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Copyright

Unless otherwise specified, the content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence. You can copy, distribute, and adapt material from this site as long as you acknowledge its source and follow the licence terms.

 

Any use of flags, emblems, names or words protected by the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Act 1981 must not infringe any provision of that Act.

For questions on attributing work to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade please contact: cmd@mfat.govt.nz Phone: +64 4 439 8000 Fax: +64 4 439 8511

If you believe any information on the website is inaccurate please let us know.

Links to other websites are provided for the benefit of our site users. The Ministry is not responsible for the content on the sites we link to and does not endorse any commercial organisations.

Privacy

Site visits

When you visit this website some data about the visit will be recorded on the server logs. We use this information to produce web statistics to help us improve the content and navigation of the website. The information that gets collected is:

  • server addresses
  • top level domain names (for example .com, .govt, .nz, .uk etc)
  • the date and time of visit to the site, and
  • the pages accessed and documents downloaded.

We do not use this information to identify personal details about our site visitors.

Consultation process

If you provide feedback to the Ministry as part of our online consultation on any issue, that information will be stored securely and treated as confidential. The information will only be used for the purpose for which it was requested.

Forms

Any information provided to the Ministry via an online form on this website will be stored securely and treated as confidential. The information will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided.

Cookies

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