This privacy statement applies to the New Dunedin Hospital website, which is owned and administered by the Ministry of Health, in association with the Southern District Health Board and the Southern Partnership Group.
You may browse and access information contained within this website without providing personal information.
Where you voluntarily provide personal information (eg, through online forms or email requests), we will only use your personal information for the purposes for which you gave it to us.
This information will be held by the Ministry of Health, the Southern District Health Board and the Southern Partnership Group. Your information may be shared with, and held by, third-party contractors so that those contractors can provide you with the services you have requested. We will not disclose your personal information to other government agencies or other organisations without your consent, unless required by law.
We will hold your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993. The Privacy Act 1993 regulates us through the Information Privacy Principles as to how we collect, use, hold, disclose, access, correct, manage and dispose of your personal information. For more information visit the Office of the Privacy Commissioner website(external link).
To view any personal information held by us, or if you have any concerns about personal information that we hold and wish to request its correction, please contact us.
Some information is automatically retrieved about your visit, such as:
No effort is made to identify individual visitors.
The statistical information referred to above will be viewable by website administrators and certain other staff at the Ministry of Health, Southern District Health Board and the Southern Partnership Group. It may also be shared with other government agencies.
This website uses cookies for the purpose of monitoring website usage. The cookies do not collect personal information. You can disable them or clear them out of your web browser without affecting your ability to use the website.
We use Google Universal Analytics to collect and analyse details about the use of our website.
The information Google Analytics collects includes:
No effort is made to identify individual visitors.
You may opt-out from having Google Analytics collect your information by disabling cookies in your browser, or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on(external link).
Google Analytics privacy policy(external link).
When you subscribe to our newsletters, we will only use your personal information for managing your subscription and assessing newsletter effectiveness. You can unsubscribe from any newsletter at any time.
Some of our newsletters are managed using a third-party tool called Campaign Monitor.
Campaign Monitor provides analytics to the Ministry on how people interact with our newsletters (eg, how many subscribers have opened emails or clicked on links). This means that the Ministry and Campaign Monitor will be able to see your name, email and details about which links in Ministry newsletters you have clicked on.
The Ministry only uses this information to assess newsletter effectiveness.
For more information, see the Campaign Monitor privacy policy(external link).
