What does this Statement cover?

Personal information is information held by Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities which could identify you. We take our privacy obligations seriously. This Privacy Statement explains how we handle any personal information we collect about you through your use of this website. 

Kāinga Ora will hold any personal information that is collected from or about you using this website in accordance with this Privacy Statement, available at Copyright and Privacy : Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities (kaingaora.govt.nz), and the Privacy Act 2020. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with this Statement and the Privacy Policy before using this platform. 

Find out more about Social Pinpoint's Privacy Policy governing their service.

 What personal information do we collect about you?

Information about you

When you engage with this site we may ask you to provide your email address and some generic demographic information. 

Demographic questions are optional. 

If you do not wish to provide us with your email address, you will be able to read the information that is available here but you will not be able to comment on or otherwise engage with the material on this website. 

Engagement Information

We collect the information you provide us with when you engage with this website, including your comments, responses to survey questions, and other information.

Usage Information

We collect metadata relating to your visit to this website, such as the specific pages you visit and any documents you download.

 Why do we collect this information about you and what do we use it for?

We collect the information identified above so that we can:

• Assess and use it to inform our work, including to understand our stakeholders’ perspectives and to help meet our community engagement objectives and obligations;
• Communicate with stakeholders about their responses; and/or 
• Respond to inquiries, provide our stakeholders with information about other engagement opportunities or initiatives that might be relevant to them, and otherwise engage with stakeholders.

We do not provide the personal information we collect about stakeholders via this site to any third parties.

External links

This site may contain external links to other websites, which are not within our control. We are not responsible for keeping those linked pages up to date or for the accuracy of information on them. You are encouraged to review the privacy policies available via those websites before you use them.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect information that we collect about you using this website against unauthorised access, use, alteration, or destruction.

Requesting access or correcting your personal information

You have the right to seek access to the personal information we hold about you and to ask us to correct any errors in it. 

If you want to access any personal information we hold about you or to ask us to correct it, please contact us using the details below, and include your name and contact details. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request. If we are not able to provide you with access to all personal information you have asked for, we will tell you why.

Contact Us

For further information about this privacy statement or our Privacy Policy, or to access or correct your personal information, or make a complaint, please contact us at enquiries1@kaingaora.govt.nz  or

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities

National Office 

PO Box 2628 

Wellington 6140