Data sources
Licensed New Zealand data, in one platform
You choose which of the sources below an enquiry uses. Each is queried under licence, the selected results return together, and every query is logged against a declared authorised purpose.
How the sources are held
intelID does not scrape, buy or warehouse New Zealand personal information. Each source in the table below is reached under a licence, a register access agreement or published terms of use, and each is queried at the moment a search is run. What returns to the user is the source’s own current position, consolidated with the others into one result set rather than eight separate exports.
Two distinct legal regimes apply. Public registers such as the Companies Office, the PPSR, LINZ titles and the insolvency registers are open records accessed under the terms attached to each register. Credit reporting data from Equifax and Centrix is not a public record: it is governed by the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and can be accessed only by a permitted user for a permitted purpose. intelID enforces that distinction through role-based access and the authorised-purpose declaration described on the compliance page. The full list of statutes and codes behind every source, from the Land Transfer Act 2017 to the Personal Property Securities Act 1999, is consolidated in the legal framework on the compliance page.
Integrated sources, what they return and their legal basis
Every source below is live and queryable today. You choose which sources to run on each enquiry, and each one carries the same authorised-purpose declaration, role-based access and audit logging. Further licensed sources are added as access agreements are completed.
Equifax
- What it returns
- Credit reporting data, including the address and contact information held on file for tracing and service, accessed under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and only for a declared authorised purpose.
- Legal basis
- Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020, under licence from the credit reporter, for a declared authorised purpose only.
Centrix
- What it returns
- Credit-linked identity, address and contact records used for tracing and service, including the recorded details that confirm a current address, accessed under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and only for a declared authorised purpose.
- Legal basis
- Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020, under licence from the credit reporter, for a declared authorised purpose only.
Sanctions, watchlist, PEP and adverse media screening
- What it returns
- Screening of individuals and businesses against global sanctions lists, regulatory watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse media, returned alongside the rest of the enquiry.
- Legal basis
- Licensed screening data drawn from published sanctions and regulatory lists and publicly reported media, used only for a declared authorised purpose.
Individual credit check
- What it returns
- A full credit report on a person from Centrix and Equifax: credit score, credit history and account conduct, defaults, judgments, insolvency events, enquiry history, and the addresses and contact details held on file.
- Legal basis
- Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020, under licence from the credit reporter. A full credit report is supplied only with the subject's consent, or where the Code permits access without it, such as recovery of an existing debt.
Commercial credit check
- What it returns
- A full credit report on a business from Centrix and Equifax: company credit score and rating, payment behaviour, defaults and judgments, registered security interests, insolvency and adverse events, and the directors and shareholders behind the entity.
- Legal basis
- Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 where the report includes information about an individual, under licence from the credit reporter, for a declared authorised purpose only.
Digital footprint and contact tracing
- What it returns
- Advanced tracing across social media profiles, phone numbers, usernames and email addresses, returning linked accounts, platform registrations and the identifiers that connect them.
- Legal basis
- Licensed open-source intelligence aggregation over publicly available and lawfully obtained information, used only for a declared authorised purpose.
LINZ property and title data
- What it returns
- Certificates of title, ownership, encumbrances, legal descriptions and sales history for the property position.
- Legal basis
- Public register maintained under the Land Transfer Act 2017, accessed under LINZ licensing terms.
PPSR
- What it returns
- Registered security interests over personal property.
- Legal basis
- Public register maintained under the Personal Property Securities Act 1999, accessed under MBIE terms of use.
MBIE / Companies Office
- What it returns
- Company registration, directors, shareholders, addresses for service and filing history.
- Legal basis
- Public register maintained under the Companies Act 1993 and related legislation, accessed under MBIE terms of use.
Insolvency and bankruptcy registers
- What it returns
- Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures, debt repayment orders and company insolvency events.
- Legal basis
- Public registers maintained by the Insolvency and Trustee Service and the Companies Office.
