Privacy and disclaimer

Disclaimer
Any information provided on this website is to be used for informational and educational purposes only. 
The content of this website is not intended as a substitute for care from a psychotherapist or other health care professional.
While every effort has been made to ensure the quality and accuracy of the information available on this website, users are reminded that the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists cannot accept any legal liability for any errors or omissions or damages resulting from reliance on the information contained in this website. 
The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists may alter information contained on this website without notice. 
 
This website may have links to third party websites and resources. 
The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists is not responsible or liable for the availability or accuracy of any such link or resource, or for the content, products, or services on or available from such websites or resources.
Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists.
 
 
Privacy policy
The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists is strongly committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services or interact with us. 
In accordance with the NZ Privacy Act 1993, we take all reasonable precautions to protect any personal information we hold about you from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, 
 
We will not share any personal identification information with other organisations or individuals without your expressed consent – except in the extremely rare situation where we might be forced to do so by law or in order to protect the rights of the Association.
 
The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists may collect personal identification information from you if you voluntarily submit such information to us through using the email contact page, responding to surveys, or through bookings for professional events via our site. 
We may then use your email address and submitted information to respond to your inquiries, questions, requests, etc.
 
Anonymous, statistical non-personal identification information may be collected when you use our site.
This information, like the type of browser or device you have used to access our site, will only be used to optimise the ongoing functioning and the user experience of our site.
 
Any searches for members of our Association conducted by public users of our site will not cause any information to be saved. 
(‘Logged-in’ NZAP members who use the search facility might however leave some information in server logs that could identify searches. These remain private and would only be available to technical website staff).
 
Our Site may use web browser “cookies”to enhance your user experience. You can customise your web browser so as to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. There are numerous sites like http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ that will help you understand more about this.
 
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this disclaimer, our current privacy policy and to the use of ‘cookies’.
 
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us.
 
The New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. 
This policy was last updated in March 2019.