Privacy Policy

Privacy

WISEplanning understands that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally-identifiable information as you use this website. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use information that we gather from you. By using this website, you consent to the terms described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy. You should also read our Terms of Use to understand the general rules about your use of this website, and any additional terms that may apply when you access particular services or materials on certain areas of this website. “We,” “our” means WISEplanning and its affiliates. “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user” means the individual accessing this site.

 

 

PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treat your personal and non-personal information.

 

 

WHAT IS NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW IS IT COLLECTED AND USED?

Non personal information is information that cannot identify you. If you visit this web site to read information, such as information about one of our services, we may collect certain non-personal information about you from your computer’s web browser. Because non-personal information cannot identify you or be tied to you in any way, there are no restrictions on the ways that we can use or share non-personal information. What is personal information and how is it collected? Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number. We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways:

  • When you send us an application or other form
  • When you conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others
  • When we collect information about you in support of a transaction, such as credit card information
  • In some places on this web site you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself, to elect to receive particular information, to purchase access to one of our products or services, or to participate in an activity.

 

 

ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TO COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Yes, we may use cookies and related technologies, such as web beacons, to collect information on our web site. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with us, a cookie helps WISEplanning to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same WISEplanning website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the party that set the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the viewer of the web page, web-based document or e-mail message, such as the type of browser requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon was viewed. Web beacons can be very small and invisible to the user, but, in general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or e-mail, including HTML based content, can act as a web beacon. We may use web beacons to count visitors to the web pages on the web site or to monitor how our users navigate the web site, and we may include web beacons in e-mail messages in order to count how many messages sent were actually opened, acted upon or forwarded.

 

Third party vendors also may use cookies on our web site. For instance, we may contract with third parties who will use cookies on our web site to track and analyze anonymous usage and volume statistical information from our visitors and members. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. These third parties use persistent cookies to help us to improve the visitor experience, to manage our site content, and to track visitor behaviour. We may also contract with a third party to send e-mail to registered users/members.

 

To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, the third party sets cookies. All data collected by this third party on behalf of WISEplanning is used solely by or on behalf of WISEplanning and is shared externally only on an anonymous, aggregated basis. From time to time we may allow third parties to post advertisements on our web site, and those third-party advertisements may include a cookie or web beacon served by the third party. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information collected from you by third party ad servers. We do not control cookies in such third party ads, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad. We will not share your personal information with these companies, but these companies may use information about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you, and they may share your personal information that you provide to them with others.

 

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the WISEplanning websites you visit.

 

 

HOW DOES WISEplanning USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

WISEplanning may keep and use personal information we collect from or about you to provide you with access to this web site or other products or services, to respond to your requests, to bill you for products/services you purchased, and to provide ongoing service and support, to contact you with information that might be of interest to you, including information about products and services of ours and of others, or ask for your opinion about our products or the products of others, for record keeping and analytical purposes and to research, develop and improve programs, products, services and content.

 

Personal information collected online may be combined with information you provide to us through other sources. We may also remove your personal identifiers (your name, email address, social security number, etc). In this case, you would no longer be identified as a single unique individual. Once we have de-identified information, it is non-personal information and we may treat it like other non-personal information. Finally, we may use your personal information to protect our rights or property, or to protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, and to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process.

 

 

DOES WISEplanning SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS?

We will not share your personal information collected from this web site with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy. In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf. In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.

 

We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition. For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it.

 

If you submit a review for a third party (person or business) using our Facebook Fan Review Application, during the submission process we ask your permission to gather your basic information (such as name and email address) which we then share with the third party for whom you are submitting the review. We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law or regulation.

 

We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting web site visitors who violate our rules or engage in behaviour, which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal). We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order or other legal process. As discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies, from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this web site.

 

If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this Privacy Policy does not control the advertisers’ use of your personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.

 

 

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FOR COMMUNICATIONS?

