Copyright and privacy
Terms of use of this website
By accessing this website or downloading or using any content from it, you agree to these legally binding terms and conditions.
If you don’t accept all these terms, please do not access or use this site.
Copyright statement
Copyright material on this website is protected by copyright owned by the Ministry of Education on behalf of the Crown.
Crown Copyright ©.
Unless indicated otherwise for specific items or collections of content (either below or within specific items or collections), this copyright material is licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Licence.
In essence, you are free to copy, distribute and adapt the material, as long as you attribute it to the Ministry of Education and abide by other licence terms.
Please note that this licence does not apply to any logos, emblems and trade marks on the website or to the website’s design elements or to any photography and imagery. Those specific items may not be re-used without express permission.
Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International - Creative Commons
Exceptions - copyright of third parties
The permission to reproduce material on this website does not extend to any material that is identified as being protected by copyright owned by a third party, including whānau/hapū and iwi. (This includes material on websites you may access via links from this site).
The Ministry of Education cannot grant permission to reproduce such material. It is your responsibility to contact and obtain permission from the copyright holders themselves.
Images If you wish to reproduce images, please contact the Supplier in the first instance. In the second instance, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Privacy statement
If we collect your personal information, we will only use this personal information for the purpose in which it was provided as permitted by the Privacy Act 2020 or otherwise required or permitted by law.
We will keep any personal information you provide to us secure and will not disclose it to any other parties without your prior consent or as required or permitted by the Privacy Act 2020 or otherwise required or permitted by law. In the event of unauthorised or accidental access or disclosure we will notify the Privacy Commissioner, as well as any persons affected by a notifiable privacy breach.
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you would like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please write to:
The Privacy Officer
Ministry of Education
PO Box 1666
Thorndon
Wellington.
For more information on privacy, please visit the Privacy Commissioner's website.
Security and damage
You are responsible for any damage you cause to this website or to any of the Ministry’s websites, electronic facilities, or data.
We provide security to protect this website and our online services. You are responsible for ensuring that your own computer is secure, including taking all reasonable steps to:
- prevent someone misusing or getting unauthorised access to your computer system or to this website or our online services, and
- ensure your computer system and data are free of computer viruses and all other forms of corruption.
Users of this website assume all risks associated with any transfer of data or information to the Ministry, and with any other use of this website. We are not liable for any damage arising from interception, loss, theft, other action or difficulty in transmitting information to us.
The Ministry will not be responsible in any manner for direct, indirect, special, or consequential loss caused in any way as a result of the use of its online services, or this website.
Unsolicited email
Publication of email addresses on this site should not be taken as deemed consent to receiving unsolicited email. Persons or organisations wishing to send email material to individuals or organisations whose email addresses appear on this website must comply with the requirements of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 (Department of Internal Affairs’ website).
The Ministry may change these terms of use at any time by posting changes online. You are responsible for reviewing the amended terms of use, and your continued use of this website constitutes your agreement to the amended terms of use.
This website and your use of it is governed by New Zealand law and the Courts of New Zealand have non-exclusive jurisdiction.