Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

Berrigan Shire Council has certain obligations in relation to the personal information that it obtains from persons who use its website. Please read this statement to learn what information Council collects about you, why it is collected and what is done with it.

Collecting Personal Information
In using this site you will provide Berrigan Shire Council with “personal information”. This is defined in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (“PPIPA”) to be “information or an opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion”. Personal information collected by Council will include your name and any other information provided.

Further, when you visit Council’s website the following information is recorded for statistical purposes:

  • The ip address of your device;
  • The top-level domain from which you accessed the Internet (such as .com,.org,. gov, .edu, .au, .nz, etc.);
  • The type of browser used;
  • The date and time of your visit to the site;
  • The pages you visited and the documents you downloaded;
  • The links you followed to come to and leave the site;
  • Any other information that is recorded
  • This information is used to create reports to tell Council the number of visitors to the site, what areas are most visited, what areas are least visited and technical design information such as broken links. This information is used to assist Council in making the site more useful to visitors.
  • If you are aged 16 years or under you need to get your parent or guardian’s permission before you provide personal information to this website.

Personal information collected from you is held and used by Council as permitted by Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (“PPIPA”). Under PPIPA you are entitled to be informed of:

  • the fact that personal information is being collected;
  • the name and address of the agency collecting and holding the information;
  • the purposes for which the information is being collected;
  • the persons and bodies to whom the information will be disclosed;
  • whether the provision of the information is mandatory or voluntary;
  • the consequences (if any) of not providing the information; and
  • your right under PPIPA to apply to have access to your information or to have it corrected.

Council has various functions under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979, the Local Government Act 1993 and other legislation, and personal information is collected to enable Council to perform them. Under PPIPA, other agencies (particularly law enforcement agencies) may have the right to gain access to personal information about you that Council holds. Indeed, some agencies (particularly law enforcement agencies) have legal authority to inspect our Internet Service Providers’ logs and obtain your address if required for an official investigation. Further, Council records are available for public inspection and copying, including under the Local Government Act 1993 and the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009.

At the request of an individual to whom personal information held by Council relates, Council must provide the individual with access to the information. Council must, at the request of an individual to whom personal information held by Council relates, make appropriate amendments to ensure that the personal information is, among other things, accurate.

 

See also Council's (PDF, 276KB)Privacy-Management-Plan.pdf(PDF, 276KB).

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