Our Vision, Core Values and Guidelines that serve as the blueprint for everything we do.
Our Vision is to create one centralised hub to connect New Zealand’s equestrian community at every level, fostering the growth of the equine industry by empowering small businesses and horse owners alike.
The blueprint on which our platform is built: these values inform every step of our decision making process as we continually develop our platform.
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Affordable for Everyone.
In this day and age, having an effective online presence is a necessity for any business. We believe an effective digital presence ought to be accessible for everyone regardless of your budget; from the budding backyard business to a thriving internationally established brand, we’ve built our platform to cater for all business levels with free offerings in every segment guaranteed to give you Bang for your Buck.
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Super Simple User Experience.
One of the biggest hurdles for businesses to get online are the technical expertise and time required to create and maintain a digital presence for your brand. Our commitment to you is that we’ll continually strive to make our platform super simple to use: From a one click social sign in, to simple and easy to follow listing creation, building a stunning online presence for your business has never been this easy.
We endeavour to continually evolve our platform in order to save you time and maximise the effectiveness of your online presence so you can keep doing what you're good at and let us take care of the rest.
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We measure our success by how well we help you meet your goals.
At the end of the day, our success is directly related to how well we can help your business perform. All of our digital solutions are carefully crafted to deliver on specific business goals, whether it be lead generation, bookings, selling products or raising awareness, we've got a tailor made listing suited to just about every business niche, with many more constantly being developed. Our commitment to you is that all of our products will be designed and refined with actionable objectives in mind so that your listing not only looks great, but becomes a powerful tool to drive sales for your business.
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Lasting Relationships that Grow Together.
Building relationships is at the core of what we do. Our products are designed to cater to business as all stages of the business lifecycle and can scale and change as your needs do. As your business grows, our suite of digital tools and services will be right there at your side, as a creative arsenal to take on any new challenge.
A few guidelines to ensure our community stays safe, meaningful and authentic.
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A Safe Space
We believe that a safe community will grow, collaborate and become stronger together. To this effect, we monitor and remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.
We want to cultivate positive interactions in a diverse community.
For this, we will remove comments, reviews and listings that use any form of profanity encourages violence, or attacks anyone or any entity based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affirmation, disabilities, or diseases.
Harassment, hate speech, threats and profanity will not be tolerated.
Example: You can give a 1-star review to a business or listing and still be respectful. Any review or comment that contains personal attacks will be removed.
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Authentic Interactions
We will do our best to verify all our listings in order to ensure Genuine and Authentic connections with businesses and services around you. To this effect, we ask that you use your real name and identity when interacting with our site. Comments, reviews or listings created with false names or unverifiable contact details may be deleted if they’re found to be deliberately misleading. We believe in keeping your personal information private. We do not share or sell any of your user information.
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Protecting Intellectual Property.
Human & Horse is a place to share your story and experiences with others. Rest assured, you own all of the content and information you post, however, by uploading to Human & Horse, it is implied consent for us share your content in our marketing efforts to showcase your business and help us bring more community members to this platform. At any time, you can ask to opt out for this. We will never share your content in a way that would hurt your business or goals. Before uploading, we ask that you respect copyrights, trademarks, and other legal rights. We believe in keeping your personal information private. We do not share or sell any of your user information.
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Meaningful Content that adds value to the community
We want to bring the community closer together by building a strong culture, encouraging collaboration, and meaningful relationships. For this, we prioritize meaningful content that is built around purpose, local culture, intent, design and user experience over paid advertising. We reserve the right to remove content that is considered SPAM, click bait, bait and switch advertising. We may contact you before approving a paid advertisement, exclusive offer or promotion if we believe the design of your content does not add value to our audience. Help us stay spam free by not contacting listings without a relevant reason. Rest assured, you own all of the content and information you post, however, by uploading to Human & Horse, it is implied consent for us share your content in our marketing efforts to showcase your business and help us bring more community members to this platform. At any time, you can ask to opt out for this. We will never share your content in a way that would hurt your business or goals. Before uploading, we ask that you respect copyrights, trademarks, and other legal rights. We believe in keeping your personal information private. We do not share or sell any of your user information.