Privacy Statement

- The purpose of this privacy statement is to let users of the Matarau website www.matarau.nz know when we may collect personal information and what we may do with it. We do not use, share or disclose personal information collected or received through this website except as set out in this statement.
- Collection, storage and use
  
  You can use Matarau without disclosing any personal information.
  
  You may need to provide some personal information when you complete an online search for whenua. We will only use this information for the purpose you provided it. We will not store this information, or save any search terms you may enter on the site itself.
  
  We will only retain personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used – for example, to complete a search.
  
  Collecting statistical information using cookies via Google Analytics
  
  We may use cookies to gather data about trends in website usage using a tool called Google Analytics. This data will be viewable by website administrators and certain other staff. It may also be shared with the oversight governance group of Matarau, which is comprised of Māori land professionals. This information is aggregated and it does not identify you personally.
  
  You can read Google’s privacy statement, and access a Google Analytics opt-out tool, at the Google Privacy Center - https://safety.google/
  
  Cookies
  
  Browser or ‘web’ cookies are small text files that are sent by a website and stored on your computer's hard drive to collect information about how you browse the website.
  
  Cookies are used to:
  
  measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
  
  remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again.
  
  You can manually disable cookies at any time – check your browser's 'Help' to find out how (disabling cookies will not affect your ability to use this website).
  
  Data collected may include:
  
  your IP address (the internet address you access our website from)
  
  the search terms you used to find content
  
  the pages you accessed on our website and the links you clicked on
  
  the date and time you visited our website
  
  the referring website (if any) through which you clicked through to our website
  
  your operating system (for example, Android or iOS)
  
  the type of web browser you use (for example, Chrome or Safari)
  
  other things like your screen resolution, the version of Flash you have installed, and the language setting of your browser.