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Response calculator for access and correction requests

Use this calculator to work out the latest date (usually 20 working days) by when an agency must respond to you if you make a request to access or correct your personal information.

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New privacy toolkit set to support business and organisations

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has launched a free online toolkit today to help businesses and organisations do privacy well.

See our Compliance Team's work

Our Compliance Team are responsible for making sure New Zealand's agencies, businesses, and organisations are doing privacy well. Here's their 23/24 work.

Statement of Performance Expectations 2024-2025

For our people, protecting privacy reduces the privacy harms that may result, whether they are financial, reputational or emotional.

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Free online privacy education modules

Free online privacy education

Our online e-learning modules are available at elearning.privacy.org.nz.

In these modules you can learn about the Privacy Act, privacy implications for the health and education sectors, gain introductions to some of our Codes of Practice, and more.