Copyright and Privacy Notice

This is our copyright notice.

Crown copyright

Material made available on websites and social media belonging to Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha, is protected by Crown copyright except where otherwise stated or it falls within s27 of the Copyright Act 1993.  

Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha licences its material for re-use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) external URL Licence. In summary this means you are free to copy, distribute, and adapt the material, without further permission and for free as long as:

• it is reproduced accurately
• it is not used in a derogatory manner or in a misleading context, and
• there is an acknowledgement of the source and copyright status of the material.

The licence does not apply to the following media wherever found on websites and social media belonging to Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha:

• logos, emblems and trade marks
• design elements, and
• photography and imagery.

To use this media you must first obtain permission from Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha.

No departmental or governmental emblem, logo, or Coat of Arms can be used in any way that infringes any provision of the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981. For more information read the full Flags, Emblems and the Names Protection Act 1981 external URL, on the NZ Legislation website.

Copyright of third parties

Websites and social media pages belonging to Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha may contain material that is stated to belong to third parties or may provide links to third party websites or social media, for the benefit of site users. These may hold information that is the copyright of the third parties. You must obtain the permission from the copyright owner to use:

• copyrighted materials from other websites, or
• material on websites belonging to Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha or its social media pages that is stated as protected by the copyright of a third party.

Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha cannot provide you with this permission.

This privacy policy applies to Support My Decision website. You are not required to provide any personal information to use this website.

The website runs Google Analytics which provides us with anonymous reports on users’ activity to help us improve and manage the site. We do not use these reports to identify individual visitors.

The information Google Analytics collects includes:

• your IP address
• the search terms you used
• the pages you accessed on the website and the links you clicked on
• the date and time you visited the website
• the referring website (if any) through which you clicked through to this website
• your operating system (e.g., Windows XP, Mac OSX)
• the type of web browser you use (e.g., Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox)
• other incidental matters such as screen resolution and the language setting of your browser.

This site is created and managed by Whaikaha – Ministry of Disabled People. Here is the Ministry’s privacy notice. external You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information the Ministry holds about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you have any questions, or if you would like to ask for a copy of your information, or have it corrected, please contact privacy@whaikaha.govt.nz