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Home>Privacy Notice
 Privacy Statement
Information Collected
Cookies, Clickstreams and Web Beacons
Security of Your Personal Data
Links to other web sites
Access to Information
| Privacy Statement | | The Glenelg Shire is committed to ensuring the privacy of any information it receives or collects from you. Protecting your privacy and personal information is an important part of the way we create, organise and implement our activities online and offline.
The Glenelg Shire will, to the best of our ability protect the information that we have under our control from: unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss.
This privacy statement applies to the entire Glenelg Shire web site. However, specific provisions may apply to a particular part of the site. These specific provisions will override any general privacy provisions and will be posted on the site as it is further developed.
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| Information Collected | | You can access the Glenelg Shire web site anonymously without disclosing personal information.
Statistical information is collected each time you visit the site to tally the number of times you visit the site. This information includes: the time and duration of your visit, your use of specific pages and the address of the last site you visited (if you linked into the Glenelg Shire web site from another web site). This information is only used to evaluate the effectiveness of the site and is not used to identify individual web site users.
E-mail addresses and other contact details that you provide to request information will not be added to a mailing list or disclosed to a third party without your consent unless we are required to do so by law.
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| Cookies, Clickstreams and Web Beacons | | The Glenelg Shire does not use clickstream, cookies or web beacons on its site to collect information about the web site user.
A cookie is a block of data that is shared between a web server and a user’s browser. Cookies give information about a user’s identity and web site visiting patterns.
Clickstream data is a virtual trail that a user leaves behind while surfing the Internet.
The Glenelg Shire web site does not use web beacons, which are known as a web bug, pixel tag or a clear GIF. Web beacons are an often transparent graphic image that is placed on a web site (or in an e-mail) and when used in conjunction with cookies, can monitor the behaviour of the user visiting the web site (or sending the e-mail).
As the Glenelg Shire site contains links to other web sites the Glenelg Shire cannot be held responsible for these sites’ privacy practices or content. The Glenelg Shire advises web users to check the privacy statements of linked sites.
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| Security of Your Personal Data | | The Glenelg Shire aims to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information and uses appropriate security and technology to maintain information, prevent unauthorised access and ensure the correct use of information.
This site does not provide facilities that guarantee the security of information over the Internet.
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| Links to other web sites | | Other web sites linked to this site are not under the control of the Glenelg Shire and therefore the Glenelg Shire is not responsible for the content or privacy policies of any linked sites or any links containing other linked sites.
The Glenelg Shire reserves the right to terminate any links or linking programs at any time.
The Glenelg Shire does not endorse any other individual, organisation, company or agency or their respective products or services that are linked to the Glenelg Shire web site. Users will do this entirely at their own risk.
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| Access to Information | | The Information Privacy Act 2000 (Vic) and the Health Records Act 2001 stipulate that you are entitled to verify personal information that is kept about you, know why such information is being collected, and request correction if you believe the information is incorrect.
Requests for access and/or correction of personal and health information should be made to Council's Privacy Officers:
Email Katharine Purton or phone (03) 5522-2272
Glenelg Shire Privacy Officers have the right to redirect your enquiry to the relevant Department or to ask for your request in writing.
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