Advert Media Limited PRIVACY POLICY
1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
In this policy:
Personal Information has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act 2020 and refers to information about an identifiable individual
Privacy Act 2020 means the Privacy Act 2020 of New Zealand including any amendments or regulations made under it from time to time.
Schools means any education provider or other entity that has subscribed and uses the Skool Loop Platform, Skool Books platform or the School Apps platform.
Clubs means any club or other entity that has subscribed and uses the Club Apps platform.
Churches means any Church or other entity that has subscribed and uses the Church Apps platform.
Businesses means any business or other entity that has subscribed and uses the Business Apps platform.
Skool Loop means Advert Media Limited or its assigns
Skool Loop Platform means the digital services and tools, including but not limited to the Skool Loop mobile application (iOS and Android), the platform, the website, the school console, Skool Loop and any associated features, content and communication tools made available through or in connection with these services.
Skool Books means Advert Media Limited or its assigns
Skool Books Platform means the digital services and tools, including but not limited to the Skool Books mobile application (iOS and Android), the platform, the website, the school console, Skool Books and any associated features, content and communication tools made available through or in connection with these services.
School Apps means Snapp Mobile Limited or its assigns
School Apps means the digital services and tools, including but not limited to the School Apps mobile application (iOS and Android), the platform, the website, the school console, School Apps and any associated features, content and communication tools made available through or in connection with these services.
Club Apps means Snapp Mobile Limited or its assigns
Club Apps means the digital services and tools, including but not limited to the Club Apps mobile application (iOS and Android), the platform, the website, the club console, Club Apps and any associated features, content and communication tools made available through or in connection with these services.
Church Apps means Snapp Mobile Limited or its assigns
Church Apps means the digital services and tools, including but not limited to the Church Apps mobile application (iOS and Android), the platform, the website, the church console, Church Apps and any associated features, content and communication tools made available through or in connection with these services.
Business Apps means Snapp Mobile Limited or its assigns
Business Apps means the digital services and tools, including but not limited to the Business Apps mobile application (iOS and Android), the platform, the website, the business console, Business Apps and any associated features, content and communication tools made available through or in connection with these services.
Website means the websites at the domains www.skoolloop.com, www.skoolbooks.org, www.schoolappsnz.co.nz, www.clubappsglobal.com, www.businessapps.nz, www.churchappsglobal.com or any website built by us.
2. INTRODUCTION
This document sets out the privacy policy of ADVERT MEDIA LIMITED NZBN 9429032985733 and, or SNAPP MOBILE LIMITED NZBN 9429030383180 (referred to in this privacy policy as ‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’).
We take our privacy obligations seriously and we have created this privacy policy to explain how we store, maintain, use and disclose personal information.
This privacy policy applies to the following user groups:
Skool Loop, Skool Books and School Apps;
Parents who use our platforms to interact with their child’s school;
Schools using our platforms for administrative purposes and communication with parents and the wider school community; and;
Advertisers who may use our platforms to deliver advertisements and related services.
By providing personal information to us, you consent to our storage, maintenance, use and disclosing of personal information in accordance with this privacy policy or any amended privacy policy in place.
Schools at all times remain the custodians of all personal information they input into our platforms.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a platform provider, without ownership or control over user data.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as the agent of the school for the purposes of all applicable privacy laws.
Each school is solely responsible for obtaining all necessary consents to collect, use and disclose personal information they upload to the platform and for maintaining all of the information they hold in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the school’s own privacy policy.
Club Apps;
Club members who use our platforms to interact with their club;
Clubs using our platforms for administrative purposes and communication with members and the wider club community;
Advertisers who may use our platforms to deliver advertisements and related services.
By providing personal information to us, you consent to our storage, maintenance, use and disclosing of personal information in accordance with this privacy policy or any amended privacy policy in place.
Clubs at all times remain the custodians of all personal information they input into our platforms.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a platform provider, without ownership or control over user data.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as the agent of the club for the purposes of all applicable privacy laws.