Comprehensive media archive
- What it returns
- Full text archive of New Zealand newspapers, magazines, journals and news wire copy going back decades, including the notices pages: bankruptcy and insolvency notices, mortgagee sales, tenders, liquidations, and births, deaths and marriages.
- Legal basis
- Licensed commercial archive of published material, accessed under the provider's subscription terms and used only for a declared authorised purpose.
Litigation history: public court and tribunal decisions
- What it returns
- Published judgments of the New Zealand courts and tribunals searchable by party name, with citations and full decision text, alongside current and historical legislation and law journal material.
- Legal basis
- Published judgments and legislation made publicly available by the courts, tribunals and the Crown, reproduced under free access to law terms. The official court and legislation records remain the authoritative version.
Further sources
- What it returns
- Additional licensed New Zealand sources are being added as access agreements are completed. Each arrives under the same authorised-purpose declaration, role-based access and audit logging as the sources already live.
- Legal basis
- Added only under a licence, register access agreement or published terms of use, on the same authorised-purpose and audit conditions.
| Source | What it returns | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| EquifaxOfficial source | Credit reporting data, including the address and contact information held on file for tracing and service, accessed under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and only for a declared authorised purpose. | Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020, under licence from the credit reporter, for a declared authorised purpose only. |
| CentrixOfficial source | Credit-linked identity, address and contact records used for tracing and service, including the recorded details that confirm a current address, accessed under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and only for a declared authorised purpose. | Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020, under licence from the credit reporter, for a declared authorised purpose only. |
| Sanctions, watchlist, PEP and adverse media screening | Screening of individuals and businesses against global sanctions lists, regulatory watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse media, returned alongside the rest of the enquiry. | Licensed screening data drawn from published sanctions and regulatory lists and publicly reported media, used only for a declared authorised purpose. |
| Individual credit checkOfficial source | A full credit report on a person from Centrix and Equifax: credit score, credit history and account conduct, defaults, judgments, insolvency events, enquiry history, and the addresses and contact details held on file. | Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020, under licence from the credit reporter. A full credit report is supplied only with the subject's consent, or where the Code permits access without it, such as recovery of an existing debt. |
| Commercial credit checkOfficial source | A full credit report on a business from Centrix and Equifax: company credit score and rating, payment behaviour, defaults and judgments, registered security interests, insolvency and adverse events, and the directors and shareholders behind the entity. | Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 where the report includes information about an individual, under licence from the credit reporter, for a declared authorised purpose only. |
| Digital footprint and contact tracing | Advanced tracing across social media profiles, phone numbers, usernames and email addresses, returning linked accounts, platform registrations and the identifiers that connect them. | Licensed open-source intelligence aggregation over publicly available and lawfully obtained information, used only for a declared authorised purpose. |
| LINZ property and title dataOfficial source | Certificates of title, ownership, encumbrances, legal descriptions and sales history for the property position. | Public register maintained under the Land Transfer Act 2017, accessed under LINZ licensing terms. |
| PPSROfficial source | Registered security interests over personal property. | Public register maintained under the Personal Property Securities Act 1999, accessed under MBIE terms of use. |
| MBIE / Companies OfficeOfficial source | Company registration, directors, shareholders, addresses for service and filing history. | Public register maintained under the Companies Act 1993 and related legislation, accessed under MBIE terms of use. |
| Insolvency and bankruptcy registersOfficial source | Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures, debt repayment orders and company insolvency events. | Public registers maintained by the Insolvency and Trustee Service and the Companies Office. |
| Comprehensive media archive | Full text archive of New Zealand newspapers, magazines, journals and news wire copy going back decades, including the notices pages: bankruptcy and insolvency notices, mortgagee sales, tenders, liquidations, and births, deaths and marriages. | Licensed commercial archive of published material, accessed under the provider's subscription terms and used only for a declared authorised purpose. |
| Litigation history: public court and tribunal decisions | Published judgments of the New Zealand courts and tribunals searchable by party name, with citations and full decision text, alongside current and historical legislation and law journal material. | Published judgments and legislation made publicly available by the courts, tribunals and the Crown, reproduced under free access to law terms. The official court and legislation records remain the authoritative version. |
| Further sources | Additional licensed New Zealand sources are being added as access agreements are completed. Each arrives under the same authorised-purpose declaration, role-based access and audit logging as the sources already live. | Added only under a licence, register access agreement or published terms of use, on the same authorised-purpose and audit conditions. |
Each source in detail
What each source holds, what a search of it returns, and how it is read alongside the rest of an enquiry.
