Biometric consent support for New Zealand businesses

This is commonly relevant where a business uses fingerprints, facial recognition, voice recognition or similar identifiers for sign-in, attendance, identity checks, access control, customer verification or service delivery. It can come up in software products, healthcare settings, workplaces, education, gyms, security services and customer-facing apps. Your data collection points, internal use and third-party sharing arrangements all affect the way this should be drafted, so the same type of technology can create different issues depending on what is collected, why it is collected, who can access it and whether it is shared with vendors or related entities.

Biometric data is often more sensitive because it can be closely tied to identity and may be difficult or impossible to replace if mishandled. Problems can arise if the consent wording is vague, if people are not given a genuine choice, or if the business collects more information than it really needs for the stated purpose. There can also be risk where storage, retention, access permissions or third-party sharing are not properly thought through. A consent form helps, but the surrounding business practice matters just as much as the document itself.

The service is broader than a document-only job. Along with the consent form, you receive legal input on the privacy issues that commonly sit around biometric collection, such as what the form should explain, how the consent request fits with your actual process, and where the wording may need to reflect storage, disclosure or withdrawal issues. We look at the information you provide about your workflow and intended use. That means the support is tied to your real operation, not just a generic form dropped into your system.

A generic template may be too broad in some places and too thin in others. It might not match the way your business captures biometric information, whether consent is optional or linked to a service condition, how long data is kept, or whether a third-party platform is involved. Those details matter because the right drafting and advice depend on For Biometric Consent Form, the wording should follow your real information flows. For Biometric Consent Form, collection points and disclosure practices shape the drafting. information. A tailored form is usually more useful where biometric data is central to onboarding, access, monitoring or identity verification.

The If your matter needs more support, we will make that clear before any additional work begins. It does not include technical implementation inside your product or systems, security remediation work, regulator engagement, or ongoing representation after the document is completed. If your project also needs broader privacy documents or a larger privacy review, that would usually sit outside this service and be scoped separately.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Biometric Consent Form service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.