Web site terms of use

Copyright of the information contained in this site subsists under the Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth of Australia) and, through international treaties, the laws of many other countries. It is owned by the Alliance for Forgotten Australians and/or Families Australia and/or the Australian Government unless otherwise stated. All rights reserved. You may download a single copy of a document and, where necessary for its use as a reference, make a single hard copy.

The Alliance for Forgotten Australians and Families Australia do not warrant or represent that the information in this site is free from errors or omissions or is suitable for your intended use. We recommend that you seek independent advice before acting on any information in this site. Subject to any terms implied by law and which cannot be excluded, the Alliance for Forgotten Australians and Families Australia accept no responsibility for any loss, damage, cost or expense (whether direct or indirect) incurred by you as a result of any error, omission or misinterpretation in any information in this site.

Families Australia, Suite 3, 7 National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 | Phone 02 6273 4885 | Fax 02 6273 4886

The information in this site is current at the date of publication but may be subject to change.

Scope

This statement applies to all users who access the Alliance for Forgotten Australians Web Site.

General

The AFA Web Site makes some use of data that only indirectly identifies users. We take great care with practices that affect personal privacy. As a general rule, we do not collect or record data that directly identifies users.

Data Collection

Data that indirectly identifies users is gathered during interactions with the this Web Site in the following circumstances:

Computer Information
It is necessary that your web browser provides your machine's network address, so the web server can address its replies back to the correct machine. In addition, the browser type and operating system information may be recorded.
Navigation and Click-Stream Data
Browsing any web site generates a trail of pages visited, the amount of data transferred and the time of access. This information is recorded against the network address supplied by your web browser.
Electronic Mail
It is a necessary part of electronic mail that a sender and receiver address is supplied. These are recorded as well as a message identifier, amount of data and the time. The address you supply as sender is only a pseudonym and may possibly bear no relation to your real name, so it is not considered as directly identifying you.

Forms

If you use forms on the site to provide information, register interest, or purchase publications, the information you provide is not retained on the public web server and will not be used for purposes other than that for which it was provided.
We will only record your e-mail address if you send us a message. It will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided and will not be added to a mailing list unless that is the purpose of the message. We will not use your e-mail address for any other purpose and will not disclose it without your consent.

Data Storage, Retention, Use and Disclosure

The data referred to above is generated by the systems you are accessing and stored in system logs. These logs are preserved and archived for possible future use.
The data is used by AFAs Web Site software, and by our support staff, only for

web site and systems administration, including monitoring as a security measure
customisation of the web site to meet your needs
evaluation, research and development.

The data collected will not be disclosed to a third party except where it is legally required, such as in the investigation of a criminal offence, and in compliance with a search warrant or subpoena.

Cookies

A cookie is a very small text file placed onto your computer when you visit a Web site. A cookie can be 'persistent' (meaning that it is written to a permanent file on your hard disk) or 'session-only' (in which case the cookie is deleted at the end of your browsing session).
Cookies are not generally used on the AFAs site. The exception to this is the search facility, which has been built to use only temporary 'session ID' cookies. One cookie is created at the beginning of the user's search session and discarded at its conclusion. The cookie is not used to collect or store any information about the user, only to allocate a temporary identifier to the search session.

Without such a session ID, the user would lose the entire search context each time a new web page is visited during a search session e.g. by viewing a document retrieved by a search. If cookies are disabled, the search program could not provide more than a very basic functionality - far less than is expected by our users.

Links to other sites

While this site contains links to other sites, we let you know when the links are outbound with a written or graphic indicator - it's described in the Alt text panel also. AFA is not responsible for the privacy practice or the content of external web sites.

Accountability

AFA staff comply with information privacy principles.

We are committed to making the AFAs Web Site fully accessible to the public, including people with disabilities or technical constraints (such as older browsers and low speed Internet connections). In order to achieve this, we endeavour to keep the site at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Level A conformance rating for accessibility. Documents which are sometimes displayed on the site in PDF format alone are able to be obtained in more accessible formats by requesting such from the relevant contact on the particular page. Any problems locating suitable formats should be directed to AFA's Web Manager.

AFA's Web Site is regularly tested for accessibility, and all new website contracts include accessibility as a key performance measure. Comments on the accessibility of AFA's Web Site are welcome and can be sent by email to the AFAs Web Manager or through our contact details below.

In particular, if you are having a problem accessing the site, please let us know. Comments may also be submitted in writing to our Secretariat.

AFA is currently funded by the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and supported by Families Australia.

Our secretariat is located at Families Australia,
Suite 3, 7 National Circuit Barton ACT 2600
Phone 02 6273 4885
Fax 02 6273 4886

Accessibility

Visit the Accessibility page for complete details about out accessibility and further assistance.

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