The New Zealand Rugby Players Association Incorporated (RPA) and the Rugby Players Collective Incorporated (RPC) are committed to respecting the personal information we collect, use, disclose and hold in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 (the Act).
The RPA is the independent representative body for professional rugby players in New Zealand.
The RPC is the player’s trade union entity. It represents professional rugby players in collective bargaining and does not trade financially.
If you are a current professional player contracted with New Zealand Rugby (NZR), your personal information will be collected, used, disclosed, and held by the RPC and the RPA.
In this Privacy Statement, any use of the words "you," "yours" or similar expressions shall mean:
Terms such as "we," "us, "our" or similar expressions shall mean the RPA and, for RPA members who are professional rugby players contracted with NZR, also the RPC.
This Privacy Statement outlines how we handle your personal information (including the collection, use, disclosure, and storage of your personal information), how you can access and change your information, and how you can provide us with feedback or make a complaint.
We collect personal information about you:
The information we collect may include your name, address, email address, phone number, gender, date of birth, rugby contract status and variables (including remuneration), medical/injury information, financial details, and IP address. We may also collect any other personal information you choose to provide to us or authorise other people or organisations to provide to us.
If you choose not to provide us with personal information, we may be unable to provide access to certain content, services, or benefits.
We may use your personal information:
We may communicate with you by email or, where you provide us with your phone number, by phone call or text/picture/video message.
We may share your personal information with service providers who perform services that we have requested such as our IT providers and professional advisors. Our service providers are not authorised by us to use or disclose your personal information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf in accordance with this Privacy Statement or to comply with legislation.
We may also be required or permitted by law to disclose your personal information, or receive authorisation by you to do so.
From time to time, the disclosures made by us under this Privacy Statement may be to organisations or partners located outside of New Zealand, including cloud service providers, software providers and other service providers. This may mean that some of your information may be held and/or processed outside of New Zealand. Where these organisations are based overseas, we will ensure they have the appropriate safeguards in place.
We store your personal information:
We take appropriate reasonable technical and organisational measures to secure the integrity of personal information, using accepted technological standards to prevent unauthorised access to or disclosure of your personal information, and protect your personal information from misuse, loss, alteration, or destruction.
We will keep your personal information for as long as you continue to be an RPA member or Accredited Agent, or for as long as you continue to access and use our online platforms and/or services.
Notwithstanding the above and any other provision of this Privacy Statement, we may keep some or all of your personal information if and for as long as:
We would like to ensure that you are fully aware of all of your privacy rights. It is your responsibility to ensure that personal information you provided is correct, complete, and up-to-date. However, you are entitled to the following:-
The right to access your personal information: you have the right to request that we provide you with copies of the personal information we hold about you.
The right to rectification: you have the right to request that we correct any of your personal information that you believe is inaccurate. You may also request that we complete any personal information that you believe is incomplete.
If you make a request, we must respond to you. In the event that you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by email at: contact@nzrpra.co.nz.
In the event of a privacy breach or potential privacy breach, you should report the breach or potential breach to the RPA’s Privacy Officer (Rebecca Giordano) at: rebecca.giordano@nzrpa.co.nz.
The RPA Privacy Officer will review any reported breach. The RPA will respond to the reporter outlining next steps and their reasons for taking those steps. The RPA will also consider whether any privacy breach is a notifiable privacy breach, therefore requiring notification to the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals under the Act.
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit the RPA website, the Rugby Club website or any of our online platforms/Apps (such as the Hub), we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology for statistical purposes and to help us understand how to make our websites more available and user friendly for you.
We may collect your IP address; the date and time of your visits to our websites; your clicks and activity on our websites; the referring website (if any) through which you clicked though to our websites; and technical information on your browser, device or operating systems.
For further information, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and you may choose to remove cookies from your browser. However, in certain instances, some of our website features may not function as a result of this.
We are not responsible for any use of your personal information which you provide to any third party applications or websites that may be accessed via any of our websites. We recommend that you review the privacy statement or policy of any third party application or website that you use before providing any of your personal information.
We may, from time to time, amend or update this Privacy Statement. Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be available on the website this Privacy Statement is located.
You can contact us at any time regarding your personal information through our Privacy Officer who can be contacted by the following means:
Address: RPA, PO Box 109 759, Newmarket, Auckland 1149, New Zealand
Email: rebecca.giordano@nzrpa.co.nz
Right to lodge a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner
If you have not been able to work out your privacy issue with us, you can lodge a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner here: Office of the Privacy Commissioner | Complaint self-assessment.
Privacy Statement last updated January 2026