Each club is solely responsible for obtaining all necessary consents to collect, use and disclose personal information they upload to the platform and for maintaining all of the information they hold in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the club’s own privacy policy.
Church Apps;
Church members who use our platforms to interact with their church;
Churches using our platforms for administrative purposes and communication with members and the wider church community;
Advertisers who may use our platforms to deliver advertisements and related services.
By providing personal information to us, you consent to our storage, maintenance, use and disclosing of personal information in accordance with this privacy policy or any amended privacy policy in place.
Churches at all times remain the custodians of all personal information they input into our platforms.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a platform provider, without ownership or control over user data.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as the agent of the church for the purposes of all applicable privacy laws.
Each church is solely responsible for obtaining all necessary consents to collect, use and disclose personal information they upload to the platform and for maintaining all of the information they hold in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the church’s own privacy policy.
Business Apps
Employees who use our platforms to interact with their workplace;
Businesses using our platforms for administrative purposes and communication with members and the wider business community;
Advertisers who may use our platforms to deliver advertisements and related services.
By providing personal information to us, you consent to our storage, maintenance, use and disclosing of personal information in accordance with this privacy policy or any amended privacy policy in place.
Businesses at all times remain the custodians of all personal information they input into our platforms.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a platform provider, without ownership or control over user data.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as the agent of the business for the purposes of all applicable privacy laws.
Each business is solely responsible for obtaining all necessary consents to collect, use and disclose personal information they upload to the platform and for maintaining all of the information they hold in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the business’s own privacy policy.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited has no visibility into or responsibility for whether appropriate consents have been obtained.
If we change this privacy policy we will provide you with a minimum of 7 days’ notice.
Following such notice, we encourage you to check our website to ensure that you are aware of our most current privacy policy.
3. SCHOOL DATA OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited operates as a service provider to schools and does not own, control, or determine how personal information is used or collected through our platforms.
Schools remain at all times the data controllers and custodians of all personal information they input, access, or manage through our platforms.
In this context:
Schools are responsible for the personal information they collect, upload and process.
Schools must ensure that they adhere to any applicable privacy laws including safeguarding the information from potential breach of an individual or users information being provided outside of the purpose for which it was provided
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited solely acts as the agent of the school, providing the technical infrastructure and support for communication, administration and data management.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited has no independent right to use, access, or disclose any personal information collected by schools, except as necessary to maintain the platform and provide services as directed by the school.
Schools are required to gain all the necessary consents before inputting personal information to the platform and to act on any withdrawal of an individual’s consent to remove, alter or amend the personal information held.
4. CLUB DATA OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited operates as a service provider to clubs and does not own, control, or determine how personal information is used or collected through our platforms.
Clubs remain at all times the data controllers and custodians of all personal information they input, access, or manage through our platforms.
In this context:
Clubs are responsible for the personal information they collect, upload and process.
Clubs must ensure that they adhere to any applicable privacy laws including safeguarding the information from potential breach of an individual or users information being provided outside of the purpose for which it was provided
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited solely acts as the agent of the club, providing the technical infrastructure and support for communication, administration and data management.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited has no independent right to use, access, or disclose any personal information collected by clubs, except as necessary to maintain the platform and provide services as directed by the club.
Clubs are required to gain all the necessary consents before inputting personal information to the platform and to act on any withdrawal of an individual’s consent to remove, alter or amend the personal information held.
5. CHURCH DATA OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited operates as a service provider to churches and does not own, control, or determine how personal information is used or collected through our platforms.
Churches remain at all times the data controllers and custodians of all personal information they input, access, or manage through our platforms.
In this context:
Churches are responsible for the personal information they collect, upload and process.
Churches must ensure that they adhere to any applicable privacy laws including safeguarding the information from potential breach of an individual or users information being provided outside of the purpose for which it was provided
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited solely acts as the agent of the church, providing the technical infrastructure and support for communication, administration and data management.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited has no independent right to use, access, or disclose any personal information collected by churches, except as necessary to maintain the platform and provide services as directed by the church.
