Updated 14 July 2022
Discovery NZ Limited and its related entities (“Warner Bros. Discovery”) operate a number of
websites, social media sites and apps in New Zealand, including threenow.co.nz, newshub.co.nz
and discoverycorporate.co.nz (each a “Site”). These are the terms that apply when you use our
Sites from time to time (“Terms”).
Acceptance of these Terms
If you use a Site, you acknowledge that you accept the Terms and agree to be bound by them.
Warner Bros. Discovery may change the Terms from time to time, so it is worth checking in and
reviewing them from time to time. Using any of a Site after the Terms have been changed means
you accept the changed Terms.
Who can use the Sites?
The Sites, and the information on them, are intended for New Zealand residents only, although
others are welcome to visit the Sites. Non-New Zealand residents who visit a Site do so of their
own initiative and are responsible for obeying their local laws. New Zealand law governs the
Sites and these Terms.
If you are a business using a Site, then you agree that the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does
not apply to your use of the Site or your reliance on the Site.
Our rights to use your content
Any content you submit to a Site, including text, graphic, audio and video (“Material”) must at the
time of submission be yours to do with as you wish. By providing the Material to Warner Bros.
Discovery through a Site you are declaring:
● you have the right to make the Material available to Warner Bros. Discovery;
● you grant Warner Bros. Discovery a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable
right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative
works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all
copyright, moral and publicity rights with respect to the Material worldwide and/or to
incorporate the Material in other works in any media now known or later developed for the
full term of any rights that may exist in the Material (including the right to exploit the
Material);
● you have obtained any required clearances in relation to the Material (including any
● required consents/releases of people appearing in the Material);
● the Material does not infringe any law and is not defamatory in any way.
If you do not want to grant to Warner Bros. Discovery the rights set out above, do not submit the
Material. You indemnify Warner Bros. Discovery against all legal fees, damages and other
expenses that may be incurred by Warner Bros. Discovery as a result of your breach of the
above declaration.
Intellectual Property
All content on the Sites is protected by intellectual property rights (copyrights, trade marks or other
rights and laws). You need Warner Bros. Discovery’s prior written consent to deal with any content
on the Sites.
Posting on a Site – rules of engagement
Anyone who posts comments by way of public forum or contributes in any way to a Site must
abide by the following rules. If the Site has specific rules or terms to the contributing area those
specific rules or terms will apply if there is any inconsistency with these rules.
● Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
● No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour.
● No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive,
threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise
objectionable material is not acceptable.
● No advertising.
● No spoilers: material which contains plot developments which have not yet been
transmitted on New Zealand television are not permitted.
● Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in
the Site’s relevant local rules.
● No impersonation.
● No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
● No reference to specific URLs (website addresses) unless allowed under the Site’s relevant
local rules.
● Deliberate misuse of the facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be
taken against your account, including suspension or termination.
We suggest that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else in a
public forum (e.g. telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include
postal addresses of any kind. If you have a helpful address to share, inform the host of the Site
using the 'Contact Us' link, and they will promote it if they see fit.
If you are under 16 years old, please get a parent's or guardian's permission before contributing to
the Site.
If you see a comment/posting that you believe to be inappropriate please let us know.
Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
You agree that Warner Bros. Discovery will not be liable for your reliance on any information on the
Sites (even if negligently provided). You also agree that to the maximum extent permitted by law,
Warner Bros. Discovery will not be liable for any damages (direct, incidental, special,
consequential, indirect or punitive) resulting from the use of (or inability to use) the Sites. You agree
that if held responsible for any damage or loss, Warner Bros. Discovery's total liability to you for all
damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort - including but not limited to
negligence - or otherwise) will not exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing the relevant
Site.
You use the Sites at your own risk. The Sites may not always be available, for example, during
maintenance or repair. Warner Bros. Discovery endeavours to make sure that the content in the
Site is correct, but it is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind (either
express or implied).
As a user of weather forecast information provided on a Site you acknowledge the uncertainty
inherent in forecast predictions. The information is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind,
express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, correctness, timeliness or fitness for any
particular purpose.
Linked Sites
The Sites may contain links to external sites. Those sites are not part of the Sites and, unless
otherwise indicated, are not under Warner Bros. Discovery’s control. No links appearing in the
Sites and no external sites linked to the Sites are endorsed by Warner Bros. Discovery and no
responsibility is taken for material in them. You agree that by accessing any linked site you are
doing so at your own risk and you agree to fully indemnify Warner Bros. Discovery against any
liability arising out of your accessing any linked site.
