Privacy statement.
This Privacy Statement outlines in general terms how SPP manages personal information under the Privacy Act 2020 (a Privacy Notice may apply in specific contexts, in addition to or instead of this statement). Please take a moment to read this statement and our website terms. We may update this statement from time to time and encourage you to review it periodically.
Why do we collect personal information?
We may collect personal information for various business and legal purposes, including to:
- provide products and services you have requested and information about our business
- communicate with you and verify your identity
- engage and work with our staff, crew, cast, extras and other participants in our business and our productions
- help us manage and enhance our business
- assist with protecting our visitors, staff, premises, and assets (e.g. security camera footage)
- comply with our legal obligations (e.g. regulatory and contractual requirements) and for health & safety and insurance purposes.
If personal information we request is not provided, we may not be able to supply the relevant product or service, or perform our business operations and comply with our obligations.
What kinds of personal information do we collect?
In general, we may collect the following types of personal information, depending on the nature of your connection with us or the work we’re doing:
- name and contact details
- additional information for our employees, contractors and participants in our productions, such as: qualifications, education and work history, references, health & safety and background checks, and other information relevant to the work or production
- information you provide by engaging with our social media platforms, or by attending an event or entering a prize draw run by or with SPP
- information related to health and safety incidents, including name, contact, and incident details (e.g. any injury and treatment)
- other information to assist us conduct our business and meet our legal obligations.
How do we collect personal information?
We will collect personal information directly from you, or from third parties where authorised by you or permitted by the Privacy Act. We also collect personal information from publicly available sources (e.g. social media accounts, websites, press coverage, directories, company registration information) and otherwise as permitted by law.
Cookies and similar technologies
We may use technology such as cookies and Google Analytics to track and report on traffic at our website. You can set your browser not to accept cookies.
Who do we share your personal information with?
We may disclose your personal information to:
- companies or individuals who assist us to provide services or perform functions on our behalf, such as couriers who deliver parcels, online hosting and storage providers, and data processors (third parties who process your personal information on our behalf)
- if you work on our productions, to people and companies relevant to the production (such as broadcasters, platforms, distributors, financiers, government funding bodies)
- other members of the All3Media group
- our professional advisers such as lawyers and accountants
- governmental and regulatory authorities
- anyone authorised by you and where we are otherwise permitted or required to do so by law.
Where we disclose personal information to a third party outside New Zealand, we check that they are required to protect the information in a way that, overall, provides comparable safeguards to those in the Privacy Act.
Third party websites
This statement applies only to use of personal information by SPP and its subsidiaries. When you link to another website or request a service from a third party (including if you access or buy SPP products through a third party), your dealings will be subject to the third party’s privacy policies and terms of use. We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website you visit and other services that you use.
Lawfulness and security
We collect, use, retain and disclose personal information only when we have a lawful basis for doing so.
We use reasonable safeguards to protect personal information from loss and misuse, and against access, use, modification or disclosure that isn’t authorised by SPP.
How can you access and correct your personal information?
Under the Privacy Act, you may contact us to request access to, and correction of, personal information we hold about you. We may require additional information (including to verify your identity) before disclosing any information to you.
Contact us
If you have questions or want to exercise your rights set out in this statement, you can contact our Privacy Officer at: South Pacific Pictures Limited, PO Box 104-124, Lincoln North, Auckland 0654, New Zealand. Phone (+649) 839 0999, email privacy@spp.co.nz.
If your concerns aren’t resolved, you can contact the NZ Office of the Privacy Commissioner at: PO Box 10-094, The Terrace, Wellington 6140. Phone 0800 803 909, https://privacy.org.nz/.
Last updated 30 April 2026
