DISCLAIMER

The Australian Industry Group (or any of its related entities) created and maintains this website as an information service for the Australian Government in accordance with funding provided by the Departments of Education Science and Training and Education Employment and Workplace Relations (the ‘Australian Government Departments’).

The views and opinions expressed in this site do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Australian Government Departments. None of the information provided here is represented or implied to be legal, accounting, financial or investment advice and The Australian Industry Group does not invite and does not expect any person to act or rely on any statement, opinion, representation or inference expressed or implied on this website. All visitors to this website must make their own enquiries and obtain their own professional advice in relation to any issue or matter referred to herein.

The Australian Industry Group (and each of its related entities) does not accept any responsibility for any errors or omissions on this website and disclaims absolutely all liability for the consequences of any act or omission arising out of the use or otherwise of the information on this website. In no event shall The Australian Industry Group be liable for any loss or damage, directly or indirectly, arising out of or in connection with the use of this website or the information set out herein or referable or linked to it and whether consequential or foreseeable or otherwise and howsoever arising.

COPYRIGHT

© Commonwealth of Australia, 2008

The copyright in the content of this site and ownership of the intellectual property in the information and the design and other creative works contained on or in it (‘the Works’) are vested in the Commonwealth. The Australian Industry Group has been licensed as publisher of the Works to reproduce all the material in the Works for the purposes of the services provided by this website. All enquiries relating to the use or reproduction of the Works should be referred in the first instance to The Australian Industry Group as publisher.

PRIVACY

The Australian Industry Group (‘Ai Group’) is bound by the National Privacy Principles and the Information Privacy Principles under the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988.

When you access this site and submit any personal information (‘Visitor Data’) to us, your submission is an acknowledgment of and agreement with the terms of this statement and to the use of that Visitor Data by Ai Group.

Any Visitor Data of a personal or sensitive nature that is collected from this site by Ai Group will only be used as necessary for the business to be transacted between us and for the purposes of providing our Visitors with better services and products. It will not be disclosed to anyone else unless we are required by law to disclose it or you tell us we can or should.

Ai Group access to the Visitor Data is limited to authorised persons - employees and in some cases contractors and consultants who are all bound by contractual obligations to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of that Data.

Where there is a password or key provided to you to access this site or any secure part of it, then it is important to keep that password or key secret like an ATM PIN. Visitor Data held by us is kept in a separate secure location not accessible from the Internet.

If any of the personal information which you submit to us through the Website, changes or becomes inaccurate, we ask that you notify us of the changes through the info button, so that we can take steps to correct the data we hold. Unless you tell us, we cannot be responsible for inaccurate or out of date information.

The sort of information we hold and collect from the Visitor Data and which might include personal information is:

• our organisation's legal name
• our business and trading names
• he name and title of the individual who represents your organisation or accesses the Website on your behalf
• the email address of that individual and the organisation
• he website address and the domain type of your organisation
• the telephone facsimile postal and street addresses of the organisation
• information disclosed about your organisation in the enquiry or message submitted in the Visitor Data, including information we might be able to infer from the context such as sectoral, employment, turnover, geographical, and size issues
• the subject matter of the enquiry or message.

Much of what is collected and stored is for our own use only to evaluate the effectiveness of this website and the services and products posted on it. We use the information to improve the site content or navigation. We (or the site designers) use cookies and embedded code to collect this ‘top level data’ about visitors and what areas they visit most frequently etc on the site.

Most Internet browsers are pre-set to accept cookies. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. Alterations to these settings may, however, affect the functionality of this website.

Subject to the rights of other Visitors and persons whose information may be collected and aggregated with yours, you may request and we will disclose to you details of your personal information in the Visitor Data that we hold at any time, to the extent to which it is individually identifiable. Given our commitment to your privacy, we can request verification from you and evidence to support such a request to ensure that the person who so requests that information is the person entitled at law to receive it.

Most importantly, your personal Visitor Data will not be given to any third party by us, unless it is specifically required by law (law enforcement rights or where there is a threat to someone's safety involved are the usual cases) or where full details have been given to you and you have provided us with your approval or consent.

You should be aware that this website from time to time will contain links to other sites and those sites may have different privacy provisions. Ai Group is not responsible for those sites or for any consequences of you accessing them through this website.

You may at any time request Ai Group to delete all your personal Visitor Data held by us and we will take all reasonable steps to action that request promptly. However, there may be technical or other constraints to completely destroying all details of your visit and the personal information contained in your Visitor Data, as well as legal and statutory duties and responsibilities imposed on us that might also prevent us from destroying or removing from our records all such information.

Queries or concerns about your privacy may be directed to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner or its website: www.privacy.gov.au.