Privacy Policy

Public Libraries of New Zealand is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Love Your Library website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Love Your Library site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Love Your Library collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, region, or telephone number. .

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Love Your Library through our website analytics. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Love Your Library for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Love Your Library website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Love Your Library, this information may be seen and used by others.

Public Libraries of New Zealand encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Love Your Library so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Public Libraries of New Zealand is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Love Your Library website. .

Use of your Personal Information

Public Libraries of New Zealand collects and uses your personal information to operate the Love Your Library Web site and deliver the services or information you have requested.

Public Libraries of New Zealand does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Public Libraries of New Zealand keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Love Your Library, in order to determine what Public Libraries of New Zealand services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content.

Public Libraries of New Zealand Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Public Libraries of New Zealand or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Public Libraries of New Zealand; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Public Libraries of New Zealand, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Love Your Library website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Love Your Library pages, or register with the Love Your Library website or services, a cookie helps Love Your Library to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to Love Your Library, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Love Your Library features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of Love Your Library or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Love Your Library secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Love Your Library secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.

Changes to this Statement

Public Libraries of New Zealand will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback.

Contact Information

Public Libraries of New Zealand welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Public Libraries of New Zealand has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Public Libraries of New Zealand at info@publiclibraries.org.nz.