All personal information collected by the AACS Web Site/Portal
is protected by the Privacy Act 1988 as amended. Information
on the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 can be found on the Privacy
Commissioner’s web site.
The AACS Website/Portal provides access to many online resources,
which are not under our direct control. You should read the
conditions of use and other statements of these sites. The
privacy statement for the Australian Associations of Christian
Schools (AACS) can be found on its site.
Security of Information
You should be aware that there are inherent risks associated
with the transfer of information via the Internet. For those
who do not wish to use the Internet there are alternative
ways of providing information. For example, forms may be
printed and lodged by post.
To improve security of personal information, some electronic
forms that collect this information may collect using the HTTPS
protocol (Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure), a standard
Web Communications protocol that encrypts and decrypts a message
for online transmission. You should check with the site.
The Data We Collect – Emails and
Electronic Forms
We will record your email address only if you send us a message.
Your personal information will only be used for the purposes
for which you have provided it. Your email address will not
be added to a mailing list, unless you have provided it to
us in order to subscribe to one of our subscription services
eg Tidings.
Where you choose to send us a completed electronic form that
includes your personal details, we do collect personally identifiable
information, such as name, address and email address.
The information collected by email or electronic forms will
be used only for the purpose for which you have provided it,
and we will not disclose it without your consent, except where
authorised or required by law.
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. 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 search engines will index it, 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
(Clickstream data)
When you look at this web site, 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,
•the pages accessed and documents viewed,
•the previous site visited, and
•the type of browser used
The data listed above is collected for the following purposes:
•web site and system administration, including monitoring
to prevent security breaches,
•enhancement of the web site to the user’s needs;
and
•research and development.
No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing
activities, except in the unlikely event that a law enforcement)
or other government) agency exercises a legal authority to
inspect ISP logs (eg, by warrant, subpoena, or notice to produce).
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information stored on your computer
by our web site server. It is 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 the AACS’s cookies.
Disclaimer
The material on this internet site is made available for the
purpose of providing access to government information and
information generated by AACS not as professional advice.
Before relying on the material, users should obtain appropriate
professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances
to evaluate its accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance
for their purposes.
Some material on this internet site may include or summarise
views, standards or recommendations of third parties. The inclusion
of such material is not an endorsement by AACS of that material
and not an indication of the AACS’s commitment to any
particular course of action.
Links provided to other internet sites are provided for the
user's convenience and do not constitute endorsement of the
information at those sites. The AACS accepts no responsibility
for material contained in any site that is linked to this internet
site.
This notice must not be erased.
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