Privacy statement

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.

We may use cookies to gather data about trends in website usage. This information is aggregated and it does not identify you personally.

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 and similar browser storage are used to:

• measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs

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.