Privacy Statement

Council has an obligation to protect the privacy of site users. This statement describes what information is collected, and why.

Privacy

Thank you for visiting the Forbes Shire Council site
(forbes.local-e.nsw.gov.au) and reviewing our privacy statement, provided in accordance
with the Guidelines for Government Websites issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner.

The Council respects and protects the privacy of users. This statement tells you how we
collect information and how we use it.

Statistical information

If you visit the Forbes Shire site 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.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of information that an Internet web site sends to your browser when
you access information at that site. The Forbes Shire site does not use cookies on any public
areas of the site. For more information about Cookies and their use, please see the href="http://privacy.gov.au/internet/internet_privacy/index.html#2.1">Cookies section
on the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner site.

Contacting Forbes Shire Council by email

Your e-mail address will only be recorded by the Council 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.

Subscribe and unsubscribe email service

The Forbes Shire site offers a subscribe and unsubscribe email service for those people who
wish to receive the Forbes Shire news and other updates via list-serv system. When you
subscribe to this service your email address and, as an option, your name is added to a
database. This information is used only to provide the service and will not be used for
any other purpose, and it will not be disclosed without your consent.

Links to other sites

This site contains links to other sites. The Council is not responsible for the privacy
practice or the content of such websites.