Privacy Statement
The Defence Systems Innovation Centre (‘DSIC’) respects the privacy of your personal information by adhering to privacy laws. This page outlines how DSIC manages information collected through the use of its website. This information does not extend to external websites linked from DSIC’s website.
Collection and use of information
One way of collecting information is through cookies, which are small information files that many websites store on your hard disk. When you log on to your DSIC email from a particular computer for the first time, cookies containing your log on information will be saved to your hard disk. The server can then read your cookie file to confirm your identity for that site.
Cookies can only collect information that has been provided by the user, or information such as the IP address which the server already knows. DSIC will not use any electronic address captured by this means to send unsolicited commercial messages.
In the case of specific personal data, DSIC may only collect and use information for the purpose for which the person has expressly consented (unless otherwise required by law).
How we use email addresses
If you have provided us with your email address for inclusion in mailing lists, we may use your email address to send you the following types of email messages:
- Occasional updates about our products and services
- Email newsletters
These email messages are sent only when the recipient’s consent has been obtained. You may decline to receive email communication from us or request to unsubscribe from the email communication by emailing us using the email address provided with the above email messages. You will be asked to include the word "unsubscribe" in the subject field of the email to enable us to respond to your requests promptly.
We do not share your email address with other organisations for them to market their products or services to you. When we hire vendors to deliver emails to you on our behalf, they cannot use your email address for any other purpose.
Website usage
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 the service provider's logs.
Internal users of the DSIC computer environment
DSIC has a responsibility to ensure that unacceptable behaviour does not occur.
For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, “personal information” is defined in accordance with the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 as “information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.”