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    • The Privacy Act 2020
    • Why we need to understand more than the Privacy Act
    • Info-Provisions – Search
  • ASSESS
    • Threshold privacy assessment
    • Collecting personal information
      • Collecting personal information assessment
      • Collecting health information assessment
      • Collecting telecommunications information assessment
      • Collecting personal information during national emergency assessment
    • Using personal information
      • Using personal information assessment
      • Using health information assessment
      • Using telecommunications information assessment
      • Using personal information during national emergency assessment
    • Sharing personal information
      • Sharing personal information assessment
      • Sharing health information assessment
      • Sharing telecommunications information assessment
      • Sharing personal information during national emergency assessment
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We help public sector agencies respect people's privacy and keep their good reputation intact.


We do this with guidance on the Act, a library of specific legislative authorities, a range of assessment tools, and the ability to build the documents you need such as privacy statements, information-sharing MOUs, and data licence agreements


The first step to compliance is understanding

We need to understand the Privacy Act, how other laws interact with it and, if relevant, what laws are relevant to our organisation

The Privacy Act – our State Highway 1 of privacy law

The Privacy Act is our State Highway 1 of privacy law. It’s important legislation that applies to public and private sector agencies alike. We all need to know about it. Get an overview here.

Read an overview of the Privacy Act

We need to understand more than the Privacy Act

Do you know how New Zealand law addresses the collection, use and sharing of personal information? It involves more than you might think. This article describes how it works, and explains the rules of precedence.

See how our laws fit together

Specific statutory provisions – other roads

The Privacy Act may be State Highway 1, but it’s not the only road and often you’ll find all manner of inroads into it as well as detours and bypasses. We’ve built a laws library to summarise them: InfoProvisions Search.

Understand specific provisions



Take a look at our InfoProvisions Search tool

It enables you to search and obtain summaries of specific statutory provisions concerning the collection, use and/or sharing of personal information, by agency or subject-matter. (To see a larger version of the video, click its expand button.)

Register to use InfoProvisions – Search



The second step is correct assessment

Your assessment of compliance can be accelerated through the use of these tools, with more coming

Collection of personal information

You’d like to collect personal information from individuals or another agency and use it for a particular purpose. Find out whether you can, and get a summary assessment report.

Assess collection

Use of personal information already held

You hold some personal information and would like to know whether you can use it for a particular purpose. Find out whether you can, and get a summary assessment report.

Assess use

Sharing of personal information

You’d like to share some personal information with another agency and need to know whether you can. Find out whether you can, and get a summary assessment report.

Assess sharing

Respond to an IPP6 access request

Has your agency received an IPP6 access request? Need some help working through the Act and with your response? You can use our IPP6 access request bot to do that.

Assess access request

Respond to an IPP7 correction request

Has your agency received an IPP7 correction request? Need some help working through the Act and with your response? You can use our IPP7 correction request bot to do that.

Assess correction request


Our assessment tools cover the collection, use and sharing of personal information, health information, telecommunications information, and information needed during an emergency.

In other words, in addition to accommodating the application of specific statutory provisions, they accommodate the information privacy principles, the Health Information Privacy Code, the Telecommunications Information Privacy Code and the Civil Defence Code. If you’d like to see some sample reports, enter your email address below.



The third step is ensuring you have the right documents

Most organisations need a privacy statement, some need other documents as well

Privacy statements

You need a privacy statement, either for your website or for your business  activities more generally. You can build one here, download it in Word format, and edit and use it as required.

Draft a privacy statement

Information-sharing MOUs

You’re able to share personal information with another agency but you want to put an MOU in place with the agency to control the sharing and address each agency’s responsibilities. You can draft one here.

Draft an information sharing MOU

Data licence agreements

You’d like to obtain or share non-personal data but you need a data licence agreement to do so. You can build one here. In doing so, you can select from a range of different licences, with the click of a button.

Draft a data licence agreement


See how quickly you can build your privacy statement

Our privacy statement builder enables you to build your privacy statement quickly and easily. We ask the right questions, and deliver a user-friendly privacy statement to you for download in docx format. Take a look.

Sign up to build your own statement





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Level 8, 23 Waring Taylor Street
Wellington, NZ 6011
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