If you are 16 years old or under, you need to get your parent or guardian’s permission before you provide personal information to this website.

When you interact with Council’s website, Council will collect the following information using its information technology systems:

Computer information:

• IP and server addresses of the computer you use to access Council’s website
• browser type and operating system you use
• date, time and duration of your visit to the site
• pages visited
• documents downloaded.

Subscriptions and service requests:

• email address you provide for email newsletters
• other personal information provided in order to provide services online.

User feedback:

• Provision of feedback is always voluntary and does not affect access to the website.

The personal information collected on this site, or any linked website or software, will only be used by Council and its service providers for lawful purposes directly related to the process or service you are interacting with, and also for the purposes of improving its website and services.  Council will not use your personal information for any other purpose without first seeking your permission.

No personal information will be disclosed or published without your consent in accordance with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998, unless otherwise required by law.

Links to other websites

Council’s website contains links to other sites. Council has no control over third party websites and is not responsible for their contents or privacy policies.

Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, you should make yourself familiar with the privacy policy of that website.

Cookies

Council uses 'cookie' technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve its services.

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by Council’s website. This helps your website to remember your preferences and it makes your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

Council uses cookies for the following purposes:

• to better understand how you interact with our services
• to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our services
• to improve our services.

Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can restrict that by editing your browser’s options to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.

Website analytics

Council uses Google Analytics to collect information about your session, web traffic data, page data and reports for Council’s website.

The data collected by Google Analytics will not personally identify you.

By viewing Council’s website, you consent to web traffic data being collected.

You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse cookies, disable JavaScript, or use the Google opt-out service.