Money and You Privacy Policy

October 2021

The Financial Services Council of New Zealand Incorporated (FSC) is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring all personal information we collect, use, hold, disclose, access, correct, manage and dispose of is in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.

The FSC will not intentionally disclose any personal information about you (such as your name, address, telephone number, credit card number, or Email address) to any third party (except as outlined in this policy) unless we have your permission, or we are required to disclose by law or a court order.

Changing your personal information

If you want to check any personal information that the FSC has collected or holds about you or you wish to request a correction or permanent removal of your personal information, please email fsc@fsc.org.nz with “Correction of Personal Information” in the subject line.

Collection of and Storage Information

The FSC collects personal information provided to us directly or automatically via the Money and You website.

Money and You communications

If you sign up to receive Money and You or FSC communications such as newsletters, the information you provide on the Money and You website is then processed by FSC staff. This information is then stored in secure FSC files or CRM software.

The Money and You website

The Money and You website automatically collects some anonymous “non-personally identifiable” aggregate information about visitors when pages on our Money and You website are requested through a browser. This information is used for statistical purposes and to help us monitor how many guests navigate our site, allowing us to customise our service for future visitors.

The Money and You website collects IP addresses as a component of the non-personally identifiable aggregate information. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by a web server when you are on the Internet. This information is used only for non-user specific purposes, such as determining how many users visited a specific area of our Money and You website. However, if it were necessary, such information could be used to identify a user in order to comply with safety or security issues or with legal requirements.

Use of information

FSC staff have access to personal information you provide for ongoing communications. Third party staff may also have access which is limited to IT support, website management or those involved in email communication design or distribution such as newsletters or surveys. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such communications.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files that were created by other sites. The website that creates a cookie is the only one a browser will permit to access it. Cookies do not allow the FSC to personally identify you by name, email address, or other personal information. The FSC may use cookies to analyse site activity and customise content. The FSC does not use cookies in connection with online donations.

Other websites

The Money and You website, including videos, podcasts and blogs may reference or contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link or access these websites, they will have their own privacy policies and the FSC does not accept any responsibility or liability for those policies. Please check those policies before you submit any personal information to those websites.

Disposal

At such time as you notify us of your intention to unsubscribe to further Money and You or FSC communications, the FSC will take all reasonable steps to ensure all information collected and stored relating to you is deleted from all software and lists maintained by the FSC.