Legal

Site owner

This website is owned and operated by the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC).  This website is governed by the terms of use, disclaimer, privacy statement, copyright and trademarks provisions of GWRC.

Copyright 

  Copyright ©. Copyright material on this website is protected by copyright owned by the Greater Wellington Regional Council. 

Unless indicated otherwise for specific items or collections of content (either below or within specific items or collections), this copyright material is licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. In essence, you are free to copy, distribute and adapt the material, as long as you attribute it to the Greater Wellington Regional Council and abide by the other licence terms. Please note that this licence does not apply to any logos, emblems and trade marks on the website or to the website's design elements. Those specific items may not be re-used without express permission.

Contact details

See the Contact page.

Terms of use

Your use of this website and subsidiary websites is subject to the following terms and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing this website and subsidiary websites, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these terms.

GWRC may modify, alter or otherwise update the terms applicable to this website and subsidiary websites from time to time, with or without notice, and you agree to check these terms and conditions and to be bound by such terms as are in effect at the time at which you access this website and subsidiary websites.

In these terms:

• References to this website and subsidiary websites includes all pages of, and all information and material on, this website and subsidiary websites, including, without limitation, text, images, graphics, layout, look-and-feel and any other information contained on or in this website and subsidiary websites (collectively, "content") and all transaction processing services available on or via this website and subsidiary websites ('transaction processing services")
• References to use of this website and subsidiary websites include access to this website and subsidiary websites.

You may not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any portion or feature of this website and subsidiary websites, or attempt to obtain any materials, information or documents through any means not purposely made available by GWRC, including, without limitation, hacking, password mining or otherwise accessing data without prior express authorisation. You may not test the vulnerability of this website and subsidiary websites, or seek to trace any information on any other user of this website and subsidiary websites. You agree to comply with all applicable laws and with these terms and conditions at all times when using this website and subsidiary websites.

Governing law

Use of this website and subsidiary websites and these terms shall be governed by the laws of New Zealand without reference to principles of conflict of laws. You agree to be bound by such laws and irrevocably agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand in connection with the interpretation or application of these terms. Those who choose to access this website and subsidiary websites from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Disclaimer

Every reasonable effort has been made to maintain current and accurate information on this site. Information contained has been assembled in good faith. Where appropriate external links have been provided for the user's convenience, Greater Wellington Regional Council does not accept any responsibility for the content or condition of any external links on this site.

Elections

The Greater Wellington Regional Council's social media pages must not be used for electioneering purposes. Any post - positive or negative - made by any individual specifically relating to their own - or someone else's - nomination, intention to run for Council or election campaign, will be removed immediately.

Complaints

If you have any issues or complaints about any of our services, please contact us.