Who we are
Kiwi Calendar is a free reference site at kiwicalendar.co.nz. It publishes New Zealand public holiday, provincial anniversary day, and school holiday dates from official sources.
What we collect directly
We do not run our own analytics, do not require accounts, and do not store personal data on our own servers. Pages on kiwicalendar.co.nz are static HTML served from a content delivery network. We do not set first-party tracking cookies.
Email signup
If you sign up for term date updates, we collect your email address and nothing else. Signup uses double opt-in: you only join the list after clicking the confirmation link we email you. Your address is stored with Brevo (see below) and used solely to send occasional updates about New Zealand school term and public holiday dates. Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing removes your address from the list. The signup form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that submissions come from people rather than bots and runs invisibly; its data handling is described in the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum.
Third-party services
We rely on a small number of third parties to host the site, deliver email, and protect against abuse. Each one collects some information about visitors as part of providing its service. The main third parties are:
- Cloudflare: hosts the site and provides edge caching, DDoS protection, and bot mitigation. Cloudflare may set short-lived security cookies and processes IP addresses to detect abuse. See the Cloudflare privacy policy for details.
- Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France): stores the email list and sends the double opt-in confirmation and update emails. Addresses are processed in the EU. See the Brevo privacy policy for details.
Cookies
The only cookies set on kiwicalendar.co.nz are those set by the third parties listed above. We do not set first-party cookies for analytics or tracking. See the cookie policy for the full list and their purpose.
Your rights
If you are in New Zealand, you have rights under the Privacy Act 2020, including the right to access and correct personal information held about you. Because Kiwi Calendar holds no personal data on its own servers, requests are best directed to the relevant third party (Google for AdSense, Cloudflare for security logs, Brevo for any future email list). You can also lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz.
If you are in the EU, UK, or another jurisdiction with data protection laws, you have equivalent rights including the right to access, correct, or delete personal data held about you, and the right to object to processing or withdraw consent. The same routing applies: contact the relevant third party for data they hold.
To contact us about a privacy question, see the contact page.
Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when material changes occur, for example when a new third-party service is added. The "last updated" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision.