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Site owner

This website is owned by the Environmental Protection Authority, an office within the Ministry for the Environment.

Accessibility

Using the site without a mouse

This website can be used without a mouse. The following shortcut keys have been set up to take you to commonly used pages or to bypass navigational links on the pages.

To use a shortcut key hold down the Alt key (PC) or Control key (Mac) and then the relevant key from the table below. In some browsers you may have to press enter to confirm your choice.

Key	Function
0	Accessibility information for this site (this page)
1	Home page
3	Search
9	Contact us
[	Go to beginning of main content
/	Go to newzealand.govt.nz

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Copyright statement

Unless otherwise indicated, the written material on this website is protected by Crown copyright. Anyone can use any of the material available on this website for non-commercial or in-house use free of charge and without the permission of the Environmental Protection Authority, provided that the source and copyright status of the material is acknowledged, the material is reproduced accurately and the material is not used in a derogatory manner or misleading context.

Material on this website must not be used in a commercial context unless the written permission of the Environmental Protection Authority has been obtained.

Permission cannot be granted by the Environmental Protection Authority to reproduce any copyright material available on this website and identified as being owned by a third party.

The Crown holds copyright or licensing rights to all images on this website, including the Environmental Protection Authority logo. Images on this website must not be used or reproduced for any purpose, including personal or educational use, unless you obtain written permission from the Environmental Protection Authority.

To request permission to use material from this website in a commercial context, or to use an image for any purpose, please contact us on:

Environmental Protection Authority
Environment House
23 Kate Sheppard Place
Thorndon
Wellington 6011
New Zealand

PO Box 10720
The Terrace
Wellington 6143
New Zealand

Freephone: 0800 CALLEPA (0800 22 55 372)
Phone: + 64 4 04 439 7713
Fax: + 64 04 439 7714
Email: information@epa.govt.nz

Use of text on this site

Most navigation elements are plain text and we have provided text alternatives to graphics on the site.

Your web browser may have a setting which allows you to increase the size of the text on screen. This is likely to be under a name such as "View - Text size" or "View - Zoom".

Privacy statement

This privacy statement applies to any personal and other information collected on the Environmental Protection Authority's website at www.epa.govt.nz

Like most website owners, we collect statistical information about your visit to help us improve our website. This information is used for no other purpose and all users are anonymous. We collect information on:

IP addresses
search terms
pages accessed and links clicked
dates and times of visits
the immediate previous site visited
operating systems
web browsers.

You may browse and access information contained within this website without providing any personal information. Where you voluntarily provide personal information, for example through online forms and email requests, we will use that information only for the purpose for which you provide it. We will not disclose any personal information you provide to a third party without your permission.

Any forums, wikis, blogs and other social media hosted by the Environmental Protection Authority will have their own privacy and security statements which you should read before taking part.

The Environmental Protection Authority will hold all information you provide in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993.

If you would like to access and/or correct any personal information we hold, please contact us (see the above contact details).

Disclaimer

The information on this website is, according to the Environmental Protection Authority's best efforts, accurate at the time of publication and the Environmental Protection Authority makes every reasonable effort to keep it current and accurate. However, visitors to this website are advised that:

The information provided does not alter the laws of New Zealand and other official guidelines or requirements.
Visitors to the Environmental Protection Authority website should take specific advice from qualified professional people before undertaking any action following information received from this website.
The Environmental Protection Authority does not accept any responsibility or liability whatsoever whether in contract, tort, equity or otherwise for any action taken as a result of reading, or reliance placed on the Environmental Protection Authority because of having read, any part, or all, of the information in this website or for any error, or inadequacy, deficiency, flaw in or omission from the information provided in this website.
All links and references to other websites, organisations or people not within the Environmental Protection Authority are provided for convenience only and should not be taken as endorsement of those websites or information contained in those websites nor of organisations or people referred to.
The Environmental Protection Authority also does not impliedly endorse any website, organisation or people who have off-site links to the Environmental Protection Authority's website.

If you find any information on this website that you believe may be inaccurate, please send an email to information@epa.govt.nz.

The Environmental Protection Authority cannot guarantee that links to other websites will work all the time and we have no control over availability of the linked pages. However, if you find a link on this site which fails to work, please send an email to information@epa.govt.nz so we can remedy it.

Terms of use

The Environmental Protection Authority does not provide terms of use for most of the content of this website. However, any interactive parts of the website, for example forums, wikis and blogs, will have terms of use which you should read before taking part.

Last updated: 1 October 2009