Terms and conditions

What you agree to when you use our online services

The Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) is administered by the Companies Office, which is part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

These terms and conditions set out what we require from you when you use our online services, as well as our commitment to you in providing those services. They help to ensure that the details you provide are kept secure, and that the information we make available to the public is accurate and up to date.

Using the PPSR

Please read these terms and conditions carefully and make sure you understand them. If, in creating an online services account, you choose to accept them, they will form an agreement between you and MBIE.

Our commitment to you

If you agree to these terms and conditions, we'll exercise all reasonable care and skill to:

provide online services that are easy to use, with online help and guidance
make these services available 24/7 — excluding maintenance and unexpected outages
provide you with telephone and email support from our Business Service Centre during normal business hours — but not on public holidays
keep all non-public information you've provided to us secure from unauthorised access
allow only authorised users to update information you've provided to us
ensure the information we provide about our services is kept up to date.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) transparency statement describes the kind of information MBIE gathers to ensure it can effectively:

protect people, information, and places
ensure regulatory compliance, and
detect and prevent criminal offending.

MBIE’s transparency statement Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Disclaimer

MBIE doesn’t accept any responsibility or liability for:

the accuracy of content or material on the Personal Property Securities Register (website and register application)
any loss you incur in connection with your use of these services, including any costs and expenses.

Visitors to the PPSR website (including the register application) should seek professional advice before undertaking any action as a result of information accessed on this website.

Your commitment to us

In accepting these terms and conditions, you agree to:

ensure any information you manage on the register is kept accurate and up to date
abide by the terms of use governing the RealMe® login service – or any other login service we make available for accessing our services
not knowingly or recklessly use, or attempt to use, any of our services for a purpose for which it was not intended, including any unlawful purpose
notify the MBIE Business Service Centre immediately if you know, or have reason to believe, that there has been, or is about to be, fraudulent or other unlawful use of any of our services.

If you’re an administrator of an organisation's online services account, you also agree to:

grant the correct permissions to users added to your account.
manage access to our services by users added to your account, by:

keeping user information updated
closing user accounts when they are no longer being used.

You must have the secured party’s authorisation, if you are adding a secured party group to your portfolio or registering or amending a financing statement on behalf of the secured party.

By honouring your commitments you help to protect the integrity and security of:

our online services, and
the information provided by you and other users.

Failing to do so may result in a breach of security or privacy.

Access to our services — RealMe®

Access to our online services is provided by RealMe (or any other third party login provider we authorise). This ensures secure access to all our sites and confirms who you are.

What is RealMe? RealMe website

You are responsible for keeping your username and password confidential. Any actions or transactions on our sites linked to your username and password will be considered by us to have been made by you.

Your online services account

Your online services account provides us with the following information:

details about you – for example, your email address
services you’ve opted to use
organisations you’re linked to, if any
details of organisations you’re authorised to edit – for example, financing statements
whether you’re an administrator for an organisation registered with us.

If you’re an administrator for an organisation, you can set up accounts for others linked to your organisation, allowing them to use our services. Any users you add will need to obtain their own RealMe login before they can activate their online services account with us.

Fees

You’re responsible for the payment of fees for the services we provide you with through your online services account, no matter who uses it. If there's a charge for the service you're using, you'll be advised of the amount owing at the end of the transaction and taken to our payment gateway.

Please refer to our fee schedule to see which online services you’ll need to pay for and how much.

Schedule of fees

Paying by direct debit

We offer a direct debit payment option that allows customers to charge to an account, receive an invoice at the end of each month, and pay by direct debit on the 20th of the following month. This option can be selected by an organisation or by an individual user.

If you choose to pay by direct debit, we’ll email you a Direct Debit Authority Form to complete and return.

Credit checks

We may perform a credit check on your organisation (or you, if you’re applying for the direct debit payment option for your own online services account) through a credit reference agency.

We reserve the right to decline any direct debit payment option request, based on the results of a credit reference check, or based on past history of fees payment with MBIE.

Monthly invoices

At the beginning of each month, we’ll email you an invoice detailing any fee-bearing services used during the previous month. The invoices and other notices will be sent to the email address you've given us. We, and anyone to whom we've assigned the amounts you owe us, will assume any invoice or notice sent electronically has been delivered, unless we receive a 'Failed to Deliver' message.

