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Terms of Use

Christchurch City Libraries is a service of Christchurch City Council, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Accuracy of Information

We attempt to ensure that all information on this web site is current and accurate.

We do link to many other sites and although considerable care is taken over selecting these links, we do not control the information on them and are not able to ensure the accuracy of information displayed.

Copyright

This web site and the content on it is owned or provided by Christchurch City Council and some of it is subject to copyright and other proprietary rights. You must not:

1. copy material that is subject to copyright from this site,
2. copy or use our trademarks (including any Council owned logos),

except if you first obtain our written permission.

You are welcome to link to our web pages and use non-copyrighted material in many contexts such as school projects - please see our linking to us page for more information.

Images of book covers are supplied by Nielsen Book Services and may not be copied under any circumstances.

Cookies

Currently cookies are used on this website to provide session material and to help the site to function properly.These are not used in any way to collect information about individuals who use the site.

Cookies are small pieces of data stored by web browsers on your computer which can be sent back to the server when you next use the website.They may remember information about visitor preferences and pages visited.Currently, we do not use cookies in this way.Cookies can also be used to enable special functions and facilities. We do use temporary cookies which are not stored on your computer to do this.

Some of our subscription databases (online encyclopaedias etc.) do store cookies on your computer to aid the function of the service.

How to enable cookies on your computer

Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. We will not disclose any information given to us to anyone else.

We will only use the information for the purpose for which it was given. Personal information may be required for entering competitions so that we can get your prize to you. Personal information may be requested in feedback so that we can reply to you.

For more detailed information please refer to the Privacy Commissioner's guide to the Privacy Act 1993 and its amendments.

Site use information

We monitor site usage by analysing information such as number of page views, types of browsers and operating systems used, and what pages people go to most. This helps us improve the site to give you the information, services and features you want. This information cannot be used to identify you individually.