The Adelaide City Council recognises your privacy is very important and that you have a right to control your personal information. The only personal information we collect is what you provide. For example, when you fill out a request form, we collect the details to enable us to send information to you. When you answer questions about what you would like to see on Adelaidebiz.com.au, we keep this information to better serve you.

Each member will be allocated their own discreet user name and password so that they may enter, update and maintain their business details on the site via their Internet browser with no need to purchase or use any additional software or hardware.

Adelaidebiz.com.au will have an 'Audit Trail' installed to ensure that any modifications made to the details held on the database can be traced ensuring the security of the business information retained on the site.

At no time will the Council have access to your financial details.

Information collected online is described as either:

• Personally identifiable information - information such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address-that can be used to uniquely identify you.
• Anonymous Information - is not personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is information about how you use our site (such as places visited). Anonymous information also includes the domain names and/or IP addresses of browsers that visit our site, time of day the site was visited, and other non-personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is information that is not tied to any individual, but helps to characterise the users of Adelaidebiz.com.au.

Personally Identifiable Information

Be assured that you may visit our site and use many of the available services without revealing any personally identifiable information. It is only during registration to become a member that you will be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information. During registration we require you to complete certain fields on our business database and offer optional fields for you to extend or enhance your listing with Adelaidebiz.com.au. You may include photographs or product information relative to your business. It is important to understand that any information you provide to extend or enhance your listing on Adelaidebiz.com.au may be searched by the public and you are advised to only provide information that you are prepared to share with the general public.

The Council will not collect or monitor any personal information about you without your consent. The Council will not use or disclose any information about you without your consent, unless required by law. The Council will not disclose specific information about you and your business to any other company or to unauthorised sources without your consent.

The Council will use your personal information only for the purpose of including it on Adelaidebiz.com.au and as specifically authorised by you. From time to time the Council may promote its services to the businesses on Adelaidebiz.com.au.

The Council has ensured that appropriate storage and security is in place for your details, and has administrative controls in place for accessing, changing and deleting information you provide.

While the Council will do all it can to ensure the security of your details, the Council will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files written by an Internet server to a customer's browser and stored on your computer's hard drive when information is exchanged over the Internet. Cookies do not damage your system or impair its functioning in any way. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today and allow server computers to recognise your computer's browser when you return. As cookies are only text files they cannot run on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information or to transmit it to anyone. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

Cookies may also be used by businesses with home pages registered with Adelaidebiz.com.au, please be aware of this as you visit these web pages.

IP Addresses

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your Internet service provider or through your company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers, the computers that provide web pages for viewing, automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online.

Adelaidebiz.com.au may collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report anonymous user information to our partners and to audit the use of our site.

The Council would not normally link a user's IP address to the personally identifiable information of that user, which means each user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. However, IP addresses may be used to identify users of the site when it is necessary to enforce compliance with the site's terms of use or to protect Adelaidebiz.com.au, its users and the members details it contains.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using this site you signify your assent to the Privacy Policy for Adelaidebiz.com.au site. If you do not agree to this policy please do not use this site. Your continued use of Adelaidebiz.com.au following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept these changes.

Additional Information

Adelaide City Council
GPO Box 2252
Adelaide, South Australia 5000
Attention: Economic Development Unit

The Council reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes will be posted to this page and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of any material changes to this privacy policy.

What else should I know?

Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online that information may be collected and used by others. Therefore if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and account information.

There are links to other sites from Adelaidebiz.com.au that are beyond our control. These other sites may send out their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. Please refer to their individual Privacy Policy to verify their use of information.