Churches are required to gain all the necessary consents before inputting personal information to the platform and to act on any withdrawal of an individual’s consent to remove, alter or amend the personal information held.
6. BUSINESS DATA OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited operates as a service provider to businesses and does not own, control, or determine how personal information is used or collected through our platforms.
Businesses remain at all times the data controllers and custodians of all personal information they input, access, or manage through our platforms.
In this context:
Businesses are responsible for the personal information they collect, upload and process.
Businesses must ensure that they adhere to any applicable privacy laws including safeguarding the information from potential breach of an individual or users information being provided outside of the purpose for which it was provided
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited solely acts as the agent of the business, providing the technical infrastructure and support for communication, administration and data management.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited has no independent right to use, access, or disclose any personal information collected by businesses, except as necessary to maintain the platform and provide services as directed by the business.
Businesses are required to gain all the necessary consents before inputting personal information to the platform and to act on any withdrawal of an individual’s consent to remove, alter or amend the personal information held.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited does not collect personal information for its own purposes such as marketing or analytics, without clear prior authorisation and compliance with applicable privacy legislation.
7. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT on BEHALF OF SCHOOLS
We collect and store certain types of personal information strictly on behalf of schools, who are the data controllers for this information.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a data processor in these instances and does not use this information for its own purposes.
Schools are responsible, in accordance with clause 3 above, for obtaining all necessary consents and ensuring lawful collection, use, and disclosure.
The personal information we collect may include the following
Parent Information:
Student information:
Staff Information:
8. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT on BEHALF OF CLUBS
We collect and store certain types of personal information strictly on behalf of clubs, who are the data controllers for this information.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a data processor in these instances and does not use this information for its own purposes.
Clubs are responsible, in accordance with clause 4 above, for obtaining all necessary consents and ensuring lawful collection, use, and disclosure.
The personal information we collect may include the following:
Club Member Information (iOS and Android app):
Club Administrator/Staff Information (via iOS and Android Apps and Web Admin):
9. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT on BEHALF OF CHURCHES
We collect and store certain types of personal information strictly on behalf of churches, who are the data controllers for this information.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a data processor in these instances and does not use this information for its own purposes.
Churches are responsible, in accordance with clause 5 above, for obtaining all necessary consents and ensuring lawful collection, use, and disclosure.
The personal information we collect may include the following:
Congregation Member Information (iOS and Android app):
Church Staff Information (via iOS and Android Apps and Web Admin):
10. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT on BEHALF OF BUSINESSES
We collect and store certain types of personal information strictly on behalf of businesses, who are the data controllers for this information.
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited acts solely as a data processor in these instances and does not use this information for its own purposes.
Businesses are responsible, in accordance with clause 6 above, for obtaining all necessary consents and ensuring lawful collection, use, and disclosure.
The personal information we collect may include the following:
Employee Information (iOS and Android app):
Business Administrator Information (via iOS and Android Apps and Web Admin):
11. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FOR OUR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited also collects and uses certain personal information independently in order to operate, maintain, and improve its services.
In these instances, Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited is the data controller and collects this information from schools, clubs, churches, businesses (as platform users) and from advertisers (as commercial clients).
This includes:
(Platform clients)
From Advertisers (Commercial clients)
12. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect personal information either directly from you, or from third parties, including where you:
Data collected on behalf of schools
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited may collect and process certain personal information strictly on behalf of schools who use our platform services.
This includes:
Data collected on behalf of clubs
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited may collect and process certain personal information strictly on behalf of clubs who use our platform services.
This includes:
Data collected on behalf of churches
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited may collect and process certain personal information strictly on behalf of churches who use our platform services.
This includes:
Data collected on behalf of businesses
Advert Media Limited & Snapp Mobile Limited may collect and process certain personal information strictly on behalf of businesses who use our platform services.
