For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, "we" means Fairfax New Zealand Limited trading as The Press newspaper and our two partners with the PressPass Research Panel, Futurescape Global Ltd and Buzz Channel Ltd (Partners).

As a member of the PressPass Research Panel we are committed to maintaining your privacy and anonymity. When you join the PressPass Research Panel your personal information and responses are treated as completely confidential.

The PressPass Research Panel has partnered with two companies to make sure your experience as a member is enjoyable and secure. These two companies, Futurescape Global Limited (Futurescape) and Buzz Channel Limited (Buzz), are equally committed to achieving the highest level of privacy. Read more about our Partners on "About Us'.

When we run surveys and ask for your opinion your responses are aggregated by our Partners prior to people at The Press viewing the results. This way, we don't link your contact details to your responses and your anonymity is preserved.

If we ever want to talk further to panel members because of interesting statements made in surveys or for other reasons, our Partners will contact you to get your permission for The Press to contact you, prior to us being given your name and email address.

Your trust in the PressPass Research Panel is a responsibility we honour. Here are the other commitments we make to you:

• We will not make any personal information of our panel members available to anyone without your permission, except in the rare instances required by law. This includes your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.
• We will not use your contact details from your panel membership to try to sell you anything - the purpose of the panel is to gain insight into our readers and their views on The Press . Also, we will not provide your contact details to anyone else who might try to sell you anything.
• We unequivocally promise to hold details of your participation on the PressPass Research Panel in strictest confidence.
• We will only use the contact information you give us to email you regarding participation in surveys, to validate information you have given, or to provide information on incentives and the PressPass Research Panel developments and new initiatives. Very occasionally we may use the email address to ask your permission to take part in other activities.
• At any time you can log in at www.presspass.co.nz to view the membership details we have on record about you, and at this time you can edit your details or cancel your membership by clicking on 'unsubscribe' either in your membership area in emails that are sent to you.

Finally, as is the case with any information you provide to any business operating in New Zealand, information provided to the PressPass Research Panel is subject to disclosure if we receive a judicial or other Government subpoena, warrant or order.

Any enquiries regarding this Privacy Statement can be sent to enquiries@presspass.co.nz.