Privacy statement
1. About this privacy statement
This privacy statement applies to personal information collected by Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira Incorporated, an incorporated society registered in New Zealand (incorporation number 417771) (in this statement, ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) from our website users and Ngāti Toa iwi members (‘members’) (‘you’, ‘your’), through our website, including when processing an application to become a member, grant and scholarship applications, job applications and contact requests, or when otherwise interacting with members and website users.
2. Information we collect from you
We may collect the following information from you when you interact with us, for the following purposes:
3. If you do not agree to provide us with personal information
You don’t have to give us personal information about you, or any other person. However, if you do not provide us with the information we request, we may not be able to provide you with our services or you may not be able to fully benefit from your membership.
4. Information you give us about other people
We may collect personal information about someone else from you.
If you do provide us with someone else’s personal information, you must make sure you have that person’s authority to do so and you must make sure that person knows that their information may be used by us in the circumstances set out in this statement.
5. Where personal information is held
The personal information that we collect may be held by us:
by our cloud service providers located in New Zealand or overseas; and
in physical files held securely at our premises.
6. Disclosing your information
We only disclose your information to others for the purposes described in this statement, or as otherwise permitted under New Zealand privacy law.
In addition to the specific ways that we’ve described in this statement, we may also disclose the personal information we hold about you to the following persons:
7. Your rights
You have the right to:
request access to personal information that we hold about you; and
request that we correct personal information that we hold about you.
8. Contacting us
You may contact our privacy officer:
by post, at:
Privacy Officer
Te Runanga O Toa Rangatira Incorporated
PO Box 50355, Porirua 5022, New Zealand.
by email, at:
privacy@ngatitoa.iwi.nz
9. Keeping us updated
It is important to us that the personal information that we hold about you or any other person is accurate and complete. Please let us know as soon as possible if you think we may need to make changes to the information that we hold.
10. Amendments
We may make changes to this privacy statement from time-to-time by publishing an updated version of this privacy statement on our website.
Last update: May 2025