Who we are

We are Unite Union of Aotearoa, a registered Trade Union. Our main website address is: https://unite.org.nz.

Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We will not share your data with any other organisation or person without your explicit and individual permission.

If you support our application to initiate bargaining for a Hospitality Fair Pay Agreement we may share your name, occupation, employer’s name and industry type with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment solely for the purpose of our application. MBIE are prohibited under the Fair Pay Agreements Act 2022 from giving that information to any other person.

How long we retain your data

For users that sign up on our website we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Some information may be used in other services (eg email or sms text services) to facilitate communication with users and Website and other service administrators will be able to see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have signed up on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us and where and how that data is stored. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you submit content

We may request submissions from readers. We will require contact details to be provided with any submission but will not publish those details unless we have your specific and explicit permission to do so.

If you submit written, audio or video content it will be moderated before publishing, but by submitting the content you give permission for Unite Union to use your submission for the purposes of promoting, campaigning and bargaining for a Hospitality Fair Pay Agreement.

If you need to contact us about any of the information or content we hold for you please email privacy@unite.org.nz