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Your responsibilities

This list of resources will help your organisation understand its obligations under Privacy Act 2020. 

NotifyUs

NotifyUs is our online tool for you to assess and report your organisation's privacy breaches.

Answer privacy questions with AskUs          

If you have a privacy question, search AskUs. It has hundreds of articles that are regularly updated with general guidance on various privacy issues.

Free online privacy training

Try our free e-learning courses covering a range of topics.

Model contract clauses

This step-by-step guidance helps organisations and businesses understand their new responsibilities under Privacy Act 2020 when sending New Zealanders' information overseas.

Your privacy responsibilities

Quick tour of the privacy principles - The Privacy Act 2020 is based on 13 privacy principles that govern how you should collect, handle and use personal information.

Read our Privacy breach guidelines - How to Prevent and Respond to Privacy Breaches

Creating privacy statements

You need to let customers know what information you’re collecting from them, and what you’ll use it for. Our Priv-o-matic tool will help you easily create clear privacy statements.

Responsibilities when releasing information to law enforcement agencies

Police and other law-enforcement agencies may request personal information from your organisation as part of an investigation.

Both you and the law-enforcement agency have obligations and responsibilities you must follow. Find out more.

Section 30 authorisations

We have produced a guidance note that sets out, for the purposes of section 30(2), the manner required by the Commissioner in which an agency must apply for a section 30 authorisation. Read the guidance