Taking the Lead

Introduction

In Australia, collection and handling of personal information is regulated by the Privacy Act 1988. Personal information is basically information or an opinion which can identify you.

You should be aware that there are inherent risks associated with the transmission of information via the Internet.

The Data We Collect – E-mails

We will record your e-mail address only if you send us a message. Your personal information will only be used for the purposes for which you have provided it for example, responding to your query. Your e-mail address will not be added to a mailing list unless you complete the 'subscribe' process.

Publishing Personal Information

We will only publish personal information on this site if it has been collected for this purpose with your knowledge or if you have consented to the disclosure; for example, the case studies on the site. When giving such consent you should be aware that information published on this site is accessible to millions of users from all over the world, that it will be indexed by search engines and that it may be copied and used by any web user. This means that, once the information is published on this site, we will have no control over its subsequent use and disclosure.

The Data We Collect - Browsing

When you look at Taking the Lead, our server makes a record of your visit and logs the following information:

• the user's server address,
• the user's top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc),
• the date and time of visit to the site, and
• the pages accessed and documents viewed.

The data listed above is collected for the following purposes:

• to identify which pages and information are popular and well supported so that content and features less used can be updated and enhanced,
• to tell us the days and times the site is least used so that maintenance and updating can be performed when it’s of least inconvenience to users, and
• to tell us the types of stakeholders using the website so that we know who supports the site and who we need to work with more closely to make it more relevant.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information stored on your computer by our web site server. It’s information that your web browser sends back to our web site server whenever you visit it again. We use cookies to ‘remember’ your browser between page visits. In this situation, the cookie identifies your browser, not you personally. No personal information is stored within our cookies.