ARCS Operators Privacy Policy
The ARCS Operators are committed to protecting the privacy of personal information. Each ARCS Operator adheres to the Information Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988.
See each ACRS Operator’s Privacy Policy on their respective web sites.
As regards ARCS Services :
Information we collect and how we use it
ARCS Operators generally collect personal information in order to properly and efficiently carry out its functions.
Communication - Emails and Electronic Forms
ARCS Operators’ servers record your email address if you send us a message online. Your email address will not be added to a mailing list, unless you have provided it to us in order to subscribe to one of our services.
Where you choose to send us a completed electronic form that includes your personal details, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as name, address and email address.
The information collected by email or electronic forms will be used only for the purpose for which you provided it, and we will not disclose it without your consent, except where authorised or required by law.
Log information (Browsing)
When you use ARCS online services, ARCS Operators’ servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your server address, your top level domain name (for example, .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc.), the date and time of visit to the site, the pages accessed and documents viewed, the previous sites visited, and the browser type, browser language, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. It is information that your web browser sends back to our web site server whenever you visit it again. We use cookies to ‘remember’ your browser between page visits. In this situation, the cookie identifies your browser, not you personally. No personal information is stored within ARCS Services cookies.
Use and disclosure
ARCS Operators use/process your personal information for the purposes of carrying out its functions.
1. Access and alteration of records containing personal information
When you provide personal information in relation to ARCS services provided by ARCS Operators, we will allow access to your personal information. This will enable you to find out the nature of the personal information held by ARCS Operators, correct your personal data if it is inaccurate, or to delete such data at your request (subject to restrictions on such access/alteration of records under the applicable provisions of any law of the Commonwealth).
2. Information sharing
We only share personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- Where you are reasonably likely to have been aware, or made aware by way of a privacy notice, that your personal information is usually passed to the relevant parties;
- Where you have consented;
- Where we believe on reasonable grounds that the disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to your life or health or that of another person.
- Where the disclosure is required or authorised by or under law; or
- Where the disclosure is reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the criminal law or of a law imposing a pecuniary penalty, or for the protection of the public revenue.
3. Information security
We take reasonable steps:
- to protect the personal information that we hold against loss, against unauthorised access, use, modification or disclosure and against other misuse; and
- to ensure that, where we have given personal information to a contractor that carries out service for an ARCS Operator, that contractor complies with the Information Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act.
4. Data integrity
ARCS Operators process personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable program-specific privacy notice. We take reasonable steps to make sure that the personal information we process is accurate, relevant, up-to-date, complete and not misleading.
Enforcement
ARCS Operators regularly review its compliance with this Policy and to each ACRS Operator’s individual privacy Policy. If you have any questions/complaints about privacy, confidentiality or access to your personal information, please send an email to
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Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.