Privacy Policy for Tipu by 4E's™

    Last updated: 11.5.2026

    Tipu by 4E's™ is committed to the careful stewardship of personal information and to maintaining privacy and security settings that support lawful, fair, and responsible information handling. Tipu by 4E's™ may collect and use personal information to provide, administer, support, secure, and improve the platform, manage accounts and permissions, enable communications and platform functionality, and comply with legal obligations.

    Tipu by 4E's™ maintains reasonable technical, administrative, and organisational safeguards to protect personal information and platform data against loss, and against unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, or misuse. These safeguards may include access controls, role-based permissions, encryption, logging and monitoring, secure cloud infrastructure, and authentication measures such as Microsoft SSO, passkeys, and MFA where enabled or required.

    Tipu by 4E's™ may use third-party hosting, infrastructure, authentication, and support providers to operate the platform. Tipu by 4E's™ may also provide privacy, permission, and security settings that allow organisations and authorised users to manage access and visibility within the platform. Users and organisations are responsible for selecting and maintaining settings appropriate to their operational, privacy, and safeguarding requirements.

    While Tipu by 4E's™ applies reasonable safeguards, no cloud-based platform, hosting environment, or method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and Tipu by 4E's™ does not warrant absolute security. Individuals may request access to, and correction of, their personal information, subject to applicable law.

    1. Introduction

    This Privacy Policy explains how Tipu by 4E's™ collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects personal information in connection with the Tipu by 4E's™ platform and related services.

    2. Personal information we collect

    Tipu by 4E's™ may collect personal information that is provided directly by users or organisations using the platform, including account information, contact details, user- generated content, communications, usage information, technical data, authentication information, and other information reasonably required to provide and support the platform.

    3. How we collect personal information

    Personal information may be collected directly from users, from organisations that authorise access to Tipu by 4E's™, through the use of the platform, through communications with Tipu by 4E's™, and through integrated third-party services or identity providers where enabled.

    4. Why we collect and use personal information

    Tipu by 4E's™ may collect, use, and process personal information for purposes including:

    • Providing, administering, and supporting the platform;
    • Managing accounts, permissions, and authentication;
    • Enabling communication and platform functionality;
    • Maintaining platform security, integrity, and performance;
    • Complying with legal and regulatory obligations;
    • Improving and developing the platform and related services.

    5. Authority and permissions

    Users and organisations are responsible for ensuring that personal information entered into Tipu by 4E's™ has been collected, used, and disclosed lawfully and that any required notices, permissions, or consents have been obtained.

    6. Security safeguards

    Tipu by 4E's™ maintains reasonable technical, administrative, and organisational safeguards to protect personal information and platform data against loss, and against unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, or misuse. These safeguards may include access controls, role-based permissions, logging and monitoring, encryption, secure hosting infrastructure, and authentication protections such as SSO, including Microsoft SSO where enabled, and passkeys, MFA, or other identity verification measures where required for personal logins or higher-risk access.

    7. Privacy and security settings

    Tipu by 4E's™ may provide privacy, permission, and security settings that allow organisations and authorised users to manage access and visibility within the platform. Users and organisations are responsible for selecting and maintaining settings appropriate to their operational, privacy, and safeguarding requirements.

    8. Disclosure of personal information

    Tipu by 4E's™ may disclose personal information to service providers, hosting providers, authentication providers, technical support providers, and other third parties where reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the platform, to comply with legal obligations, or as otherwise authorised or required by law.

    9. International storage and service providers

    Tipu by 4E's™ may use third-party hosting, infrastructure, and service providers, including cloud and identity providers, to store or process information. Where personal information is disclosed or made accessible outside New Zealand, Tipu by 4E's™ will take steps intended to ensure that such disclosure is managed in accordance with applicable privacy law.

    10. Retention

    Tipu by 4E's™ retains personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to provide the platform, to meet contractual and legal requirements, to resolve disputes, and to enforce its agreements and policies.

    11. Access and correction

    Subject to applicable law, individuals may request access to, and correction of, their personal information held by Tipu by 4E's™.

    12. Children’s information

    Where Tipu by 4E's™ is used in environments involving children, Tipu by 4E's™ is intended to support responsible information-handling practices consistent with applicable child safeguarding obligations. Organisations and users remain responsible for ensuring that the collection and use of children’s information through the platform is lawful and appropriately authorised.

    13. No absolute security

    While Tipu by 4E's™ applies reasonable safeguards, no cloud-based platform, hosting environment, or method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and Tipu by 4E's™ does not warrant absolute security.

    14. Changes to this Privacy Policy

    Tipu by 4E's™ may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing an amended version on the platform or website.

    15. Contact

    Questions about this Privacy Policy or requests relating to personal information may be directed to Tipu by 4E's™ using the contact details published on the platform or website.