Terms and Conditions
Last updated: 28 October 2026
By using MassTimes.nz you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.
1. What this site is
MassTimes.nz is a directory of Catholic churches in New Zealand, across the six dioceses of Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. For each church we publish, where we have it, the address, position, Mass times, contact details and parish website.
It is an independent directory. It is not published by, endorsed by, or affiliated with the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, any diocese, or any parish.
2. Mass times, and how much to rely on them
Always check with the parish before travelling. Mass times change — for holy days, for the seasons, for a funeral, for a priest's illness, for a parish reorganisation — and they change without anyone telling us. Where a time carries a "retrieved" date, that is the date we last read it from the source named on the page; it is not a promise about today.
We take reasonable care to keep listings current and every entry names the source it came from, but we do not warrant that any detail is accurate, complete or up to date, and we are not liable for a wasted journey.
If you find something wrong, please tell us — see section 6.
3. Using the site
You agree not to use the site to harm, disrupt or overload it, not to submit false or misleading information about a church, and not to scrape or systematically copy the directory for republication.
4. Content and intellectual property
The design, code, written descriptions and the compiled directory as a whole are ours. You may look at it, print a page, and link to any page freely. You may not copy the directory or a substantial part of it, or republish it, without our permission.
Some of the underlying material is published by others under open licences and belongs to them, not to us:
- Map data from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).
- Mass times, addresses and contact details as published by the dioceses and parishes themselves, linked from each church's page.
Each page credits its own sources. Those credits are a condition of the licences: if you reuse material from this site, carry them with it.
5. Links to other sites
The directory links out to parish and diocesan websites, mapping services, and mapping services. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, their availability or their practices.
6. Corrections and submissions
If a listing is wrong, or a church is missing, email [email protected]. A link to where the correct information is published — a parish newsletter, a diocesan page, a parish website — makes it far quicker to act on, because we do not publish anything we cannot point at a source for.
By sending us information about a church for publication, you confirm it is accurate as far as you know and give us permission to publish it. We may edit or decline a submission, and we may remove any listing.
7. Availability
The site is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we may change or withdraw any part of it at any time.
8. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss arising from reliance on information published here.
Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 or the Fair Trading Act 1986 that cannot lawfully be excluded.
9. Changes
We may change these terms. Any change takes effect when it is posted on this page, with a new "last updated" date.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of New Zealand. Disputes are subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts.
11. Contact
Email: [email protected] Contact page: masstimes.nz/contact