Privacy, copyright, disclaimer
Brisbane City Council's privacy, copyright and disclaimer statements are designed to protect your rights and govern the use of information on this website.
Privacy statement
Council's privacy procedures have been developed with your rights and needs in mind.
Collecting your information
Council holds your personal information in accordance with this privacy statement and we will:
- tell you when and for what purpose we will be collecting the information
- tell you what information is necessary to access Council's products and services, including payments and transactions
- not ask for or collect any sensitive information about you unless it is necessary to meet legal, public interest or statistical requirements to complete the requested transaction
- take all reasonable steps to permanently remove personal identification from the information collected about you if it is no longer needed
Using your information
When you provide Council with your personal information we will:
- use the information to help you use Council services
- aggregate the data for analysis
- remove personally identifiable characteristics, unless you have given us specific consent to recognise your usage on an individual basis
We will not disclose your personal information to any other person or organisation unless one of the following reasons apply:
- you have given us your consent to do so
- the information is needed to conduct a transaction between you and that person or organisation
- we are required by law to do so
- there are grounds to believe disclosure will prevent a threat to life or health
- that person or organisation is providing a service to Council and is required to maintain the same or similar privacy legislation principles
Security of your information
When handling your information, Council will:
- take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up-to-date and securely stored
- monitor transmissions sent to or from Council for quality control and systems administration
- strive to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access; however we cannot guarantee security
- operate secure servers to minimise the risk of unauthorised use of your credit card information
Accessing, correcting or updating your information
You can access the personal information that you give us in accordance with our obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 1992.
For more information on Council's privacy policy, email Council or phone 07 3403 8888.
Information on the website
Council measures traffic to this website and uses cookies to monitor return visits. These statistics help us monitor and improve the website. In accordance with our privacy policy, Council does not collect or keep any personally identifiable information, nor track visits to any non-Council websites.
You can choose not to have cookies monitor your usage of this site (not recommended). For information on how to do this you can visit the Omniture website
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Alternatively, if you want to block cookies for all websites, you can change the privacy settings of your web browser (not recommended). If you’re using:
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Go to the' tools > internet options' menu. Select the 'privacy'tab. Move the slider to medium or higher to block third-party cookies. |
Go to the 'tools > Internet options' menu. Select the 'security' tab. Select 'Internet', then click on the 'custom level' button (you should get a dialog box where you can accept all, warn before accepting, or reject all cookies). |
Go to the 'tools > options' menu. Select the 'privacy' button. Select 'cookies' and uncheck the 'allow sites' to check for cookies checkbox.
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Go to the 'edit > preferences> advanced' menu. You can change your cookie choices here. |
Website surveys
Sometimes Council conducts website surveys using a system developed by Zoomerang. To complete a survey you must have your browser set to enable both, cookies and Javascript.
To make sure that Javascript is enabled on your browser:
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Go to the 'tools > internet options'. Click on 'security tab' . Click the 'custom level' button. Scroll down to the 'scripting' section. Under 'active scripting', click the 'enable bubble'. Click the 'OK' button twice. |
Go to 'tools > options'. Click on the content option'. Put a check mark next to 'enable javascript'. Click 'OK'. |
Go to 'tools > options'. Click on the the 'site controls option'. Make sure that there is a checkbox next to the 'enable javascript option'. Click the 'OK' button. |
For different browsers, refer to your browser's 'help' information about how to enable cookies.
Copyright
Brisbane City Council owns or licenses all content on this website and we assert our right to be recognised as the author of original material on this website.
Council supports the sharing of information and the use of the website content for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under copyright legislation. However, you are not permitted to reproduce or reuse content on this website for commercial purposes.
Disclaimer
Brisbane City Council distributes the information on this website as a general reference source.
This website contains links to other websites operated by organisations other than Council. The other websites are outside of Council's control and links are provided for your convenience.
Despite our best efforts, Council makes no warranties that the information in this publication is free of infection by computer viruses or other contamination.
Council disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including through negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages and costs you might incur as a result of the information on this website or any linked website being inaccurate or incomplete.
Emails from Council disclaimer
Except as required at law, Brisbane City Council does not represent, warrant and/or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, virus, interception or interference.
While care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this communication, Brisbane City Council, its Councillors, officers, employees, consultants and agents accept no responsibility for any errors or for any consequence of its use. Any action taken, or omission made by a user or other person in reliance of this information is taken or made at the sole risk and expense of that person. No person should rely on the contents of this communication for the purpose of ascertaining the legal rights or obligations of any person or for any other purpose without first obtaining legal or other relevant professional advice.
