Terms and conditions of use

Adopt a Student is a not for profit Charitable Trust that has been set up to enhance the wellbeing and support of tertiary students living away from their usual family environment. Adopt a Student is not responsible for, and accepts no liability for the wellbeing of any student, whanau or volunteer that connects either directly or indirectly to Adopt a Student services. This includes but is not limited to physical, mental, financial or emotional wellbeing.

Nothing on this site or in this agreement constitutes an offer/ establishes a partnership or joint venture between any parties. Nor does it constitute authorization for any party to enter into a commitment for another party, except where expressly authorised by you or Adopt aStudent.

By using this site, you indicate that you accept and will abide by these terms of use and our Privacy Policy (together, the agreement), including any terms that we amend from time to time. If you do not agree to this agreement, then stop immediately from accessing this site.

We may amend the terms of this agreement at any time (effective immediately) by amending the contents of this agreement without notification. You are responsible for remaining updated with the latest terms, please visit this site regularly to ensure you remain familiar. If you do not agree with any part of this agreement you must refrain from using this site immediately. Our terms were last updated on the 1st October 2021.

This agreement is governed by the laws of New Zealand, and the parties submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New Zealand.We reserve the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of this agreement in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

Adopt a Student (and our licensors) are the owners of all intellectual property on this site, including all materials published on other Adopt a Student platforms such as but not limited to social media platforms (ie Twitter, linked in, facebook, Instagram). All of these works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All rights are reserved. You may print off copies, download extracts and share information on this site for your own personal reference and for the attention of others within your organization if this material is solely for personal use and not commercial purposes. No material that is extracted from this site must be modified in any way.

All third-party material contained on this site is the copyright of individual contributors and is made available for personal use only. It may not be copied, modified or distributed without permission from the copyright owners concerned. Where you are the owner of copyright work which you believe is available on this website in such a way that does not satisfy the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act 1994 or otherwise constitutes a copyright infringement, or a breach of an agreed licence or contract, please notify us at kiaora@adoptastudent.org.nz and we will remove it immediately.

Material posted to this website is intended to provide general information on Adopt a Student, and as such should be used for information purposes only. Although we make every effort to ensure material on our site is current, complete and accurate to the extent of the law, we provide no guarantees and accept no responsibility for any incorrect or incomplete information and hold no liability for any damage or loss arising out of, or in connection with, the use of our site by you or any visitor to the site our by anyone who may be informed of its contents.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this site or to your downloading of any material posted on this site, or any website linked to this site.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only and are not necessarily checked or endorsed by us. We hold no responsibility for the availability of links or the contents of these sites or resources, or their compliances with law, and we accept no responsibility or liability for them or any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. We may withdraw or amend linking permissions without notice.

You may view and download pages from our website, print pages from our website and stream video files from our website for your own personal use. Any other use of our website is strictly prohibited except without our prior written permission.
Except without our express written permission you may not modify, republish, sell, rent or sub-license, reproduce, duplicate or otherwise copy or exploit any material from this website for commercial purpose.

You must not act in any way that may cause damage to this website, impairment of performance or availability or accessibility of the website. This includes introducing anything (including any virus, worm, trojan horse, timebomb, keystroke logger, spyware, rootkit or any other malicious computer software that may compromise the security, accessibility or availability of this website. This includes but is not limited to activities such as copy, store, host, link, transmit, send use or publishing. You must not use the website for any activity that is or may be linked to any activity that is unlawful, harmful, illegal or fraudulent. You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities such as (but not limited to) data mining, extraction and data harvesting, access or otherwise interact with the website using robot or any other automated means. You must only access the Adopt a Student website via standard website browsers only.
You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website is true, accurate, current, complete and not misleading.

We are committed to respecting your privacy. At all times we will collect, store, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with New Zealand privacy laws. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for further information.
You do not have to provide personal information in order to access our website, however if you do not provide certain personal information, you will not be able to access some parts of our website or our services, and we may not be able to assist you to meet your objectives in accessing this site.

The personal information we collect may include some information about people you are closely associated to such as employers/employees of yours and your immediate family. We will always ask your express permission before seeking this information from them.

If you chose to provide us with personal information when using this site or in some other manner, we will store this information in accordance with privacy laws and will use this information solely for the purpose of which collection was intended.

We may use aggregated information using cookies. We may use “web beacons” (electronic images known as pixel tags or clear gifs) and “flash cookies” (to help deter, detect and prevent fraud and can support our online services). We may use Google Analytics which will issue cookies from their own servers, and which will be able to track website visitors throughout relevant websites. We have no control over how those cookies are issued, or the data they store. Please refer to our Cookies policy for further information.

We will also ensure that we comply with applicable laws regarding unsolicited electronic messages, by including accurate sender information and the ability to unsubscribe from communications. By providing your personal information you consent to receiving information from usf rom time to time in order to enhance the service you receive from us, and to promote products and services of others.