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Allied Media Privacy Statement 

Last updated: 23 July 2026 

At Allied Media, we are committed to protecting your privacy.  

This Privacy Statement (Statement) explains how we collect, use and disclose your personal information and is informed by Allied Media's responsibilities under the Privacy Act 2020 (NZ) (Privacy Act).  

In this Statement, "Allied Media", "we", "us" and "our" means Allied Press Limited, trading as Allied Media (NZBN 9429034064733) together with its subsidiaries.  

This Statement applies to personal information collected by us 

  • when you access and/or use any of the websites or digital platforms operated by Allied Media (Platforms); 

  • when you subscribe to our publications, newsletters or other communications; or 

  • when you otherwise interact with us in respect of our products and services.  

This Statement does not apply to personal information we collect and hold about our employees, contractors or other personnel. 

We encourage you to read this Statement carefully. If you have any questions about it, please contact us using the details provided below. 

We may update this Statement from time to time. The current version will be available on our Platforms. If we make material changes to this Statement, we may take further steps to notify you in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act, including through notices posted on our Platforms or via email. 

In this Statement: 

  • applicable privacy laws means the Privacy Act together with all other data privacy laws applicable to our processing of your personal information; 

  • personal information has the meaning given in applicable privacy law, generally meaning identifiable information about you; and 

  • where we refer to processing your personal information, we mean all activities relating to our use of that personal information, from its collection through to its storage and disposal and everything in between. 

  1. COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION  

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with us (for example, whether you are a subscriber, a casual visitor to our Platforms, or otherwise).  

Personal information you provide to us directly  

We collect your personal information predominately so that we can provide and/or perform our services, manage our relationship with you, and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. 

We may collect personal information directly from you:  

  • when you contact us using the online forms available on our Platforms, email us, or otherwise engage with our Allied Press staff directly;   

  • when you subscribe to access any of our print and/or digital publications;  

  • when you register a free account on our Platforms without purchasing a subscription; 

  • when you attend, register for or sponsor an event we run or partner on; 

  • when you request a media kit, rate card or advertising proposal; 

  • when you apply for or use a corporate subscription, including through your employer; 

  • when you purchase or enquire about advertising, marketing, creative, production, printing or distribution services;  

  • when you enter competitions, promotions, prize draws, surveys or polls we may run from to time; or  

  • when you submit content, press releases, media materials or other editorial content to us via our Platforms or otherwise directly to any Allied Press staff.  

The information we collect directly may include your name, contact details (such as email address, phone number and postal address), subscriber account details, payment details, communication preferences, content or materials you submit to us (i.e. competition entries and survey responses), and other information necessary to facilitate your subscription or provide our services to you.  

You can choose not to provide us with our personal information. However, If you do not provide the requested information, we may not be able to provide access to our products and/or services, subscribe you to our newspapers and publications, respond to your enquiry, or otherwise provide our services to you.  

Call recording 

We may record calls to our customer service or subscription management teams (both when we call you and when you call us) to: 

  • improve the quality of our services; 

  • make sure we have an accurate record of your call; 

  • train our staff; and 

  • help ensure any information we give you is accurate. 

Where call recording is used, we will take reasonable steps to notify you in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act (including where required, by notifying you at the start of our call). Call recordings will be held and used by use in accordance with this Statement.  

Personal information collected automatically 

Cookies and third-party analytics 

Our Platforms use cookies, third-party analytics and similar technologies to ensure core functionality and to help us understand how our Platforms and content are used.  

Cookies may collect information about your device and how you interact with our Platforms, including your IP address, browser type and version, device or platform information, approximate location, pages visited, time spent on pages, the date and time of visits, referring pages and interactions with content or advertising. 

We use information generated by cookies to: 

  • track traffic patterns to and from our Platforms, including how users engage with content; 

  • understand audience behaviour and measure Platform, content and advertising performance; 

  • help ensure advertising is shown to relevant audiences and manage the frequency of certain advertising formats; 

  • remember your preferences and settings; 

  • manage subscriptions and provide access to subscriber-only or restricted content and services; 

  • keep you logged in and maintain your session across pages, Platforms and visits; 

  • operate and enforce our paywall, including counting article views and managing metered or free-article limits; 

  • personalise the content, articles and newsletters shown to you; 

  • support subscription marketing, including identifying registered users who are not subscribers and presenting relevant subscription offers; and  

  • otherwise improve our Platforms, publications, services and user experience. 

The cookies we use may include: 

  • Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are required for our Platforms to function. They support core functionality such as page navigation, session management, load balancing and security. Our Platforms cannot operate properly without these cookies. 

