Terms

Using the directory

Anybody may read nzbusiness.directory. The listings are a record of what each business has said about itself, checked for plausibility rather than audited. Satisfy yourself about a business before you hire it or buy from it.

What the directory does not do

• It does not verify licences, registrations, insurance or association membership.
• It does not rate, review, rank or recommend any business.
• It is not a party to anything you agree with a business you find here.
• It does not guarantee that a listing is current, complete or accurate.

Listing a business

By submitting a listing you confirm that:

• you are entitled to act for the business;
• the details are that business’s own and are accurate when you submit them;
• you own or may use any logo or image you upload;
• the description describes the business rather than advertising at the reader.

Listings are reviewed before they appear, and a listing can be rejected, edited, suspended or removed. Where that happens for anything other than an obvious mistake, you are told why.

Claiming a listing

A claim on an existing listing is read by a person before ownership moves. Confirming an email address does not by itself prove you own a business. A claim can be refused, and a transfer can be reversed if it turns out to have been made on a false basis.

Premium

Premium costs NZ$10 a month or NZ$100 a year, both plus GST, billed through Stripe and renewing until cancelled.

Premium buys a fuller listing and a position above free listings in the same list. It does not buy:

• a recommendation, an endorsement or any editorial judgement;
• a review score, because there are none;
• a fixed, exclusive or guaranteed position, including the top of any list;
• verification of anything about the business.

Where several Premium listings match the same search, their order rotates daily. No arrangement to alter that is available at any price. The pricing page sets out exactly how the ordering works.

Cancelling

Cancel at any time from the billing page on your dashboard. Premium runs to the end of the period already paid for and is not refunded part way through, except where the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986 requires it.

When Premium ends the listing stays published with its name, address, phone number, website, short description and primary category. The Premium-only parts of the profile stop being published and are kept privately on the account, so subscribing again restores them.

Content you upload

You keep ownership of everything you upload. You give permission to publish it as part of your listing and to resize or re-encode it for display, which is all that is done with it. Permission ends when the listing is removed.

Suspension

A listing or an account can be suspended for submitting somebody else’s business, repeatedly submitting the same business, uploading material that is not yours, or using the directory to attack a competitor. Where that happens to a paid listing, any unused part of the period is refunded.

Changes

These terms can change. A change that materially affects a paid subscription is told to subscribers before it applies to them.

Law

New Zealand law applies, and the New Zealand courts have jurisdiction. Nothing here limits rights that cannot be contracted out of, including rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986 where they apply.

Still to be confirmed

The legal entity responsible for this directory, and the address for formal notices, are being finalised and will be named here. Until then, anything that needs a reply should go through the contact page.