Privacy

We aim to provide accurate election information to voters. To do so, we collect some information when you use this website. We will never sell this information or allow it to be used contrary to the public interest. This page explains what information we collect and how we may use that information.

Information we collect

Favourite policies and candidates

We collect and keep information about what policies and candidates users add to their list of favourites. But we cannot connect this information to you personally because we do not know who our users are. No one will be able to associate you with your list of favourite policies or candidates unless you share it publicly or someone else uses the device you were browsing on.

If you are using a public or shared device, we recommend clearing your cookies and browsing history after using this website. You can also clear your favourites list by clicking the reset button on the Your Favourites page.

Address search

One way to find your elections on Policy.nz is by providing a street address. We don’t ever see, collect or store your address when you do so. If you don’t want to enter your address, you can select an election from a list.

Demographics and how you use this website

We collect anonymised data about user demographics and browsing behaviour.

This information includes IP addresses and domain names, location data, operating system and browser information, search engine details (how a user arrived at the website), date, time and length of visit, and URLs of the pages visited on the website.

We collect this data using Google Analytics. Analytics data is aggregated and cannot individually identify you to us. More information about Google Analytics can be found on Google’s information page.

We cannot link this data with user address data or with which policies and candidates our users like.

What we do with information we collect

We will never sell information about our users or allow it to be used contrary to the public interest.

Publication in the public interest

We may publish generalised user policy and candidate preference data if this is in the public interest – such as to report on which policies are most popular.

We may provide this data to someone else to publish, such as a news media organisation, or to academic researchers. We do not provide data we collect to third parties for private use.

Improving our website and communicating with supporters

We use the data about our users' demographics and browsing behaviour to make the site better – for example, by helping us understand what parts of the site users find difficult to use. We may share summaries generated from analytics data with our media partner, The Spinoff, and our advertisers and sponsors.

Cookies

We place cookies on your device to make the website work properly. The cookie allows us to show you your elections and to store your list of favourite policies and candidates.

Privacy

We aim to provide accurate election information to voters. To do so, we collect some information when you use this website. We will never sell this information or allow it to be used contrary to the public interest. This page explains what information we collect and how we may use that information.

Information we collect

Favourite policies and candidates

We collect and keep information about what policies and candidates users add to their list of favourites. But we cannot connect this information to you personally because we do not know who our users are. No one will be able to associate you with your list of favourite policies or candidates unless you share it publicly or someone else uses the device you were browsing on.

If you are using a public or shared device, we recommend clearing your cookies and browsing history after using this website. You can also clear your favourites list by clicking the reset button on the Your Favourites page.

Address search

One way to find your elections on Policy.nz is by providing a street address. We don’t ever see, collect or store your address when you do so. If you don’t want to enter your address, you can select an election from a list.

Demographics and how you use this website

We collect anonymised data about user demographics and browsing behaviour.

This information includes IP addresses and domain names, location data, operating system and browser information, search engine details (how a user arrived at the website), date, time and length of visit, and URLs of the pages visited on the website.

We collect this data using Google Analytics. Analytics data is aggregated and cannot individually identify you to us. More information about Google Analytics can be found on Google’s information page.

We cannot link this data with user address data or with which policies and candidates our users like.

What we do with information we collect

We will never sell information about our users or allow it to be used contrary to the public interest.

Publication in the public interest

We may publish generalised user policy and candidate preference data if this is in the public interest – such as to report on which policies are most popular.

We may provide this data to someone else to publish, such as a news media organisation, or to academic researchers. We do not provide data we collect to third parties for private use.

Improving our website and communicating with supporters

We use the data about our users' demographics and browsing behaviour to make the site better – for example, by helping us understand what parts of the site users find difficult to use. We may share summaries generated from analytics data with our media partner, The Spinoff, and our advertisers and sponsors.

Cookies

We place cookies on your device to make the website work properly. The cookie allows us to show you your elections and to store your list of favourite policies and candidates.