  • Authentication and access cookies: these cookies identify you when you log in, keep you signed in across pages and visits, recognise your subscription status, and enable us to operate our paywall, including managing access to subscriber-only content and applying any metered or free-article limits. 

  • Preference cookies: these cookies remember choices you have made, such as display settings, saved locations, and notifications or banners you have previously dismissed. 

  • Newsletter related cookies: our Platforms offer a range of newsletter or subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. 

  • Forms related cookies: when you submit information through contact forms, advertising enquiry forms or other online forms, cookies may be set to remember your details for future correspondence. 

  • Analytics cookies: these cookies help us understand how our Platforms, content and newsletters are used, including which pages are visited, how long visitors spend on them, and how readers engage with our journalism. 

  • Advertising cookies: these cookies support the delivery of advertising on our Platforms, including selecting advertising likely to be relevant to you, limiting the number of times you see a particular advertisement, and measuring advertising performance. 

Third-party analytics and tracking 

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about usage of our Platforms and for marketing purpose using third-party cookies and similar technologies. The information generated by the cookie is transmitted to Google, who then produces reports to help us understand how you use our Platforms and ways we can improve your experience. Third-party cookies used by Google Analytics may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. Where you are logged in to an account with us, we may associate analytics information with your subscriber or registered user record. For more information on how Google Analytics processes information, please see here. 

  • Paywall analytics: we use third-party providers like Piano to operate our subscription and paywall services. These provides use third-party cookies on our Platforms identify your subscription or registration status, apply access rules to our content, record article consumption for metering purposes, and help us determine which subscription offers to present to you. 

  • Google Ad Manager: we use Google Ad Manager to serve and manage advertising on our Platforms, including selecting advertising, managing advertising frequency and measuring advertising performance. 

  • Advertising and content analytics: we use third-party providers like Taboola to provide content recommendations and native advertising on our Platforms. These providers may use cookies and similar technologies on our Platforms to understand your interests and interactions across the websites within its network in order to recommend content and advertising. 

  • Social media features: Our Platforms also use social media features (like the Meta pixel and related technologies) to measure the effectiveness of our advertising on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram and to present relevant advertising to audiences on those platforms. 

  • Market research: our Platforms may feature audience measurement and media planning software, like Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which contributes to market research such as digital content ratings. To learn more about the information Nielsen software may collect and your choices in relation to it, please see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Statement available here. 

  • Embedded content: some of our content includes material embedded from third-party services such as Dailymotion, YouTube, X or Instagram. These services may set their own cookies when embedded content is displayed or played. 

  • Mobile applications: our mobile applications may use device identifiers and similar technologies in place of cookies for equivalent purposes, including analytics, subscription access and advertising. 

Most web browsers will allow you to set some control over cookies in your browser settings. This includes deleting them from your browser or disabling them altogether. If you do disable cookies, some functionality or features of our Platforms or services may not function properly or be fully available, and we may not be able to control the frequency or relevant of certain advertising shown to you. 

For more information on cookies and how you can manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org. 

Personal information collected indirectly  

While most personal information about you we collect will be directly from you, in some cases, we may collect personal information about you from other sources, including:  

  • our related companies; 

  • service providers and distribution partners (such as subscription, payment, print delivery or Platform analytics providers);  

  • survey, promotion or competition partners;  

  • event sponsors or commercial partners; 

  • your employer, if you have subscribed for any of our products on a corporate subscription, we may collect limited contact information from your employer to facilitate your subscription;  

  • other persons who provide information to us (for example, where content is submitted or you are referred to us); and  

  • where we have your authorisation, or to the extent otherwise permitted by law.  

Where we collect personal information about you from a third party, we will do so in accordance with applicable privacy laws. 

If you provide us with any personal information about another individual, you must ensure that you have that individual’s consent to do so.  