We may contact you periodically by e-mail, mail or telephone to provide information regarding programs, products, services and content that may be of interest to you. In addition, some of the features on this web site allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include your personal information. We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be secure from unauthorized interception.

 

 

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal information.

 

 

LINKS

This site contains links to other sites that provide information that we consider to be interesting. WISEplanning is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

 

 

PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS

This site may provide public discussions on various business valuation topics. Please note that any information you post in these discussions will become public, so please do not post sensitive information in the public discussions. Whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the web site. WISEplanning does not agree or disagree with anything posted on the discussion board. Also remember that you must comply with our other published policies regarding postings on our public forums.

 

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

 

HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

You may access, correct, update, and/or delete any personally-identifiable information that you submit to the web site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the web site. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the web site on which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered or contact us at admin@wiseplanning.co.nz

 

 

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

WISEplanning will not intentionally collect any personal information (such as a child’s name or email address) from children under the age of 13. If you think that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, please contact us.

 

 

CHANGES

WISEplanning reserves the right to modify this statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listed in this section, and if such changes are material, a notice will be included on the resources section of the web site for a period of time. If you have any questions about privacy at any websites operated by WISEplanning or about our website practices, please contact us at: admin@wiseplanning.co.nz

 

For more information on how we deal with Client Confidentiality and Privacy – please click here.

 

Peter Flannery - WISEplanning - Authorised Financial Adviser and Certified Financial Planner - New Zealand

Peter Flannery

“Helping everyday Kiwis who expect more … to live their lives the way they want”

 

Peter was raised on the family farm in Kamahi, near Edendale in Southland. He is an investor, business owner and a first generation financial adviser, having entered financial services in 1983 in Southland.

 

Peter now lives in Christchurch with his family. His hobbies include family time, spending time with friends, exercise, reading a good novel and time on the deck at the bach.

 

Peter founded WISEplanning in 1987. His 500 clients live across New Zealand and a few overseas. The ongoing expansion of WISEplanning now includes offices in Invercargill, Christchurch (HQ) and Auckland.

 

Peter is known among his clients for challenging common practice and conventional methodology.

 

He argues “People tend to follow the crowd, which is interesting, because most people are both time poor and money poor, so why follow them?”

 

He is known to many around New Zealand as one of few to warn in 2004 of the coming global financial crisis (The GFC) that suddenly erupted in 2008. His views were considered controversial at the time. Peter credits Warren Buffett and his partner Charlie Munger for his most useful learning’s about investing.

 

Peter believes education continues throughout life. Some highlights from his recent continuing education include:

 

• The formal Financial Adviser training through Massey University in Palmerston North,

 

• The Entrepreneurial Coaching program through The Strategic Coach in Vancouver, Canada,

 

• The Business Owner/Manager Program through The Icehouse in New Zealand,

 

• The Peak Performance Program through Glazer Kennedy, Baltimore, USA

 

• The High Performance Program through The Elite Professionals Program in New Zealand

 

• The Experts Academy through Brendon Burchard, Sydney, Australia

 

• The Millionaire Mentor Program through Scott Harris, The Gold Coast, Australia.

 

As an investor, he is regularly researching markets and analysing potential investment opportunities and likes to point out to anyone who will listen that discipline around the investment method is key to success.

 

Peter has developed programs and tools that help everyday kiwis who expect more out of life to succeed sooner.

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Carol Fee

Carol Fee

Carol is our Operations & Compliance Manager and has 30 years of experience within the NZ Financial Services sector. She has worked in Wealth Management, International Trade & Finance, general banking and insurance admin roles.


Carol’s role with us sees her utilising her strong organisational skills & client focus to ensure WISEplanning runs efficiently & smoothly while ensuring industry compliance requirements are met.


Outside of work, this born and bred Cantabrian is a regular at the gym and yoga studio. She also enjoys spending time with family and friends – especially over a coffee.

