Before you submit your application, please read Manukau Institute of Technology Limited’s
privacy policy.
PERSONAL INFORMATION - PRIVACY ACT 2020*
Manukau Institute of Technology Limited (“MIT”) observes the principles governing the
release of personal information as set out in the Privacy Act 2020 (“the Act”). Personal
information is defined in the Act as “information about an identifiable individual”; it may
include, but is not limited to, information such as your name, age, postal and email addresses,
telephone numbers, image, IRD number, course of study, bank account and credit card details.
MIT’s primary purpose in the collection and storage of your personal information as a student
is to provide you with the course of study for which you are enrolled, and to comply with
various legislative reporting requirements under the Education and Training Act 2020 and
other legislation relating to maintenance of official records and accountability for public
funding. MIT may also collect and use your personal information for other purposes related
to your course of study including corresponding with you for academic and administrative
matters, publishing any award/s conferred on you by MIT during graduation, and sending you
information about MIT courses and programmes that may be of interest to you.
MIT may also
seek personal information from other educational institutions and/or government agencies
or other authorities for the purpose of verifying and maintaining information relating to your
academic records, to comply with MIT’s reporting requirements and/or for statistical or
research purposes relating to MIT’s programmes.
MIT contracts out certain aspects of MIT’s support services/IT administration to external
contractors which may mean that MIT’s external contractors may have access to your
personal information e.g. specific IT contractors that MIT may use to maintain its IT systems.
MIT’s contractors are required to sign confidentiality agreements and as such are only
authorized to use or access personal information in order to deliver the functions/services that
MIT has requested.
Where a contractor is based outside New Zealand, MIT will not transfer
any of your information unless MIT is satisfied that the contractor has obligations to protect
your information that are at least equivalent to the protections offered under New Zealand law.
Personal information collected on this form and at other times during and relating to your
enrolment at MIT may be disclosed to MIT academic and administrative staff where relevant
to their duties, to other educational institutions for the purpose of verifying and maintaining
academic records, and to Government agencies or other authorities as permitted or required
by law.
If you are a recent school/Private Training Establishment (PTE) leaver, MIT may also
advise your school/PTE when you first enrol (including details of what programme you have
enrolled in) and when you complete an MIT qualification.
Please note that your name, date of birth and residency status as entered on this enrolment
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 go
online at www.minedu.govt.nz/goto/nsi.
Government agencies that may be supplied with data collected from your enrolment include:
The government agencies above may supply data collected on this form to Statistics New
Zealand for the purposes of integrating data with data collected by other government
agencies, subject to the provisions of the Statistics Act 1975.
Integrated data is used for
the production of official statistics, to inform policy advice to government and for research
purposes.
In handling data supplied by you on this form, the government agencies are required to comply
with the provisions of the Act.
When required by law, MIT releases information to government agencies such as the New
Zealand Police, Department of Justice, Ministry of Social Development and the Accident
Compensation Corporation (ACC).
MIT takes all reasonable steps to keep your information safe and secure. MIT will retain
your personal information for as long as is necessary for MIT to comply with applicable legal
requirements including, without limitation, the Public Records Act 2005. You have the right
to access and request to have corrected, personal information about you which has been
collected by us. To do so, contact Academic Registry at academicregistry@manukau.ac.nz.
If you are in the European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you
the right to:
• if applicable, withdraw consent for MIT to process your personal data;
• require MIT to delete your data (if that data is not required to meet legal requirements);
• request a copy of your personal data that you have provided to MIT in a structured
commonly-used and machine-readable format;
• restrict or object to certain processing activities;
• make a complaint to a supervisory authority.
*From 1 December 2020, the Privacy Act 1993 will be replaced by the Privacy Act 2020, which contains similar privacy principles and governs the collection, use, storage and
disclosure of personal information.