We (“we” and “us” refers to the Sara Templeton Campaign) are required to comply with the Privacy Act 2020. We take care to keep information you submit to this website secure. We do not share your personal information with other organisations, unless required to by law or as specified in this policy. We may change this privacy policy at any time without notice. You do not have to supply information to us.

We may collect personal information provided voluntarily by you, including your:

• Name and contact information.

• Policy interests.

• Demographic information.

• Interactions with us.

Although we use cookies on our web sites, no personally identifiable information is associated with them unless you log in.

We collect personal information to:

• Keep in touch with you, including by email, post, phone, and text message.

• Campaign, market, and tailor our communications to you.

• Manage volunteering and donations.

• Run surveys to gain opinions on important issues.

• Comply with legal requirements. 

Subscribing to email updates, donating, signing up to events or as a volunteer means you agree to receive communications from us.

Social media and PUblic sources:

If you interact with Sara Templeton’s accounts on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, we may collect personal information such as your name and social media account name.

We may match information collected with information from other sources, including public sources such as the electoral roll.

THird-party tools and cookies:

We use third-party tools (such as Google Analytics), log files, and cookies to collect statistical and demographic information about website visitors, including: location, browser details, behavioural and interaction information (including referral URLs and search terms), and computer and network information.

Google provides instructions to opt-out of having information collected by Google Analytics here.

To help our supporters draw their friends’ attention to the issues they care about, we provide social media sharing buttons and widgets on our website. These buttons or widgets may track your behaviour on our website and may combine this with other information about your online behaviour from other websites.

correction of data:

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. We will respond to requests within 20 working days or will notify you if it will take longer than 20 working days to complete your request. You have the right to ask the Privacy Commissioner to review a decision made by us about your request.

If you would like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please email kiaora@saratempleton.nz.

UnsubScribing:

You may unsubscribe from our mailing lists by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of our emails, or replying ‘STOP’ to a text message sent by us. You can email kiaora@saratempleton.nz at any time to request this. 

Do we share this information?:

Personal information held by our database will never be passed on to third parties, unless required by law or as specified in this privacy policy.

Where this information is required for our campaign team to carry out their duties, we share some information with staff and volunteers for the purpose of contacting supporters. 

We share some information with suppliers of services to the campaign, which may be stored and processed on servers located outside of New Zealand. Online credit card payments are encrypted, processed using an external credit card payment processor (for example, Stripe), and credit card numbers are not stored by us.

If you sign a petition, open letter, make a submission or something similar we may share your name with the relevant decision maker (for example, Parliament).

We may share anonymised versions of your data with partners like social media providers to help achieve our goals by delivering personalised social media content to current and potential supporters.

We may disclose information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law, facilitate legal proceedings, prevent harm to people or property in an emergency, or protect our rights.

Disclosure of donations:

In accordance with the Local Electoral Act 2001, the campaign must within 55 days after the day on which the successful candidates at any election are declared to be elected, file a return of electoral donations and expenses.

In respect of electoral donations (or contributions) received by the candidate that, either on its own or when aggregated with all other donations (or contributions) made by or on behalf of the same donor (or contributor) for use in the same campaign, exceeds $1,500 in sum or value, the following information must be included on the electoral donations and expenses return:

• The name of the donor (or contributor); and 

• The address of the donor (or contributor); and

• The amount of the donation (or contribution). In the case of aggregated donations (or contributions), the total amount of the donations (or contributions); and 

• The date the donation was received or, in the case of aggregated donations, the date that each donation was received.

We will do our best to prevent breaches of security and privacy and will act to assess, contain, and prevent further breaches. If appropriate, we will also notify you if we believe your privacy has been breached. If you become aware of a breach please inform kiaora@saratempleton.nz immediately.