Last updated: 5 November 2024
The Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards (NZOTY or NZOTY Awards) and the NZOTY Awards Office is bound by the Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act) in relation to the handling of personal information.
This Privacy Policy sets out:
This Privacy Policy will apply to you and your information from when your nomination is received by you or a third party or if you or a third party submit your application to be a judge on a judging panel. It will continue to apply throughout the life of the NZOTY Awards.
This Privacy Policy covers all our work associated with the NZOTY and all our interactions with participants and judges of the NZOTY Awards. These interactions also include using our apps and website, telephone calls, emails, communications, nomination process, judging process, events and media and promotion of NZOTY.
References in this Privacy Policy to ‘personal information’ has the same meaning given in the Privacy Act. In general terms, it means information that is about you or could identify you.
Personal information may be collected by the NZOTY Awards Office:
The kinds of personal information collected by the NZOTY Awards Office includes, but is not limited to:
The NZOTY Awards Office collects, uses and shares personal information to carry out its functions and activities, which may also include working with other parties such as media, to:
Personal information is also collected for the purposes of:
We may also use contact details supplied by individuals to inform them of upcoming events, and for other promotional purposes. If an individual does not wish to receive these materials, they can notify the NZOTY Awards Office by contacting us at the address below.
Photographs and moving images may be taken by or on behalf of the NZOTY Awards Office, NZOTY partners and sponsors, marketing agencies and media at events organised by the NZOTY Awards Office when promoting the NZOTY Awards regardless of when the image was taken or recorded. The images or recordings may be used by the NZOTY Awards Office solely for the purposes of, and for the life of, the NZOTY Awards, unless you notify NZOTY in writing that your image is not to be used for future promotion. Photographs and moving images taken at NZOTY events may be published on our website, made available to the media and/or the general public as well as suppliers and contractors, partners and NZOTY sponsors.
We store information in New Zealand, electronically and physically and we store electronic information in facilities in New Zealand and Sydney, Australia.
The NZOTY website is: nzawards.org.nz
Our website uses cookies to collect certain information when a user accesses the website, for statistical and website improvement purposes, and user authentication when you login to an online account or service. The types of data collected includes:
Our websites also use Google Analytics, a web analytics tool provided by Google Inc, which uses cookies and JavaScript code to anonymously track and analyse website traffic and usage. Collected data will be transmitted to and stored on Google servers located outside of New Zealand. The NZOTY Awards Office use reports provided by Google Analytics to improve website functionality. The data collected may also be used by Meta/YouTube dependent on ad campaigns.
You can set your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies, however please note this may affect your ability to use the full functionality of our websites.
The personal information we collect from you is stored in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act. We take reasonable steps to ensure the security of your personal information and to do that we use third-party providers to store and process our data and ensure that our cloud-based platforms meet New Zealand privacy requirements.
The NZOTY Awards Office may share personal information for the purpose of assessing the suitability of award nominees and judges and coordinating the NZOTY Awards.
Personal information collected by the NZOTY may be shared to:
NZOTY Awards Office takes steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate, up to date and complete. These steps include maintaining and updating personal information when we are advised by individuals that their personal information has changed, and at other times as necessary.
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at office@nzawards.org.nz.
Access and correction requests and privacy complaints should be made in writing by contacting the NZOTY Awards Office on the details below. If you consider that your complaint was not satisfactorily resolved by the NZOTY Awards Office, you can also make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
See Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Making a complaint to the Privacy Commissioner for further information.
Awards Director
Email – office@nzawards.org.nz
New Zealander of the Year Awards Office
PO Box 1158
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Contact
office@nzawards.org.nz
media@nzawards.org.nz
PO Box 1158
Christchurch 8140 New Zealand