We may disclose your personal information to:
• Our franchisees, licensees, agents and contractors for the purposes set out above, and for the purposes of those parties providing services to us or performing business services or functions on our behalf;
• Members of the Harcourts corporate group;• Other companies or individuals who assist us in providing services or who perform functions on our behalf (such as mailing houses, hosting and data storage providers, specialist consultants and legal advisers);
• other companies or individuals who perform checks (such as but not limited to compliance reviews and audits) that are necessary or desirable under law on our behalf;
• other companies, agencies or individuals that maintain databases against which your identity may be verified, which may include (but is not limited to) the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, and New Zealand Transport Agency;
• social media sites on which we may have a presence;
• courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities (such as the Real Estate Authority, and Ministry of Justice in New Zealand);
• Office of the Ombudsman, where a complaint relates to official information;
• any person or agency we believe could assist in responding to a serious privacy breach.
• Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, where a complaint relates to breach of the Privacy Act 2020;
• Human Rights Commission, where a complaint relates to discrimination;
• CERT NZ, where appropriate to assist with the management of a voluntarily notified privacy breach
• Overseas privacy regulator, where a complaint relates to the actions of an overseas agency;
• If you are undertaking a Harcourts training course we may disclose information to a third party about you or your course for the purposes of assessing your progress, tracking your attendance, providing student support, issuing your results, and providing certificates of completion and/or Statement of Attainments (SoA for nationally recognised training); and
• Anyone else to whom you authorise us to disclose it.
Apart from the above instances, we may also use and disclose your personal information with your consent and as otherwise required or permitted by law.