NZ Privacy Policy
Narellan Pools recognises the importance of protecting the privacy of clients and other third parties who provide their personal information to us.
This policy explains how we collect your personal information, what we do with it, and how it is protected.
Where we refer to:
- “Narellan Pools”, or “we” or “us”, this is a reference to Narellan Pools (NZ) Pty Limited and its subsidiaries, affiliates and dealers who operate Narellan Pools branded businesses;
- “Narellan Pools Franchisee”, we are referring specifically to franchisees who operate Narellan Pools branded businesses; and
- “you” we are referring to an individual about whom we collect personal information.
By providing your personal information to us, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, storage and processing of your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. This privacy policy does not limit or exclude any rights that you have or may have under the Privacy Act 2020 and/or the New Zealand Privacy Principles (together, Privacy Act).
What personal information does Narellan Pools collect about you?
The personal information we may collect about you includes:
- your name, address details, telephone number and email address;
- your date of birth;
- details about your pool financing arrangements;
- your marketing preferences;
- proposed budget for products and/or services;
- any specific needs for pool products and/or services and general information about the property you are enquiring about; and
- your credit card details (if a deposit is required as part of a purchase).
If you are a candidate for employment, we may collect other personal information. This may include information relating to your employment history, working eligibility rights, suitability for the role you are applying for, and your referee details.
How does Narellan Pools collect personal information about you?
Normally we collect personal information directly from you. We may collect your personal information:
- during conversations with our team members (by phone, in person or electronically);
- when you make a purchase or complete purchase orders, registrations, requests or applications for our products and/or services (by phone, in person or electronically);
- when you communicate with us during competitions, special events and promotions; and
- where you access and interact with our website https://narellanpools.co.nz/ (Website) or the client care team including via social media sites.
If you apply for employment and complete forms applicable to the recruitment and selection process, we will collect your personal information through that process.
We may also collect personal information from third parties with whom we have an affiliation, for example where you register for a competition or promotion on a third party website, or from one of our third party approved suppliers.
How does Narellan Pools hold and protect your personal information?
We may hold your personal information in hard copy (paper) or electronic form.
If you provide personal information to us electronically, we retain this personal information in our computer systems and databases. Personal information held in electronic form by Narellan Pools is generally held on servers controlled by third parties under contractual arrangements with Narellan Pools. Narellan Pools uses physical security, password protection and other measures to ensure that personal information stored in electronic form is protected from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. Personal information may be shared between Narellan Pools and Narellan Pools dealers using third party software which is password protected.
Personal information collected in hard copy (paper) form may be converted to electronic form. Personal information held in paper-based form is generally securely stored at Narellan Pools’ premises or at Narellan Pools dealer’s premises (depending on how it was collected).
Where credit card information is required to place a deposit on an order for products, this personal information is collected over the phone and is not stored by Narellan Pools.
Your personal information may be held on servers located here in New Zealand and overseas, including the United States, Australia and Canada. Where your personal information is held outside of New Zealand, we take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is protected in accordance with the privacy standards, privacy obligations and privacy laws applicable to Narellan Pools, unless otherwise required or permitted by law, or consented by you. You consent to your personal information being held overseas on this basis. If you have any questions about how your personal information is held overseas, please contact our privacy officer.
Why does Narellan Pools collect your personal information?
The main purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information are:
- to provide you with products and/or services that you have requested from us;
- manage and administer our relationship with you;
- to communicate with you, including about products and/or services, competition results, special offers, and events which might interest you;
- to answer your questions, provide you with information or advice or consider and respond to requests or complaints made by you;
- to carry out administration, marketing, planning and risk management activities;
- for product and service development, quality control and market research to improve the way Narellan Pools and its service providers provide products and/or services;
- to seek your feedback in relation to client satisfaction and perform research and statistical analysis using such feedback;
- to comply with laws or regulations or to comply with any directions given by regulators or authorities;
- to comply, protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including by monitoring suspicious or fraudulent activity and defending any claim; and
- for any other purpose(s) disclosed to you at the time of collection, or authorised by the Privacy Act.
If you are a candidate for employment, we may use your personal information to assess your suitability for a position at Narellan Pools.
Who does Narellan Pools disclose personal information?
Narellan Pools and Narellan Pools Franchisees use and disclose personal information to each other in order to provide you with products and/or services ordered from Narellan Pools.
Narellan Pools may disclose your personal information to third parties. The kinds of third parties to whom we may disclose personal information include manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, distributors, marketing and communications agencies, data analysts, IT service providers and our professional advisors (including legal and financial advisors).
Narellan Pools may also disclose your personal information to:
- our related companies;
- an actual or potential buyer (and its advisors) in connection with the proposed purchase or merger, of any part of our business;
- regulators, law enforcement bodies, government agencies, courts and other dispute resolution providers; and/or
- any other parties that you ask us to do so, or that you have consented to.
In some cases, the parties we disclose personal information to may be located in other countries outside of New Zealand, in particular, the United States, Australia and Canada. Where we do this, we take reasonable steps to ensure that these parties comply with the privacy standards, privacy obligations and privacy laws applicable to Narellan Pools to protect your personal information, unless otherwise required or permitted by law, or consented by you. You consent to the disclosure of your personal information overseas on this basis. If you have any questions about how we may disclose your personal information overseas, please contact our privacy officer.
