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Privacy policy

Last updated 22 September 2026

This policy covers www.districtco.nz, the District Collective website. It explains what we collect when you visit, why we collect it, who else sees it, and what you can ask us to do about it.

We are bound by the Privacy Act 2020 and the information privacy principles in it. If anything below is unclear, ask us — the contact details are at the bottom.

The short version

  • We measure how the site is used, with Google Analytics. That involves cookies.
  • We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.
  • You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, and ask us to correct it.

What we collect

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people find and use the site. On each visit it records:

  • the pages you view, and when;
  • the site or link that sent you here, including any campaign tags on that link — so we can tell which campaign or link brought you here;
  • an approximate location, derived from your IP address and no more precise than a city or region;
  • your device type, browser, operating system and screen size;
  • which of our main buttons you click — "Find a space", "List a space", and the like. We record which button and where on the page it was, never anything you have typed.

Google discards your IP address after working out that approximate location; neither we nor Google keep it against your visit, and we have no way to see it. We have turned off Google Signals and advertising personalisation, which are the features that would otherwise link your visit to a signed-in Google account or build an advertising profile from it.

This information is not enough for us to identify you, and we do not try to. We look at it in aggregate: how many people visited, where they came from, which parts of the site they used.

Server logs

The site is hosted by Vercel, which keeps short-term technical logs of requests — including IP addresses — to serve the site, and to detect abuse and faults. That is ordinary web hosting, and we do not use those logs for analytics.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets two cookies in your browser, _ga and one beginning _ga_. They hold a random identifier so that several page views in a row can be recognised as one visit, rather than as several unrelated strangers. They expire after two years, and they carry nothing about you beyond that identifier.

These are the only cookies the site sets. There are no advertising cookies, no social media pixels and no third-party trackers.

If you would rather not be counted, any of these works: block or clear cookies for this site in your browser settings; turn on your browser's "do not track" or tracking-protection feature, which blocks Google Analytics in most current browsers; or install Google's opt-out add-on. Nothing on the site depends on analytics, so blocking it changes nothing about how the site works for you.

Who else sees it

Two companies, both acting for us and neither free to use the information for their own purposes:

  • Google — analytics. Data is processed on Google's servers, which are outside New Zealand, including in the United States.
  • Vercel — hosting, and the server logs described above.

We do not sell information about you, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not give it to anyone else except where the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Analytics data is held for no more than 14 months, and is then deleted automatically. Aggregate reports — visitor counts by month, and the like — may be kept longer, because they are no longer about any individual visit.

Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask us for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct it if it is wrong. Email us at the address below and we will respond within 20 working days.

In practice, analytics data is not held in a form that lets us find "your" visits among everyone else's, so there is usually nothing to hand over — but ask, and we will tell you honestly what we can and cannot retrieve.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to us first, and then to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz.

Changes

If we change what we collect, we will update this page and the date at the top of it. The change that is already coming is accounts opening, and this page will say what that involves before it happens.

Contact

District Collective
hello@districtco.nz