  1. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION  

We collect your personal information primarily to provide our services and products to you. We may use your personal information:  

  • Subscription management: to provide, maintain and manage your subscriptions, including verifying subscriber accounts, managing subscription requests, renewals and cancellations, and related subscriber communications;  

  • content, publications and digital services: to provide access to our content, publications, digital platforms and other services;  

  • editorial engagement and submissions: to receive, review, manage and respond to press releases, media material, letters, tips, feedback, photographs, video, audio or other content or materials submitted to us which may be considered for publication across our print and digital publications or Platforms;  

  • advertising, audience insights and commercial services: to understand audience behaviour and engagement, measure the performance of content and advertising, support advertising sales, develop audience insights, and help advertisers, sponsors and commercial partners understand and reach relevant audiences; 

  • content engagement: to understand how readers engage with our publications, content, newsletters and advertising;  

  • marketing and communications: if you opt-in to receive newsletters, marketing information or other information about publications, services or events, we may use your personal information to contact you by email and/or post with the information you have opted-in to receive;  

  • competitions, promotions, surveys and research: to administer competitions, promotions, surveys, market research and related activities, including contacting participants and managing entries or prizes;  

  • events and community initiatives: to administer and manage events, sponsorships, community initiatives and related communications; 

  • customer support and enquiries: to monitor and respond to, your enquiries and keep records of our correspondence with you. 

  • operations and improvement: to operate, maintain, improve and enhance our Platforms, publications, services, systems, business operations, content, advertising products and user experience. 

  • security: to detect and/or prevent illegal activity that may threaten us, our users, systems, events, business or operations. 

  • record keeping and reporting: to create and maintain our databases, back-up copies of our data basis and business records generally. 

  • risk management: where necessary, for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims or to respond to regulatory or law enforcement requests. We may also use your personal information where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance, managing risks and/or obtaining professional advice. 

  • consent and compliance: where we otherwise have your consent, in accordance with that consent, or to the extent otherwise permitted by applicable privacy law. 

  1. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION  

We may disclose your personal information:  

  • to our related companies to support the provision of our services, including for example to support our delivery operations. These are companies that are partly or fully owned by Allied Press or Allied Press' parent company, Fraser Smith Holdings Limited, and their use of your personal information remains governed by this Statement;  

  • to third-party service providers who assist us with our operations, including delivery and logistics, payment processing, email and marketing communications, or Platform hosting and analytics services. We take reasonable steps to limit these third-party service providers access to your personal information so they only have what is necessary to perform the services we contract them to provide; 

  • to event, promotion, survey or competition partners so they can support us with any event, promotion, competition, survey or poll we may run;  

  • venue operators and related service providers in connection with events so they can support the provision of any event we may run;  

  • to regulators, law enforcement bodies, government agencies, courts or other third parties (such as legal or other professional advisors) where it is necessary to comply with any applicable law or regulation, or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights; and 

  • To other third parties where the disclosure is authorised by you or otherwise required or permitted by law. 

We also may share audience or engagement information with our advertisers or partners. This information will generally be aggregated or de-identified unless disclosure of identifiable information is authorised or required unless the disclosure is otherwise authorised by you or permitted under applicable privacy law.  

We take reasonable steps to ensure that third parties who receive your personal information keep it confidential and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed. 

Some of third parties to whom we disclose your personal information may be located outside of New Zealand. Where any disclosure is to an overseas third party, we will do so in accordance with the requirements for overseas transfers of personal information under applicable privacy law.   

  1. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, ADVERTISERS AND PARTNERS 

Our Platforms may contain links to third-party websites, content providers, advertisers or services. 

We do not control those third parties or their privacy practices. If you provide personal information to a third party, their privacy policies will apply. 

Some third parties (including advertisers) may collect information about your interactions with our Platforms using cookies or similar technologies. Those third parties may use that information in accordance with their own privacy policies. 

We recommend that you review any relevant third-party privacy policies before providing personal information to third parties. 

  1. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION  

In accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act, we take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, unauthorised access, use or disclosure. 

We will not keep your personal information for longer than is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless required or permitted by law. 

In the event of a privacy breach that we believe is likely to cause serious harm, we will notify affected individuals and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as required by law.  

  1. YOUR RIGHTS  

Under the Privacy Act, you have the right to request access to, and correction of, your personal information. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided below. 

If you are unsatisfied with how we handle your request, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand for review of our handling of your request. 

If you have any concerns about how we handle your personal information, we encourage you to contact us using the details below. If we cannot resolve your concern, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commission or lodge a complaint at www.privacy.org.nz.  

  1. MARKETING PREFERENCES AND UNSUBSCRIBING 

You may opt out of receiving marketing or promotional communications from us at any time by using the unsubscribe function included in the relevant communication, or by contacting us using the details below. 

If you unsubscribe from marketing communications, we may retain limited information necessary to ensure we do not send you further marketing communications. 

  1. CONTACT US  

If you have any questions about this Statement or our handling of your personal information, you can: 

  • email us at privacy@alliedmedia.co.nz 

  • write to us at PO Box 517, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; or 

  • call us on (+64) 3 477 4760.