McDonald's collects personal information about you when you visit this website and when you provide personal information.
Personal information that McDonald’s collects and holds may include (but is not limited to) your name, email address, date of birth, phone number, IRD number, bank account details, and other identifying information you choose to provide via this website. Third parties will be used to verify the personal information you have provided in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. McDonald’s may also send you important technical, legal or administrative notices in connection with the personal information that has been collected.

If you are an employee in one of our restaurants or our corporate office, or a former employee (including one of any franchisee) we will also utilise information previously collected, as a part of your employment or other information related to your job in conjunction with the personal information you have provided. Employee information may also be transferred between McDonald’s and franchisees if required.

When you use a Website or Application, we may also collect personal information about you in the following general categories:

Location information: If you permit an Application to access location services through the permission system in your mobile device, we may collect the precise location of your device when the Application is running in the foreground or background.

Device information: We may collect information about your mobile device such as the hardware model, operating system, preferred language, unique device identifier and mobile network.

Other information: we may also collect and log information such as your IP address, access dates and times, browser type and pages visited when you interact with a Website or Application.

In addition to the information listed above, in some cases we may collect personal information about you from third parties, including:
When a third party has your consent to disclose your personal information to us; and
When it is otherwise lawful for a third party to disclose your personal information to us.

We may also collect personal or non-identifying information about you from other sources and may combine that information with other information collected from you or from third parties for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Mobile platforms such iOS and Android generally define certain types of information or data that applications cannot access without your consent. Each platform has its own permissions systems for obtaining your consent. You can generally manage your platform level permissions via the Settings section on your device. For more information please contact your device provider or refer to the user manual for your device. 

As you navigate through this website, certain anonymous information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without you actively providing the information) using various technologies, such as cookies, Internet tags or web beacons, and navigational data collection (log files, server logs, clickstream). Your Internet browser automatically transmits to this website some of this anonymous information, such as the URL of the website you just came from and the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the browser version your computer is currently using. This website may also collect anonymous information from your computer through cookies and Internet tags or web beacons. You may set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent or to refuse cookies altogether, but certain features of this website might not work without cookies and this may limit the services provided by our website.

This website may use and combine such passively collected anonymous information to provide better service to website visitors, customize the website based on your preferences, compile and analyse statistics and trends, and otherwise administer and improve the website for your use. Such information is not combined with personally identifiable information collected elsewhere on the website unless you have consented.

"Cookies" are pieces of information that a website transfers to a computer's hard disk for record keeping purposes. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies. McDonald’s may use cookies to make use of the website and services as convenient as possible. Cookies do not themselves personally identify users, although they do identify a user's browser. Cookies allow McDonald’s to monitor the items an individual may want to access as they move through the website, and records how many people are using the different parts of the website.

"Session" cookies are temporary bits of information that are used to improve navigation, block visitors from providing information where inappropriate (the website "remembers" previous entries of age or country of origin that were outside the specified parameters and blocks subsequent changes), and collect aggregate statistical information on the website. They are erased once you exit your Web browser or otherwise turn off your computer.

"Persistent" cookies are more permanent bits of information that are placed on the hard drive of your computer and stay there unless you delete the cookie. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for a number of purposes, such as retrieving certain information you have previously provided (such as passwords), helping to determine what areas of the website visitors find most valuable, and customizing the website based on your preferences on an ongoing basis. Persistent cookies placed by this website on your computer may hold personally identifiable information, but only if you have registered or have otherwise consented to the retention of personally identifiable information you have provided at the website. Otherwise, our website's server only knows that an unidentified visitor with your cookie has returned to the website.

You can set your browser to accept all cookies, to reject all cookies, or to notify you whenever a cookie is offered so that you can decide each time whether to accept it. To learn more about cookies and how to specify your preferences, please search for "cookie" in the "Help" portion of your browser.

A website may use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider so you can access the Internet and is generally considered to be non-personally identifiable information, because in most cases an IP address is dynamic (changing each time you connect to the Internet), rather than static (unique to a particular user's computer). The IP address can be used to diagnose problems with a server, report aggregate information, determine the fastest route for your computer to use in connecting to a website, and administer and improve the website.

"Internet tags" (also known as single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs, and 1-by-1 GIFs) are smaller than cookies and tell the Web website server, information such as the IP address and browser type related to the visitor's computer. Tags may be placed both on online advertisements that bring people to the website and on different pages of the website. Such tags indicate how many times a page is opened and which information is consulted.

"Navigational data" (log files, server logs, and clickstream data) are used for system management, to improve the content of the website, market research purposes, and to communicate information to visitors.

McDonald’s is collecting personal information in order to facilitate payroll remediation pursuant to the Holidays Act 2003. The personal information collected will be used in conjunction with historic employee information already held by McDonald’s or its franchisees and collected in the course of employment. In connection with the collection of personal information via this website personal information will be shared within the McDonald’s system and may be also shared with other third parties in accordance with the terms set out in this policy including for the purpose of verifying personal information received via this website.

Failure to provide personal information may result in you being unable to register through this website and McDonald’s will be unable to assess your employment history or eligibility for remediation payment(s) (where applicable). 

McDonald's may share personal information within the McDonald's Family. The McDonald's Family includes McDonald's Restaurants (New Zealand) Limited, individual franchisees, and related bodies corporate. In particular, personal information may be transferred between McDonald’s and franchisees if your employer changed within the McDonald’s system.

McDonald’s requires any use of the personal information that has been shared to the McDonald's Family to comply with this privacy policy.

Companies may be engaged by McDonald's to perform a variety of functions, such as, providing technical services for our websites, etc. These companies may have access to personal information if needed to perform such functions. However, these companies may only use such personal information for the purpose of performing that function and may not use it for any other purpose.

For the purposes described in this Privacy Policy your personal information may be shared with McDonald’s franchisees, subsidiaries and related bodies corporate, professional service providers and other trusted third parties (and their directors, servants and agents), either in New Zealand or overseas including but not limited to the United States of America and Australia.

McDonald's reserves the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to protect the integrity of the website, to fulfil your requests, or to co-operate in any law enforcement investigation or an investigation on a matter of public safety.

McDonald’s will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any personal information recorded, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. The information is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities. Access is restricted to those involved in administration or fulfilment of any request for which you have provided your personal information.

In some cases these facilities may be overseas. McDonald’s employees and data processors are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by McDonald’s. However, security of communications over the Internet cannot be guaranteed, and therefore absolute assurance that information will be secure at all times cannot be given. McDonald’s will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to personal information.

You are in control of any personal information you provide to us. If at any time, you would like to correct the personal information we have about you, you can let us know by contacting us at the email or postal address listed below.

McDonald’s is not responsible for removing your personal information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided with your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

From time to time, it may be necessary for McDonald's to change this privacy policy, so we suggest that you check here periodically. Rest assured, however, that any changes will not be retroactively applied and will not alter how we handle previously collected information.

McDonald’s Privacy Policy contains information about how you can access and correct your personal information, how you can lodge a complaint regarding the handling of your personal information and how any complaint will be handled by McDonald’s. If you have any questions about our McDonald's Privacy Policy, or if you wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us at:

myholidaypay@nz.mcd.com
McDonald's Restaurants (New Zealand) Limited
McDonald's Privacy Officer
PO Box 6644
Wellesley Street
Auckland 1010