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Copyright statement

Unless otherwise stated, the Classification Office holds the copyright on all information on this website. Classification Office copyright information on this website may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes without further permission, subject to the information being reproduced accurately and not being used in a misleading context.

This website may have some text and other items used with the copyright holder's permission. These items are provided for the purpose of personal use and non-commercial study (such as school projects). You may not reproduce (in print or electronic format) these items without obtaining the permission of the copyright holder. For written permission to use these items for any purpose other than personal and non-commercial study, please contact the copyright holder. Specific copyright statements may accompany individual items.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification has made every effort to contact copyright holders. Please advise us of any errors or omissions so that they can be corrected.

Using content from this site

When information from this website is used in any context, the source must be credited to censor.org.nz (this website).

For written permission to reproduce information, images or other resources on this website, please contact the copyright holder or holding institution (where named) in the first instance, or the Classification Office.

Protecting your privacy

Website

When you visit our website, you do so anonymously. We do not collect information about you such as your IP address. We do use Google Analytics to identify general information about how all visitors use the site, which we use to better understand what information is being sought and used by our website visitors.

Contact

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Personal information you give to the Classification Office by email, on a form, or by other written or oral means, is not disclosed to any other party.

If your contact with us needs to be referred to another agency for assistance or response, we will ask you for your permission to do this.

The information you provide is kept on file for specific periods as set by Archives NZ under the Public Records Act 2005. At the end of those periods, typically 2 years for inquiries and 5 years for complaints of a minor nature, the record will be disposed of securely. If your contact is in relation to a significant complaint about the classification system, it will be retained indefinitely and transferred eventually to Archives NZ to be retained as a public archive.

Accessibility

We're working to make this website as accessible and usable as possible for every user.

Compatibility with tools

This website should be compatible with recent versions of the following screen readers:

• Jaws
• ZoomText
• NVDA
• VoiceOver
• Window Eyes
• Supernova screen readers
• Magicetc

The site should also be compatible with:

• basic operating system screen magnifiers
• speech recognition software, eg Dragon Naturally Speaking
• operating system speech packages

Get help

The BBC website has some very handy accessibility information:

• making your mouse easier to use
• using your keyboard to control your mouse
• alternatives to a keyboard and mouse
• increasing the size of the text in your web browser
• changing text and background colours
• how to magnify your screen
• screen readers and talking browsers

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Thanks to GOV.UK for the majority of the text in this section.

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On this page you will find information about:

• Disclaimer
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