Privacy Policy
Information Privacy and the Office of the Information Commissioner
The Queensland Government has introduced privacy legislation which applies to the Queensland public sector—the Information Privacy Act 2009. The Information Privacy Act contains a number of privacy principles which set out how agencies may and must handle personal information. Personal information means any information from which your identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained.
The Office has developed a Privacy Plan, which sets out details of how the Office handles personal information and the types of personal information it holds.
Website Privacy and Security Statement
The Office of the Information Commissioner (the Office) is committed to protecting user privacy. We understand and appreciate that visitors to, and users of, this website, are concerned about their privacy and the confidentiality and security of information they provide to us.
Our policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our website users and, as a general rule, we do not collect personal information about you when you visit our site. You are able to visit our site without revealing any of your personal information.
Site visit data
If you visit our site to read or download information, our server records the following information for statistical purposes:
- your server's address
- the name of the top level domain from which you accessed the internet (for example, .gov, .com, .edu, .net, .org, .au, .nz etc)
- the type of browser you use
- the date you accessed the site
- the time you accessed the site
- the pages you have accessed
- the documents you have downloaded
- the previous internet address from which you linked directly to our site.
The above information is gathered solely for the purposes of creating summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site; to discover what information is most (and least) useful; and to help make our site more useful to visitors.
Links to other sites
This website contains links to other websites. The Office is not responsible for the content and privacy practices of other websites.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of information or small file that an internet website sends to your browser when you access information at that site. Cookies allow websites to be able to recognise you as you browse their website. The Office's website does not employ the use of cookies. No attempt is or will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect activity logs.
Email correspondence
Email correspondence sent to this site may be treated as a public record and retained as required by the Public Records Act 2002 and other relevant legislation.
Your email address details will not be added to a mailing list (unless you so request), nor will we disclose these details to third parties without your consent, unless required by law. Email messages may be monitored by our information technology staff for system trouble-shooting and maintenance purposes.
