Copyright and terms of use

The Department of Corrections gives you access to our careers website to provide you with general information about Careers at Corrections.

  • We are doing our best to keep the site accurate, up to date and useful for you. If there are ways we can make it better for your needs please email us at mahi@corrections.govt.nz.
  • If you need professional advice you should see a professional adviser and not rely on this website.
  • We provide links to other sites for your convenience. We are not responsible for the content or the copyright of these websites.
  • This website will keep changing as we improve it and keep it up to date.
  • The Copyright Act gives you the right to use a reasonable proportion of the website for private study or research.
  • We give you a licence to use any amount of the website for personal use (but you can’t change anything) as long as you acknowledge where you got it. Acknowledging should look like this: © Crown Copyright 2024, Department of Corrections).
  • We will readily give permission for commercial or institutional use but please ask us first (email: mahi@corrections.govt.nz). We will not give permission to anyone to change our material or for any misrepresentation.
  • If you want to use our information on your website it will usually be better for you to put in a link to our site which will mean your reference will be more up to date.
  • This is an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 New Zealand under Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/. This licence does not apply to any logos, emblems and trade marks on this website or to the website’s design elements.

Privacy

Privacy Statement

This privacy policy relates to the Careers at Corrections website. The Department of Corrections (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘the department’) is committed to ensuring your privacy is protected in line with the Privacy Act 2020. We strive to uphold best practice privacy and security standards.

We collect, store and information about you to support and assess your suitability for employment. The information enables the department to provide appropriate information and support to you during the enquiry, application, and selection process.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, or any other privacy related matter, please refer to Our Privacy & Transparency Commitment or feel free to contact us at [email protected]

Voluntary disclosure of personal information

You will be asked for personal information when you register for services that we offer. Examples of these services could include email newsletters, events, competitions, and sample assessments or during the application process.

Our platforms

Personal information we collect from you may be shared with third parties, if it is necessary for a purpose related to our function. It may be stored or accessed on behalf of us by authorised third parties (such as third-party contractors) to the extent that is necessary, for example them to send you emails or SMS messages. We will store and keep your personal information secure in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.

A current list of providers and their privacy statements can be found below:

  • Peoplescout – provider of applicant system including job advertisements, candidate data and application history.
  • Campaign Monitor – provider to deliver and monitor engagement of outbound emails.
  • Spark Business Messaging, Kudosity – provider used to transmit and deliver SMS messages.
  • xREF, Checkmate – provider used during preemployment checks including reference checking.
  • Talegent – provider used to carry out pre-employment assessments including psychometric and video interviewing.

Tracking

When you visit, navigate through, and interact with this website or engage directly with any of our platforms (e.g. open an email from us, click a link we share, complete an online form) we may use automated data collection technology (such as usage monitoring software, cookies, and sessions) to collect and store certain information about your visit.

Data collected may include:

  • your IP address
  • the search terms you used
  • the pages you accessed on this site and the links you clicked on
  • the date and time
  • the referring email, site (if any) from which you clicked to reach
  • the device you used
  • your operating system (eg, Windows 10, Mac OS X)
  • the type of web browser you used to access this site (eg, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome)
  • other things like your screen resolution, the release of your installed Flash version and the language setting of your browser.

This tracking information is collected to improve service delivery, monitor progress or specific actions required by individuals, prevent fraudulent activity, and ensure delivery.  If you disable or block this access it may limit your access to some of the content and features impacting your experience.

 

Online Advertising

Our website uses third-party vendors, including Google and Meta, to display advertising on websites across the internet. These third-party vendors may also use cookies to anonymously track and target advertising based on your browsing behaviour. For further information and details of how you can opt out of these third-party cookies via the Network Advertising Initiative.

This website uses Google remarketing to serve relevant ads to you after you leave our website. When you visit pages on our website Google may place a cookie on your browser.

Then when you later visit another website in the Google Display Network, you may see relevant ads from us. You can opt out of Google's use of these cookies by visiting Google's Ads Preferences Manager. You can find Google's advertising privacy policies here.

We also advertise through social media channels, including Meta (Facebook and Instagram). If you make your personal information publicly available through social media platforms, we may use it to provide targeted advertising campaigns and to find look-a-like audiences within social media.

You can update your social media profile settings and opt out of advertisements directly through the social media platforms. Instructions on how to do this can be found on their apps and websites.

Changes to this policy

In order to reflect the fact that our organisation is growing constantly, we reserve the right to change this policy at any time.

Your right to access our information

The Privacy Act 2020 gives you the right to access and correct your personal information. To find out more about how to do this, please contact us by emailing [email protected].

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