Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

The Privacy Act sets out information privacy principles dealing with the collection, holding, use and disclosure of personal information, and the assigning of unique identifiers. The principles also give you a right to access information about yourself and to ask for it to be corrected. The principles are:

1. Purpose of collection of personal information.
2. Source of personal information.
3. Collection of information from subject.
4. Manner of collection of personal information.
5. Storage and Security of personal information.
6. Access to personal information.
7. Correction of personal information.
8. Accuracy, etc. of personal information to be checked before use or disclosure
9. Agency not to keep personal information for longer than necessary.
10. Limits on use of personal information.
11. Limits on disclosure of personal information.
12. Disclosure of personal information outside New Zealand
13. Unique identifiers.

For more information

Please refer to the Privacy Commissioner's guide to the Privacy Act and its amendments or call the Privacy Commissioner's privacy hotline: 0800 803 909 or email: enquiries@privacy.org.nz.