Privacy

In accordance with the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government World Wide Websites issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner, the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) provides the following privacy statements.

Security of your information

DVA seeks to comply with the Information Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (the Privacy Act) in the collection, storage, use and disclosure of personal information in its possession. The Privacy Act provides for specific rights and remedies of individuals in the event of a breach by the department of its duties under the act.

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

If you are seeking or providing information of a personal nature to the Right Mix website or to DVA and you are not using DVA Secure Web Services, DVA suggests that you use over-the-counter, postal, facsimile or telephone services. Contact details for these services can be found on the main DVA website at:

www.dva.gov.au/contacts/maincon.htm

Note: External sites that are linked to the Right Mix website are not under DVA's control and you are advised to review the respective privacy and security statements when visiting those sites.

Site visit data

The Provider contracted to host the Right Mix website records details of visits to the website and logs the following information for statistical purposes:

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

Neither the Provider nor DVA will make any attempt 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 internet service provider's logs.