Terms of use

This website is operated by Digital Movement New Zealand Limited, trading as Digital Movement. Where these terms say "we" or "us", that is the company named at the foot of this page.

You are welcome to read, use and share this site. Please don't:

• Try to break into it, disrupt it, or test its security without our written permission.
• Scrape it at a rate that degrades it for other people, or copy it wholesale — see the copyright page for what you may and may not reuse.
• Send us anything through the forms that is unlawful, abusive, or somebody else's personal information that you have no right to pass on.
• Use it to do anything against New Zealand law.

We try to keep the site up and working, but we don't promise it will always be available or free of faults. We may change it, move pages, or take parts of it down at any time.

Sending an enquiry, and receiving a free plan from us, does not create a contract and costs you nothing. Neither side is committed to anything until there is a written agreement for the work, signed by both of us.

Please give us accurate details. If you enquire on behalf of a business, you are telling us you are allowed to do that. What we do with the information you send is set out in our privacy policy: we keep it for 24 months, we use it to answer you, and we share it with nobody else.

The free plan we send is yours to keep and act on, whether you hire us or not. It is our work, so the reuse terms on our copyright page apply to it — you can use it in your own business without restriction, but you can't resell it or publish it as somebody else's.

The guidance published here is general information, not advice about your business. It is accurate to the best of our knowledge when written, and search engines change without notice, so some of it will age. The fuller statement is on our copyright and disclaimer page.

We do not promise you a search ranking, a position, a number of enquiries, or a timeframe to any of them, and neither can anyone else — nobody controls Google's results. Any figures shown on this site are outcomes reported by particular clients in their own circumstances, and they are not a prediction of yours.

What we do commit to, and put in writing before the work starts:

• The exact searches we are going after, agreed with you.
• What we will do each month.
• A plain-English report every month showing where you sit on each of those searches, whether the news is good or not.
• One fixed monthly price, agreed up front, that does not move unless the scope moves and you have agreed to it.

We do not publish prices on this site, because what the work costs depends on your industry, your region and what you want it to achieve. You get a real figure on the first call, not a bracket.

If you acquire services from us for personal, domestic or household use, you have guarantees under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 that we cannot contract out of and are not trying to. Nothing on this site or in these terms limits those guarantees, or your rights under the Fair Trading Act 1986.

If you acquire services from us for the purposes of a business, the position is different and is set out in the written agreement for that work rather than here. We will not ask you to give up a right without saying plainly which right it is and why.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss or damage arising from your use of this website, from the site being unavailable, or from your reliance on general information published on it.

That limit does not apply to anything that cannot be excluded under New Zealand law, including the Consumer Guarantees Act and the Fair Trading Act as described above, our own fraud, or death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

We may update these terms. The current version is always the one on this page, with its date at the top. Changes are not retrospective — a change made today does not alter the terms that applied to something you did last month.

These terms are governed by New Zealand law, and the New Zealand courts have jurisdiction over any dispute about them.

If anything here is unclear, ask. Email office@digitalmovement.co.nz and a person will answer you.