1. Statement of Commitment

Corporate GIS Consultants respects the privacy rights of all individuals visiting Corporate GIS Consultants web sites and is committed to collecting and storing personal information in an ethical and appropriate manner. Furthermore, Corporate GIS Consultants is committed to ensuring that all Corporate GIS Consultants directors, officers, employees and agents comply at all times with the Corporate GIS Consultants policies and obligations under privacy legislation currently in force in Australia and New Zealand. Corporate GIS Consultants has adopted the National Privacy Principles ("the Principles") contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) of the Commonwealth Government of Australia for the purposes of developing these policies. A copy of the National Privacy Principles is available from the Corporate GIS Consultants Privacy Officer or via the internet at www.privacy.gov.au.

2. Why do we collect personal information?

When you visit the Corporate GIS Consultants web site to respond to the annual GIS / Spatial Best Practice Surveys, Corporate GIS Consultants collects personal information in order to facilitate the Quality Assurance (QA) process and to verify responses to the survey. The QA process involves analysis of the responses submitted to the survey which may involve staff from Corporate GIS Consultants contacting you (by phone or email) personally to verify some of your responses to specific questions and/or to ensure that your response does not duplicate all or part of a response from another person. Following this process, your details are retained until the next year should you contribute the following year.

We collect personally identifiable information that is specific and volunteered by respondents to Corporate GIS Consultants web site surveys. This information may include your name, title, company, address, contact telephone number and email address. We may also request other information about your job role as part of the survey process.

Corporate GIS Consultants is committed to complying with the Australian SPAM Act 2003, which relates to how companies deal with "electronic messaging". This act outlines strict guidelines covering:

1. Consent. Electronic messages of a commercial nature can only been sent to individuals who have given 'direct or inferred' consent.
2. Identify. All Electronic messages of a commercial nature must clearly identify the Company responsible for sending the message.
3. Unsubscribe. All Electronic messages of a commercial nature must contain a functioning 'Unsubscribe' facility that is in operation for a minimum of 30 days.

For further information regarding the Australian SPAM Act 2003, visit www.noie.gov.au/publications/NOIE/spam/Act2003/.

Where we have obtained your consent, we may send you information from time to time, including details of current surveys and reports, future issues, or seminars. If you no longer wish to receive this information you may remove your name from our list by either:

following the 'Unsubscribe' instructions contained within the email

      or

emailing us at privacy@corp-gis.com.au or Unsubscribe@corp-gis.com.au with your name and email address details.

Once you have requested to Unsubscribe from receiving Electronic messages from Corporate GIS Consultants you will receive electronic confirmation you have been removed from the list within 5 working days.

Information will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent, except where it is provided to a contractor or supplier for the purposes of undertaking services which are required for the ordinary administration of the Corporate GIS Consultants business.

3. Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies also provide us with aggregate information on how people use our web site, including identifying the pages visited. This information helps us to make ongoing improvements to our site. Cookies do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's browser. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive any cookies you may set your browser to refuse cookies.

The use of cookies can enhance the value to you of what is offered on our web site, because they can enable information most relevant to your needs to be easily accessed.

4. Storage and security of your personal information

Corporate GIS Consultants will use reasonable endeavors to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. Your information is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities. Information will be kept until it is out of date or no longer required, at which time it will be destroyed or de-identified.

You can also play an important role in keeping your personal information secure, by maintaining the confidentiality of any password and accounts used on the Corporate GIS Consultants web site. Please notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your account by any other Internet user or any other breach of security.

5. You can access, change or delete the information we keep about you

All personal information kept about you is available at any time via direct email request. To access your information, send an email to privacy@corp-gis.com.au with details of your request.

6. Links to other Web sites

This privacy policy only applies to Corporate GIS Consultants sites. Corporate GIS Consultants is not responsible for the privacy practices of organisation's linked to Corporate GIS Consultants web sites. Before disclosing your personal information on any other web site, we suggest you examine the terms and conditions of use.

7. Enquiries, Complaints and Contact Details

Anyone who requires further information regarding the Corporate GIS Consultants privacy practices or feels that there has been an unwarranted invasion of their privacy should contact privacy@corp-gis.com.au or the Corporate GIS Consultants Director and Privacy Officer, Bruce Douglas on (02) 9709 3022 or bruce@corp-gis.com.au.

8. Future changes

Corporate GIS Consultants reserves the right to amend its privacy policy at any time for any reason. An updated version of the policy will be posted on the web site.