Legal
Privacy Statement
Listening Lab is operated by Nature Commons Ltd, a New Zealand company. This statement explains how we handle personal information under the Privacy Act 2020.
What we collect
- Your name and contact information (e.g. email address), if you sign up or contact us
- How you interact with our website and platform (pages visited, clicks, time on site)
- Device and browser information, and your approximate location (city/country) based on your IP address
- A cookie identifier used to recognise return visits
Why we collect it
- To understand how people use our website and platform, so we can improve them
- To create and manage user accounts and provide platform features
- To respond to enquiries and messages
Who we share it with
- Google, which provides our analytics (Google Analytics) and user authentication (Firebase), to analyse how people use our website and platform and to manage user accounts. See How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
- GitHub, which hosts our website and may log visitor IP addresses for security purposes.
These providers may store and process information outside New Zealand, including in the United States.
Your choices
- Signing up is optional. If you choose not to give us your name and email address, we can't create an account for you or provide features that require one.
- You can opt out of analytics by blocking cookies or installing Google's opt-out add-on. The website will still work fully.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, and ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. Contact us at info@nature-commons.com.
If you're not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
Last updated: September 2026