The Victorian Government Data Directory (www.data.vic.gov.au) is the online access point to public sector information retained by the government of the State of Victoria, Australia (here referred to as "the Victorian Government").
This privacy statement applies only to the Victorian Government Data Directory website and not to any websites to which the Victorian Government Data Directory provides a link.
Victorian Government Data Directory only requests your personal information for the purposes of responding to your feedback and comments. The purpose for collecting personal information is to provide feedback and answer queries that you have in respect of a particular site or the information you are trying to obtain and we will only use and/or disclose the information for these purposes.
Personal information that is collected by the Victorian Government Data Directory will be used by and disclosed to Victorian Government employees or contractors whose duties require them to use it. Such employees and contractors are required to protect and handle your personal information in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic).
You may request access to any personal information that this website may have collected about you. Also, you may request correction of your personal information if you can establish that it is not accurate, complete or up-to-date.
The Manager may be contacted about access to, and correction of, personal information collected by Victoria Online or for any questions or concerns you may have arising out of this privacy statement.
The Victorian Government Data Directory can be used anonymously.
However, for some functions the collection of personal information is necessary, for example, to advise you when a dataset or datasets requested by you is available for download, or unavoidable.
You will know if www.data.vic.gov.au is collecting personal information from you because you will be requested to provide it.
The exception is where someone else provides your personal information. We cannot prevent this. However, you are entitled to access and correct any personal information about you collected by the Victorian Government Data Directory.
The second exception is where we collect statistics using software techniques such as web server log file analysis, cookies and web beacons. Such statistics may qualify as personal information under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic). However, these statistics are not used to identify individual users of this website.
You should be aware that there are risks in transmitting information across the Internet. However, Victoria Online takes reasonable steps to protect any personal information from unauthorised access once that personal information comes into its possession.
assumes no responsibility or liability for the condition or content of any other website or for the operation or function of any service or facility offered on any other website.
The Victorian Government Data Directory uses standard web analytics software packages to analyse its web server log files to track web site usage. This analysis provides general data including number of visits, unique visits, pages viewed, browser type, how the site is navigated, search terms used, the sections of the website visited and other website usage information without identifying individual users.
While the anonymous statistical data the Victorian Government Data Directory collects may be aggregated and used in broader statistical analysis by the State of Victoria, at no time can we personally identify you as the source of that data.