Privacy statement

The Australian Capital Territory has created this privacy statement to demonstrate its commitment to protecting personal privacy.

The Australian Capital Territory Government seeks to adhere to the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government Worldwide Websites developed by the Federal Privacy Commissioner. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Information collected

Use of personal information collected

Other sites

Cookies

This privacy statement applies to all users who access this website.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us.

Information collected

When you browse this website, our system automatically makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes:

  • your server address;
  • top level domain name (e.g. .com, .net, .gov, .au, etc);
  • the type of browser and operating system you used;
  • date and time of your visit;
  • the previous site visited;
  • which pages are accessed;
  • the time spent on individual pages and the site overall;
  • which files were downloaded.

This information is analysed to determine this website’s usage statistics.

However, no attempt will be made to identify individual users or their browsing activities except, in the event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency (e.g. the Australian Federal Police) exercises a warrant to inspect our service provider's log files.

We collect no personal information about you unless you voluntarily choose to participate in an activity through this website that involves the provision of personal information, such as:

  • sending electronic mail to this website;
  • participating in a survey on this website;
  • undertaking a payment or other transaction through this website;
  • suggesting a link from this website to an external website.

If you choose not to participate in these activities, your choice will in no way affect your ability to use this website.

Use of personal information collected

Any personal information you choose to provide will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided and will not be disclosed to other persons or organisations without your prior consent or if required by law.

The Internet is an insecure medium and users should be aware that there are inherent risks transmitting information across the Internet.

Information submitted unencrypted via electronic mail or web forms may be at risk of being intercepted, read or modified. If you do not wish to email or send an online form to the Australian Capital Territory Government, you can send a postal mail to the address in contact us.

Other sites

This site contains links to external websites and this privacy statement does not extend to external websites. The Australian Capital Territory Government is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. For more information, refer to our disclaimer statement.

Cookies

'Cookies' are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive.

We may use cookies to track users as they travel through the site. For instance, we might use cookies to count the total number of unique users who are accessing the site over a particular period of time. This information will never be shared with a third party, and is only used to make our systems more efficient.

© Australian Capital Territory 2003

Copyright of material contained on this site is owned by the Australian Capital Territory.

You may download, display, distribute, print and reproduce, any material on this website, in unaltered form only, for your personal use, educational use, or non-commercial use within your organisation, provided the copyright to such material is attributed to the Australian Capital Territory.

Except as permitted above, you must not copy, adapt, publish, distribute or commercialise any material contained on this site without the ACT Government's permission.

Requests and inquiries for authorisation concerning reproduction and rights of any material should be directed to Customer Services and Information, ACT Urban Services, GPO Box 158, Canberra ACT 2601, or by email to copyright@act.gov.au.

For further information please refer to the Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth).

Please note that the copyright in the materials appearing at Internet sites which are linked from this site, rest with the author of those materials, or the author's licensee (subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968). The Australian Capital Territory recommends that you refer to the copyright statements on those sites before making use of the materials.