Credit bureau address and identity data
Equifax and Centrix address history and contact records, accessed for a declared authorised purpose.
Digital footprint and contact tracing
Social media, phone number, username and email tracing across publicly visible information.
LINZ property and title data
Certificates of title, ownership, encumbrances and sales history.
PPSR security interests
Registered security interests over personal property, by debtor or by collateral.
Companies Office records
Company registration, directors, shareholders, addresses for service and filings.
Insolvency and bankruptcy registers
Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures, debt repayment orders and company insolvency events.
Comprehensive media archive
Full text New Zealand newspaper, magazine, journal and news wire archives, including public notices.
Litigation history: public court and tribunal decisions
Published judgments from New Zealand courts and tribunals, legislation and law journals.
Which sources answer which question
Most enquiries draw on more than one source. The point of consolidation is that you do not have to decide in advance.
Trace
Credit file address records, title ownership, digital footprint tracing.
Identity check
Credit reporting data, company officer records.
Asset enquiry
LINZ titles and sales history, PPSR security interests.
Contact and online presence
Social media, phone number, username and email tracing against a single identifier.
Background and history
Comprehensive media archive reporting and public notices, published court and tribunal decisions.
Recovery assessment
Insolvency and bankruptcy registers, security interests, company filing history, prior judgments.
Individual credit check
Full personal credit report from Centrix and Equifax, supplied with the subject's consent or where the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 permits access without it.
Commercial credit check
Full business credit report from Centrix and Equifax: credit score and rating, payment behaviour, defaults, judgments and adverse events.
Screening
Checks against global sanctions lists, watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse media.
A trace usually begins with credit file address records and digital footprint tracing, then confirms the position against a credit file address and a title record. An asset enquiry runs the other way: title and sales history first, then security interests over personal property, then insolvency history to establish whether anything is realistically recoverable. The workflow that sequences these is described on the platform page.
Sources we do not carry
Being explicit about the boundary is part of holding the licences.
- No health, criminal justice or intelligence agency information.
- No private or restricted account content. Digital footprint tracing covers publicly visible information and platform registration signals only, collected under the provider's terms.
- No data obtained by circumventing a login, an access control or a platform's terms of use.
- No source that cannot be accessed lawfully for a declared authorised purpose.
What we do, and do not, do with what a source returns
Subject data is not used for marketing, is not resold, and is not exposed to public indexing. Two disclosures are permitted: to a data provider carrying out an audit or compliance review of access to its data where our licence requires it, and to service providers who host, support or secure the service, only to the extent needed to perform those functions on our behalf. The full position is in our privacy policy.
Where an organisation needs a source that is not listed here, it is handled under Enterprise terms and only where a lawful basis and an authorised purpose can be established. The technical controls applied to every integration, including encryption, access control and vendor review, are set out on the security page.
Questions about the sources
Does one search run every source?
No. You select which sources an enquiry uses, and the per-search fee applies only to the sources you run. Source availability is also set by role and by the terms of the underlying licence. Credit data in particular is restricted to users with a declarable authorised purpose under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020.
Does intelID hold the data itself?
intelID queries licensed sources and consolidates what they return into one result and one audit record. Subject data is not repackaged for marketing, resale or public indexing.
Can new sources be added for an organisation?
Custom integrations are handled under Enterprise terms. Contact us with the source and the authorised purpose it would serve.
How current is the information returned?
Each source is queried at the time of the search, so the result reflects what the source holds at that moment rather than a cached copy held by intelID.
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