Farmers Adverse Events Trust is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information it collects and receives.  We are required to comply with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (“the Act”).

This policy explains how Farmers Adverse Events Trust collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise handles personal information relating to individuals.  It also explains how you can ask to access and correct the personal information we hold about you or complain about any suspected privacy breach.  Nothing in this policy limits any of our other obligations at law.  

Use of your information

Farmers Adverse Events Trust does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

Farmers Adverse Events Trust may use this personal information to help us provide the Services to you, to verify your identity, to apply our terms and conditions, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Farmers Adverse Events Trust of New Zealand, our users, or others, for internal research purposes, for promoting and marketing other Farmers Adverse Events Trust’ products and Services to you, and for any other use that you authorise.  We may disclose your personal information to third parties for the purposes of comparing databases.

We may release personal information if we consider that the release is necessary for legal compliance and law enforcement (including to government agencies with statutory law enforcement responsibilities); to facilitate court proceedings; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Farmers Adverse Events Trust, our users, or others. Government agencies with statutory roles enabling them to request data from us includes but is not restricted to Police, IRD and the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. Farmers Adverse Events Trust can be contacted to ask whether such information has been provided.

Where Farmers Adverse Events Trust contracts third parties to undertake various services, we may provide those third parties with any personal information required to fulfill those services. These contracted services may include sending you letters for address verification, or newsletters, information or other material relevant to our Services, or conducting research for Farmers Adverse Events Trust to ensure the service and information we provide you are relevant and personalised to your interests. Farmers Adverse Events Trust may also use third party customer or member relationship management services to manage its business operations, enquiries, and generate reports for internal use. We require any third party to sign confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.

Cookies may be used by Farmers Adverse Events Trust and affiliated websites.  Most internet browsers are set to accept cookies.  If you prefer not to receive them, you can adjust your internet browser to reject cookies, or to notify you when they are being used.  Rejecting cookies can, however, limit the functionality of the website.  

Farmers Adverse Events Trust websites may enable Google Analytics demographics and interest reporting functionality available through Google Analytics.  You can find out more from Google.com.

Security of Personal Information

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information we hold from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. You can also help to protect the privacy of your personal information by keeping any passwords secret and by ensuring that you log out of the website when you have completed your transaction.  If you become aware of any security breach, please contact Farmers Adverse Events Trust office as soon as possible.  

Your details are securely stored by database service providers ‘IT Room’ and ‘NTT’ in Wellington and Cloud-based servers.  

Access to Personal Information

You are able to access your personal information that we hold, except as provided for in the Act.  Please contact us to get this information.

Further information

You can find out more information about your rights at the website for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner www.privacy.org.nz.