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We help privacy officers, privacy practitioners and lawyers to navigate privacy laws, advise on legal compliance, draft what's needed, and keep their organisations off the front page
PRIVACY ACT 2020 VIDEO TRAINING AND QUIZ - CHANGES WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUTFree to view now - and lawyers who'd like a CPD point can get that too
Get your free copy of our Info-Provisions “Health and related matters” volume
This volume provides summaries of specific statutory provisions (other than the Privacy Act/Health Information Privacy Code) covering the collection, use and sharing of personal information across health and related areas.(It covers: ACC, Assisted reproductive procedures, Coroner, DHBs, Fertility clinics, HDC, Health, Health and safety, Health practitioners, Health profession authorities, HPA, Human tissue, Medical Officers of Health, Medical practitioners, Medicines, Mental health, MOH, Pharmac, Prostitution, Psychoactive substances, Radiation safety, and Smoke-free environments.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use of personal information
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.
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.
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.
Building tools - build the right documents
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.
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.
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.
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StopLookGo Privacy (c/o Richard Best Law)
Level 8, 23 Waring Taylor Street
Wellington, NZ 6011
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