Can you deal with Narellan Pools anonymously?
You have the option of not identifying yourself, or using a pseudonym, when dealing with Narellan Pools where this is lawful and practicable (for example, when making an enquiry). However, in certain circumstances, if we do not collect personal information about you, we may be unable to provide you with the products and/or services you have asked us to provide.
Is your personal information used for direct marketing?
Narellan Pools may send you direct marketing communications to keep you informed about products and/or services we provide and other products and/or services that may be of interest to you via email, SMS, or regular mail.
If you have indicated a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method.
Narellan Pools acknowledges and respects its clients’ choice to “opt-out” of direct marketing communication activities undertaken by Narellan Pools.
You can unsubscribe from direct marketing emails by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email communication you have received, or by contacting our privacy officer
Notwithstanding your decision to opt out of receiving marketing communications, we reserve the right to continue to send you non-marketing communications that are required by law, or are otherwise necessary for the administration of our relationship with you. This may include, but is not limited to, communications relating to the provision of products and/or services, notifications regarding changes to our terms and conditions, this privacy policy or other relevant policies relevant to the provision of our products and/or services that we are required to advise you of, and other service related or transactional correspondence. These communications are considered essential to the operation of our business and the fulfilment of our contractual or legal obligations to you.
We do not provide your personal information to other organisations for the purposes of their direct marketing, and will not sell, rent or lease our customer lists to third parties. Our practices in regard to our marketing emails are designed to be compliant with the unsolicited electronic messages laws, including the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007.
Website privacy
Generally, individuals can use our online services without identifying themselves. We may collect device identification information when you use a computer, mobile phone, smart phone, tablet, or other device to access or interact with us through our Website. This information may include session cookies, your device IMEI number, IP address or MAC address. In some cases, these identifiers may only relate to a device or may be of an aggregated or statistical nature and will not identity you as the user. In other cases we may associate information about your use of the Website and other online services over time with your personal information, e.g. where on any occasion you have followed a link sent to you by email or we have otherwise been able to identify you.
Our Website uses a technology called cookies. A cookie is a small element of data that our Website may send to your computer. A cookie is typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and permits our Website to recognise you when you return. Our use of cookies helps us to provide you with a better experience during your use of our Website by allowing us to understand what areas of the site are of interest to you. You may configure your web browser to not accept cookies, although you may experience a loss of functionality as a result.
How can you access or seek correction of your personal information?
You are entitled to access personal information held by Narellan Pools on request.
To request access to your personal information, please contact our privacy officer. In limited circumstances, access to your personal information may be declined in accordance with the Privacy Act. We may charge a reasonable fee for providing access to your personal information. Where personal information is held by a Narellan Pools dealer, we may refer you directly to the relevant Narellan Pools dealer.
Narellan Pools will endeavour to keep your personal information accurate, up-to-date and complete. You can assist us with this by letting us know if you notice errors or discrepancies in personal information we hold about you and letting us know if your details change.
If you consider any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, out-of-date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading you are entitled to request correction of the personal information. After receiving a request from you, we will take reasonable steps to correct your personal information.
Narellan Pools take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal information where it is no longer required.
If you wish to have your personal information removed from our records, you may request that your personal information be deleted or destroyed. It will not always be possible to comply with your request to delete or destroy your personal information. Where personal information is held by Narellan Pools dealer, we may refer your request directly to the relevant Narellan Pools dealer.
What should you do if you have a complaint about the handling of your personal information?
You may contact our privacy officer at any time if you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or how your personal information has been handled.
Where personal information is held by Narellan Pools dealers, we may refer you directly to the relevant Narellan Pools dealer to resolve your question or concern.
We will consider your complaint to determine whether there are simple or immediate steps which can be taken to resolve the complaint. If your complaint requires more detailed consideration or investigation, we may ask you to provide further information about your complaint and the outcome you are seeking. We will then typically gather relevant facts, locate relevant documents and speak the individuals involved.
We will respond to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 20 working days.
If you are not satisfied with our response to a complaint, or you consider that Narellan Pools may have breached privacy laws, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. You can find out more information here https://www.privacy.org.nz/your-rights/making-a-complaint-to-the-privacy-commissioner/.
Third party sites
Our Website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy does not apply to these third parties. If you access any third party links, you do so at your own risk and we make no representations or warranties regarding these third parties’ privacy policies.
We encourage you to read the privacy collection statements and privacy policies of every third party link you access.
How are changes to this privacy policy made?
This privacy policy is reviewed and amended from time-to-time. Revisions and updates to this privacy policy will be published on the Website.
Please see the Website for the latest version of this privacy policy.
Contacting us
If you would like to contact us in relation to this privacy policy, or your personal information, please contact our privacy officer at:
- Address: PO Box 5526 Frankton, Hamilton 3242
- Telephone: 0800 000 688
- Email: na***********@***********ls.com
This privacy policy was last updated in November 2026.