Updating your preferences
You can update your preferences (i.e. what communications you have provided your permission to)
by either clicking on the Unsubscribe link in any of our communications, or by visiting your profile
page which is accessible through the “Update Profile” link on the top right of any page (where
applicable).
ThreeNow
To access content on the ThreeNow website or app you will need to create a ThreeNow account
through the ThreeNow website. Content on ThreeNow may be geoblocked so that it is not available
outside of New Zealand. If you access the ThreeNow app through a third party device (such as via
a smart TV), you acknowledge and agree that such third party has no liability to you in relation to
the distribution, use or performance of the ThreeNow app. You can delete your ThreeNow account
by selecting the “Delete Account” link at the bottom of the “Update Profile” page. Once your
account is deleted, you will no longer be able to access content on ThreeNow. You are of course
welcome to create a new account in the future. Please note that Warner Bros. Discovery may
retain certain information relating to your ThreeNow account as required by law or for legitimate
business purposes.
Last Updated: 13 July 2022
Discovery NZ Limited and its related entities (“Warner Bros. Discovery”) operate a number of
websites, social media sites and apps in New Zealand, including threenow.co.nz, newshub.co.nz
and discoverycorporate.co.nz (each a “Site”).
Your privacy is really important to us. This Privacy Notice details how we capture and use your
personal information across all of our Sites.
What information do we collect?
We may collect a range of personal, technical and general information, including:
● information you have provided to us, including on our Sites or when you have entered a
competition, including details such as name, email, address, mobile number, date of birth
and gender;
● information provided by other companies who have obtained your permission to share
information about you;
● records of any interactions you have on our Sites, or communications you may have with
us (including any information, uploads and comments you make about the shows,
channels, programmes, advertisements and services you use);
● details of when you visit, where you are and what you look at;
● computer information like your IP address, operating system and browser type and login
location.
● Information from cookies.
You can choose not to provide your personal information to us, but that may impact on our ability
to provide you with our content, products and services, and the functionality of our Sites.
How will we use your information?
In addition to using your information to provide you with content, products, services, tailored and
personalised recommendations, and general account management, and the management of
traffic across our network of Sites, we may also use your information in the following ways:
● for market research;
● to enable us to comply with any legal or regulatory requirements (under the Privacy Act or
otherwise);
● to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of any third party; in the detection and
prevention of fraud and other crimes;
● we use your information (together with other user data) to look at website traffic, analyse
trends and to help us understand how the Sites are working.
● If you have subscribed or consented:
● To send you periodic newsletters and other information about content, products and
services you have chosen or are entitled to receive.
● To send you direct marketing. This may include communications by post, telephone or
email, about us and our business partners’ content, products and services, events and
special offers.
● To provide you with more relevant tailored advertising. We use the information we hold
about you, to make some of the adverts you see more relevant.
● To provide you with advertising and information about the products and services of
carefully selected third party business partners.
How do we disclose your personal information?
We only ever provide your personal information to independent third parties to enable us to
provide content and services to you. And we'll only share your information in specific
circumstances, like these:
● If we need a third party service provider to send out our communications to you.
● Sometimes we may use authorised companies to help us provide personalised services to
you.
● Sometimes we may use third party service providers to assist with managing and
analysing data relating to consumer/ user behaviour on our Sites.
● To comply with the law. Sometimes we may need to share information with third parties to
comply with the law.
For example, we currently use the following third parties to help manage some of the processes
described above:
● SAP Data Cloud to provide registration, login and account management functions;
● Mailchimp to send our communications to users who have subscribed to / opted in to
receiving communications from us;
● Adobe Analytics to measure, collect, analyse and report on user behaviour on the Sites;
● Adobe Audience Manager for collecting and managing data in order to create and target
audience segments for online advertising and digital marketing campaigns
● New Relic for web and app real time reporting and troubleshooting performance issues
and trends
● Loggly for log management and troubleshooting;
● Firebase Cloud Messaging to allow you to opt into and out of receiving push notifications
on your devices
● Google Ad Manager to deliver advertising across our Sites.
Note that the third parties may change from time to time. The personal information you share with
us may be collected and stored by these third parties, so we encourage you to check their privacy
policies.
Updating your preferences
You can update your preferences (for the communications you have provided your permission to)
by clicking on the Unsubscribe link in any of our communications, by visiting your profile page
which is accessible through the “Update Profile” link on the top right of the ThreeNow website (if
applicable), or by contacting us using the contact details below.
