By
using the Social Pinpoint Mapping Tool you are taken to have accepted these
Terms and Conditions set out below.
Social Pinpoint hosts this
site on behalf of NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).
Social Pinpoint takes the
privacy of the participants using this site very seriously.
The information requested on
this page is to enable NZTA to contact you in relation to your
feedback and to provide you with updates for the project. To help make it quick and easy for you to provide feedback
we use Consultation Manager, a company based in Australia, to collect and
process your information. Consultation Manager collect and process your
information using their interactive geo mapping and tagging tool, Social
Pinpoint. The information you provide will be used by Consultation Manager in
accordance with its privacy policy. NZTA will use your
information only for the purposes for which it has been collected. Your
information will be treated as confidential by the Transport Agency, subject to
the Official Information Act 1982 and the Privacy Act 1993.
Providing your information is
voluntary. Should you chose to provide us with your feedback you are required
to agree to Consultation Manager’s terms and conditions. Should you chose to
provide us with your information you have the right, under the Privacy Act 1993
to request access to and correction of any personal information you supply as a
part of this process from Waka Kotahi. Should you wish to exercise these
rights, please contact NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, Private Bag 11777,
Palmerston North 4442 or email: info@nzta.govt.nz.
If you chose not to provide
your information, you’ll be required to write anonymous into spaces where your
information is requested and your consultation feedback will be submitted
anonymously.
Social
Pinpoint
Our collection, use and
disclosure of your personal information is regulated by the National Privacy
Principles under the Privacy Act 1988, as amended from time to time and also by
the relevant State legislation (depending on the State in which the client is
located). You can find more information about your privacy rights at the
Privacy Commissioner's web site, www.privacy.gov.au
Note: This
privacy policy applies to the Social Pinpoint's behaviour and treatment of your
information and should be read in conjunction with the Waka Kotahi privacy policy.
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi – Privacy Policy
Who
do I contact for more information?
Social Pinpoint may be
contacted in relation to privacy policy issues by email at privacy@socialpinpoint.com or
addressed to:
Privacy Officer Suite
4, 119 Beaumont Street Hamilton NSW 2303 Australia
What
information do we collect?
Basic
identifying information
We collect information from
you when you register to use this site. This information may vary depending on
the specific needs of Waka Kotahi, however, at a minimum is includes your:
Screen name
Email address
Demographic
information
Additional demographic
information such as your age, gender, household income, suburb and interests
may also be collected at this time.
User-generated
information
We collect information that
you put on the site after you have signed up including but not limited to:
Comments in forums
Votes on other comments in
forums
Responses to surveys and
quick polls
User-behaviour
information
We collect information about
your behaviour on the site including but not limited to:
Documents downloaded from the
library
Videos viewed
Pages views
Note that you can browse the
site completely anonymously without signing up.
Why
do we collect this information?
To
collect and collate your feedback to inform better policy
The principle reason for
collecting this information is to help inform the creation of better policy.
The information is therefore provided to Waka Kotahi for analysis and
interpretation at their discretion.
To
send you periodic emails
The email address you provide
for registering on the site may be used by either Social Pinpoint or Waka
Kotahi to send you information and updates pertaining to the issues discussed
on this site or any other site that we feel may be of interest to you.
Note: If at any time you
would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include a simple
unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email.
To
protect the integrity of the discussion
By monitoring the information
you provide we are able to protect the integrity of the discussion from
individuals and groups who may attempt to unduly influence the outcomes of the
consultation process.
To
improve the website and software
The principle use of this
information by Social Pinpoint is to help us to improve this website and the
software that underpins it. We are continually striving to improve the
experience of our participants based on your feedback.
Who
has access to this information?
When you register for a user
account you provide three types of information:
1.Publicly available
information
2.Information available to
both Waka Kotahi and Social Pinpoint
3.Information available to
Social Pinpoint only
Publicly
available information
Publicly available
information is limited to your screen name and any comments you leave under
that name in the forums or other tools on the site.
Note: We strongly recommend
use of an anonymous screen name.
Individual survey responses,
voting patterns and quick poll responses will not immediately be made available
publicly on the site, however, feedback (including overall results of polls and
surveys, and in some instances, unidentifiable and randomly chosen quotes or
comments from surveys) may be published in publicly available reports at the
end of the consultation period.
Please also keep in mind,
however, that under most local Freedom of Information laws formal submissions
uploaded to this site can be made available for public viewing by Waka Kotahi
at its own volition or at the request of a member of the public.
Information
available to both Waka Kotahi and Social Pinpoint includes:
All information from the
Register form.
Comments
Survey, Quick Poll, and
comment voting responses
General site activity such as
document downloads.
Information
available to Social Pinpoint only
Information which is
available only to Social Pinpoint is restricted to your IP address for site
security purposes.
Do we
disclose any information to third parties other than Waka Kotahi?
We do not sell, trade, or
otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.
This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our
website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties
agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law,
enforce our site policies, or protect our or others rights, property or safety.
However, we may from time to
time notify you about other sites we are managing when we feel they may of
direct relevance and interest to you. Please note that you can easily
unsubscribe from these notifications at any time.
Third
party links
Occasionally, Waka
Kotahi may include links to third party sites. These third parties have
separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility
or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
Terms
and conditions
Please also visit our terms
and conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of
liability governing the use of our website.
Your
consent
By using our website, you
consent to this privacy policy.
