Privacy for Beginners

Every organisation that handles personal information – including about their volunteers - has obligations under the Privacy Act to handle that information with care, transparency and respect.  This session will take you through the basics you need to know when collecting, storing, using, sharing and retaining volunteer personal information – as well as responding to information requests and privacy breaches. Taking a pragmatic approach and with time for questions, the goal is that by the end you’ll feel more confident about how to ‘do privacy right’.   

About the presenter:

Emma Pond

Principal & Director

A former lawyer, Emma is a senior privacy professional with over 20 years’ privacy and related experience. With a genuine interest in people and what makes them tick, Emma has a particular interest in privacy training and awareness.

Emma’s privacy career began at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, where she managed the Auckland Investigations Team until 2012. Emma then moved into the private sector, becoming Senior Legal Counsel (Privacy) for NZ’s biggest health insurer, Southern Cross Health Society. She joined Simply Privacy as a Director in 2019.

Emma holds a BA/LLB (Hons), the IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) certifications, is a LEADR trained mediator, and an IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP).