Website and Social Media Terms of Use
Copyright
Except where otherwise specified, the information on this website is copyrighted by the Rangitīkei District Council, all rights reserved. Externally-sourced content or material is copyright to the respective provider. If you wish to use text, images or other media from this website for non-profit purposes, please contact info@rangitikei.govt.nz.
Privacy Statement
The Privacy Act (1993) has now been repealed and replaced by the Privacy Act (2020).
If you provide personal information through this website we will only use that information in our dealings with you, keep that information secure and not disclose that information to a third party.
For more detailed information please refer to the Privacy Act 2020 and its amendments.
Information requests
You may make a request to the Council either orally or in writing, for access to personal information held by Rangitīkei District Council. The Council must make a decision on your request and notify you of the decision as soon as practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days after receiving your request. Rangitīkei District Council may, in certain circumstances, extend the time limit by notice to you.
Find out more about your rights to official information on the Ministry of Justice website.
Social media moderation policy
We openly welcome your comments and encourage discussion. We ask that you are polite and respectful with your comments and views.
Rangitīkei District Council's social media pages and accounts must not be used for promotional electioneering purposes. Any posts or comments discussing their own, or someone else's nomination or intention to run for council, will be removed. This is applicable to the following:
- Rangitīkei District Council Facebook
- Rangitīkei District Community Hubs Facebook
- Visit Rangitīkei Facebook
- Rangitīkei for Rangatahi (Youth Council) Facebook
- Marton Market Day Facebook
- Marton Harvest Festival Facebook
- Welcoming Communities Rangitīkei
- Te Matapihi - Bulls Community Centre Facebook
- Tutaenui - Marton Facebook
- Shop Local Rangitīkei Facebook (group)
- Rangitīkei District Council Instagram
- Visit Rangitīkei Instagram
- Rangitīkei Youth Council Instagram
- Rangitīkei District Council LinkedIn
- Rangitīkei District Council TikTok
- And any other historical pages that were created by Rangitīkei District Council that are no longer active.
We reserve the right to hide or remove harmful posts or comments from our pages. This includes any post or comment containing disrespectful, rude, racist, discriminatory or abusive language; direct personal attacks or disclosure of private information or details of elected members or staff, other users or individuals; objectionable material; and unsolicited advertising, marketing or spam.
We reserve the right to remove any comments on posts that aren't related to the subject matter and can potentially derail the conversation.
We reserve to right to turn off commenting if there are multiple breaches of the above policy by multiple people.
If your contributions repeatedly fail to comply with the terms of the platform, and/or the above rules, then you will be blocked from posting to the applicable pages.
Disclaimer
The Rangitīkei District Council has made every effort to provide current and accurate information on this website. The preparation and provision of this information has been made in good faith from sources believed to be reliable.
A number of external links have been included on pages for additional information. The Rangitīkei District Council does not accept any responsibility for the content or operation of any external site which may be linked from this site.