Customs General Privacy Statement

Customs’ general privacy statement tells you how Customs collects, stores, safeguards, uses and shares personal information in our work generally. It also outlines your rights to view and correct your own personal information. The statement applies to most activities Customs performs in its work to manage the movement of people, goods and craft across the New Zealand border. The statement is made up of the below areas.

  • Collecting, storing and using your personal information
  • Accessing your personal information
  • Correcting your personal information
  • Sharing your personal information
  • Our privacy values
  • Additional privacy statements
    • This section contains additional privacy statements used at Customs.
Collecting, storing and using your personal information

We collect personal information because we need it as part of what we do
Accessing your personal information

Under the Privacy Act, you can request access to personal information an organisation holds about you.
Correcting your personal information

The Privacy Act gives you the right to request corrections to personal information an organisation holds about you.
Sharing your information

Customs collects your information to enable it to identify and mitigate risks to New Zealand at the border.

Our privacy values

As a government agency that handles personal and business information every day, Customs has a responsibility to ensure we manage your information with care and respect, and that any information we disclose is done so appropriately.
Privacy Statements

Privacy Statements tell you why Customs collects personal information and what we do with it.