Privacy Information

Unitec collects and holds personal information about students to comply with various statutes, including the Education Act, the Public Finance Act and the Inland Revenue Act, and to enable Unitec to make decisions in relation to your tertiary study at Unitec.

Unitec may use the personal information submitted by you via this website to process your request for an enrolment form, process your enrolment or send you information about Unitec courses and programmes that may be of interest to you. If you do not provide any of the information requested, or if any information provided by you is not true and correct, then Unitec may refuse to process your request/enrolment or may terminate any arrangement agreed to.

Personal information collected on this form may be disclosed to academic and administration staff where relevant to their duties, and also where relevant to other agencies such as the Ministry of Education, Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand Qualifications Authority, StudyLink, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Career Services, tribal trusts and scholarship providers, Ministry of Immigration, Industry Training Organisations, Industry Licensing and Registration bodies, other tertiary institutions, previous secondary schools and providers of work experience for students in courses with a practical component.

Please note that your name, date of birth and residency as entered on any enrolment form will be included in the National Student Index, and will be used in an Authorised Information Matching programme with the New Zealand Birth Register. For further information please see https://nsi.education.govt.nz/home.aspx

In addition, when required by law, Unitec will release information to government agencies such as the New Zealand Police, Department of Justice, Inland Revenue and the Accident Compensation Corporation.

You have the right to access and correct personal information about you which has been collected by Unitec, in accordance with Unitec’s Privacy of Information Policy and Procedures, available at policies.unitec.ac.nz