Privacy Policy

You can read every ranking on this site without giving us anything. We only receive personal information when you choose to hand it over:

• your email address, if you join the Auckland insider list;
• your name, email and message, if you contact us or enquire about advertising.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not pass it to anyone except the service providers described below.

This site carries advertising through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.

We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages get read — the pages you view, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device you use. IP addresses are handled by Google. We never see a name or an address from analytics, and we do not try to identify individual readers.

Some features keep data in your browser’s local storage rather than sending it to us — your saved shortlist, any itinerary you build, and your light or dark theme choice. That information never leaves your device, and clearing your browser data removes it.

The businesses ranked and listed here are third parties. Their names, addresses and opening hours are business information rather than personal information, and some of it is reproduced from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database Licence, with a link to the source entry on each listing. If you own a listed business and want an entry corrected or removed, contact us and we will deal with it.

If you join the insider list you will get occasional emails about new rankings and local finds. Every one carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect immediately. We do not add anyone who has not asked to be added.

Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it. Email us and we will action it. If you are not satisfied with how we handled a request, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Privacy questions, corrections and deletion requests: amitnz@gmail.com. Business owners wanting a listing corrected, or anyone asking about advertising, can also use the advertise page.

If this policy changes we update the date at the top. Material changes to how we handle personal information get called out on the homepage rather than slipped in quietly.