Website Terms of Use
Acceptance and Modification of Terms: By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not accept them, you must immediately cease using the site. We may update these terms to reflect operational or legal changes. Where we make material changes that affect your rights, we will provide 30 days written notice on this website before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the site after this notice period constitutes acceptance of the new terms. For any user submitting content or engaging our commercial services, you will be required to actively acknowledge and accept the terms applicable at the exact time of your submission or purchase.
Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence: All editorial content, images, graphics, logos, data, and code published on this domain are the property of Goodwin & Associates Limited or its licensors. You may view and share content for personal, non-commercial purposes only. You may not reproduce, republish, or distribute any material without prior written permission. Furthermore, you are strictly prohibited from scraping, data mining, or extracting any content from this website for the purposes of training artificial intelligence, machine learning models, or large language models, whether for commercial or non-commercial use.
Acceptable Use: You agree not to use the site for any unlawful purpose. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access, distribute malware, scrape content, bypass security measures, impersonate any person, or harass other users. We reserve the right to block access to any user, IP address, or network that breaches this policy.
Consumer Rights and Business Use: We recognise and respect your statutory rights. If you are a consumer under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (CGA), nothing in these terms restricts, limits, or modifies your non-excludable statutory rights or remedies. However, if you are accessing this site or acquiring any services from us for the purposes of a business in trade, you agree to contract out of the CGA and sections 9, 12A, 13, and 14(1) of the Fair Trading Act 1986. By completing an active submission, transaction, or account registration on this platform, you acknowledge that this agreement is in writing, both parties are in trade, and it is fair and reasonable for both parties to be bound by this exclusion under Section 5D of the Fair Trading Act 1986.
External Links and Third-Party Content: This website may contain links to third-party websites. These links are provided for convenience only. We have no control over, and assume no legal responsibility or liability for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any external sites.
Limitation of Liability and No Warranty: All content and services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. While we strive for accuracy, we do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from viruses, nor do we guarantee the completeness, timeliness, or accuracy of every publication. To the maximum extent permitted by law, and strictly subject to the consumer protections outlined in these terms, Goodwin & Associates Limited is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site. For business-to-business transactions, our total aggregate liability for any claim arising under these terms is capped at the total amount paid to Goodwin & Associates Limited for the specific services giving rise to the claim over the 12 months preceding the claim, or NZ$100, whichever is greater. We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
Indemnification: Subject to our own statutory duties, you agree to indemnify Goodwin & Associates Limited against civil claims, losses, damages, and legal costs arising directly from your material breach of these terms or any unlawful content you submit to us.
Business & Contributor Terms
Submissions, Editorial Control, and Platform Distinction: For commissioned articles, opinion pieces, and formal submissions, we reserve the right to accept, reject, edit, condense, or remove any material. You acknowledge that by exercising active editorial control over these specific submissions, Goodwin & Associates Limited acts as a primary publisher. For unmoderated user comments or automated public notices, Goodwin & Associates Limited acts as a host. We do not pre-screen these statements. Upon receiving actual notice of defamatory or unlawful material, we will implement an immediate takedown procedure.
Contributor Warranties: By submitting content, you warrant that:
- you hold all necessary licences and copyright for any material you submit;
- you have obtained explicit consent from any identifiable individual featured in your submission;
- your submission does not breach any active court suppression order or non-publication order;
- to the best of your knowledge, all facts stated are true and not misleading; and
- your submission does not contain defamatory or unlawful material.
Contributor Indemnity and Criminal Liability: You agree to indemnify Goodwin & Associates Limited against all civil claims and legal costs (on a full solicitor-client basis) arising from your submission, including civil claims for defamation or copyright infringement. Content found to breach active suppression orders or the Contempt of Court Act 2019 will be removed immediately upon notification. We reserve the right to report deliberate breaches of court orders to the New Zealand Police or the Ministry of Justice.
Privacy Policy
What We Collect: Goodwin & Associates Limited protects your personal information in strict accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and all applicable Information Privacy Principles. We collect personal information from you, including your name, contact details, location data, network analytics, communications with us, and billing information.
Why We Collect It and Who We Share It With: We collect your information to respond to inquiries, publish editorial submissions, provide consultancy services, and monitor website security. We share this information with trusted third-party service providers (including secure hosting facilities and payment processors) strictly to operate our platform securely. We do not sell your personal data to external marketing platforms.
Regulatory Compliance & News Medium Exemption: Goodwin & Associates Limited strictly adheres to the Information Privacy Principles for commercial data collection. We expressly reserve the "news medium" exemption under Section 7 of the Privacy Act 2020 for our editorial activities. All personal data handled by our commercial teams is governed by standard privacy obligations.
Security, Lifetimes, and Disposal: We take reasonable technical steps, including encryption, to keep your personal information safe. We only keep your information for as long as necessary for operational purposes or as required by New Zealand tax law, after which it is securely destroyed or completely anonymised. We will notify the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals of any qualifying data breach that poses a risk of serious harm.
Your Rights and Contact Details: Under Information Privacy Principle 7, you have a statutory right to request access to, and correction of, your personal information, subject to the statutory grounds for refusal outlined in Sections 49 to 53 of the Privacy Act 2020. If you request a correction and we decline to amend the information, you may request that a statement of correction be attached to the record. To request a copy of your information or a correction, contact us at [email protected].
Corrections & Complaints
Legal Corrections and Quashed Convictions: Goodwin & Associates Limited complies with New Zealand law regarding the accuracy of historical publications. Upon receiving actual notice that a criminal conviction has been formally quashed by a competent court, or that a suppression order has been newly granted, we will initiate an immediate provisional restriction workflow for the relevant publication. This action is taken immediately to prevent civil republication liability under defamation law while the matter is processed.
Statutory Complaints and Safe Harbour Protection: For complaints regarding unedited user-generated content, we implement an immediate takedown procedure upon actual notice of defamatory material. We align our complaint processing strictly with the statutory workflow established in Section 24 of the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. To trigger this process, a complainant must submit a formal written notice detailing the specific content and the statutory grounds relied upon. We will process valid notices in strict accordance with the required statutory timeline.
Discretionary Editorial Clarifications: For matters of editorial opinion or general historical record that do not involve quashed convictions, active court orders, or statutory privacy rights, any consideration of a right of reply or clarification is made at our internal editorial discretion. We require verifiable supporting evidence to consider editorial clarification requests.
