QTIC - Queensland Tourism Industry Council

Security of Information

You should be aware that there are inherent risks associated with the transmission of information via the Internet.

Our internal network and databases are protected from unauthorised access using firewall and other technologies. To improve security of personal information, some electronic forms that collect this information have been secured under the HTTPS protocol (Hypertext Transport Protocol Secure), a standard Web communications protocol that encrypts and decrypts a message for online transmission.

The Data We Collect - E-mails and Electronic Forms

Where you choose to send us a completed electronic form that includes your personal details, we do collect personally identifiable information, such as name, address and email address.

The information collected by email or electronic forms will be used only for the purpose for which you provided it and we will not disclose it without your consent, except where authorised or required by law.

Where you provide us information to request a printed copy of a publication, you are implicitly providing us with approval to distribute the information to our third party mailing house where necessary to fulfil your request.

We may also use the information from your order form to measure trends in publications ordering activity which assists us to produce better and timelier information for users. The details of the information you order electronically may be used as part of this overall measurement, however it is in no other way attached to your personal details.

Publishing Personal Information

We will only publish personal information on this site if it has been collected for this purpose with your knowledge or if you have consented to the disclosure. When giving such consent you should be aware that information published on this site is potentially accessible to millions of users from all over the world, that it will be indexed by search engines and that it may be copied and used by any web user. This means that, once the information is published on this site, we will have no control over its subsequent use and disclosure.

External links

This site contains links to other sites. The Queensland Tourism Industry Council is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Linked sites are provided as resources for you to explore and validate the content within this website. When you move from the QTIC website to another site, no information about you is passed on to the subsequent website you're visiting.

Public discussion forums

This site makes use of discussion forums for use by our subscribers. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information (to other subscribers) and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Public in this context means that other subscribers with the same level of access can view your comments.

The Data We Collect - Browsing (Clickstream data)

When you look at this web site, our server makes a record of your visit and logs the following information:

• the user's server address;
• the user's top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc);
• the date and time of visit to the site;
• the pages accessed and documents viewed;
• the previous site visited; and
• the type of browser used.

The data listed above is collected for the following purposes:

• web site and system administration, including monitoring to prevent security breaches;
• enhancement of the web site to the user's needs; and
• research and development.

No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities, except in the unlikely event that a law enforcement (or other government) agency exercises a legal authority to inspect ISP logs (eg, by warrant, subpoena, or notice to produce).

Cookies

This website uses session cookies only. Session cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active session, in other words, while you are logged in to our site. They do not permanently record data and are not stored on your computer's hard drive. Session cookies do not give the web site access to anything else on your system, including any private information about you. A session cookie will not damage your computer, divulge private information or compromise your security. Also, only the web site that placed the cookie can retrieve it.

You can set your browser to detect and reject cookies. This website requires your browser's privacy settings to "always allow session cookies". No personal information is stored within these cookies.