The Lakes College Portal is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to The Lakes College Portal website and governs data collection and usage. By using The Lakes College Portal website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
The Lakes College Portal collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Lakes College Portal also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your post code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by The Lakes College Portal. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by The Lakes College Portal for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of The Lakes College Portal website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The Lakes College Portal public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Please also note, The Lakes College Portal does not read any of your private online communications.
The Lakes College Portal encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from The Lakes College Portal so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Lakes College Portal is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of The Lakes College Portal and The Lakes College Portal family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
The Lakes College Portal collects and uses your personal information to operate The Lakes College Portal website and deliver the services you have requested. The Lakes College Portal also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Lakes College Portal and its affiliates. The Lakes College Portal may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The Lakes College Portal does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Lakes College Portal may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The Lakes College Portal may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Lakes College Portal, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Lakes College Portal does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
The Lakes College Portal keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within The Lakes College Portal, in order to determine what The Lakes College Portal services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within The Lakes College Portal to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
The Lakes College Portal Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Lakes College Portal or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Lakes College Portal; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Lakes College Portal, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Lakes College Portal website use 'cookies' to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise The Lakes College Portal pages, or register with The Lakes College Portal site or services, a cookie helps The Lakes College Portal to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same The Lakes College Portal website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use The Lakes College Portal features that you customised.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of The Lakes College Portal services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
The Lakes College Portal secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. The Lakes College Portal secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
The Lakes College Portal will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Lakes College Portal encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Lakes College Portal is protecting your information.
Contact Information
The Lakes College Portal welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Lakes College Portal has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Lakes College at servicedesk@thelakes.qld.edu.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.