Privacy Policy

South Pacific Ventures ("we", "us", "our") operates the website at southpacificventures.com. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information we receive from visitors to our website and individuals who contact us through it.

We process personal data only where we have a lawful basis for doing so and in accordance with applicable data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where it applies, and any equivalent legislation in jurisdictions in which we operate.

Information you provide to us

When you submit our contact form, we collect the following:

• Full name — to address you appropriately in our response.
• Company name — optional; to understand the context of your enquiry.
• Email address — to respond to your enquiry.
• Service of interest — to route your enquiry to the appropriate team member.
• Message content — the substance of your enquiry.

Information collected automatically

Our website does not set analytics or tracking cookies, and we do not use any third-party analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) on this site. Certain technical information may be processed as a byproduct of serving the website, including:

• IP address and browser type (retained briefly in server access logs for security purposes).
• Requests made to third-party content delivery networks for fonts and JavaScript libraries (see "Third-Party Services" below).

We use the information you provide solely for the following purposes:

• To respond to your enquiry and provide the information or services you have requested.
• To send you a confirmation that your enquiry has been received.
• To maintain a record of our correspondence for the purpose of handling your request.

We do not use your information for marketing purposes without your express consent, and we do not add you to any mailing list as a result of submitting our contact form.

Legal basis: Processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests in responding to business enquiries, and to perform pre-contractual steps at your request.

Enquiry correspondence is retained for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, and to comply with any applicable legal obligations. Where an enquiry does not result in an ongoing business relationship, we will retain correspondence for no longer than 24 months from the date of last communication, after which it will be securely deleted.

Server access logs are retained for a maximum of 30 days for security purposes.

Our website loads resources from the following third-party services. By visiting the site, your browser may make requests to these services, which may process your IP address in accordance with their own privacy policies:

• Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com) — to serve web fonts. Google Privacy Policy.
• jsDelivr CDN (cdn.jsdelivr.net) — to serve the Three.js library.
• Cloudflare CDN (cdnjs.cloudflare.com) — to serve the GSAP animation library.
• unpkg CDN (unpkg.com) — to serve geographic map data.

We do not control these third parties and are not responsible for their data practices. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, disclosure, or loss. Enquiry data is transmitted using HTTPS encryption. We do not store payment card or financial information.

No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. While we take appropriate precautions, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification — request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure — request deletion of your personal data, subject to our legal obligations.
• Restriction — request that we restrict processing of your data in certain circumstances.
• Objection — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@southpacificventures.com. We will respond within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before acting on your request.

Our website is directed at business professionals and is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has submitted information to us, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. We will post the revised policy on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us: