Who we are
Howick Pakuranga Community Patrol is affiliated with Community Patrols of New Zealand (CPNZ), and have a formal memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the New Zealand Police.
Our website address is: https://www.hpcp.org.nz.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Contact forms are used to communicate with appropriate staff. It is your decision to report information anonymously by omitting contact information when relaying information to the patrol. However website feedback and information pertaining to the website you are required to submit contact information for that assist us in technical related issues.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we may share your data with
New Zealand Police.
Community Patrols of New Zealand National Office.
New Zealand Police.
New Zealand Ministry of Justice.
New Zealand Fire Service.
New Zealand Department of Conservation
New Zealand Ministry of Corrections.
Howick / Pakuranga Local Government.
Auckland Council.
Manukau Crime Watch Trust.
Crime Stoppers.
Auckland Transport Authority.
New Zealand Civil Defence.
The News Media when appropriate.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Pertinent reports are shared with the New Zealand Police relating to crime and various government agencies and trust relating to public issues such as graffiti, safety hazards and anything involving public safety. This information may or may not be shared with multiple agencies at our discretion.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Your contact is not shared to the general public and is held in the strictest confidentiality unless otherwise specified by you.
How we protect your data
All submitted data is encrypted
What data breach procedures we have in place
We will investigate the failure and take remedial steps if necessary.
Maintain a register of compliance failures.
Notify any Supervisory Authority of any compliance failures that are material either in their own right or as part of a pattern of failures.
We will confirm the breach.
We will contain the Breach.
We will assess risks and impact of a reported breach
Report the Incident to the appropriate regulatory committees and agencies.
We will evaluate the response & recovery to prevent any future breaches.
What third parties we receive data from
Community Patrols of New Zealand.
New Zealand Police.
New Zealand Ministry of Justice.
New Zealand Fire Service.
New Zealand Ministry of Conservation
New Zealand Department of Corrections.
Howick / Pakuranga Local Government.
Auckland Council.
Manukau Crime Watch Trust.
Crime Stoppers.
Auckland Transport Authority.
New Zealand Civil Defence.
The News Media. When appropriate.
Note: We do not rely on 3rd party advertising, tracking or any external public relation services.
Concerns
To report a breach or make a general inquiry please email the webmaster at webmaster@hpcp.org.nz or the site Administrator at admin@hpcp.org.nz