Disclaimer, linking, privacy and copyright statements

• Disclaimer
• Linking
• Privacy
• Copyright

Disclaimer

The Council of the Municipality of Kiama is committed to a quality service to its community and to ensure this website is suitable, accurate and complete. No warranty is given that the material located on this website or any other website referred to on this website is free from error or omission.

Accordingly, the Council of the Municipality of Kiama, its officers, employees, servants and agents, expressly disclaim all liability for any act done, or admission made in reliance on such material and any consequences of such act or omission. It is the responsibility of the user to make his/her own decisions about the correctness of information found.

Confirmation of the information may be sought from originating authors or organisations providing the information.

Other sites

The Council of the Municipality of Kiama has no control over the content of material accessible on any site cross-referenced. It accordingly is the responsibility of the Internet user to make their own decisions about the relevance or accuracy, currency and reliability of information found on those sites.

In addition, the Council of the Municipality of Kiama does not necessarily endorse or support the views, opinions, standards or information expressed at linked sites. They have been set up as information sources only.

This notice must not be erased.

Linking

You may link to this site, but permission is restricted to making a text link without any alteration of the site's contents. You may not use the Council of the Municipality of Kiama logo or any other material from our site as a banner or icon without our written permission. Permission is not granted to reproduce, frame or reformat the files, pages, images, information and materials from this site on any other site without the written permission of Council. The Council reserves the right to prevent linking by giving notice.

Aside from use as permitted above or otherwise under the Copyright Act 1968, all rights are reserved.

Privacy

General

The following statement sets out the Council of the Municipality of Kiama's Policy in relation to your personal information.

The Council appreciates that your privacy is important to you and you have a right to control your personal information.

The Council understands that providing personal information is an act of trust which Council takes very seriously. Therefore, unless you give us explicit written consent to act otherwise the following will govern how Council handles your personal information and protects your privacy.

The Council of the Municipality of Kiama is an agency under the definition of the New South Wales Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. The Council adopted a Privacy Code of Practice and Model Privacy Management Plan (pdf 58 KB) for Local Government in September 2000. The Council of the Municipality of Kiama will not collect or monitor any personal information about you without your consent unless it is required by law. If at any time you want to know what personal information the Council is holding about you, please request such information by writing to us.

If at any time you wish to change personal information that is inaccurate or out of date please contact us by writing or e-mail and the Council will change this record.

Website

The following sets out the Council of the Municipality of Kiama's privacy statement regarding Council's Website.

The Privacy Statement is provided in accordance with the Guidelines for Government Websites issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner.

Statistical Information

If you visit the Council of the Municipality of Kiama website to read or download information, the following information will be recorded for statistical purposes:

• Your server's address.
• The name of the top level domain from which you access the Internet (for example, gov,.com,.edu,.org,.au,.nz etc).
• The type of browser you use.
• The date and time you accessed our site.
• The pages you accessed and the documents downloaded.
• The previous Internet address from which you linked directly to our site.
• The Internet address to which you link directly from our site.

The above information is used to create summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, discover what information is most and least used, determine technical design specifications, and help us make our site more useful to visitors.

No attempt will be made to identify you or your browsing activities from these records except in the unlikely event of an investigation by the ISP, or where a law enforcement agency exercises a warrant to inspect the Internet Service Provider's logs.

Cookies

The Council of the Municipality of Kiama website does not use cookies on any public areas of the site. For more information about Cookies and their use, please see the Cookies section on the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner site.

Contacting the Council of the Municipality of Kiama by Email

Your e-mail address will only be recorded by the Council of the Municipality of Kiama if you choose to send us a message. It will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and will not be added to a mailing list. We will not use your e-mail address for any other purpose, and will not disclose it without your consent.

Links to other sites

The Privacy Statement only covers the Council's website and does not extend to websites linked to or from this site.

If Council becomes aware of any concerns or problems with our website, the Council will take these issues seriously and rectify the matter as quickly as possible. If you have any questions or comments regarding the Council's privacy policy, or you have a problem or complaint please contact Council at the abovementioned address.

For more information on the Council's privacy policy, please contact us.

The Privacy Code of Practice for Local Government is available for further information.

Copyright

1. The Council of the Municipality of Kiama asserts the subsistence, ownership, or both as applicable of copyright in any material which appears on the Council's website in respect to which it can assert copyright, subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968 ©.
2. Subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968 ©, you may reproduce the material which appears at Council's website for personal in-house or non-commercial use, without formal permission and without change.
3. You may download, store in cache, display, print and copy the information in an unaltered form only.
4. You are not permitted to use this website to sell a product or service or to increase traffic to your website.
5. The copyright in any State or Federal legislative material is owned by the Crown in right of either the State or the Commonwealth as applicable. The publication of any State of New South Wales legislative material displayed on this website must be in accordance with proper State Authorisation. The publication of any commonwealth legislative material displayed on this website must be in accordance with the Commonwealth Government's requirements.
6. Copyright in the materials appearing at any third party website which are linked to the Council of the Municipality of Kiama website is vested in the author of those materials or the author's licensee, subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968©. Kiama Council cannot and does not grant any permission or authorisation in respect of the copyright in any materials appearing at any third party websites.