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Sean Yang

Sean is the Portfolio Coordinator for Clients at WISEplanning and brings his enthusiasm, professionalism and well developed customer service skills to the role. Sean was born in Beijing, China and obtained his Bachelor Degree in Economics (majored in Statistics) in China and Graduated Diploma in Accounting and Finance at University of Canterbury.

 

Sean has worked in the finance sector specialising in Investment Advisory for more than 10 years. He is experienced in dealing with clients’ queries and providing support to Financial Advisers.

 

He is an organised person with a strong customer focus. Sean enjoys spending time with his two daughters, wife, family and friends. He has a passion for sports such as soccer, badminton and swimming and really enjoys dealing with people.

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Regan Hines

Regan Hines is the Operations Manager at WISEplanning, bringing extensive experience in marketing for organisations across New Zealand and Australia. Having managed teams and developed business relationships in roles at the Christchurch City Mission and Cholmondeley Children's Centre, Regan's expertise lies in partnerships and marketing within both the corporate and NGO sectors.


Regan's passion for helping organisations make a positive impact in the community aligns perfectly with WISEplanning's vision of ensuring enough money for everything and enough time for everything that matters. Currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Canterbury, Regan is dedicated to continuous learning and professional growth. Additionally, Regan serves on the board of Horizons Trust and enjoys volunteering for various charities.


Outside of work, Regan enjoys studying history and cherishing moments with friends and family.

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Kim MacKenzie

Kim has been with WISEplanning since mid 2016 and is our Client Services Specialist. She brings enthusiasm for customer service, professionalism, good time management and efficiencies to the role.

 

Kim and her husband have been based in Christchurch for over 20 years and originated from Central Otago where they both grew up. They have three teenagers so Kim know’s first hand how busy managing life, money, kids and family can be.

 

Kim enjoy’s spending time with family and friends, should do more exercise than she does and recently brought a bach where her family and friends are now creating time spent memories that she hopes will carry her kids through to adulthood.

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Sarah Talbot WISEPlanning Adviser

Sarah Talbot

Sarah is one of our trusted Financial Advisers here at WISEplanning.

 

Sarah joined us from a background in Property, specifically Residential Property Management, where she managed a busy property portfolio in Christchurch with multiple property investors. Sarah also currently holds a license as a Real Estate Salesperson. Sarah is an investor herself and purchased her first home at the age of 18. She has excellent communication skills and the drive to want to help and see others succeed.

 

Sarah has completed a New Zealand Certificate in Financial Services (level 5), completing the investment strand of the certificate. With strong ambition, Sarah is actively seeking to learn all she can about the teachings at Wiseplanning regarding financial wellness.

 

Sarah grew up on a sheep and beef farm in the Wairarapa, before moving to Christchurch to be closer to the great outdoors Canterbury has to offer. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys spending time with her young family, running, skiing, tramping, reading and gardening.

 

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Natasha Melley

Natasha Melley

Natasha brings her passion for building strong client relationships to WISEplanning as our Client Services Specialist.

 

Natasha moved from San Francisco to Christchurch in 2022. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Temple University and spent more than a decade working in pharmaceutical market research. Since returning to the workforce, after raising her children, Natasha has used her client-focused skills in real estate, home building and now financial services.

 

Natasha loves spending time exploring Christchurch and the greater New Zealand area with her husband, two children and new puppy. She is on a mission to complete one Great Walk per year! Biking, walking, reading, gardening, hitting the gym and organizing closets are among her favourite hobbies.

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Sharon Becker

Sharon Becker

Sharon is the Investment Administrator at WISEplanning. Her role is primarily to provide support to the Portfolio Coordinator and Operations Manager, with maintenance of compliance requirements and responding to client enquiries being her main focus each day.

 

Sharon’s background is in the banking industry with a strong customer service focus. She enjoys problem solving and helping support people to meet their financial goals.

 

Sharon has spent the last four years living in Christchurch with her husband and their three young children, after moving from Wellington. In her spare time, she enjoys baking, crafting and exploring Christchurch’s many parks and walks with her family.

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