What we keep, and who sees it.

This website

When you visit, we count it: the pages seen, the site you came from, your country and the kind of device. Cloudflare, which hosts the site and our counts on its servers around the world, does this for us without cookies, and nothing in it names you. We also count presses of the buttons that lead to Contact, and, with one small cookie of our own, whether you've been here before.

Ads

The site carries the ad tags of LinkedIn, Google and Meta (Facebook and Instagram). They tell each company that someone visited and which pages, and, through their own cookies, can match the visit to what that company already knows of you. We use them to see which of our ads bring people here, and to show our ads to people who have visited.

What the tags collect goes to those companies, on their servers overseas, under their own privacy policies: LinkedIn, Google, Meta.

Cookies

Ours holds only that you've been here before, and lasts 13 months; the three companies' own last from a day to 13 months.

In New Zealand and most countries they're on from your first page. Where the law asks first (the European Union and the rest of the European Economic Area, the UK, Switzerland, Brazil, South Korea, Turkey and Quebec), nothing runs until you say yes. Anyone can turn them off here, at any time. Our counts, which use no cookies, carry on.

A few small notes kept in the tab you're using, such as a message on its way to Contact, go when you close it. Two choices stay in this browser until you clear them: whether you've paused the site's motion, and your choice about cookies.

When you write to us

What you send through the contact form, or to [email protected], comes to us, the founders, in our email, which Google Workspace hosts. We use it to answer you and, if we work together, to do the job. Only the kind of job, your name and your email are needed to send it. When you use the form, Cloudflare first checks that it is a person sending it, not a program, and the site turns away more than six messages from one internet connection in ten minutes, holding that connection’s address for those ten minutes only and never storing it.

Your data

What you share with us when we work together is kept secure, seen only by the people at Archelaus, and not shared with anyone else without the express consent of the person it concerns.

Finding information

When we find information for a client, we gather it from public sources, such as business websites, directories and public registers, for that client's job only. It goes to that client, we keep it only as long as the job needs, and anyone it concerns can ask us what we hold about them and have it corrected or removed.

Access to your systems

Before we start, we recommend a non-disclosure agreement; it isn't required. Under it, you give us the logins the job needs.

Calls

We don't record calls or meetings by default. If we'd like to record one, usually a brief, we'll tell you first. Recordings stay inside the company, and if one of our team needs what was said to do the work, we pass it on only with your consent.

Asking about it

To ask what we hold about you, or to have it corrected, write to [email protected], or to ARCHELAUS LIMITED, 79 Ranfurly Road, Epsom, Auckland 1023. If you're not happy with our answer, you can complain to New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner, at privacy.org.nz.

Where the law asks first, our cookie and the ad tags run only with your consent, which you can take back above at any time; you can also ask us to delete what we hold about you or to stop using it, and complain to your own country's data protection authority.