Privacy

In accordance with the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government World Wide Websites issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner, Old Parliament House provides the following statements on privacy.

Collection of Personal Information

Your email, phone and address details will only be used for the purpose for which they have been provided. We will not use your personal details for any other purpose, and will not disclose it, without your consent.

Monitoring Site Usage

Our service provider makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes:

• the user’s server address;
• the user’s top level domain name;
• the date, time and duration of the visit to the site;
• the pages accessed;
• the previous site visited; and
• the type of browser and operating system used.

No attempt 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 the service provider’s logs.

Cookies

Cookies are small amounts of information that are created and stored on a user’s computer and used by the web host server for a variety of purposes, including gathering information about the user or improving the functionality of a web site by remembering a user’s preferences.

The Old Parliament House website employs cookies only to determine whether users visiting the website have the Macromedia Flash plugin, in those instances where Flash is used on the site. We do not use cookies in our monitoring of statistical data and cookie information is not retained or forwarded to any other body or organisation.