Privacy Statement for Orange Pages


Last updated: October 2026

Orange Pages is a peer-to-peer marketplace, so most of what happens here happens directly between you and someone else. This statement explains what we collect, what’s public, and — most importantly — what we hand to the person you trade with.

Please read section 4 before you make your first trade.

1. Who we are
Orange Pages is run by Orange Pages Limited, a company registered in New Zealand — company number 8869748, NZBN 9429051567057, with its registered office on the Companies Register at companies-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz. We’re an agency under the Privacy Act 2020 and we handle personal information in line with the Information Privacy Principles.

Privacy Officer: [email protected].
2. What we collect
2.1 Information you give us
Your name or display name, your email address, and the region of New Zealand you live in. Anything you put into a listing — titles, descriptions, prices, images, pick-up and delivery details, and for Services listings your business details and contact information. Anything you send us by email or through the contact form.

2.2 Information created when you use Orange Pages
When you sign in with Lightning we store the public key your wallet presents — that’s how we recognise your account next visit. We hold no password for you and there’s no password database.

We also keep a record of every trade you take part in — the item, the other party, the dates and whether it completed — with the feedback given and received and the rating that comes out of it. We keep moderation records of listings submitted, approved, declined or removed.

2.3 Information collected automatically
Your IP address, browser type and version, device type, the pages you visit, the referring page, and timestamps. We use cookies to sign you in, remember whether you prefer light or dark, and understand aggregate site usage. You can block cookies in your browser, but then you won’t stay signed in.

2.4 What we do not collect
We don’t ask for or hold government ID, proof of address, date of birth, bank account details or card details. We don’t run identity checks and we don’t use anyone else to run them. We never hold your Bitcoin, your private keys or your seed phrase, and nobody at Orange Pages will ever ask you for them.
3. What is public on Orange Pages
Some of what we hold is published on purpose, because the trust system depends on it. Anyone visiting the site — including people who aren’t signed in, and search engines — can see:

•  your display name
•  the region you selected
•  your rating level and how it was earned
•  how many trades you’ve completed as a buyer and as a seller
•  the feedback other people have left about you
•  every listing you publish, including its images and description

Treat anything you type into a listing as permanently public. Don’t put a phone number, home address, or anything else you wouldn’t want indexed by a search engine into listing text or images.

We also share listings on our Nostr and Telegram channels. Nostr is a public relay network we don’t control — once something is out there it can stay available even after you delete the listing here.
4. What we share with the person you trade with
This is the most significant thing we do with your personal information, and we’d rather say it plainly than bury it.

When a trade starts on the Goods marketplace, we automatically email the buyer and the seller each other’s name and email address, so the two of you can sort out payment and hand-over directly. There’s no way to trade without it happening.

Once those details are out we can’t pull them back, and what the other person does with your name and email address is outside our control. If you’re not comfortable with someone having them, don’t start or accept a trade with them.

Whoever gets your contact details this way can use them only to arrange and finish that trade. Adding them to a mailing list, or contacting them about anything else, is a breach of our Terms and Conditions.
5. Services (business) listings
Everything in a Services listing is published and meant to be found: business name, category, description, region, street address where given, payment methods accepted, contact details, and the date the listing was created. Listings stay up until the verified owner or our team takes them down.

To get the directory going we publish listings for businesses already publicly known to accept Bitcoin, using information they or a public source have already made public. Those are labelled Community-listed until the business confirms its details with us. If your business shows up and you’d rather it didn’t, email [email protected] and we’ll take it down — no reason needed, no cost.

If you trade as a sole trader under your own name and at your home address, remember a Services listing makes that public.
6. How we use your information
To run your account and sign you in; publish your listings; connect you with the other side of a trade; work out and display ratings; moderate listings and enforce our Terms; reply when you contact us; send service emails about your trades and listings; and understand aggregate site usage so we can improve the site.

We don’t sell, rent or trade your personal information. We don’t use it for advertising or profiling, and we don’t let anyone else advertise to you through us. We hand information to a government agency only where the law requires it.
7. Who else handles your information
We use a small number of service providers to run the site. Some are overseas, which means your information may be held or processed outside New Zealand. Under Information Privacy Principle 12, here’s who they are:

•  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Australia (Sydney region) — hosts the site and its database.
•  Cloudflare, Inc., United States — content delivery, DNS, protection against attacks, and aggregate site analytics. Receives your IP address and request details when you visit any page.
•  Mailjet, European Union (Germany and Belgium) — sends the automated emails for trades, listings, and account notices.

We pick providers subject to privacy safeguards comparable to New Zealand’s, and we don’t give any of them permission to use your information for their own purposes.

If Orange Pages is ever sold or merged, what we hold would transfer to the new operator, who’d be bound by this statement as it stood at the time and couldn’t start using your information for something different without telling you. We’ll email registered users once that’s happened, and you can close your account at any point.
8. Cookies
We use cookies to keep you signed in, remember whether you prefer light or dark, and measure aggregate site usage. No advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking. You can clear or block them in your browser; blocking them stops you staying signed in.
9. How long we keep it
We don’t keep personal information longer than we need it. In practice:

•  Account information — your name, email address, region, and the public key you sign in with — is kept while your account is open and for 3 months after you close it.
•  Server and access logs, including IP addresses, are kept for 90 days and then deleted.
•  Emails and messages you send us are kept while we still have a reason to keep them, then deleted.

Trade and rating records are kept indefinitely, because other people rely on them. If you close your account we strip your name and email address out of those records; the trades and the feedback attached to them stay visible in anonymised form.

Records of fees you’ve paid us are business records, and New Zealand tax law makes us keep them for seven years. They’re held separately from your account and aren’t deleted when it closes.
10. Your rights
Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it if it’s wrong, and ask us to close your account. Email [email protected] and we’ll respond within 20 working days.

Two limits worth knowing. We can’t recall contact details already sent to a trade counterparty. And we can’t delete completed trade and feedback records outright, because they’re the basis of someone else’s public rating — we anonymise them instead.
11. Security
Signing in with Lightning means there’s no password database here to steal. The site runs over HTTPS and access to personal information is limited to the people who need it to run the platform. No online service can promise absolute security, and we’re not going to.
12. If something goes wrong
If we have a privacy breach likely to cause anyone serious harm, we’ll tell the people affected and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as soon as we practically can, as the Privacy Act 2020 requires.
13. Complaints
If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, email our Privacy Officer at [email protected] and we’ll work through it with you. If you’re still not satisfied you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz or 0800 803 909.
14. Changes to this statement
We’ll update this statement as the platform changes, and the date at the top tells you when it last changed. If we make a change that materially affects how we handle your information, we’ll ask you to accept the updated statement next time you sign in.
15. Contact us
Privacy Officer  |  [email protected]  |  Orange Pages Limited, NZBN 9429051567057, New Zealand.