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Site owner

This site is owned and maintained by the Communications and Engagement team in the Office of the Auditor-General. The team provides communications support to both business units of the Auditor-General (Audit New Zealand and the Office of the Auditor-General).

Photograph credit

The main homepage photograph of Parliament buildings was taken in 2020 by Tom Ackroyd and is available on Wikipedia Commons. Other photographs used on this site were taken by staff or for work purposes, or were available without copyright restrictions or without photographer attribution requirements. 

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If you want to reproduce any material on sites that we link to, you must get permission from the copyright owner for that site. Permission cannot be obtained from Audit New Zealand.

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If you decide to provide us with any personal information (for example, through any online form), we will use that information only for the specific purpose stated. We will keep any such information secure and won’t disclose it to any third parties. (We have a designated privacy officer, so if you have questions or concerns you can email [email protected] or write to us and mark your email or letter for the attention of the privacy officer.)

Like most websites, we collect statistical information about your visit, to help us improve our website. The information is anonymous, and is not used for any other purpose. We collect information on:

  • IP addresses
  • search terms
  • pages visited (entry and exit points)
  • dates and times of visits
  • operating systems, and
  • web browsers.

Google Analytics also provides some collated and anonymous information, where available, about the demographics and interests of visitors to our website. Google uses cookies stored on your computer to collect this information. You can opt out of this information collection by using Ad Settings in your browser or application or use Google's current available opt-outs, https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/, for the web.

Contact details

You can write to us at Audit New Zealand, 100 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6140, or call +64 4 496 3099 , or email [email protected]. 

If you have questions or complaints about this website, please email the [email protected], or write to:

Audit New Zealand Webmaster
Communications and Engagement team
Office of the Auditor-General
PO Box 3928
Wellington

Disclaimer

We do our best to ensure that the publications and other information on this website are up to date. However, we cannot guarantee complete accuracy: some information in a publication will inevitably lose relevance or currency over time, and any guidance material is necessarily general in nature and cannot provide comprehensive answers for all situations.

You shouldn't treat information on this website as amounting to definitive professional advice about any specific matter, and we don't accept legal responsibility for reliance on information on this website.

Page last updated: 13 July 2022