Privacy
We respect your right to privacy and confidentiality.
Our department complies with the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The Privacy Act regulates how:
- we collect, use, disclose and store personal information including sensitive information
- you can access and correct records containing your personal information.
We also hold personal information in accordance with the Archives Act 1983 (Cth).
Your personal information
We collect and store personal information you provide as part of consultations on this website.
Before you submit your information and comments in response to a consultation, we will ask you to review and accept a Privacy Collection Statement. You will have the option to keep your response confidential.
We will only use personal information for the purposes outlined in the Privacy Collection Statement. We will not use it for any other purpose without your permission, unless authorised or required by law.
Find out more about how our department handles your personal information by visiting our Privacy Policy on the industry.gov.au website.
Managing data on this website
We use cloud-based technology by Converlens Pty Ltd to provide this consultation service and website. Converlens collects personal information in compliance with the Privacy Act and stores data securely in Australia.
Find out more about how Converlens manages consultation data in their Privacy Policy on the Converlens website.
Cookies on this website
We use cookies to administer our website and analyse statistics with Google Analytics. These cookies contain system-generated values to identify a user’s sessions. We do not store personally identifiable information within cookies.
You can find out more about our use of Google Analytics in our department’s Privacy Policy.
Contact us
For general enquiries or complaints about our Privacy Act compliance, information or correction requests, contact our department’s Privacy Contact Officer:
Email: privacy@industry.gov.au
Post: Privacy Contact Officer, Legal Branch, Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, GPO Box 2013, Canberra ACT 2601