Privacy Policy
Version 1.3, published May 2026
1. Purpose and background
Consilium NZ Limited (Consilium) is committed to protecting your privacy and the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, handle, use and disclose your personal information. It also explains how you can access and, if necessary, correct personal information we hold about you.
2. What is personal information?
For the purposes of this Policy, Personal Information is any piece of information that relates to a living, identifiable person. Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, your name, contact details or financial details.
3. Who Consilium collects personal information about
We may collect personal information about:
People who are applying for employment with us
People who visit one of our websites or use our online tools.
People who apply for or who are provided with access to Consilium Wrap (Account Holders).
People who are appointed by an Account Holder to have access to their Consilium Wrap account (for example, an accountant or other representative).
Financial advisory firm staff, who may provide services to Account Holders, or who may be users of
another Consilium service.
Service providers or suppliers.
Other third parties with whom we come into contact.
4. What kind of personal information does Consilium collect and hold?
We collect personal information about you when:
You apply for employment
You visit one of our websites
You apply for one of our products and/ or access to Consilium Wrap
You use our case management system
You use our products or services, including our online tools
Participation in an event we are managing and delivering
You contact us
You deal with us in some other way
The information we collect about you may include:
Identification information, such as your name, address, contact details and date of birth
Bank account details
Tax related information, such as your IRD number and information about your tax residency status
Information and documents required to verify your identity and other personal information
Financial and transaction information
Information about your interactions with us, including information about any queries or complaints you make
Any other information that you provide to us or that we obtain from a person acting on your behalf (such as your accountant or financial adviser)
We may also collect personal information about you when you or a person acting on your behalf engages with us, including when we provide you with access to Consilium Wrap or you use any of our other products or services.
5. Collection of personal information from third parties
In some circumstances, Consilium may collect personal information about you from a source other than you directly. This may include information provided by financial advisers, employers, public registers, recruitment agencies, referees, government agencies, or other third parties we work with in providing our products and services.
Where we collect personal information about you from a third party, Consilium will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of:
the fact that your personal information has been collected;
the purpose for which the information has been collected;
the types of persons or organisations to whom the information may be disclosed;
Consilium’s name and contact details and, where applicable, the name of any other agency that holds the information;
whether the collection of the information is authorised or required by law and, if so, the relevant law; and
your right to access and request correction of the personal information we hold about you.
This information may be provided through this Privacy Policy, directly to you, or by other lawful means.
6. For what purposes does Consilium collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
The main purpose for which we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information is to facilitate the provision of our products and services to you. This includes:
Checking whether you are eligible for the applicable product or service
Processing your application
Verifying your identity
Providing our products and services to you, and giving you information about our products and services
Helping to manage and administer the products and services we provide you, including answering your requests and complaints, varying products and services and taking any required legal action
Allowing us to run our business and perform administrative and operational tasks, such as training staff, developing and marketing products and services, risk management, systems development and testing (including of the Consilium Wrap website), and undertaking planning, research and statistical analysis
To comply with legislative or regulatory requirements, including under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013, the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009, and the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (if applicable)
Personal Information we collect is only shared with authorised people that have a business need for that information and in compliance with our internal policies, including our Confidentiality of Information Policy.
7. How does Consilium collect personal information?
We collect personal information directly from you. We may collect your personal information using electronic means (see section 10 for more information). We also collect personal information about you from others. This may happen without your direct involvement. For instance, we may collect personal information about you from:
Your representatives (including your financial adviser or other representatives)
Publicly available sources of information
Third parties, including government agencies, in ways that you would expect for example recruitment agencies, nominated referees, and from conducting background checks
Third party sources such as Linkedin and other professional websites
Your employer (if you are a staff member of an advisory firm)
Our service providers or other organisations that are involved in providing our products and services to you, including any administrator or custodian you have appointed
Commercial information service providers, bureaus or other persons that help us verify your identity or help us identify, investigate or prevent fraud or other misconduct
Where personal information is collected indirectly, Consilium will notify individuals in accordance with Information Privacy Principle 3A of the Privacy Act 2020, unless an exception applies.
8. How does Consilium hold personal information?
Consilium strives to maintain the relevance, reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of the personal information we hold, and to protect its privacy and security. Much of the information Consilium holds about you will be stored electronically in secure data centres, which are located in Australia and New Zealand. This does not include third parties backing up or mirroring their data in overseas jurisdictions. Some of your personal information may be stored in paper files, which will be held securely in Consilium’s office.
9. Who does Consilium disclose personal information to, and why?
Consilium may disclose your personal information to external organisations that help us offer our products and services, including our service providers, for the purposes of offering and providing you with those products and services.
These may include:
The administrator and custodian of Consilium Wrap
Our agents, contractors and external service providers (for example, information technology service providers)
Financial services organisations, including brokers, custodians, fund managers and portfolio service providers
Our legal advisers or auditors
Your representatives (including, where appropriate, your financial adviser and their staff, legal adviser,
accountant, or other representatives)
Service providers that help us verify your identity or help us identify, investigate or prevent fraud or other misconduct
External dispute resolution schemes
Any of our related parties or affiliates
We may also disclose your personal information to others where:
Required or authorised by law or regulation (eg to our regulator and/or supervisor) or where we have a public duty to do so
When you have expressly consented to the disclosure, or your consent may be reasonably inferred from the circumstances
Our service providers are required to comply with the Privacy Act and only use the personal information we disclose to them for the limited and specific role we ask them to perform.
10. Use of anonymised data
We use anonymised data (data that does not include personal information that could identify an individual) for analytical and marketing purposes.
11. Does Consilium collect personal information electronically?
Consilium collects information from you electronically, for example through our websites, Consilium Wrap and the Consilium Portal. Each time you visit any of our websites or online tools, we collect information about your use of the website or tool, which may include the following:
The date and time of visits
Pages viewed
How you navigate through the site and interact with pages (including fields completed in forms and applications completed)
Location information
Information about the device used to visit the site
IP addresses
We use technology called cookies (which allow us to track your use of our websites and platforms) whenever you visit one of our websites. Cookies are used to identify your visit to our websites, allowing us to identify you the next time you visit and to provide you with a more meaningful experience.
Cookies enhance our ability to offer secure and reliable services online. The cookies we send to your computer cannot read your computer’s hard drive, obtain any information from your browser or command your computer to perform any action. Cookies are designed so that they cannot be sent to another site or be retrieved by any other website.
12. Access to and correction of personal information
You have a right to seek access to your Personal Information and, if necessary, request corrections to it, There are some circumstances in which we are not required to give you access to your personal information.
If we refuse your request for access to, or to correct, your personal information, we will explain why, unless it would be unreasonable to do so.
If we refuse your request to access or correct your personal information, we will also provide you with information on how you can complain about the refusal.
Please also advise us if you believe that any information we hold about you has changed, so we can ensure that all information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date.
13. Retention of personal information
How long we hold your personal information for will vary. The retention period will be determined by the following:
The purpose for which we are using your personal information – we will need to keep the information for as long as is necessary for that purpose; and
Legal obligations – laws or regulation may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal information.
If personal information is no longer needed, then it is destroyed or disposed of in a secure manner.
14. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Policy from time to time. If so, we will publish the updated Policy and notify you, which may be by way of notice on our website. You can always find the current version of this policy here: https://www.consilium.co.nz/privacy-policy/.
15. How to contact us
You may contact us at any time if you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or about how your personal information has been handled.
You can contact Consilium’s Privacy Officer at:
Email: privacy@consilium.co.nz
Post: PO Box 1106, Christchurch, 8140
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at 0800 803 909 or www.privacy.org.nz.