Disclaimer

While we make every effort to ensure that material on this site is accurate and up to date (unless denoted as archived material), such material does in no way constitute the provision of professional advice. The Commonwealth does not guarantee, and accepts no legal liability whatsoever arising from or connected to, the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of any material contained on this website or any linked site. Users should seek appropriate independent professional advice prior to relying on, or entering into any commitment based on material published here, which material is purely published for reference purposes alone.

All financial information is unaudited unless otherwise specified.

By entering the site, you will be deemed to have released and discharged the Commonwealth of Australia, represented by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, from all liability in respect of any loss suffered as a result of relying on the information on this site, including liability in respect of any defamatory material on any database or in respect of any dealings with any work (including software) in which you hold any copyright or other intellectual property right.

By entering the site, you will be assuming all risks associated with the use of this site, including risks to your computer, software or data by any virus which might be transmitted, downloaded or activated via this or an external website and/or its contents.

Material, summarised views, standards or recommendations of third parties, which may also be included on this site, do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department or indicate a commitment to a particular course of action.

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has no direct control over the content of any linked websites, or the changes that may occur to the content on those websites. Links to external websites are provided in good faith, but it is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external websites.  Links to external websites do not constitute an endorsement or a recommendation of any material on those websites or of any third party products or services offered by, from or through those websites. Users of links provided by this website are responsible for being aware of which organisation is hosting the website they visit.

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has no direct control over the events promoted on this website as part of National Science Week and takes no responsibility for the quality of the events, or for the cancellation of events due to unforseen circumstances.

The Commonwealth of Australia, represented by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, hereby excludes all liability to the extent permissible by law.

We welcome links to this site, which should generally be to the site's homepage. However, we do not permit the display of pages from this site within frames on another site.

Privacy Policy

This notice applies to the National Science Week Website

The Department of Innovation, Industry Science and Research has a firm commitment to privacy. All officers of the Department are subject to the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988. More information can be found on the Federal Privacy Commissioner's website. 

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research is bound by the Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) under the Privacy Act 1988 with respect to collection, use and disclosure of personal information. The Department also follows the Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government Websites. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has also issued Guidelines to the Information Privacy Principles.

Clickstream data

Clickstreams are the paths a user takes when navigating a web site and the internet in general. When you visit one of our sites, our servers may record the following information for statistical purposes:

• the user's server (IP) address and machine name;
• the date and time of visit to the site;
• the pages accessed and documents downloaded;
• the number of bytes transmitted and received for each request;
• the previous site or page visited;
• search terms used; and
• the type of browser used.

The Department examines this information to determine the traffic through the server and to specific pages or applications. In order to deliver better services, we also perform statistical analysis to establish priorities and allocate resources.

No attempt will be made 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 server logs.

The statistics and log files may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to ensure the integrity of the information supplied by the Department.

Cookies

A cookie is a short piece of data which is sent from a web server to a web browser on the user's machine when the browser visits the server's site. The cookie is stored on the user's machine, but it is not an executable program and cannot do anything to your machine.

Whenever a web browser requests a file from the same web server that sent the cookie, the browser sends a copy of that cookie back to the server along with the request. In this way, the server knows you have visited before and can co-ordinate your access to different pages on its web site. A server cannot find out a name or E-mail address, or anything about a user's computer, by using cookies.

We use cookies to obtain session details for access to parts of our sites. Cookies are essential in providing a seamless access to some on-line databases. Cookie information is not stored or collected by the Department.

E-mail addresses

We will only record your E-mail address with your agreement or supply it when participating in a discussion forum, in which case it will be visible to other users of that forum.

Your E-mail address will only be used by the Department for the purpose for which you have provided it and will not be added to a mailing list unless you have agreed to this, nor will we disclose it except as described in the previous paragraph.

Security

Once the Department receives information from you via E-mail or any other means, the information is in a secure environment. Your personal information will not be released unless the law permits it or your permission is granted.

You need to be aware of inherent risks associated with the transmission of information via the Internet.

If you have concerns in this regard, the Department has other ways of obtaining and providing information.  Normal mail, telephone and fax facilities are available.

Links to External Websites

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research's website contains links to other websites. The Department is not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other websites. The Department encourages you to examine each website's privacy policy.

Contact Us

If you have any privacy concerns with the Innovation, Industry, Science and Research's website please contact the Privacy Officer.

Privacy Contact Officer
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Legal and Procurement Branch
GPO Box 9839
Canberra  ACT  2601

Telephone: +61 2 6213 7742
Fax: +61 2 6213 7367