Privacy
Scope
This statement applies to the Australia’s Health Workforce Online website only. The website is managed by the National Health Workforce Taskforce.
Personal information
Australia’s Health Workforce Online collects personal information that you choose to give us, for example your email address.
No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect our logs.
Uses
We only use your personal information for the purposes for which you gave it to us.
We do not share information about you with other government agencies or other organisations without your permission unless it:
- is necessary to provide you with a service that you have requested;
- is required or authorised by law; or
- will prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to somebody's health.
We analyse non-identifiable website traffic data to improve our services.
Cookies
Like many sites, this website may use cookies from time to time.
Cookies are small data files that a website is able to place on a user's hard drive to record aspects of that user's experience of the website. For example, we may use cookies to record that a user visited a particular section of the website, that their browsing software was a particular version or to ensure that online applications and transactions do not require you to re-input information when moving between web pages. In this way, cookies can improve the operation of the website, and make the experience more efficient, more enjoyable or more personalised. Importantly, in depositing information on a user's computer and referring to it later in the same session (sessional) or on a subsequent visit (persistent), cookies do not need to identify the user or record any personal information.
The default settings of browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer may allow some or all cookies, but users can easily take steps to erase cookies from their hard-drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, some parts of sites may not function fully for users that disallow cookies.
Your choices
- You may gain access to personal information about you that we hold. You can have us correct any errors or delete the information we have about you.
- You may opt out of any further contact from us.
- To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, we may have to gain evidence of your identity before we can give you access to information about you or change it.
Important information
This website is bound by the Information Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988.
We also follow the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government Websites issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
