Our privacy notice

Our privacy notice tells you what we do with your personal information. This includes how we collect, use and share it. We will always treat your information with respect and keep it safe to protect your privacy.

Information

We're committed to respecting your privacy and being clear about how we use your information and who we share it with

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Today you’ll find out about why we collect information about you, what we do with it and how we keep it safe.

Our job is to help you to be safe, strong and independent.

We collect your personal information so we can support your employment, education and living needs.

To deliver our services to you, we use information you give to us and sometimes information from others.

We need to know some things like your birth date, address and other information.

There’s certain information we need to be able to give you a benefit or payment.

You can choose not to give us this information but it means we can’t pay you.

We promise to treat you and your information with respect. We will use your information responsibly and keep it safe.

We use your personal information when we work with you to determine what sort of help we can give you.

We also use information to help us run our operations and design new services or tools.

Sometimes we need to share your information with other agencies or people.

We do this so we can provide you with the right services or when we have a legal reason to share it.

You have a right to see the information we hold on you and you can ask for it to be corrected if it’s wrong.

To find out more about how we collect, use and respect your personal information, please see our privacy notice available on our websites.

We collect your personal information so we can

  • contact you
  • identify you
  • work out how we can help you, and
  • look at what other services might help.

We get this information from you when we work with you. We also collect your information from other people and organisations. Sometimes we create and record information about you.

There's certain information we need, to be able to give you a benefit or payment. You can choose not to give us this information but it means we can't pay you.

More about how we collect your information

We use your information to:

  • make decisions about you
  • look at how we operate
  • design new services or tools.

When we use your information, we'll identify you when we need to help you. We'll try not to identify you when we look at how we operate and design new services or tools.

More about how we use your information

Sometimes we need to share your information with people or organisations outside of the Ministry of Social Development.

We share your information when:

  • our reason for sharing matches the reason we collected it
  • we have a specific legal reason
  • you give us permission to share it.
More about how we share your information

We are committed to respecting your information and keeping it safe. We know your information is very important and take our commitment seriously.

We have systems and safeguards in place to control how we collect, manage and use your information. This helps us use your information appropriately and keep it safe.

More about respecting your information

You can see and manage some of your information online in MyMSD or you can ask us for a copy.

You can also ask us to correct anything if it's not right.

More about managing your information

Questions or Concerns

If you have a question about the information on your file, or a concern about how we've handled your information, you can:

Find your nearest service centre

Complaints

If you would like to make a complaint, you can:

Complaining to the Privacy Commissioner - Privacy Commissioner website