The EEA and its members must adhere to several policies in the conduct of their business.
Code of Conduct
The EEA values the free exchange of ideas and respectful debate, and we understand our responsibilities in ensuring that our community supports these values. We are committed to providing a harassment-free experience for participants at our hosted and sponsored events.
Harassment and hostile behaviour is not welcome at any EEA event. This includes speech or behaviour (including in public presentations and online discourse) that intimidates, creates discomfort, or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation in the event.
We aim for our events to be an environment where harassment in any form does not happen, including but not limited to harassment based on: race, gender, religion, age, colour, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us and that is why we wish to make clear in this Privacy Policy how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information. This Policy sets out the way in which we comply with our obligations under the Privacy Act 2020.
Protected Disclosures Policy
The purpose of this policy and procedure is to ensure that we operate an appropriate internal procedure for receiving and dealing with information about serious wrongdoing in or by the EEA in accordance with the provisions of the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022.
Protected Disclosure Policy and Procedure
Restrictions on use of AI tools in relation to EEA publications
Important notice
The EEA allows the use of AI tools and platforms to analyse and provide outputs in relation to publications available on the official EEA website provided that the publications are not used by the AI Platform to train its large language model (LLM) or otherwise improve its performance or functionality.
There are two reasons why we do not permit AI Platforms to use our publications to train their LLMs. Firstly, these publications contain intellectual property and this use would constitute a breach of EEA’s copyright in, and cause damage to, our publications. Secondly, this use undermines our ability to ensure that only the most accurate, up-to-date, information and practice is in circulation and being relied on by electricity sector workers.
Consequently, users need to ensure that any use of an AI Platform complies with this requirement. It is essential that users undertake their own due diligence on an AI Platform prior to using it to ensure that the platform will not use EEA’s publications to train its LLM or otherwise improve its performance or functionality.
We are currently investigating options to integrate an AI tool into our publications website for members’ use and will keep members updated on progress. Contact admin@eea.co.nz if you have any questions or concerns.
Knowledge Network Terms and Conditions
These Terms and Conditions apply to your use of our Knowledge Network including access and posting content on any Forums and accessing and using any of our Publications that we make available or provide to you.
Read these Terms and Conditions carefully as they form the agreement governing your use of our Knowledge Network (Agreement).
By using and accessing our Knowledge Network you are deemed to have read and agreed to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
Knowledge Network – Terms and Conditions
Safety Alerts Terms and Conditions
By accessing specific safety incident information you agree to the confidentiality terms.