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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 do not accept all these terms, please do not access or use this website.

Copyright

The material on this website – including pages, documents, graphics, audio, and video ­­– is protected by copyright under the copyright laws of New Zealand and, through international treaties, other countries. The copyright in all material on this website is owned by Learning Media Ltd (unless the content is identified as being the property of another party). While this site is available to all, we intend the content to be primarily used for New Zealand schools and educational centres, for non-commercial and educational purposes.

For material copyright to the Ministry of Education

All material on this website that is the copyright of the Learning Media Ltd is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial (BY-NC) New Zealand 3.0 licence.

For material with third party copyright

If you wish to use any material on this site that is the property of a third party, you must obtain the prior permission of the relevant owner. This includes material on websites you access via links from this site.

Disclaimer

This site contains information and content obtained from within Learning Media and from sources commissioned by Learning Media, and is subject to change without notice. To the best of our ability, we endeavour to ensure that the information is correct, accurate, and current. However, we do not accept any liability for the accuracy of this information, for any content on the site, or for the results or consequences of your uses of any such information or content.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, representations, and guarantees regarding this website and the content of it.

Links to third party websites

Learning Media does not accept any liability for the accuracy or content of information on this website belonging to third parties, nor for the accuracy or content of any third-party website that you may access via a hyperlink from this site. Links to other websites from this one should not be taken as endorsement of those sites or of products offered on those sites.

When visiting other websites, please refer to the conditions of use and copyright policies of those sites.

Links from other sites to this one

You are welcome to create a hyperlink to this site from another website. However, this link must not be presented on your site in any context that implies that this website has an association with your site, or endorses your site or product. Our logo may not be used on your site without the written permission of Learning Media.

Privacy statement

If you send us personal information, we will use this personal information only for the purpose for which it was provided or for a purpose required or permitted by the Privacy Act 1993 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 1993 or otherwise required or permitted by law.

If you would like to check personal information that we hold, please write to:

The Privacy Officer
Learning Media
Box 3293
Wellington 6140

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 our 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 Learning Media 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.

Learning Media 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.

Cookies

Browser cookies are small files that are sent by a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are used by this website to provide the Ministry of Education with information about site usage and to improve the service we offer to site visitors. The data is collected and aggregated for the Ministry of Education by Nielsen NetRatings, a measurement and research company. You can find out about Nielsen NetRatings’ privacy policy in their privacy statement.

Cookies from this site are not used to gather or to allow the gathering of any personally identifiable information and are not used to track individual user activity around this site or around the Internet.

You may manually disable cookies at any time. Check your browser’s Help to find out how. This will not affect your ability to view the site.

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).

Learning Media 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.