This includes:
Data collected for Advert Media Limited’s own operational purposes
In accordance with Principle 9 of the Privacy Act 2020 (NZ), we do not retain personal information for longer than is required for the lawful purposes for which it was collected.
Once personal information is no longer needed, we take reasonable steps to securely delete or anonymise it.
We may also collect personal information from you when you use or access our website or our social media pages.
This may be done through use of web analytics tools, ‘cookies’ or other similar tracking technologies that allow us to track and analyse your website usage.
Cookies are small files that store information on your computer, mobile phone or other device and enable and allow the creator of the cookie to identify when you visit different websites.
If you do not wish information to be stored as a cookie, you can disable cookies in your web browser.
13. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect and use personal information for the following purposes:
We use your personal information for the following purposes depending on your role:
We may disclose your personal information to cloud-providers, contractors and other third parties located inside or outside of New Zealand.
If we do so, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient deals with such personal information in a manner consistent with how we deal with it.
However, we note that all personal information that we collect from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy is stored in New Zealand.
14. SECURITY
We take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is secure and protected from misuse or unauthorised access.
This includes implementing technical and organisational measures to safeguard against unauthorised access, misuse, or loss of data.
As part of our security practices, the following measures are in place:
Password Security:
Account Authentication:
Encryption and Data Security
Breach Notification
While we take every step to prevent data breaches, if a privacy breach occurs, we will notify affected organisations (schools, clubs, churches or businesses) and the appropriate authorities in line with the Privacy Act 2020.
Data Retention and Deletion
After a subscription ends, we will delete personal information within 30 days unless we are legally required to keep it for longer.
15. LINKS
Our website may contain links to other websites. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those linked websites and we suggest you review the privacy policies of those websites before using them.
16. REQUESTING ACCESS OR CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Schools;
If you wish to request access to the personal information collected by a school through our platforms, please contact the relevant school directly.
As the data controller, the school is responsible for handling all requests for access to or correction of personal information they collect.
Clubs;
If you wish to request access to the personal information collected by a club through our platforms, please contact the relevant club directly.
As the data controller, the club is responsible for handling all requests for access to or correction of personal information they collect.
Churches;
If you wish to request access to the personal information collected by a church through our platforms, please contact the relevant church directly.
As the data controller, the church is responsible for handling all requests for access to or correction of personal information they collect.
Businesses;
If you wish to request access to the personal information collected by a business through our platforms, please contact the relevant business directly.
As the data controller, the business is responsible for handling all requests for access to or correction of personal information they collect.
For information that Advert Media Limited collects for its own operations purposes, as outlined in section 11, you may contact us using the contact details below, including your name and contact details, we may need to verify your identity before providing you with your personal information.
Unless there are grounds for refusal as set out in the Privacy Act 2020 (including where disclosure would unreasonably impact on another person’s privacy) you have the right to access the personal information, we hold about you and to request a correction of this information.
In some cases, we may be unable to provide you with access to all your personal information and where this occurs, we will explain why.
We will deal with all requests for access to personal information within a reasonable timeframe.
If you request erasure of your data, and we have no legal basis for retention, we will comply and confirm the deletion.
If you think that any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us using the contact details set out below and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.
17. COMPLAINTS
If you wish to complain about how we handle your personal information held by us, please contact us using the details set out below including your name and contact details.
We will investigate your complaint promptly and respond to you within a reasonable timeframe.
18. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
We do not currently use artificial intelligence (AI) to process or analyse any personal information. If we decide to use AI in the future, we will notify you and clearly let you know and explain how your data might be affected.
We are committed to using technology responsibly.
19. CONTACT US
For further information about our privacy policy or practices, or to access or correct your personal information, or make a complaint, please contact us using the details set out below:
Contact: Advert Media Privacy Officer
Email: content@advertmedia.co.nz
Our privacy policy was last updated on 09.06.2025
This policy will be reviewed regularly and updated as needed to effect changes in our practices or legal obligations.
By continuing to use our services, you acknowledge and accept our privacy policy, unless you notify us otherwise.