PRIVACY POLICY

Our privacy policy explains how we protect and respect the data we collect from you.

Updated August 2003

We may at any time revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of ROCKINGHAMWA after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.

Privacy policy

This explains how we protect and respect the data we collect from you. 

Privacy policy

The following explains how ROCKINGHAMWA, which is managed on behalf of City of Rockingham, uses any information you give to us, and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

This privacy policy sets out the manner in which ROCKINGHAMWA will deal with information submitted to it through this web site. The policy is based on, and is consistent with, the National Principles of the Fair Handling of Personal Information published by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. The National Principles may be viewed on the Australian Privacy Commissioner's web site at http://www.privacy.gov.au/.

In keeping with the Principles, we seek to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission to do so.

When you visit this web site, a record of your visit is kept for statistical and research purposes. Similar records may be kept when you use any of the interactive features found in this web site. The information kept for these purposes is:

•         your server address

•         your top level domain name (e.g. .com, .gov, .au,)

•         the date and time you visited this site

•         the pages of this site you accessed, and the documents you downloaded

•         the previous site you visited

•         the type of web browser you used.

We will not attempt to use this information to identify you or your browsing activities. However, this information may be used for those purposes in the unlikely event that a law enforcement agency or other party obtains and exercises a warrant, subpoena, or similar order to obtain access to our service provider's logs.

Information collected by us is used for internal review, to improve the content of ROCKINGHAMWA to customise the content and/or layout of ROCKINGHAMWA, to notify users about updates to ROCKINGHAMWA, and to contact users for marketing purposes and is not shared with other organisations for commercial purposes.

Some of the interactive features and services found in this web site may require you to enter personal information, such as your name, and address. ROCKINGHAMWA stores this information securely, and disposes of it once the purpose for which it was collected has been achieved. The length of time for which such information is stored may vary according to the purpose for which it has been collected. No such information will be released to any third party without your prior consent, unless ROCKINGHAMWA is compelled to do so by law.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from visitors to ROCKINGHAMWA: registration information, feedback (through emails), and site usage information, from cookies and log files.

1). Registration information

You do not have to register to view ROCKINGHAMWA, but you do need to register to use any of the services and applications provided by ROCKINGHAMWA.

The registration information we collect is: your name, address, telephone number, username, a password, and your email address. This information is stored this securely. It is kept so that you do not need to re-register when you come back to the site. This information is also stored on back-up tapes to avoid loss of data. We do not use this information to trace your identity and do not pass it on to any third party or government department.

If you send an email or letter to the Webmaster, asking for information, we may need to contact other organizations to find that information. If your question is technical, we may need to pass it to our technology suppliers. We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so. Once we have replied to you, we keep a record of your messages for six months for reference and audit purposes, after which it is deleted.

2). Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data often created when you visit a website, and which are stored on your computer. Only one cookie is created on the site in the discussion forums area. A cookie is set when you enter and leave the site. The information stored is your NICKNAME (not your real name) and the date and time.

The cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify an individual user.

3). Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. ROCKINGHAMWA analyses log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make changes to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it.

Log files do not contain any personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of use of the site.

4). Linking to another site

ROCKINGHAMWA contains links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to our site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.

We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.

Access to your information and contacting ROCKINGHAMWA

You can change your registration information at any time. To do this, you should sign into the members area and click on “Contact Details”.

If you wish to see our records of any correspondence you have sent to us, or if you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us by email:

information@rockinghamwa.com

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

30/08/03