Tū Whakaruruhau is a study dedicated to understanding meth addiction and treatment in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in a culturally responsive way. Intended for residents of Auckland, Waikato, and Northland, our initiative is adapted from the Australian M.A.T.E.S. study. Our website provides detailed information about the study, its importance, and resources for those affected by meth addiction.
Our website does not provide medical advice. The content and information on this website are intended for informational purposes only and should not be used for any medical or diagnostic purposes. It should not be relied upon as a substitute for advice from a qualified medical, or other health professional.
You should consult your GP or other qualified health professional if you have questions or concerns about your own health or the health of someone else in your whanau. If you need urgent help, please call 111 or present to your local Emergency Department. Otherwise make an appointment to see your GP. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or anything else, please contact us (twstudy@auckland.ac.nz). We will respond as soon as we can.
For further details on our full Privacy Policy please see below.
This Privacy Policy sets out how we use and protect your personal information when you access and use the Tū Whakaruruhau website. Read it carefully.
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time, by updating it within the app. This Privacy Policy was last updated in June 2023.
In this Privacy Policy:
"Tū Whakaruruhau": Refers to both our website and the study.
"Personal information" has the meaning in the Privacy Act 2020, and generally means information about an identifiable individual.
"UniServices" means our wholly-owned subsidiary, Auckland UniServices Limited.
"University" or "we" means the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau.
We collect the following information for the following purposes:
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device by a website or app.
Cookies cannot damage files, nor can they read information from the hard drive of a computer.
We use Google Analytics cookies to help remember users and monitor how they interact with the website. For example, we use cookies to determine website traffic and trends. Generally, that information is used to help us improve and personalise your online experiences.
How Google uses cookies, and information collected by Google Analytics is subject to the Google Privacy Policy. You can disable the acceptance of cookies by adjusting the settings in your web browser, although this may restrict your ability to access some web pages.
We require any third party with whom we share information to provide the same level of protection of your data set out in this Privacy Policy.
The following groups of people may have access to your identifiable information:
We share your personal information with UniServices, as described further below.
You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, and ask for access to and/or for us to correct any personal information that we hold about you, by contacting us at twstudy@auckland.ac.nz.
We take reasonable security safeguards to ensure that your personal information is protected against unauthorised loss, access, use, modification, disclosure and other misuse, but it is not possible to guard against every risk of misuse.
Identifiable information will be held in electronic case report forms and stored in secure, cloud-based storage for ten years, for the purposes of the Tū Whakaruruhau study. De-identifiable information (i.e., your information without your name) will be stored in electronic case report forms and stored in secure, cloud-based storage indefinitely for the purpose of future research projects.
Our website relies on reputable external service providers for data storage and the utilization of various applications and tools, hosting through Amazon Web Services (AWS) with servers located in Australia, unless specified otherwise.
We retain your information for only as long as it is needed to meet the purposes above, or for as long as it is required by law.
This privacy policy is goverend by New Zealand law.
Tū Whakaruruhau is a study dedicated to understanding meth addiction and treatment in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in a culturally responsive way. Intended for residents of Auckland, Waikato, and Northland, our initiative is adapted from the Australian M.A.T.E.S. study. Our website provides detailed information about the study, its importance, and resources for those affected by meth addiction.
Our website does not provide medical advice. The content and information on this website are intended for informational purposes only and should not be used for any medical or diagnostic purposes. It should not be relied upon as a substitute for advice from a qualified medical, or other health professional.
You should consult your GP or other qualified health professional if you have questions or concerns about your own health or the health of someone else in your whanau. If you need urgent help, please call 111 or present to your local Emergency Department. Otherwise make an appointment to see your GP. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or anything else, please contact us (twstudy@auckland.ac.nz). We will respond as soon as we can.
You should consult your GP or other qualified health professional if you have questions or concerns about your own health or the health of someone in your whānau.
For further details on our Privacy Policy please see below.
This Privacy Policy sets out how we use and protect your personal information when you access and use the Tū Whakaruruhau website. Read it carefully.
We are committed to:
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time, by updating it within the app. This Privacy Policy was last updated in June 2023.
