Privacy statement
Last updated: 12 November 2026
Who we are
Power to People Limited (NZ company 9359590) runs powertopeople.co.nz and the Power to People app. We are based in Queenstown, New Zealand.
For anything about your personal information, email us at harryl@powertopeople.co.nz.
What we collect
| When | What we collect |
|---|---|
| You register interest on our website | Your email address, and your hotel's name if you give it |
| You have an account (testers now, customers later) | Your name and email address, your password (stored scrambled, we can't read it), and when you sign in |
| You use the app | Your hotel's details (location, size, rooms, occupancy), its energy and billing figures, its plant and equipment, your audit answers, and any reports you create |
Most of what the app holds is about a hotel, not about you. It becomes personal information where it is linked to your name or email. We don't use advertising trackers or analytics cookies. The app sets only the cookies it needs to keep you signed in and to remember your display settings.
Why we collect it
- Register interest: to email you when Power to People opens for hotels. Nothing else.
- Your account: to let you sign in, keep your hotel's data private to you, and contact you about your account.
- Your hotel's data: to produce your benchmarks, audit, actions and reports.
- Improving the tool (testing period): testers' feedback and app data help us find and fix problems. We look at test accounts only to do that.
We don't sell your information or use it for advertising. With your agreement, we keep your hotel's energy and plant data in anonymous form after you leave, to build fairer benchmarks for New Zealand hotels. Anonymous means it can no longer be linked to you or your hotel. We'll ask you before we do this.
Who can see it
Only Power to People and the companies that run our systems for us. They hold the data on our behalf and can't use it for their own purposes.
| Provider | What they do for us | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Stores our database, runs sign-in and sends sign-in emails | Singapore |
| Vercel | Hosts the website and app | United States |
| Zoho | Hosts our own email (harryl@powertopeople.co.nz) | Australia |
We share your information with anyone else only if you ask us to (for example, sending a report to an engineer you choose) or if the law requires it.
Do you have to give it?
No. Registering interest is optional. If you don't, we can't tell you when we open.
To use the app you need an account with an email address. Everything else is up to you. You can answer "Not sure" or leave things out, but the less you enter, the less the tool can tell you.
How long we keep it, and how we protect it
- Register-interest emails: until we've told you we're open, or until you ask us to delete yours.
- Accounts and hotel data: while your account is open. When you close it, we delete your personal details (name, email, sign-in) within 90 days. If you agreed, we keep your hotel's data in anonymous form for benchmarking; otherwise we delete it within 90 days too. We keep anything the law requires us to.
- Protection: data is encrypted in transit, each account can see only its own hotel, and access to our systems is protected by two-factor sign-in.
If a privacy breach is likely to cause serious harm, we'll tell you and the Privacy Commissioner, as the Act requires.
Your rights
Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct it. You can also ask us to delete it. Email harryl@powertopeople.co.nz and we'll reply within 20 working days.
If you're not happy with how we handle your information, tell us first. You can also complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
We'll update this statement as the product grows, and show the date of the latest version at the top.