Last Updated: February 2025 • Governing Jurisdiction: Aotearoa New Zealand
TerraAotearoa ("we," "us," or "our") is an independent New Zealand travel journalism and digital expedition publication. We operate under the registered enterprise entity TerraAotearoa Media with operations headquartered in New Zealand. For any data protection inquiries, privacy questions, or rights requests under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, our appointed Privacy Officer can be contacted exclusively via email at [email protected].
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, handle, and protect personal information obtained through our website (accessible at terraaotearoa.co.nz), route inquiry web forms, newsletter communications, and analytical instrumentation. We are committed to upholding the 13 Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) outlined in the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.
We restrict data collection strictly to what is necessary for our editorial and route consulting operations:
| Processing Purpose | Data Types Involved | NZ Legal Ground (Privacy Act 2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Responding to bespoke itinerary and route consultation requests | Name, email, phone, travel message | IPP 1–4: Direct voluntary consent for primary intended communication |
| Platform stability, spam mitigation, and infrastructure defense | Technical headers, redacted IP addresses | Legitimate operational interest in secure digital delivery |
| Aggregated audience measurement and article popularity analytics | Consented pseudo-anonymous telemetry | Express consent via Google Consent Mode v2 banner |
Our website implements Google Consent Mode v2 (advanced protocol). Before you interact with our consent dialog, non-essential cookies relating to advertising storage, advertising user data, advertising personalization, and analytical storage default strictly to a state of 'denied'. Only strictly necessary functional and security parameters remain active. When you select "Accept All," consent signals update dynamically via gtag('consent', 'update'). You retain the absolute right to re-open our preferences panel and revoke or modify this choice at any moment via the "Cookie Settings" trigger located in our website footer.
We explicitly do not sell, rent, lease, or monetize your personal information to data brokers or third-party marketing companies under any circumstances. Data may be transmitted only to trusted service infrastructure contractors (cloud web servers, SSL certificate networks, email routing platforms) bound by rigorous confidentiality agreements, or where mandatory disclosure is compelled under formal New Zealand court orders.
Where digital transmission occurs across international hosting servers (such as global content distribution networks), we verify that recipients adhere to equivalent data protection standards consistent with Principle 12 of the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.
Routine consultation inquiries submitted through our forms are retained for a maximum of twenty-four (24) months to facilitate ongoing dialogue, after which correspondence records are permanently purged. Aggregate analytical logs are scrubbed according to standard retention windows not exceeding fourteen (14) months.
Under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, you possess concrete statutory entitlements:
privacy.org.nz.Our travel journalism is structured for adult independent travelers and outdoor enthusiasts. We do not intentionally solicit or process the data of individuals under sixteen (16) years of age without explicit guardian verification. Any unintentional child records discovered are immediately eliminated.
We may amend this Privacy Policy to reflect statutory updates from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner or upgrades to our web technology. Revisions take immediate effect upon publishing with an updated revision date.
For any privacy-specific requests, please write to our Privacy Officer at [email protected]. TerraAotearoa Media, New Zealand.