HomeInsider.com.au is committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information. Our website complies with the Privacy Act 1988. We will not use your details for any other purpose, and will not disclose them to other persons or organisations without your consent or unless required or authorised to under the Privacy Act.
Information Collected
When you visit our website, we automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:
- The internet Protocol (IP) address and a component of the domain name used.
- The type of browser and operating system you use.
- The date and time you visited our website.
- The web pages you accessed at our website.
- The time spent on individual pages and on our website.
- The links which you clicked on.
We may also collect contact information, for example your email address. The reason for collecting this information will be outlined on the page. In that event your details will only be used for that intended purpose only and will not be added to any mailing list without your consent.
We do not collect information about you unless you wish to register for an account or you voluntarily participate in an activity that asks for information (i.e. sending an email, participating in a survey or completing a form).
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our website and services. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
Purpose for collecting this information and use of information
The information we automatically collect is used to improve the content of our website and to help understand how people are using our website. Information you provide in relation to surveys, forms or feedback is strictly used for the purpose you agreed to provide it for.
Our web logs are not personally identifiable and make no attempt to link them with the individuals that browse our website.
Survey information is used for the purpose designated. Where information is provided to another agency, a statement in accordance with the Information Privacy Principles 1 to 3 in the Privacy Act 1988 as to whom the information is supplied and for what purpose will be clearly identified on the appropriate page of the form.
Other privacy issues
Following are some other privacy issues that we consider relevant:
Cookies
We rely on the use of cookies. Cookies are simple text files stored on your computer by your web browser. The cookie records what banners or links have been clicked on. Cookies created on your computer by our website do not contain personally identifying information and do not compromise your privacy or security.