Privacy Policy

During the course of our work we may collect personal information either via our website, directly from you, authorised third parties, or from publicly available sources.

We will generally limit the use of your personal information to the purpose for which it is collected.  We may use your personal information, including but not limited to the following circumstances:

• To verify your identity
• To deliver and provide services to you
• To communicate with you
• To market our services to you
• To invoice you and collect money that you owe us
• To authorise and process transactions
• To protect AlexanderDorrington’s legal rights and interests
• For any other purpose authorised by you or the Privacy Act 2020

We may disclose your personal information to:

• Other individuals within AlexanderDorrington not directly connected to advising you, if necessary.  
• Any business that supports our provision of services; such as our IT provider, our software providers, our insurer, our debt collection agency, our AML CDD provider, our website provider, technology providers who provide generative AI technologies to assist us in legal research, document review, document drafting and other legal tasks.
• Any third parties that we have engaged to assist to provide you with our legal service.

Our technology providers (including generative AI providers) may use your personal information to provide services to us, to administer, maintain, analyse, improve and/or develop their services, to undertake their business processes, to comply with their legal obligations and to conduct research.  Unless we state otherwise, our technology providers will not use your personal information to improve AI training models, train, retrain or improve foundation models, improve third party products or services, conduct user profiling, advertising or similar commercial purposes, or to market products and services to you.  Our technology providers may rely on and make your personal information available to their third party providers (which may be located in countries other than New Zealand) in the course of delivering their services to us, including for hosting, cloud storage, email communication and web analytics purposes, such as the Azure OpenAI Service operated by Microsoft. Our technology providers may share your IP address and other information about your device to Microsoft for security reasons.  Our technology providers may also share your personal information with their affiliates, any other entity that they merge with or sell their business or assets to, and other third parties (such as government agencies) if legally required to do so.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we are required to do so by law or we have a professional duty.  

We are obliged to protect the privacy, confidentiality and security of your personal information.  We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to do so.  

You have the right to request access to your personal information held by us, subject to the withholding grounds set out in the Privacy Act.  You can also request correction of your personal information held by us. 

You can make this request by contacting the Privacy Officer Rachael Stevenson (General Manager) at rachael@alexanderdorrington.co.nz. 

If there is a breach of privacy involving your personal information we will comply with any legal obligations pursuant to the Privacy Act 2020.