I lalo o le Tulafono o le Puipuiga o Faamatalaga Patino (Privacy Act) e mafai ona e talosagaina au faamaumauga (po o se nisi lava faamatalaga e faatatau ia te oe) mai i soo se faalapotopotoga latou te umia au faamaumauga, e aofia ai ma ofisa a le malo.
A e fesili mo au faamaumauga, e faatulafonoina le tatau ona tuu atu au faamaumauga o loo iai faamatalaga e patino ia te oe (mo se faataitaiga, o le tuu atu o kopi o au faamaumauga ia te oe).
Malamalama i nai mafuaaga faatulafonoina e ao ai ona e mauaina au faamatalaga.
I lalo o le tulafono o le Privacy Act, e ia te oe le aiā tatau e mauaina au faamaumauga i le ala e talafeagai ma oe. Malamalama atili i ou aiā tatau e maua ai au faamaumauga i le ala e talafeagai ma oe.open_in_new
E taulimaina loa e se faalapotopotoga lau talosaga, e 20 aso faigaluega e tuu iai e latou te tali atu ai ia te oe pe mafai ona avatu se kopi o au faamaumauga ma le taimi e tatau ona e mauaina ai.
Atonu e sili atu ma le 20 aso faigaluega faatoa tuu atu ai sau kopi o faamaumauga.
A le mafai ona avatu se faamatalaga, e ao lava ona faamalamalama atu le mafuaaga (mo se faataitaiga, pe a fai o nisi o au faamaumauga ua leiloloa pe faatafunaina).
O nisi vaega o au faamaumauga ua ono faatapulaaina (o faamatalaga ua aveesea), ma o isi faamaumauga e le ono avatua ia te oe ona o mafuaaga tatau i Tulafono e Puipuia Faamatalaga Patino. E seasea ae iai foi tulaga ua tuuina atu ma se tau e totogi e mauaina ai au faamaumauga.
Ae paga lea, o nisi tagata ua maua ane a latou faamaumauga ua lē lelei ona vaaia ma ua leiloloa, faaleagaina, ma faatafunaina.
Malamalama atili i mafuaaga ua itiiti ai au faamaumauga nai le mea na e mafaufauina.
Malamalama atili i ou aiā tatau i lalo o le Tulafono o le Privacy Actopen_in_new.
I lalo o le tulafono o le Official Information Act (OIA) e ia te oe le aiā tatau e maua ai faamatalaga aloaia o loo umia e ofisa a le malo.
O ‘Faamatalga aloaia’ o soo se faamatalaga o umia e ofisa a le malo. E mafai ona iai o:
O faiga faavae na iai a o tausiaina oe. Mo se faataitaiga:
E masani, a e talosaga i faamatalaga aloaia, o le ofisa o le malo e tatau na tuuina atu le faamatalaga ia te oe se‘i vagana ua iai se mafuaaga tonu e lē mafai ai, e pei ona faataatia mai e le OIA.
E iai foi i nisi tulaga e ono tuuina atu se tau e totogi e mauaina ai au faamatalaga aloaia.
Malamalama atili i ou aiā tatau i faamatalaga mai ofisa a le maloopen_in_new.
O le OIA e aofia ai foi ma:
E mafai ona e talosagaina faamaumauga a lou aiga o soifua pea pe ua maliliu.
Peitai ane vagana lava o loo ia te oe le faatagaga mai se sui o lou aiga e te faataunuuina ai lea tulaga mo latou pe o se maliega faaletulafono (power of attorney) e lē avatua e faalapotopotoga faamaumauga ia te oe.
E masani lava i lalo o le Privacy Act, e pau faamatalaga e iai lou aiā tatau na o faamatalaga e uiga ia te oe.
Malamalama atili i pe mafai ona e maua faamatalaga faatatau i aiga i lalo o le Privacy Actopen_in_new.
A le ia te oe se faatagaga a se sui o lou aiga pe o se maliega faatulafonoina, e ono mafai pea ona e mauaina ni faamatalaga mai ofisa o le malo.
I lalo o le tulafono OIA, o ofisa o le malo e faia le faaiuga pe e te mauaina faamatalaga i ou aiga o soifua pea pe ua maliliu, o le faafataui i le aiā tatau o le tagata o lou aiga i mea e patino ia te ia ma ou aiā tatau o oe o lona aiga.
A e talosagaina faamaumauga mai le faamasinoga, i se mataupu i le faamasinoga e le‘i avea ai oe ma se ua molia pe tagi, o le faamasinoga o le faamasinoga e filifili pe teena lau talosaga.
