Documents and resources

Here you’ll find documentation to help facilitate internal decision making.


Privacy impact assessment summary

The Business Connect platform complies with the principles of the Privacy Act 2020. See the summary of our most recent independent privacy impact assessment for more details. The full Privacy Impact Assessment is available on request, you can contact us at:

hello@businessconnect.govt.nz 

PIA Summary - Business Connect [PDF, 490 KB]


Business Connect client agency privacy checklist

This checklist has been developed to assist Client Agencies to meet their obligations under the Privacy Act and Information Privacy Principles when developing services for use on the Business Connect platform.

Client Agency Privacy Checklist [PDF, 130 KB]


End user terms

If your team or organisation chooses to use FormBuilder to create and publish your service, you’ll need to sign our end user terms. The end user terms outlines the terms of the agreement with the adopting organisation.

Download the end user terms template [DOCX, 46 KB]


Business Connect customer data retention policy

The Business Connect data retention policy outlines agency and council responsibilities for information contained in submitted applications. Agencies and councils will need to set a data retention period for the information that has been submitted for their service/s via the Business Connect platform.

Business Connect customer data retention policy [PDF, 129 KB]


Documents available on request

There are other documents available on request:

  • Product Overview
  • System Security Certificate
  • Application Programming Interface (API) documentation

Get in touch at Hello@BusinessConnect.govt.nz to request these documents.