PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Attorney-General’s Department is subject to the
Privacy Act 1988 which requires that we comply with the
Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) set out in the Act. The IPPs set
out how Australian Government agencies should collect, use, store and disclose personal
information and how individuals can access records containing their personal information.
The personal information handling practices of the Attorney-General’s Department
are detailed in the annual
Personal Information Digest. This sets out the kind of personal information
collected or held by the Department, what it is used for, to whom it is disclosed
and how access to the information can be arranged.
General enquiries about the Department’s compliance with the IPPs can be made
to the Department’s Privacy Contact Officer. Any complaints about the Department’s
personal information handling practices can be made to the Privacy Contact Officer
or to the Privacy Commissioner. The Privacy Contact Officer can be contacted on
(02) 6250 6211 or by writing to the Department.
General information about the Privacy Act and IPPs can be found on the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s website.
About this website
The Attorney-General’s Department is committed to protecting privacy in accordance
with the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government World Wide Websites issued by
the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
While every effort is made to secure information transmitted to this site over the
internet, there is a possibility that this information could be accessed by a third
party while in transit.
Information logged
When you visit this site, our server logs the following information:
- the type of browser and operating system you are using
- your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk)
- the address of the referring site (for example, the previous site that you visited)
- your server's IP address (a number which is unique to the machine through which
you are connected to the Internet: usually one of your service provider's machines)
- the date and time of your visit, and
- the address of the pages accessed and the documents downloaded.
This information is used only for statistical analysis and systems administration
purposes. No attempt is made to identify users or their browsing activities, except
in the unlikely event of an investigation by a law enforcement agency.
Electronic mail addresses
We will only record your e-mail address if you send us a message. It will only be
used for the purpose for which you provide it. In particular, we will not add it
to a mailing list unless you request that this be done or disclose it without your
consent.
Subscriptions
Some pages of this internet site provide the facility for users to subscribe to
email mailing lists. To subscribe to these services users need to provide a valid
email address. These email addresses will only be used for the purpose for which
you have provided them. Email mailing list addresses are stored on a separate server
and can only be accessed by authorised Attorney-General's Department staff.
Cookies
A cookie is an electronic token that is passed to your browser which passes it back
to the server whenever a page is sent to you.
Our server generates one cookie which is used to keep track of the pages you have
accessed while using our server. The cookie allows you to page back and forwards
through the web site and return to pages you have already visited. The cookie exists
only for the time you are accessing our server.
Searches
Search terms you enter when using our search engine are collected, but are not associated
with any other information that we collect. We use these search terms to ascertain
what people are looking for at our site, and to improve the services that we provide.
Links to other sites
This site contains links to other sites. The Attorney-General's Department is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites.