Career Services' privacy and security policy

Career Services complies with the Privacy Act of 1993. The objectives of the Privacy Act include:

• promoting and protecting individual privacy
• establishing principles for collecting, using, and disclosing information about individuals
• establishing principles for allowing each individual access to information about them that is held by public and private sector agencies, and
• providing for the appointment of a privacy commissioner to investigate complaints about interferences with individual privacy.

For more information on privacy see the The Privacy Commissioner's Website.

Your privacy on the Internet is important to us. Because the Internet offers the ability to collect certain information about you, we want you to understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture, storage and use of information we gather. To that end, this privacy policy discloses what information we gather, security measures we take, how we store, how we use, and how to correct your personal information.

Information we gather when visiting our web site
When you use our website we do not collect any personal information from you unless you give it to us voluntarily. However, some information is automatically provided to us when you access our website (information stored in the IP header). This includes:

• the Internet address of your computer (IP address)
• the date and time you access our website
• the type of computer and browser you are using and your computers operating system
• the Internet address of the website that referred you to our website.

Registering with Career Services via online chat

The information you submit to Career Services as part of the log-in process is used to help us understand your needs and interests as well as to help us provide you with better services.

Specifically the information will be used to effectively communicate with you, help you complete an information request, ensure you enter your personal information only once, create content that is most relevant to you and provide you with relevant service and support.

Career Services respects your privacy and will not sell, rent, lease or lend any identifiable information obtained about you via any of our communication mechanisms (including telephone, online chat, email and fax) to anyone. We will not share your personal information with a business partner or any unrelated third party without your permission. Career Services is committed to ensuring the security of your information. For more information please see our Privacy and Security policy.

We value your comments and opinions. If you have comments or questions about the online chat services or the privacy and security policy please complete the Career Services website feedback form.

Security measures

We maintain a secure process for collection, transmission, and storage of your personal information.

Protecting your personal information
When you purchase products from our site, you need to provide us with personal information, including your credit-card details.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Digital certificates are used to protect your personal information as it is transmitted over the Internet. The digital certificates used by Career Services use 128-bit encrypted for the following browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and later browsers
• Netscape communicator 4.7 and later browsers.

Older or other browsers will still create a secure SSL, however, the level of encryption is dependent on the browser.

How to tell if a server is secure
Look for one or more of these ‘secure connection' indicators on your browser:

• a security alert window tells you that you are about to use a secure connection. Some browsers let you choose whether to display this window.
• an SSL icon shows when you're in a secure connection:
• a symbol of an open padlock changes to a closed padlock when you're in a secure connection.
• a symbol of a "broken key" icon is replaced by an unbroken key.
• the website's address changes to one that begins with "https" (check for the "s").

Your account details
When you visit Career Services website, your personal information are stored on the site in a secure environment. This is so you can review your personal information and update it as necessary.

Contact us
If you are concerned that this Security Policy may have been breached or the security of your personal information has been compromised, please email us immediately at careers@careers.govt.nz.

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

Before you disclose any personal information to another site, we advise you to check its terms and conditions, including its privacy and security policies.

Information storage

Storing your personal information
When you subscribe to Career Services your personal information is stored on the Site in a secure server. This is so you can view and update it as necessary. Your personal information is only able to be accessed by entering your username and password.

How we use your personal information
We collect and use personal information about you to:

• supply what you want or give you the access you need: for example, if you want to subscribe to " Career Edge" our magazine or purchase any other product from us; receive one of our email newsletters; or contact us
• to administer your subscription efficiently
• conduct market research surveys
• tell you about our new products and services
• protect the rights or property of Career Services, and any Career Services web site user.

No disclosure
We will not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third party unless:

• we need to do so to provide you with the content, service or features you have requested
• we are completing financial transactions with our bank
• we need to do so to protect the rights or property of Career Services or any Career Services user
• we are required to do so by law.

Changing your personal information
You can choose to view and change any personal information we hold about you at any time. You can do this by emailing Career Services at careers@careers.govt.nz.

Privacy complaints
Career Services is committed to dealing quickly and appropriately with any complaint you make about your privacy.

If you are concerned that this Privacy Policy may have been breached or your privacy has been violated, please email us immediately at careers@careers.govt.nz.

Please include your email address or a daytime telephone number where we can contact you.

Changes to Policy
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time by notifying site users of the existence of a revised policy.