PRIVACY

Skill.net is part of the State Government of Victoria's Connecting Communities Initiative. It is managed and implemented by VICNET, a division of The State Library of Victoria.

Skills.net manages personal information in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2001 and The State Library of Victoria Privacy Statement.

SKILLS.NET WEBSITE PRIVACY STATEMENT

Anonymous Access to Website
The Skills.net website can be accessed without disclosing personal information.

Collection and Use of Personal Data
The Skills.net website does not collect personal information other than information you choose to provide through the Guest book and Project Stories page. The Guest book and Project Stories pages invite Skills.net members to submit entries about their experiences of participating in skills.net training and using the Internet. This information is used by VICNET project staff to document qualitative feed-back from skills.net training participants. The Guest Book entries displayed on this website show the name and email address of the person making the entry. Access to this information is unrestricted and the State Library of Victoria cannot control the disclosure of this information once it is in the public domain.

Disclosure
We will not use or disclose personal information about you unless you have consented to the use or disclosure or in exceptional circumstances where authorised by law.

Access and Correction
Requests for access to documents containing personal information and held by Skills.net are managed under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Written requests should be addressed to the FOI Officer State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston Street Melbourne, 3000.

Security of Personal Data
There are risks associated with transmitting information over the Internet. If you are concerned about conveying sensitive information to Skills.net over the Internet you might prefer to contact us by mail or telephone. Contact us.

Collection and Use of Site Visit Data
A cookie is a block of data that is shared between a web server and a user's browser. Cookies are only used in the password-protected section of the Skills.net website, only used by authorised staff. The use of cookies in this case is for the purpose of security, in order to enforce an automated log-out after a set time of inactivity. More information about cookies can be found on sites such as Cookie Central .

The following clickstream data (non-personal information) is automatically recorded by the sites' web server for statistical and system administration purposes only:

1. Your server address
2. Top level domain name ( eg. .com, .org, .au)
3. Date and time of visit to the site
4. Pages accessed and downloaded
5. Your operating system
6. Type of browser you are using

A Web Beacon is an often transparent graphic image that is placed on a website on in an-email that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the website or sending the email. The Skills.net website does not used web beacons.

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