Murdoch College

Web Site Privacy Statement of Murdoch College

Protecting your privacy when you visit this web site
In complying with the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, Murdoch College provides the following advice to users of this web site about the collection, use, disclosure and storage of personal information.

The aim of this advice is to inform users of this site about:

What personal information is being collected
Who is collecting personal information
How personal information is being used
Access to personal information collected on this site
Security of personal information collected on this site

What personal information is being collected?
Unless this web site asks for specific personal information in order to respond to requests for information or to register users for particular services, only the following will be collected when you use this site:

Your server address
Your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc)
The date and time of your visit to the site
The pages you accessed and the documents downloaded
The previous site you visited
The type of browser you are using
This information is collected for statistical purposes and to enable us to improve the navigation functions of our web site.

Who is collecting personal information?
The above information is collected by our Internet Service Provider Kytec. Where this site specifically asks for your personal information (for example to respond to requests for information or to register users for particular services), your personal information will only be collected by staff of Murdoch College who have responsibility for responding to such requests or administrating such registrations.

How is personal information used?
Personal information collected on this web site will only be used for the purposes stated at the time of collection. Your personal information will not be added to a mailing list or used for any other purpose without your consent.

Cookies
This web site only uses persistent cookies and only during a search query of the web site. Our Internet Service Provider has assured us that no cookies are employed on this web site except for those associated with the search engine.

Upon closing your browser the persistent cookie set by this web site is destroyed and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our web site at a later date.
Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session" based. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer, contain an expiration date, and may be used to track your browsing behaviour upon return to the issuing web site. Session cookies are short-lived, are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser.

Access to personal information collected on this site
Unless required by law to do so Murdoch College will only disclose personal information collected on this site to a third party if consent has been provided.

Security of personal information collected on this site
This site does not provide facilities to guarantee the secure transmission of information across the Internet. Whilst reasonable efforts are used to provide security, users should be aware that there are inherent risks in the transmission of information across the Internet.

Further Information
For further information about Murdoch College's Privacy Policy, contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@murdochcollege.wa.edu.au or phone (61 8) 9312 0800.

This Privacy Statement has been developed through reference to the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner's web site Privacy Statement.