Privacy Policy

We may collect personal information from you when you:

• contact us or make an enquiry;
• engage EQ Consultants to provide services;
• subscribe to newsletters, updates or other communications;
• register for an event, seminar or webinar;
• download a guide, report, template, article or other resource from our website;
• complete a survey, assessment, questionnaire or online form;
• apply for a position or engage with our recruitment services;
• participate in a recruitment, HR or consulting process;
• or otherwise provide information to us.
  
  

The information we collect will depend on your interaction with us and may include your name, email address, telephone number, organisation, position or job title, employment or professional information, and other information you choose to provide.

Our website may also collect technical information about how you use our website, including through cookies, analytics and similar technologies.

We may use personal information we collect to:

• provide our HR, recruitment and related business services;
• respond to enquiries and requests;
• provide information, resources or content you have requested;
• manage our relationships with clients, candidates and other contacts;
• maintain our client, candidate and contact databases;
• communicate with you about matters relevant to your relationship with EQ Consultants;
• send you HR, employment, recruitment, leadership and business insights, newsletters and updates;
• send marketing communications;
• manage our LinkedIn and other social media presence, including audience insights;
• invite you to conferences, seminars, webinars and other events;
• provide information about EQ Consultants' services, resources and opportunities that we believe may be relevant to you;
• administer recruitment and candidate processes;
• improve our services, resources, systems and website;
• undertake analysis relating to the use and effectiveness of our services and communications; 
• and meet our legal and regulatory obligations.
  
  

Where you provide your contact details to download or access information, guides, templates, reports or other resources from our website, we may retain those details and add them to our contact database.

We may then use those details to communicate with you from time to time about relevant information, resources, events and EQ Consultants' services.

 You can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our electronic communications, or by contacting us directly at info@eqconsultants.co.nz.

As part of our recruitment services, we may collect and hold information relating to candidates, including CVs, employment history, qualifications, references, assessment information and other information relevant to a recruitment process.

We will use this information for recruitment and related purposes, including assessing suitability for employment opportunities and, where appropriate, presenting candidates to prospective employers.

Where appropriate, we may retain candidate information so that we can contact candidates about future opportunities that may be relevant to them.

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

Personal information may be stored electronically by EQ Consultants or through trusted technology, software and service providers that support our business.

Some of these providers or their systems may be located outside New Zealand. Where personal information is stored or processed overseas, we take reasonable steps to ensure that it is appropriately protected and handled consistently with our obligations under New Zealand privacy law.

EQ Consultants does not sell personal information.

We may disclose personal information where this is reasonably necessary to provide our services, carry out the purpose for which the information was collected, or operate our business.

This may include disclosure to:

• clients or prospective employers as part of a recruitment process;
• technology, software and cloud service providers;
• professional advisers and service providers supporting our business; 
• or other parties where you have authorised us to do so.

We may also disclose personal information where required or permitted by law.

We retain personal information only for as long as it is reasonably required for the purposes for which it was collected, for legitimate business purposes, or to meet our legal and regulatory obligations.

Information held in our contact database for communications and marketing purposes may be retained until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove your details.

Recruitment and candidate information may be retained so that we can consider or contact you about future employment opportunities, unless you ask us to remove it.

Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to request access to personal information we hold about you and to ask us to correct information you believe is inaccurate.

You can also contact us if you would like to:

• update your contact details;
• change your communication preferences;
• unsubscribe from marketing communications;
• or request that we remove your details from our contact database where appropriate.
  
  

Our website may use cookies, analytics and similar technologies to understand how people interact with our website, improve its functionality and content, and measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing.

You can generally control or disable cookies through your browser settings, although doing so may affect some website functionality.

Our website may contain links to websites operated by other organisations. EQ Consultants is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites, and we recommend reviewing their privacy policies when providing personal information to them.

If you have a question or concern about how we have collected, used or handled your personal information, please contact us in the first instance so that we can consider and respond to your concern.

You may also have the right to make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

For questions about this Privacy Policy, requests to access or correct your personal information, or any concerns about how your information is handled, please contact:

EQ Consultants
Christchurch, New Zealand
info@eqconsultants.co.nz
03 366 4034

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, services, technology or legal obligations.

The current version will be published on our website.

Last updated: August 2026