.
• Technical information: your IP address, browser user-agent, the pages requested and the time of the request, recorded by our hosting provider in server logs, plus the cookies described in our cookie policy.

We do not ask for and do not want information about health, beliefs, political views or anything else of that nature. Please do not put it in the message field.

03 Why we collect it, and on what basis

• To answer your enquiry and prepare an event. Without a name, an email address, a date and a place we cannot tell you whether we are free or what it would cost. Giving us this information is voluntary, but the enquiry does not work without it.
• To perform an agreement once you book: planning, the timing plan, coordination with your venue, invoicing.
• To meet legal obligations, in particular the tax and company record-keeping rules that apply to us in New Zealand.
• For our own legitimate business purposes: keeping the website secure, keeping a record of what was agreed, and defending a claim if one is ever made.
• With your consent: analytics and marketing cookies, and the optional email about new formats. You can withdraw that consent at any time, and nothing else changes if you do.

04 Who else sees it

• Our hosting provider, which operates the server this site runs on and keeps the server logs.
• Our email provider, through which enquiries and correspondence pass.
• Suppliers and venues, only where an event needs it — for example the venue needs to know the timing plan and the guest count. We pass the minimum required, and never your budget or your correspondence.
• Google, if and only if you consent to analytics or marketing cookies. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services and Google’s privacy commitments for business.
• Our accountant and, if ever necessary, our legal advisers, under a duty of confidence.

Some of these providers may store or process information outside New Zealand. Where that happens we rely on contractual protections comparable to the safeguards required under the Privacy Act 2020 before information is disclosed overseas.

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for anyone else’s marketing.

05 How long we keep it

• An enquiry that does not become a booking: up to 12 months, so we can pick up the conversation if you come back to us, then deleted.
• Event and agreement documentation: for as long as a claim could be brought under the agreement, and in any case for the period our tax and accounting obligations require.
• Marketing consent: until you withdraw it, plus a short record that it was withdrawn and when.
• Your cookie choice: 180 days, which is the life of the cookie that stores it.
• Server logs: for the period set by our hosting provider, which is normally a matter of weeks.

06 Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can:

• ask whether we hold personal information about you, and ask for access to it;
• ask us to correct it, or to attach a statement of the correction you sought if we do not make it;
• ask us to delete it, where we have no continuing obligation or legitimate need to keep it;
• withdraw consent for analytics cookies, marketing cookies or marketing email at any time;
• object to a particular use, and ask us to explain what we are relying on.

Write to [email protected]. We answer as soon as we can and within the statutory time limit at the latest. If you are not satisfied with how we have handled it, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) at privacy.org.nz.

07 Cookies and analytics

This site sets only what it needs in order to work until you tell us otherwise. Analytics and marketing cookies are set after you agree to them and not before, and we use Google Consent Mode v2, in which ad_storage, analytics_storage, ad_user_data and ad_personalization all start as denied.

The full list of cookies, what each one does and how long it lasts is in the cookie policy, along with how to change your choice.

08 Google and advertising personalisation

If you consent to marketing cookies, Google may process information about your visit in order to measure advertising and, where you have allowed it, personalise it. Two pages are worth reading before you decide:

• How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
• Google’s privacy commitments for business

No Google tag is loaded on this site while you have not consented.

09 Keeping information safe

The site is served over an encrypted connection. The enquiry form is protected against automated abuse and against cross-site request forgery, access to enquiry records is limited to the people who need it, and we keep no payment card details at all — invoices are paid by bank transfer.

No system is perfect. If something happens that we think could cause you serious harm, we will tell you and notify the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) as the Privacy Act 2020 requires.

10 Children

Our casino-style programmes are for guests of 20+ and this website is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect information about anyone under 16 through this site. If you think we have, write to us and we will delete it.

11 Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle personal information, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes to something you have already consented to will be put to you again rather than assumed.