Deleting ThreeNow account personal information
If you decide that you no longer want us to hold your ThreeNow account personal information, you
can delete your ThreeNow account by selecting the “Delete Account” link at the bottom of the
“Edit Profile” page. Once your account is deleted, you will no longer be able to use ThreeNow.
You are of course welcome to create a new account in the future. Please note that we may retain
certain information for as long as is required for the purposes described above or as required by
law.
Access and Correction
You have the right under the Privacy Act 2020 to request access to and/or correction of your
personal information held by us at any time. You can do this by contacting us using the details
below.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, or if you would like to request access to, or
correction of, your personal information, you can contact us at DPO@discovery.com or at
Discovery NZ Limited, 3 Flower St, Eden Terrace, Auckland 1021.
COOKIES & TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES NOTICE
Our Sites will place a cookie on the hard drive of your internet protocol device. A "cookie" is a file,
which allows us to track the interests of users. While we recommend that users enable cookies on
their browsers, the decision remains in the hands of the individual. (The management of cookies
will be different depending on each user's internet protocol device - refer to your browser help
menu for further information).
Use of Cookies
We use cookies for a number of reasons:
● For statistical purposes to track how many individual unique users we have and how often
they visit our website. We collect data listing which of our pages are most frequently
visited and by which types of users and from which countries.
● We use third parties to collect anonymous user information including through the use of
cookies (flash and non-flash) and web beacons. Visit
http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy how to learn more information about how we use a
third party service to collect and use information on our Sites.
● Both Warner Bros. Discovery and third party advertisers will generate cookies to collect
statistical data such as whether a user has seen an advertisement and if so, how long
ago, how many users have seen an advertisement and how many users have seen it
more than once.
● Placing cookies on your computer means we can serve you adverts that you might be
more interested in, and allows us to control the number of times you see them and
measure how effective the ad campaign has been. This helps us to keep the Sites free of
charge.
You can turn cookies off but if you do this you may not be able to use as many services on our
Sites and you might see more pop-ups and other intrusive advertising, as we won't be able to limit
what you see using cookies. You will however still be able to view editorial content.
By using this Site you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described.
Use of Browser fingerprinting
We may use browser fingerprinting when a third party wishes to accurately track its advertising
conversion without using cookies. The technique uses the characteristics of your browser to
uniquely identify your computing device but not you as an individual, and hence it is not used to
target advertising at an individual. Browse fingerprinting cannot be controlled by user configured
browser settings in the same way as cookies. By using this Site you are agreeing to the use of
browser fingerprinting as described.
Personalised Advertising
Warner Bros. Discovery currently delivers Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA). OBA allows us
to deliver targeted advertising to visitors to our Sites. OBA works by showing you adverts which
are based on the type of content you have been reading, and delivering adverts which we believe
may be of interest to you.
As you browse our Sites one of the cookies we place on your computer will be an advertising
cookie so we can understand what sort of pages you're interested in. Some of our partners prefer
to use browser fingerprinting instead of cookies to uniquely identify your device to improve the
accuracy of their advertising billing.
This information we collect about your computer enables us to group you with other computers
who have shown similar interests. We can then display advertising to you which is based on these
interests. For instance if you have been reading a lot of food and drink articles we may decide to
show you more adverts based on food and drink.
Behavioural retargeting is another form of OBA which enables us and some of our advertising
partners to show you ads based on your online reading away from Warner Bros. Discovery
websites. For example, if you have visited the website of an online clothes shop you may start
seeing ads from that same shopping site displaying special offers or showing you the products
that you were browsing. This allows companies to advertise to website visitors who leave their
website without making a purchase.
We may also want to share behavioural data with other websites. This may mean that when you
are on other websites you are served advertising based on your behaviour on our Sites, and on
our Sites you may be served advertising based on your behaviour on other sites.
If you want to opt out of receiving OBA this does not mean that you will no longer receive
advertising when you are using this Site. It just means that the advertising you see will not be
customised to you.
Opting out of cookies
Our Sites use Google DoubleClick technology and cookies to serve interest based advertising.
DoubleClick offers consumers the opportunity to select a persistent opt-out cookie to prevent
information from being uniquely associated with their browsers. This way, a user can opt out of
DoubleClick's cookies without erasing or altering other cookies associated with a browser.
To opt out of DoubleClick cookies, a user can go to https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb,
and click on the ‘Opt out’ button. The user can verify the opt-out process by checking that the
doubleclick.net cookie used in the browser reads "id=opt_out". This opt-out procedure must be
performed for all browser versions on all of the computers that an individual uses.