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Briefly, this licence allows you to copy, distribute and adapt our material for your own purposes (even commercially) as long as:

  • you acknowledge the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as the original creator of the material; and
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Our website also contains some material created by people who are not members of this Office. This includes the cartoons and some articles, presentations and other links. The original creators retain the copyright in that material and it is not covered by the Creative Commons licence. You should approach them directly for permission to reproduce or republish it.

If you are in doubt about whether your proposed use of material falls within the terms of the Creative Commons licence, please email us on enquiries@privacy.org.nz.

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We try to ensure that the material that we produce for our website is as accurate as possible. However, it is only general information, intended to give guidance. It should not be regarded as legal advice, and we accept no responsibility for any consequences arising if people use it in place of legal advice.

Where material is written by people other than staff members of this Office, the views expressed are those of the author, not the views of this Office.

We are also not responsible for the content of any website linked to this site.

This website is under constant review, and the content may change without notice.