A e talosagaina faamaumauga a le faamasino mai isi faalapotopotoga, mo se faataitaiga Disability Support Services, e fa‘aaoga lava tulafono e masani ai le Privacy Act ma le OIA se‘i vaganā o iai se poloaiga a le faamasinoga po o se tulafono e taofia ai latou mai le tuuina atu o au faamaumauga ia te oe.
Malamalama atili i le talosagaina o faamaumauga a le faamasinoga.
I le lumanai o le pasiaina o le tulafono e vaetamaina ai tagata matutua (Adult Adoption Act) i le 1985, o matua na fanaua se tagata na vaetamaina e mafai ona filifili pe tapu o latou faamatalaga e patino ia te i latou.
O le uiga o lea mea e soo se faamatalaga e mafai ona fa‘aaogaina e iloa ai matua na fanaua se tasi, e lē faatagaina ona tuuina atu i le tagata na vaetamaina.
Mo se faataitaiga, afai o ou matua na fanaua oe na tapuina o la faamatalaga, o o la suafa o le a lē iai i lou pepa fanau ae le‘i vaetamaina oe.
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This Easy Read webpage is about what your rights are when you want to access your records from the time when you were in the guardianship and care of others.
Here access means being able to get the information you want about the time you were in the guardianship and care of others.
Here records means the information an organisation has kept / made about a person.
Here in the care and guardianship of others means when an organisation is put in charge of a person and decides things like:
A guardian is an adult put in change of the care of a person.
A guardian should:
Here a legal right means there is a law that gives you the power to do something like ask for your records.
A law is a rule made by the Government that everybody must follow.
You have the right to ask an organisation like a government agency for your personal information.
Personal information means information about you.
You have the right to access your records under the Privacy Act.
The Privacy Act is a law that tells organisations how information must be:
When you ask for your records organisations should give you:
Click here to learn about the reasons you may not be given access to your records.
There may be some information missing in the records you get.
Sometimes some information may have been redacted from your records.
Redact means hiding / taking out some information in a document.
This could be because there is information about other people in your records.
This is often done with a thick black line.
Click here to learn more about redactions.
There may be reasons under the Privacy Act why an organisation cannot give you all the records you have asked for.
Sometimes you may be asked to pay some money to get your records.
People have told us that their records:
Click here to learn about why you might not get all the information you asked for.
You can contact the Privacy Commissioner if you have not been given the information you asked for.
The work the Privacy Commissioner does is guided by the Privacy Act.
Click here to find out more about your rights under the Privacy Act on the website of the Privacy Commissioner.
This website is not in Easy Read.
You have the right to ask for information from a government agency.
Government agencies must follow the Official Information Act.
The Official Information Act tells government agencies what to do with official information they have.
The Official Information Act is called the OIA for short on this website.
Official information is information the government has that is not personal information.
You can ask for official information.
Official information:
Official information you might get can be things like:
Here policies are the rules that organisations follow to do their work.
Other official information you might get can be complaints made to a government agency about:
Some other organisations have to follow what the OIA says.
These other organisations:
Tertiary education is about education that happens after high school like university.
A school board is a group of people that makes decisions about running a school.
A government agency may let you see information about your whānau / family under the OIA.
They have to decide if it is the best thing to do for your family member.
Usually if you ask for official information it should be given to you.
Click here to find out more about your rights to get information from government agencies on the Ombudsman website.
Information held by a court is not covered by the:
A court is a place where legal things about the law are worked out.
The court may decide not to give you the records you have asked for.
This can be because you were not part of the legal matters that took place in court.
You can ask for court records from other organisations like Disability Support Services.
These places should follow the rules set out in the:
They cannot give you the information if there is a reason like the court has said no.
Click here to learn more about asking for court records.
A law was made in 1986 called the Adult Adoption Act.
Here adoption is a legal word that means:
Before 1986 a birth parent could say no to putting their information on your birth certificate.
Birth parents are the parents when the baby was born.
A birth certificate is a legal document that has information like:
This means if you are the adopted person you:
A pre-adoptive birth certificate is the birth certificate of a baby before they were adopted.
Click here to find out more information about how to ask for a pre-adoptive birth certificate.
Getting your records about when you were in the guardianship and care of others can make you feel lots of things.
It can be good to have someone to talk to about it.
You can talk to your:
Kōnae has information on where to get support if you want to talk about how it feels to get your records.
Click here to find out what support you can get.
These webpages are not in Easy Read.
More Easy Read information is available.
Click here to visit our Easy Read library webpage.
Click here to learn about who made this Easy Read.