Privacy Statement
LendingKiwi cares about your privacy. We do not ever sell your data to any third parties.
Your LendingKiwi Account
When you create a LendingKiwi account, you provide us with the following personal information which we collect:
  • Your username
  • Your email address
  • Your password
We also collect additional information from your browser including:
  • Your IP address
  • Your user agent
We do not share any of this information with third parties.
We collect this information to allow you to sign into your account and keep your account secure.
Your username is publicly visible to other users when you list and borrow items; none of the other data we collect is.
All of this information is fully encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest on our servers. Your password is hashed and salted using industry-standard methods.
Functionality
When you list an item on LendingKiwi, you may choose to share your location with us or instead manually enter an address.
Your full address is not visible publicly on your listings. Only your suburb and city are visible publicly.
We collect this information to show approximate location on listings, and to allow users to sort listings by distance.
We do not share this information with third parties.
This information is fully encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest on our servers.
Usage Data
While you use LendingKiwi, we collect usage data, about how you use and interact with the platform.
We collect usage data to continually improve LendingKiwi services, and to provide targeted and relevant recommendations and search results to our users.
We share some of this information with:
  • Recombee in order to provide targeted and relevant recommendations and search results.
  • Umami in order to collect analytics and usage data to improve LendingKiwi services
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at contact@lendingkiwi.co.nz.
We may change this privacy statement at any time. Last updated: August 2024