LINZ Licence for Personal Data 2.3

Effective Date: 8 July 2024

The data being licensed under this Licence (the Data) is protected by copyright and/or other applicable law. Any use of the Data other than as authorised under this Licence or copyright law is prohibited. By exercising any rights to the Data provided here, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of this Licence.

This Licence is granted on the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) published at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode, amended as follows:

• The definition of “Licensed Material” in CC BY 4.0 includes the Data.
• As the Data contains information about identifiable individuals, You agree the following additional provisions:
  • You must comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act 2020, including the information privacy principles, in respect of the Data as if you were an “agency” under that Act.
  • If a notifiable privacy breach (as defined in the Privacy Act 2020) occurs, You undertake to notify Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand as soon as practicable after becoming aware that the breach has occurred.
  • You must take such security safeguards as are reasonable to ensure the Data is not misused and is not provided to any individual or entity that has not agreed to this Licence.
  • You must not allow (including by taking active positive steps such as using a robot.txt file) the Data to be indexed by any public internet web search engine and must ensure that all third parties to whom You provide the Data (whether or not supplied by You in a modified form or compilation) do the same.
  • You must not do, or omit to do, anything that would cause Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand to breach its obligations under the Privacy Act 2020.
  • You must not use the Data in Unsolicited Direct Marketing nor in recipient lists provided by You to other parties which are likely to be used for Unsolicited Direct Marketing. Unsolicited Direct Marketing means a targeted marketing communication, in any form, that the recipient has not consented to receiving.
  • Within 5 business days of a request from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand to do so, You must:
    • amend or delete the Data (or any part of the Data) as requested by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand and, if requested, notify us that You have done so;
    • ensure that all third parties to whom You provided the Data (whether or not supplied by You in a modified form or compilation) do the same; and
    • provide evidence satisfactory to Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand that the Data has been so amended or deleted.
  • You must not use the Data for any unlawful purpose and must comply with all laws.
  • You must not assign Your rights under this Licence.
  • You agree this Licence is subject to the laws of New Zealand and You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.
• All references to legislation or documents in these amendments, includes that legislation or those documents as amended or replaced from time to time.
• Personal information about You collected when you applied for this Licence is used for the purposes of evaluating your application and any subsequent correspondence on Your application or Your subsequent use of the Data under this Licence.

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Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand reserves the right at least annually to review Your usage of this Licence for Personal Data and to disable or terminate access for inactive users or where e-mails are returned as undelivered or with error messages.

This Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Licence for Personal Data may be amended by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand from time to time by posting a new version on the Toitū Te Whenua / LINZ website. Any new version will apply to Data that is downloaded from the effective date of the new version. Any new version will not automatically affect any Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Licence for Personal Data for Data previously downloaded from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand. However, if You download any new Data under a Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Licence for Personal Data Licence after its effective date, all Data that You licensed from Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand under any previous version of the Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Licence for Personal Data will, from the date you obtained the new Data, be licensed under the terms of the amended Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand Licence for Personal Data.

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand grants You the rights contained here in consideration of your acceptance of such terms and conditions.