Privacy Statement

When you contact us

If you contact The Scenic Route through a form on this website, we collect the information you choose to provide. Depending on the form, that may include:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your organisation or business name, if relevant
• Information about a proposed partnership, stay, experience or project
• Anything else you include in your message

We use this information to read your enquiry, respond to you, consider opportunities and continue the conversation where appropriate. Providing this information is voluntary, but if you do not provide enough contact information we may not be able to respond.

We may also receive limited personal information indirectly through services connected to this website, such as information needed to deliver a form submission, website service or communication to us. Where this happens, we use the information only for the purpose for which it was provided or another purpose permitted by law.

Information collected when you visit

This website is hosted by Squarespace. When you visit the site, Squarespace processes technical and usage information needed to operate, secure and provide the website and its services.

This can include information such as:

• Your browser, network and device information
• Your IP address
• Pages you visit on this website
• The page or website that referred you here
• Clicks, navigation and other website activity used for analytics

Understanding how the website is used

We use Squarespace Analytics to understand things such as which pages people visit, how visitors find the site and which content is useful.

We use this information to improve The Scenic Route website and understand which adventures, destinations and guides people are interested in. We are interested in patterns and website performance, not building individual profiles of our readers.

Cookies and similar technology

Squarespace uses necessary cookies and similar technologies to operate this website securely and provide its core features.

Squarespace may also use non-essential analytics or performance cookies to help measure website traffic and activity, depending on the privacy settings and consent choices that apply to your visit.

You can control or remove cookies through your browser settings. Where a cookie preference or consent banner is available on this website, you can also use it to manage the choices offered there.

YouTube and external links

The Scenic Route website contains links to other websites and services, including YouTube, Google Maps, official visitor information and other third-party websites.

Once you follow one of those links, that website's own privacy practices apply. We do not control how third-party websites collect or use information.

Service providers

Information may be processed by service providers that help us operate the website and communicate with visitors. This includes Squarespace as our website hosting and website services provider, along with services connected to website forms or communications.

We do not sell personal information to advertisers.

Looking after information

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.

Information submitted through website forms may be processed or stored using Squarespace and the communication or storage services connected to those forms. Some service providers may process information outside New Zealand.

We keep personal information only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, or where retention is required for legitimate business or legal purposes.

Accessing or correcting your information

Under New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020, you can ask us whether we hold personal information about you and request access to that information. You can also ask us to correct information you believe is inaccurate.

If you have a privacy question, access request or correction request, contact us using the details below.

Updates to this statement

We may update this Privacy Statement as the website changes, including if we add new analytics, forms, newsletter tools or other services. The latest version will always be published on this page.