What is the Good in the Hood Promotion?

The Good in the Hood Promotion is a promotion run by Z whereby each Z service station will give away $5,000 in total, split between four neighbourhood groups or projects who are within that Z service station’s local area and have applied (and been selected by Z) to be part of the Good in the Hood Promotion.

These terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) set out the eligibility criteria, application requirements, selection process and distribution of funds for the Good in the Hood Promotion. In these Terms and Conditions, “Z service station” means Z-branded service stations and does not include unmanned sites, truck stops, or air stops.

Applications

1. Applications for the Good in the Hood Promotion are open from 12pm 3 June 20205 to 11:59pm 29 June 2025.

2. Applications must be made online. If an applicant does not have internet access, a representative can contact Z's call centre on 0800 474 355 and a Z customer service representative will enter the application over the phone.

Eligibility

3. Applications must meet all the following criteria:

• The group or project must be active in the local area around a specific Z service station; and
• The group or project must demonstrate they are providing support or help to people who need it or the environment; and
• The request must be for a specific project or to fulfil a specific need.

4. The person submitting the application must be from the neighbourhood group or project on whose behalf they apply for funding.

5. Applications from the following groups and projects won't be eligible:

• groups or projects which don't actively help people who need it or the environment;
• nationwide organisations which don't have a branch in the neighbourhood around the Z service station they're applying for funding from;
• applications for the promotion or benefit of one individual;
• commercial ventures;
• completed or retrospective projects;
• local or central government activities or projects; and
• festivals, shows or events.

Selection

6. The decision about which groups to support is made by Z retailers and site staff.

7. After each site selects its 4 groups, a panel at Z’s corporate office(s) will review the applications of the groups chosen by the retailers and site staff to check that the groups meet the eligibility criteria. If any of the chosen groups do not meet the eligibility criteria, the site will choose a replacement group(s).

8. During selection, Z reserves the right to:

• request further information about an applicant's eligibility;
• disqualify any applicant who tampers with the application or who submits false or misleading information as part of its application; and
• disqualify any applicant for any other reason which Z deems appropriate.

9. After selection, Z reserves the right to revoke selection for any reasonable reason, including where a selected applicant has acted in a way that Z considers will harm Z’s reputation, the selected applicant tampers with the voting process, Z becomes aware that the selected applicant did not meet or no longer meets eligibility criteria, or the successful applicant does not provide Z with photos and/or videos in accordance with term 14 below.

Allocation and distribution of funds

10. The percentage of the $5,000 each of the 4 groups receives will be determined by the number of votes received from customers who make a purchase at that Z service station during the voting period (26 August 2025 – 21 September 2025). 

11. When the voting period has finished for a Z service station, the local retailer will write a cheque to each group for the proportion of the $5,000 allocated to each group by the customer votes.

12. These cheques will be given to the groups by 30 November 2025.

Future years

13. Good in the Hood is a contestable promotion. A successful application one year does not guarantee a successful application in future years; equally an eligible (but unsuccessful) application may succeed in future years.

Marketing material

14. If your application is successful, you must (on request from Z) provide Z with photos and/or videos of your group or project. Z will use those photos/videos to promote the Good in the Hood Promotion and the fact that you were a successful applicant.

Your information: collection, retention, and use

15. Any personal information collected about individuals as part of the Good in the Hood Promotion will be collected, stored and used in accordance with these terms and conditions, Z’s Privacy Policy, and the Privacy Act 2020.

16. Applicants have the right to view information stored about them and to ask for it to be corrected if it is incorrect. Check out our privacy policy for information on how to do any of those things.

17. Information will be used to advise successful applicants that they have been selected, or unsuccessful applicants that they have not been selected.

18. Z may use information submitted by successful applicants to advertise Good in the Hood in various channels including at each Z service station, social media, television and other online and offline platforms.

All applications:

19. Z may retain, handle, use and process information provided by applicants in other ways permitted by its Privacy Policy and by law.

20. Z Energy's full privacy policy is available online at z.co.nz/privacy-policy/. For any further information please contact Z Energy's customer service centre on 0800 474 355.

Miscellaneous

21. Participation in the Good in the Hood Promotion is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

22. These Terms and Conditions are governed by New Zealand law and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.

23. Except for liability that may not by law be excluded, Z shall not be liable under or in connection with these Terms and Conditions or the Good in the Hood Promotion for any cost, expense, loss or damage suffered by any applicant, even if such cost, expense, loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable, and whether arising from breach of contract, tort, negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise.

24. Z is not responsible for late entries, incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information, or for omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, software, inability to access telecommunications network services, or any other error or malfunction.

25. Z may modify, suspend or cancel all or part of Good in the Hood Promotion and/or these Terms and Conditions at any time. If Z suspends or cancels the Good in the Hood Promotion it will use reasonable endeavours to notify applicants of this, for example by posting on its website.

26. All decisions by Z relating to any matter relating to these Terms and Conditions is final and no correspondence will be entered into.