Privacy

This website is managed by the DEC (NSW). DEC (NSW) recognises that your personal information is very important to you. If you provide us with any personal information about yourself, we appreciate your trust and are committed to protecting that personal information and only using that information for the same purpose that the information was collected.

When you visit this website, a record of your visit is logged and non personal information automatically recorded for statistical purposes to enable us to improve this site and our services. Your browser supplies the following non personal information:

• your Internet domain (for eg, "xcompany.com.au" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu.au" if you connect from a university's domain) and Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you visited our website;
• the type of browser you are using (eg. Internet Explorer v 4.0);
• your operating system (eg Windows, Mac etc);
• the date and time of your visit to this website;
• the pages you visit and the documents downloaded;
• if you linked to this website from another website, the address of that website.

The cookie information does not include any personal information about you such as name, age, phone number, email address or mailing address. The collected data is aggregated only, and serves only to update counts of traffic to and on our site. The information we gather from this analysis helps us to improve the site by getting a better understanding of our visitors and the pages they want to visit.

Cookies are frequently used on many websites and most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to reject cookies. To find out more about WebTrends Live, their privacy policy and cookies WebTrends Live, their privacy policy and cookies visit their website, WebTrends Live.

If you provide us with personal information about yourself, DEC (NSW) will not distribute, sell, trade, or rent your personal information to other persons that are external to the DEC (NSW). We may provide aggregate statistics about our website users, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third parties, but these statistics will not include any personal information.

No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except where otherwise required by law. For example, in the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency may exercise its legal authority to inspect the logs of our Internet Service Provider.

When you send DEC (NSW) an email through our feedback forms, the content of your email is the same as any general unsecured information transmitted through the Internet. However, once DEC (NSW) receives information from you, by email or by any other means, we will endeavour to ensure that that information is held securely. DEC (NSW) will not release your personal information unless the law allows it or your permission is granted so as to enable us to release that personal information.

If you have concerns about the transmission of information by email or through our website, DEC (NSW) has alternative methods of obtaining and providing information. Normal mail, telephone and fax facilities are available, or you can visit your local DEC (NSW) office.

If you have supplied personal details to us you have a right to check the information and ask that it be amended if it is incorrect, out-of-date or misleading.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it as described above. Any changes to our privacy policy will not alter the way in which we deal with the personal information that we gathered before the policy change.