It is Workgate Limited’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.workgate.co.nz (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://www.workgate.co.nz", “our Website”, “Workgate”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Like most website operators, Workgate Limited collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Workgate Limited’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Workgate Limited’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Workgate Limited may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Workgate Limited also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.workgate.co.nz blog posts. Workgate Limited only discloses logged in users and commenters’ IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Certain visitors to Workgate Limited’s websites choose to interact with Workgate Limited in ways that require Workgate Limited to gather personally-identifying information. We may collect and receive information from you in the following situations:
You are under no obligation to provide the information to us. However, if you choose to withhold the information or to revoke permission for us to receive the information, we may be unable to provide certain aspects of our Services to you.
By providing us with any information relating to a third party (e.g. information of your spouse, children, parents, and/or employees), you represent to us that you have validly obtained the consent of the third party to provide us with their information for the respective purposes.
We may collect and receive the following information. Please note that not all of our Services collect all of the information listed below:
By signing up to https://www.workgate.co.nz and entering your information to fill your profile, your information will be used in Workgate's Matching Process. This means that Employers who post out job listings that matches your personal attributes, they will be able to see these information that you have entered into your Workgate Profile and potentially send you an interview offer. Such personal attributes are (but not limited to and can change over time) your profile picture, first name, last name, username, email, New Zealand work status, Birthday, Short bio, location, location verified status, able to work areas, minimum hourly pay, preferred work time type, skill(s) and years of those skill(s) experience, industry experience(s) and years of those industry experience(s), education qualification(s), other qualification(s), available working hours for every day of the week, website, projects, awards, organisations, hobbies and interests, looking for work status, when you can start working, flexible work hours preference, work travel duration preference, additional public images uploaded, profile honestly score and your membership creation date. Even if the employer obtains a low match percentage with your attributes, it's a match for the employer's job listing nevertheless and you could be emailed an interview offer from that employer.
By signing up to https://www.workgate.co.nz and entering your business (and/or) personal information to fill out your profile, your information will be used in Workgate's Matching Process. By posting Job-listings on Workgate, all the information you have entered will be used in Workgate's Matching Process where Job-Seekers that obtain a match percentage on their end will be able to see your job listing's details and apply for your listed job. Note that a match percentage on the Job Seeker's end may be a generally low percentage, but it will be a match for the Job Seeker nevertheless and you could be emailed a job application from that Job Seeker. The Job Seeker will be able to see the information you have entered into Workgate Limited while creating your business profile as well as the information that you entered will listing the job. This information includes (but not limited to and can change over time), your business profile picture, your business name, email, website, short business bio, main hiring contact phone, business staff size, job reference, job title, start date, job location, hourly pay range, time type, pay type, flexible hours, required skills and its associate required amount of time experience, optional skills and its associate required amount of time experience, required industry experience and its associate required amount of time experience, optional industry experience and its associate required amount of time experience, required education, optional education, required other qualifications, optional other qualifications, expected working hours for all hours of every day of the week, minimum match percentage, additional images uploaded and job description.
Please note that whenever you enter information into Workgate, you give your consent to Workgate Limited to use such information in all our business operations. This includes (but is not limited to and can change over time) Workgate's job matching process, data collection and statistical analysis of the data given.
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Workgate Limited and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
The Website uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Workgate Limited discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Workgate Limited’s behalf or to provide services available at Workgate Limited’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Workgate Limited’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Workgate Limited will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Workgate Limited discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Workgate Limited believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Workgate Limited, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://www.workgate.co.nz and have supplied your email address, Workgate Limited may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Workgate Limited and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Workgate Limited takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Workgate Limited may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Workgate Limited may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Workgate Limited does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Workgate Limited uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Workgate Limited uses cookies to help Workgate Limited identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.workgate.co.nz, and their website access preferences. Workgate Limited visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Workgate Limited’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Workgate Limited’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Workgate Limited's use of cookies.
Those who engage in transactions with Workgate Limited – by purchasing Workgate Limited's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Workgate Limited collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Workgate Limited. Workgate Limited does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
You have the right to access to personal information we hold about you where it is stored in such a way that it can be readily be retrieved. If the personal information we hold about you is not accurate or complete, then you may ask us to correct it.
The security of your information is important to us. We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control. We also follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information transmitted to us over the Internet, both during transmission and once we receive it. Sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) are encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL). However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
It is important that you protect against unauthorised access of your Account and information by choosing your password carefully, and keeping your password and Account secure (e.g. by signing out after using our Services).
We may deliver personalised and/or targeted advertisements (each, a “Targeted Ad”) to you in the course of your use of our Services and/or though a variety of advertising networks and exchanges.
From the “Settings” page of your Account, you may opt out of behavioural tracking and/or interest-based advertising through our Platforms. Your changes to such opt-out setting may take 24 hours to become effective.
Please note that if you choose to “opt out”, we will not use information we have collected about you to deliver Targeted Ads, but it does not opt you out of being delivered advertisements. You will still receive generic, non-targeted advertisements. You may still be served advertisements for other reasons, such as:
Please also note that even though Workgate Limited does not share your personal data (other than hashed or device identifiers, to the extent they are personal data in some countries) with any advertising networks and exchanges without your consent or unless as specified in this Privacy Policy, when you view or interact with an advertisement via any of your devices, an advertiser or advertising network or exchanges can infer that you are within their target audience; or when you click on an advertisement, the publisher and/or advertiser will know you visited the page that you clicked on and may still be able to associate personal data collected by such third parties directly from you through their cookies and similar tracking technologies.
For more information on how you can manage your advertising preferences and opt out of receiving Targeted Ads please refer to this article.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Workgate Limited may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Workgate Limited’s sole discretion. Workgate Limited encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.