Freedom Institute of Higher Education Limited who trade as the FREEDOM WELLBEING Institute (FWI) will: through its contracts, Academic Board of Studies and/or the Research and Ethics Committee, ensure the Institutes Intellectual Property ownership rights are fairly and legally identified and notified in writing nationally and internationally, prior to the commencement of any activity via: Contracts, Memorandum of Understandings, Specific Terms of Agreement, © and year plus copyright warning statement and document coding, approved Research Proposals, approved Ethical Proposals. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that work, programme and research related Intellectual property owned by FWI and other parties with whom they work is accurately identified, notified and documented.

For Intellectual Property related queries contact

The FWI Client Services Manager at contact am@freedom-ihe.ac.nz

Copyright Policy

Freedom Institute of Higher Education Limited who trade as the FREEDOM WELLBEING Institute (FWI) web pages contain material that may be the property of the Institute, individuals within the Institute or a third party. Material set out on these pages for which the Institute is the rights holder is to be used in accordance with the Copyright Act 1994, including provisions for fair dealing, or in accordance with statements on individual pages or material. If you wish to use such material for any other purpose, including commercial use, you may do so only if you obtain permission for that purpose. Please contact the Client Services Manager at am@freedom-ihe.ac.nz to request this or ask any questions.

Note that if you wish to share content published on the FWI web page, you may do so by linking to that content.

Please also see the Institute Disclaimer below.

FWI staff, clients, and students should go to the Copyright section of this website for answers to questions about Copyright.

Third-party Copyright

Many of FWI’s web pages also contain material for which the rights holder may be a third party, as identified on individual pages or material. The permissions outlined above do not extend to any such material for which the FWI is not the rights holder outside of uses permitted by the Copyright Act, such as fair dealing. If you wish to obtain permission to use any such material, please contact the owner directly. FWI cannot give permission to re-use such material.

Copyright takedown notices

If you are the rights holder of material published on a FWI web page, and you believe that this has been done outside of the uses permitted by the Copyright Act or that the use is in some other way an infringement of your copyright, please bring this to our attention. Notify the FWI Client Services Manager at am@freedom-ihe.ac.nz, include full details of the pages and/or material concerned, the nature of the infringement, along with evidence of your ownership and your own contact details.

Privacy Policy & Disclaimer

This privacy policy relates to:

i) Freedom Institute of Higher Education Limited who trade as the FREEDOM WELLBEING Institute (FWI) website

ii) Users of this website

iii) Visitors to the website

iv) Privacy Act 2020

Collection and use of personal information

Freedom Institute of Higher Education Limited who trade as the FREEDOM WELLBEING Institute (FWI) may record information for the following purposes and to evaluate compliance with the Institute’s QMS.

It may be:

- Internet address and type of browser used

- Address of users server

- Users domain name

- Users IP or MAC address

- Date and time of their visit

- Pages visited and documents downloaded

- Any previous visits

- Access details of visiting a restricted part of the website

Cookies

Note: Cookies are very small text files sent from the server of the Institute to the user’s browser to be stored on the user’s computer. They are sent back to the Institute’s server when the user’s browser requests a page from the server. They can remain on a user’s internet-enabled device even after leaving the website or webpage. Some browsers allow users to disable this function, but doing so may mean that the user cannot access certain pages.

User supplied information

Users may supply information to FWI via online forms and/or surveys and/or email. This information may be used for administration and/or provision of services and/or research and in any other way within the scope of the purposes for which the information was collected. The Institute, or staff of the Institute, may also use this information to contact users, students and/or alumni for the purpose of Institute related activities and functions.

Security of personal information

FWI takes all reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access and/or use of personal information it holds.

Disclosure of personal information

FWI will not supply personal information to third parties without the consent of the user unless the use is within the scope of the purposes for which the information was collected. Institute staff may share information where required for their administrative and student management functions.

The Institute works with third parties for marketing and advertising. Website visitor information may be provided to third parties that the Institute works with for marketing and advertising purposes. This information will not include personally identifiable data such as names or addresses but it may include such things as IP and /or MAC addresses, domain names, the pages you accessed, and the date and time you visited our website.

Other than stated above, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. The Institute has taken steps to ensure that each partner or third party involved treats the Personal Data in accordance with the privacy laws and legislation of our Users’ jurisdictions.

Access to and correction of personal information

The user has the right to view all personal information held by the Institute about them. The user may request correction of information by contacting the Client Services Manager (am@freedom-ihe.ac.nz).