Privacy

This statement sets out the policies of the Business Licence Information Service and South Australian Department of Trade and Economic Development relating to the privacy of your personal information.

This web site is operated in compliance with the South Australian Government's Information Privacy Principles. These policies are based on national and international privacy standards.

Data automatically collected when visiting the web site

Whenever you visit our web site, we automatically record:

• your IP address
• the date and time of your visit
• the pages you access
• the documents you download
• the type of browser you use

These statistics tell us how our site is being used and helps us improve it to make your visit useful and enjoyable.

This information does not identify you personally. No attempt is made to identify you except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect our service provider's logs.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies.

Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• Site administration
• Completing the user's current activity
• Customising the site for each user
• Pseudononymous analysis

Email addresses

We will record your e-mail address under the following circumstances:

• if you send us a message by e-mail
• you include your email address in an on-line form

It will only be used to send you a reply and will not be added to any external mailing list or used for any purpose unrelated to your business with the Business Licence Information Service.

The email address and any other information of a personal nature that may have been collected via an on-line form is stored in a secure area. Such information is only forwarded to appropriate staff so they can answer your question via your email address.

Other web sites

This privacy statement only covers the Business Licence Information Service web site. It does not apply to other sites, even when we have provided you with a direct link. We recommend that you check the privacy statements of other web sites to which you may have been directed from our web site.