Legal Disclaimer, Terms & Privacy

Hypnotherapy is not a substitute for medical, psychological or psychiatric care, advice or treatment. If you have a medical, psychological or psychiatric illness or condition, consult a qualified medical, psychological or psychiatric professional in the first instance.

The information on any Hypnosis New Zealand web page is offered as suggestion only. It must not be used to replace the diagnosis, prevention or cure of any disease, illness or condition, or to replace any care, advice or treatment provided by a qualified professional.

Weight management: where any weight management programme is referred to, please remember that weight loss takes time and effort. Seek professional advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle changes. Individual results vary.

HNZ members are independent practitioners. Neither Hypnosis New Zealand nor its team is responsible or liable in any way for the choices, actions, inactions, errors or omissions of any member, or of any other related party.

If you have a concern about an HNZ member, please follow our complaints procedure.

Hypnosis New Zealand takes the privacy and security of personal information seriously. We collect only what we need, we protect it with reasonable technical and organisational measures, and we handle it in line with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020. For visitors in the European Union we also respect the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Website visitors. Simply browsing this site collects no personal information. See the cookies section below for the small number of technical cookies the site uses.

Contact form and mailing list. If you send us a message or join our mailing list, we store the details you enter (your name, email address and, if you give it, your telephone number and message) on the website's own server in New Zealand-owned infrastructure, where only the HNZ team can read them. We use them to reply to you and, for the mailing list, to send you news, events and member updates. Every mailing includes a way to unsubscribe.

Member portal. Members who sign up to the HNZ member portal provide their name, email address and a chosen password. The portal is run on a third-party learning platform (Heights Platform); passwords are encrypted and are not stored by HNZ. That platform's own privacy policy applies to the data it holds.

Membership applications. Professional and Registered membership applications collect your address, telephone number and email address through our online application form, and are held in our membership records. Financial details for membership payments are handled by the payment provider and are never stored on a web-connected HNZ database.

Where data is stored. Some of the services we use may store information outside New Zealand. Where that happens we take reasonable steps to ensure it is protected to a comparable standard.

You may ask us at any time what personal information we hold about you, why we hold it, who it has been shared with and how long we intend to keep it. You may ask us to correct or complete inaccurate information, to delete it or restrict how we use it where the law allows, and to stop sending you direct marketing.

Send requests to support@hypnosisnewzealand.co.nz. We aim to respond within 20 working days, as the Privacy Act requires.