Privacy Policy

For you to get the most out of using healthed.govt.nz Te Hiringa Hauora/Health Promotion Agency ("we" or "us") needs to collect some personal information about you. We will protect your personal information, and will only collect, use, store, and share it in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993, including (where applicable) the Health Information Privacy Code 1994.

This Privacy Policy sets out information about:

  • what information is collected by us through your use of healthed.govt.nz;
  • how your information will be used, stored, and shared; and
  • how you can access and change your personal information.

In summary:

  • we collect personal information about you, including full name, organisation, email address, your role, phone number and postal address and use it to provide you with the services you have asked us for; and
  • we store your information securely and will protect it from unauthorised access, use, modification, or disclosure.

This Privacy Policy forms part of the terms of use of healthed.govt.nz. Your use of healthed.govt.nz means that you accept and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and any changes to it. 

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, including if we want to collect more information about you or use or share your information in another way. This Privacy Policy was last updated in June 2020.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at HealthEd@hpa.org.nz.

What information do we collect?

Personal information about you

Healthed.govt.nz will ask for personal information about you when you order resources on healthed.govt.nz, including:

  • full name;
  • organisation;
  • email address;
  • your role;
  • phone number;
  • postal address.

We will also collect any information you share in the emails you send to healthEd@hpa.org.nz or through our online feedback form.

Aggregated, anonymous information about visitors to healthed.govt.nz

We collect anonymous and aggregated information about your visit to the site and all other visitors to healthed.govt.nz, including website usage statistics.

How do we use your information?

The personal information that we collect from you via healthed.govt.nz will be used to provide you with the services you have asked us for.

We may use anonymous and aggregated information that we collect about visitors to healthed.govt.nz so that we can analyse, evaluate, and improve healthed.govt.nz. For more information, see below under the heading "Use of cookies and tracking technologies".

Will my information be shared with anyone else?

We may share the personal information that we collect about you as follows:

  • we need to give some employees, contractors, agents and advisers access to the information you provide us to ensure that healthed.govt.nz works properly. This includes our providers that host or maintain data centres where your information is processed or stored, or that operate service platforms and other infrastructure and systems on our behalf; and
  • as otherwise permitted by the Privacy Act 1993, and (where applicable) the Health Information Privacy Code 1994.

We may share anonymous and aggregated information about visitors to healthed.govt.nz with public sector health agencies and other organisations and individuals that have an interest in health resources in New Zealand.

How is my information stored?

We take your privacy seriously, and will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is stored in a secure environment and protected from unauthorised access, use, modification, or disclosure.

The personal information that you provide to us is held by Shopify. 

We store our data (including any emails) on a secure AWS cloud platform and we use Microsoft Office 365 applications.  We protect our data with all reasonable technical and process controls.

Fulfilment of the orders is through regional Authorised Providers or through BlueStar and they need your personal details to send the resources requested.

How do I access and change my information?

You can ask us to provide you with the information we hold about you and request corrections to it.

If you would like to see the information we hold about you or request a correction, please contact us at HealthEd@hpa.org.nz.

For how long is my information held?

We will continue to hold your personal information as long as you continue to use healthed.govt.nz, but will delete it if requested.

Use of cookies and tracking technologies

Healthed.govt.nz collects statistical information which is used for making the site faster and easier to use. Information from your visit is combined with the data from all site visitors and presented as statistical information on overall site use. To do this, healthed.govt.nz uses "cookies" and other tracking technologies.

A "cookie" is a file that our web server may send to your computer when you access this website. This file is then stored on your computer. Healthed.govt.nz may use cookies and certain other passive information collection technologies to make your use of this website easier by allowing healthed.govt.nz to provide better service, customise websites based on consumer preferences, compile statistics, analyse trends, and otherwise administer and improve this website. Certain features of healthed.govt.nz may not work without use of passive information collection technologies.

Healthed.govt.nz uses "session" cookies. Session cookies are temporary bits of information that are erased once you exit your web browser window or otherwise turn your computer off. Session cookies are used, for example, to improve navigation on this site, and to collect aggregated statistical information.

Healthed.govt.nz may use "persistent" cookies: Persistent cookies are more permanent bits of information that are placed on the hard drive of your computer and stay there unless you delete the cookie. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for a number of purposes, such as helping to determine what areas of the website visitors find most valuable, and customising the website based on your preferences on an ongoing basis. The healthed.govt.nz server only knows that an unidentified visitor with your cookies has returned to the website and not any personally identifiable information.

Other tracking technologies

The following Google Analytics Display Advertising Features are enabled for this website:

  • Remarketing with Google Analytics
  • Google Display Network Impression reporting
  • Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
  • DoubleClick Platform integrations.
  • The following Adwords Features are enabled for this website:
  • Remarketing
  • Affinity audiences
  • Custom affinity audiences
  • In-market audiences
  • Similar audiences
  • Demographic and location targeting.

This means that healthed.govt.nz is enabling Google Analytics to collect data about traffic to this site through cookies and anonymous identifiers in addition to data collected through standard Google Analytics implementations.
Healthed.govt.nz will not share precise location information with Google without your prior explicit consent.

Use of Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimise this service and experience.

Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymised form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymised user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy.

Choices you have about healthed.govt.nz’s use of cookies and other tracking technologies

You can choose to enable or disable the use of some cookies and other tracking technologies on this website. Cookies that are necessary to the operation of this website and for the provision of the services you have requested will continue to function regardless of whether you have provided consent. Other types of cookies and tracking technologies will be turned off until you provide explicit consent. As a result, the functionality of healthed.govt.nz may be reduced until you choose to provide explicit consent.

Some Internet browsers allow you to limit or disable the use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Please refer to the information provided by your Internet browser for instructions on how to do so (generally found under a "Help" menu).

You can opt-out of any of the Google Analytics Advertising Features by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ which is where users can download the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add-On.

You can also opt out by going to Google Ad Settings, which allows users to turn off the amount and type of data you are sharing.

More information about opting out can be obtained from http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.