If you don’t receive an invoice by email, a copy of your invoice will be available online. You'll also have access to your transactions through our online fees search facility, or you can download a data file containing the list of transactions.

Incorrect invoices

If you think there is a mistake with your invoice, please call the contact number or email the address displayed on your invoice. Any incorrect fees will be credited to your account. If the query has been received and processed prior to the 20th of the month, this will reduce the amount to be direct debited. Queries received or processed after the 20th will be credited to you on the following month’s invoice.

Non-payment

If the direct debit payment is unsuccessful, we'll follow up with you to find out why.

After a month has passed, we’ll contact you to determine what went wrong and work with you to resolve the problem, ahead of the direct debit run the following month.
After two months, your account will be restricted to the credit card payment option only. We’ll contact you to arrange payment of the due amount.

If payment is still not received

If fees are still not paid, we’ll contact you again to find out why, and may look to cancel the service that we’ve provided to you. For example, we'll take steps to remove the financing statement you've registered. If cancelling the service isn’t possible, we may refer the matter to a debt collection agency. You may also be required to pay any costs incurred in recovering the fees you owe us.

Paying by credit or debit card

We accept payment by credit or debit card. We offer secure credit and debit card transactions using 256-bit SSL encryption technology. Your transaction is validated in real time and confirmed immediately to you by email. A tax invoice will appear on screen that you are able to print for your own records if you wish.

We accept the following credit and debit cards:

Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Diners

Paying by internet banking

We also offer the option to pay by internet banking, which allows you to make a payment directly from your bank account. This option is available only to individuals who agree to the Windcave terms and conditions prior to authorising the payment.

Windcave terms and conditions Windcave

Unlawful access or use

Data from the Motor Vehicle Register provided to you may only be used for the purposes of registering or amending a financing statement.

If you knowingly access or use, or attempt to access or use (or allow an unauthorised person to access or use), any of our services for an unlawful purpose (including fraud or attempted fraud or hacking or attempted hacking), you'll be liable to pay any party (or MBIE on its behalf) the amount of the loss incurred by them, caused directly or indirectly by your unlawful actions.

For the avoidance of doubt, this clause isn't intended to confer benefits enforceable by third parties under the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017.

Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 New Zealand Legislation

Suspension of your online services account

For the protection of users, other people, or MBIE itself, we may suspend or disable your online services account without notice, if we consider that:

disabling your online services account is necessary to maintain the integrity or security of our services or any organisation or person
your online services account is being misused or has otherwise been compromised
you breach these terms and conditions.

Where appropriate, we’ll notify you if we suspend or disable your online services account, as soon as practicable after doing so.

Privacy

Our privacy statement applies to the personal information we collect about you.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you'll be regarded as having also agreed to the terms of that privacy statement. Please make sure you've read the privacy statement before agreeing to our terms and conditions.

Privacy statement

Email address privacy

We won't disclose your email address to third parties, but we may use it to update you with information about our services, and to send you confirmation of transactions.

Resolving disputes

Should there be any dispute between you and MBIE over our terms and conditions, or any of our services, please call the MBIE Business Service Centre.

Both sides should make all reasonable efforts, in good faith, to achieve a satisfactory resolution.
However, if you and our Business Service Centre cannot reach an agreement, you can ask to have the matter escalated to the appropriate MBIE representative.

If the matter has still not been resolved to your satisfaction, you may wish to take further action, such as making a complaint to the Ombudsman, or commencing legal proceedings.

Office of the Ombudsman

Invalidity or unenforceability

If any of these terms and conditions, or their application to any person or circumstances is, to any extent, held to be invalid or unenforceable:

the remainder of these terms and conditions, or the application of such terms and conditions to any other person or circumstances, shall not be affected
each term shall be valid and enforceable to the extent permitted by law
any invalid or unenforceable term will be deemed to reflect, as nearly as possible, its original intention (as determined from this website).

Amendments to terms and conditions, and privacy statement

We may revise these terms and conditions, and the privacy statement, from time to time – and will advise you of any changes on this website. Your continued use of your online services account with us indicates your acceptance of any changes.