Privacy policy

Information collected and stored automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally.

Information about your visit automatically collected and stored includes:

• The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.co.nz” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.ac.nz” if you connect from a university’s domain) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) user ID
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site
• The date and time you access our site
• The pages you visit, and
• If you visited via a link from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make the site more useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We use Google Analytics to assist us with this (view Google Analytics privacy principles and Google’s privacy policy). We do not track or record information that identifies individuals and their visits.

If you send us personal information

If you choose to provide us with personal information – eg. by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through the website – we collect, use and retain that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested.

We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your enquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law.

We do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or give it to any private organisations.

In some instances, your data is stored by external secure online service providers. We use:

• Hotjar for online surveys, view HotJar’s privacy policy.

We do not collect information for commercial marketing.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorised attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Except for authorised law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

Unauthorised attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable.

This website has links to other websites. Once you link to another website, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of the new site. We do not have control over the policies or content of those websites, which we link to for public convenience.

You have the rights under the Privacy Act 1993 to access and request correction of any personal information provided from your use of the website. To request access to or correction of your personal information, please contact us.