You may browse and access some information contained within this website without providing any personal information. However, where you voluntarily provide personal information or where you are requested to provide personal information to access certain areas of the site or perform certain functions, such information will be held by the authoring electoral agency in accordance with the law.

Where you are requested to provide personal information, the relevant part of the website will inform you of the reason that information is sought.  We will only use that information according to law and in a manner that is consistent with the reason for which the information was provided.

The electoral agencies are not liable for any loss of privacy, disclosure of information, harm, damage or loss that may result from your transmission of data via the Internet.

The Privacy Act 1993 gives you the right to see and correct information that an electoral agency holds about you.  If you want to access the information held about you, or if you would like to correct any such information held, or if you have any privacy concerns, please contact the agency concerned. 

Cookies

The Electoral websites are currently using Google Analytics to help analyse how users use our sites.

This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your computer's internet address or IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google outside of New Zealand. The tracking data is stored in a database managed by Google. The tracking data is then used by Google to compile statistical reports on website activity for the Electoral agencies to evaluate site use. This allows us to:

•   discover what information is most and least used
•   determine technical design specifications, and
•   help make our sites more useful to visitors.

We will not use the web analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our sites. We will not associate any data gathered from our sites with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google Analytics tool.

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You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser. Disabling cookies will not affect your ability to use the Electoral websites.