This Privacy Collection Statement contains details about how Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand ABN 50 084 642 571 including its subsidiaries and the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, a regulated body established under the Institute of Chartered Accountants Act 1996 (NZ) (CA ANZ) may collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in connection with your application to and participation in the CA in Residence Program (Program).

The primary purpose of collecting your personal information (including your first name, last name, e-mail address, mobile phone number, country and city of residence, your image, a video recording of you, the Selection Criteria set out in the CA in Residence Terms and Conditions your biographical information and any other information you provide to CA ANZ is to process your application for the Program and facilitate your participation in the Program. This purpose includes:

a) administering your application and the selection process;
b) managing and facilitating your participation in the Program;
c) promoting you within the Program;
d) promoting the Program (if you are featured in a Program event or case study); and
e) otherwise communicating with you.

CA ANZ may disclose your personal information to third parties such as Partners, start-up community hubs, participants in the Program, its service providers, agents and contractors for the purposes set out in this Privacy Collection Statement. Your personal information may also be disclosed on a CA ANZ website, magazine and on a CA ANZ social media platform (for example, if you are featured in a Program event or in a CA ANZ case study), anywhere in the world for a reasonable period of time following completion of your participation in the Program. In addition, your personal information may be disclosed to overseas recipients, in accordance with CA ANZ Privacy Policy. For further information, please see CA ANZ’ privacy policy located at https://www.charteredaccountantsanz.com/privacy-policy.

By accepting this Privacy Collection Statement, you consent to us disclosing your personal information to overseas recipients.

You can find out more about how we may use, disclose, process and handle your personal information by viewing our privacy policy at Privacy Policy.

Providing us with the requested information is not required by law. However, if you choose not to provide us with the requested information or provide incomplete information, we may not be able to process your application for the Program or participate in the Program.

We are permitted to process your information for the purpose described in this Privacy Collection Statement by relying on one or more of the following lawful grounds: (a) you have explicitly agreed to us processing such information for a specific reason; (b) the processing is necessary to perform the agreement we have with you or to take steps to enter into an agreement with you; (c) the processing is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations; or (d) the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, which include: (i) to protect our business interests; (ii) to ensure that complaints are appropriately investigated; (iii) to evaluate, develop or improve our products and services; (iv) to keep you informed of relevant products and services unless you indicate that you do not wish us to do so. We generally rely on your specific consent to process special categories of personal data (i.e., ‘sensitive information’). However, in some cases (for example, relating to an alleged offence), we may need to use some of that information to comply with our legal obligations.

By submitting your application for the Program or participating in the Program, you consent to CA ANZ processing your information for the purpose described in this Privacy Collection Statement.

Where you have consented to our processing of such information (including any special categories of personal data), you may withdraw such consent at any time, by contacting us using the contact details in our Privacy Policy. Please note, however, that in certain circumstances it may still be lawful for us to continue processing this information even where consent has been withdrawn, if one of the other legal bases described above is applicable.

Our Privacy Policy also contains the contact details of our Privacy Officer and information regarding your rights (including how to withdraw your consent, if applicable) and how you can seek to access and correct your personal information or raise a privacy concern with us and how it will be dealt with.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Collection Statement, our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer.