Privacy policy

Last updated: October 2025

Century Yuasa Batteries (NZ) Ltd (Company number 417058) and its related companies (together “CYB”, “we”, “our” or “us”) recognise the importance of protecting the privacy and the rights of individuals in relation to their personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to any personal information you provide to CYB or authorise us to collect. By providing CYB with personal information, using our website (at https://www.centurybatteries.co.nz ("Site")), purchasing products on the Site or in a CYB store, or otherwise dealing with CYB, you authorise us to collect, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

[If you are a company or other legal entity, references to “you” in this Privacy Policy are to your representatives and you confirm that your representatives have authorised you to provide us, or authorise us to collect, their personal information in accordance with this Privacy Statement and that you have informed them of their rights to access and request correction of their personal information, as set out below]

Changes to this Privacy Policy

CYB may update this Privacy Policy at any time by publishing an updated Privacy Policy on the Site. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes. If any updates are material to you we will also update you directly using the contact details you have provided to us.

Additional rights and obligations

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to, and does not limit, our rights and obligations under the Privacy Act 2020 (as amended or replaced from time to time) (“Privacy Act”) or any specific authorisation that you provide to us when you interact with us or use our services.

What happens if we can’t collect your information?

You are not required to provide us with any personal information that we request. However, if you do not do so, we may not be able to provide certain services to you, for example:

• we may not be able to deliver any orders;
• we may not be able to provide our services to you;
• we may not be able to provide you with information about products or services that you may want, including information about special promotions; or
• we may be unable to tailor the content of our Site to your preferences and your experience of our Site may not be as enjoyable or useful.

What is personal information?

When used in this Privacy Policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act. In general terms, it is any information that identifies you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, and profession or occupation.

What personal information does CYB collect?

The kinds of personal information that we collect and hold about you will depend on your interaction with us. The types of personal information we collect and hold about you may include, for example, your:

• name;
• mailing or street address;
• email address;
• telephone number;
• age or date of birth;
• payment details (as further described below); and
• information relating to your relationship with CYB, for example details about products and services that you have acquired from us or enquired about, and any information necessary to deliver those products and services or respond to your enquiries; and
• if you are applying for a job with us, details about your qualifications and work

We may collect other information about you whenever you interact with our Site including the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your means of connection to our Site (such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilised and other similar information).

How do we collect personal information?

Generally, we collect personal information directly from you, for example we may collect personal information from you:

• in connection with activities, services, features or resources we make available on our You may visit our Site anonymously, but you may be required to identify yourself in certain circumstances (such as if you order a product or service via our Site); and
• when you visit our stores, including when you complete orders or other forms, and during conversations between you and our representatives.

We rely on you to update us if your contact details change (please refer to the Contact Us section below).

Web browser cookies

Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance your use and experience of our Site. A “cookie” is a small summary file containing a unique ID number. Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly. We may use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information such as usage and volume statistics, for research purposes in order to further develop our Site.

Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from the websites you visit and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. Users may opt-out of the collection and use of this information by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices.

How we use collected information

We use and disclose your personal information for the purposes we collected it and for directly related purposes. We may collect and use your personal information for the following general purposes:

• to operate and improve our Site, including to provide you with access to protected areas of our Site and to assess the performance of our We continually strive to improve our Site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive;
• to provide our products and services, including using the personal information that we collect online to fulfil your order(s);
• to conduct our business processing functions, including providing personal information to our related companies from time to time, contractors, service providers and other third parties who are involved in fulfilling your order(s);
• to communicate with you, including to answer your enquiries and provide information or advice about existing and new services, and to process and respond to any complaint made by you;
• for the administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), planning, product or service development, quality control and research purposes of us and our related bodies corporate, contractors or service providers;
• to comply with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority; and
• as otherwise permitted by the Privacy

If we need to use or disclose your personal information for a purpose that is not set out or referred to in this Privacy Policy, and that is otherwise unrelated to the purpose for which we collected your personal information, we will obtain your consent first.

Sharing your personal information

Depending on the dealings you have with us, we may disclose your personal information:

• within the GS Yuasa Corporation, including between Century Yuasa Batteries (NZ) Ltd and related companies such as Century Yuasa Batteries Pty Ltd;
• to any organisation with your consent;
• debt collectors (if required to recover any overdue amounts) - debt collectors may retain any personal information that we provide to them and use it to provide their debt collection services; and
• as otherwise permitted by the Privacy

We may also share your personal information with third parties for the purpose of providing services to us, including:

• to our contractors or service providers for the purposes of operating our Site or our business and fulfilling orders and other requests made by you. This may include web hosting providers, IT systems administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors, data entry service providers, electronic network administrators and professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors, business advisors and consultants; and
• to suppliers and other third parties with whom we have commercial relationships, for business, marketing and related purposes.

We require any third parties to adhere to our confidentiality requirements and to the requirements of the Privacy Act.

Other than as specified in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal information regarding visitors to our Site and our customers with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

Do we disclose personal information to anyone outside New Zealand?

Being part of a global group, CYB may share your personal information with our affiliates within the GS Yuasa Corporation. The countries in which our overseas affiliates are located are Australia, Japan, USA, Europe, China, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Where we transfer personal information outside New Zealand, we will ensure that we comply with the Privacy Act.

Direct Marketing materials

We may send you direct marketing communications and information about our products and services that we consider may be of interest to you. These communications may be sent by us or on our behalf in various forms, including mail, SMS, and email, in accordance with applicable marketing laws, such as the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method whenever practical to do so. In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us (see the link below) or by using opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications. We will then ensure that your name is removed from our mailing list within a reasonable time.

We do not provide your personal information to other organisations for the purposes of their direct marketing.

Using other websites

You should note that our Site may contain links or references to other websites to which this Privacy Policy may not apply. You should review the privacy policy of each of those websites and assess whether those policies are acceptable to you before using those websites.

How we store your information

Personal Information that we collect is either held by us at our head office (refer to the Contact Us section below) or on our behalf. For example, some information we hold will be stored in “the cloud” in secure databases on our behalf by third parties based overseas. The use of these services, and the transfer of information overseas (if applicable) will not relieve us of our obligations under the Privacy Act and this Privacy Policy.

How we protect your information

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorised access, use, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. We do this through a number of ways including:

• restricted access to personal information;
• using industry standard firewalls and security practices to protect personal information;
• using technology products to prevent unauthorised computer access to our network and databases; and
• internal policies in relation to the use of our computers and management of personal

However, as our Site is linked to the Internet, and the Internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you provide will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

How can you access and correct personal information?

You may request access to any personal information we hold about you at any time by contacting us (see the link below). Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you). We may charge you a reasonable fee to cover our administrative and other reasonable costs in providing the information to you. We will not charge for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information.

There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold. For example, we may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or if it would result in a breach of confidentiality. If that happens, we will give you written reasons for any refusal.

If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it. We will consider if the information requires amendment. If we do not agree that there are grounds for amendment then we will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.

What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?

If you believe that your privacy has been breached, you should contact us (see the link below) and provide details of the incident so that we can investigate it. We will treat your complaint confidentially, investigate the complaint and aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved within a reasonable time (and in any event within the time required by the Privacy Act, if applicable).

If you are not satisfied with our response or how we handled your complaint, you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. The Privacy Commissioner’s website is https://www.privacy.org.nz and enquiries line is 0800 803 909.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this policy or our collection and use of your personal information, please contact us at  https://www.centurybatteries.co.nz/contact-us.