Career Services' website policies

Career Services website is designed to help you make better informed work, training and career decisions. However, we recommend that you also refer to other sources of information, such as relevant training providers or professional or trade organisations before making any decisions about your career.

Although Career Services makes every effort to ensure that all material on our website is reliable and accurate at the time of publishing, Career Services cannot accept any liability for its accuracy or content. Use of our website is at your own risk.

Linking policy

Career Services provides links to other websites when we consider that you may be interested in what they have to offer. We do not necessarily endorse those websites or their content and we have no control over the conduct of the companies or organisations operating those websites.

Changes to the website

Career Services may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the website at any time, including any service or content offered by or through this website.

This privacy statement applies to personal and other information collected on Career Services’ website, www.careers.govt.nz. 

Collection of personal information

We may collect your personal information in the following circumstances:

• when you complete forms on this website (including surveys, search forms, competition entry forms, registration forms, and other forms);
• when you create, modify, or use any accounts or registered user facilities available through this website;
• in the course of receiving questions, comments or other communications from you; and
• as you navigate through this website, certain information may be passively collected (that is, gathered without your active participation) using various technologies and means, such as Internet Protocol addresses, cookies, Internet tags, and navigational data collection. Information collected may include server addresses, top-level domain names, dates and times of visits to the website, pages accessed and documents downloaded, previous websites visited and the type of browser used;

Use of your information

The personal information we collect will be used to operate this website, to assist you with your career planning, to provide you with services that you have authorised and requested, and to provide you with advice and information that we consider may assist you. We may also use personal information collected by us to:

• respond to any questions or correspondence from you;
• improve this website and any related services;
• carry out internal research and development;
• provide you with information about a service that you are using (including critical updates and announcements);
• eliminate the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information;
• customise this website to suit your particular preferences and interests;
• where you create a message using this website (for the purpose of sending that message to us, or to any other recipient specified by you), send that message;
• analyse website usage, trends and statistics;
• with your permission, supply you with further information concerning products and services that we consider to be of interest to you; or
• carry out any other use that is authorised by you or is notified to you at the time of collection.

We will not sell, rent or lease your personal information. We will not disclose your personal information except in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993). We may use or disclose your personal information if you have authorised us to do so, or in any of the following circumstances:

• we have give you notification of the intended use or disclosure and you have not objected to that use or disclosure;
• we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights or property of Career Services (including, without limitation, employees or contractors of Career Services), to enforce any legal rights we may have, or is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of you, us, or others;
• we believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance or their functions;
• we are required or permitted by law to disclose the information.

Confidentiality and security of information you supply

We will take every reasonable precaution to ensure your personal information is stored securely and cannot be accessed by others. However, you should be aware that there are inherent risks associated with the transmission of personal information across the Internet. 

You are entitled to access, request or correct the personal information we hold about you at any time by contacting our privacy officer as follows:

• by completing the Career Services ‘Website feedback form’; or 
• writing to:

The Privacy Officer
Career Services
PO Box 9446
Wellington

To ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date, please notify our Privacy Officer of any changes to your personal details as soon as possible.

Account security – your responsibilities

As a part of registration we will provide you with a username and password. You are responsible for:

• keeping your username and password confidential;
• protecting and securing your username and password from unauthorised access and use;
• protecting your computing environment from unauthorised access, viruses, and malicious software.

You and other users may contribute material to the website. You agree that Career Services is granted a licence to use, reproduce, publish and distribute any contributions that you make to the website. You must use the website (including any contributions to the website) for proper purposes only. Career Services reserves the right to moderate (including editing and/or deleting) material contributed by you or other users. We reserve the right to remove any material that we consider to be unacceptable, including where the material consists of some or all of the following:

• Defamatory statements;
• Obscene language;
• Other potentially offensive or illegal material.

Warranty for material contributed by you

You warrant that if you contribute third party copyright content to the website in any manner, that you have the right to use any such material and to grant us the licence provided under the heading ‘Visitor material and conduct’.

Contributors’ views are their own

Views or opinions expressed on the website are not necessarily endorsed by Career Services, and their publication on the website shall not be taken as an endorsement of any kind.

Career Services reserves the right to terminate a user’s ability to log-in or contribute material to the website if we determine that the user is using the website for unacceptable purposes or if the user has contributed material that is abusive or otherwise damaging to Career Services.

Government employees who participate on the site are reminded of their obligations under the Standards of Integrity and Conduct.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to update or revise these Terms of use. Please check these Terms of use periodically for changes. Your continued use of this website following the posting of any changes to these Terms of use indicates your acceptance of those changes.