About the data and privacy
Where the figures come from, what the pages show, and how to hide a swimmer’s page.
Where do the figures come from?
Every figure here is worked out from the results Swimming New Zealand publishes on its public results search.
Each result gives the swimmer’s name, gender and age on the day of the race, the club they raced for, the meet, the event and the time. One meet missing from that search, the 2024 NZ Secondary School Championships, comes from its results published on swiminfo.co.nz. Each page says how recent its results are.
How many children live in each region, set beside its swimmers on the Regions page, is Stats NZ’s estimate of the resident population at 30 June. This work is based on Stats NZ’s data, which are licensed by Stats NZ for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
swimas is independent: it is not part of Swimming New Zealand, and Swimming New Zealand does not endorse it.
What is shown, and what is not?
Races as Swimming New Zealand publishes them, and nothing more about anyone.
- A swimmer’s page shows their races as Swimming New Zealand publishes them: name, club, meets, events, times, points, the age listed for each race and, for a para swimmer, their sport class.
- There are no birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses or photos anywhere on the site. We do not have them.
- The pages of New Zealand, its regions, clubs and meets show totals and typical values, not people. The one exception is a club’s list of who raced for it, with names shortened (“Mia K.”).
- A swimmer’s full name appears only on their own page and in the site’s search.
Can search engines find a swimmer’s page?
No. Every swimmer’s page, and the swimmer search, asks search engines such as Google not to list it, so typing a name into a search engine does not lead here.
How do I hide a swimmer’s page?
Email hello@swimas.co.nz with the link to the page, or the swimmer’s name and club.
The swimmer can ask, or a parent or guardian. We do not ask why, and we do not ask for proof. Within a week:
- the page is taken down and its address stops working;
- the name is removed from the site’s search and from the club’s list of swimmers.
The races still count, without the name, in figures about groups: how many swam at a meet, a club’s typical gain and the like. If you change your mind, write again and the page comes back.
Hiding a page here changes nothing in Swimming New Zealand’s own results; for those, ask your club or Swimming New Zealand.
Something looks wrong?
Email hello@swimas.co.nz with the link to the page and what is wrong, and we will fix it.
Swimming New Zealand’s results carry no member numbers, so we tell swimmers apart by name, gender, club and age. Now and then that goes wrong: two swimmers with the same name end up on one page, one swimmer is split in two, or a race is listed under the wrong club.
What do we record about visitors?
How many pages were opened, from which country and on what kind of device: nothing about who you are.
Visits are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not follow you to other sites. There are no ads and no other trackers, and we do not sell or share data about anyone. The site remembers two things, in your own browser only: the years you chose, for the length of your visit, and, if you tick “Don’t show this again”, not to show the welcome note.
What does “Guess first” keep?
Only how many readers picked each answer.
The questions on the New Zealand page ask for a guess before the figure shows. The site counts each answer with nothing about who gave it or from where, and says how many readers picked right. Your own guesses stay in your browser, so the page remembers what you picked; more than 200 answers an hour from one address are not counted.
What happens to a message you send us?
We read it, and if you left your email we reply. Nothing you send is published without asking you.
The form behind “Get in touch” and “Share an idea” keeps what you write, what kind of message it is, who you are if you say, your email if you give it, the address of the page you were on and the pictures you add. It is kept in our own Cloudflare account, with a copy of the words sent to our mailbox, read only by us, and used only to answer you and to improve these pages.
- Pictures are made smaller in your browser before they are sent, which also removes a photo’s location and camera details, and are deleted after six months.
- Your internet address is not kept: only a one-way code of it, for one hour, so that one address cannot send hundreds of messages.
- To have a message deleted, email hello@swimas.co.nz.
How do I get in touch?
Use Get in touch - here, or at the top of any page - or email hello@swimas.co.nz.