Legal and Policy Web Guides

Guides to issues covered by the standards

• Accessibility and the New Zealand Legal Environment (Web guide)
• Guide to the Copyright Standard (Web guide)
• Guide to the Copyright of Third Parties Standard (Web guide)
• Guide to the Privacy Statement Standard (Web guide)
• Guide to the Disclaiming Content Standard (Web guide)

Guides to issues covered by the other standards, policy and legislation

The areas below are not directly addressed by the web standards, but still contain important legal and policy obligations for government websites.

• Archiving: Managing Web Information as Records and Archiving Websites (Web guide)
• Authentication: While authentication itself doesn't fall under the web standards, the Terms of Use Standard requires you provide terms of use for sites requiring authenticated access. For more information on authentication, see Authentication Standards at the e.govt.nz website. 
• Māori language. The Māori Language Strategy (hosted at TPK) applies to government websites. See p35 of the strategy.
• Security: see the Technical Web Guides