MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal website and governs data collection and usage. By using MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Please also note, MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal does not read any of your private online communications.

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal and MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal family of websites.

Use of your Personal Information

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal collects and uses your personal information to operate MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal website and deliver the services you have requested. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal and its affiliates. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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.

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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, MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal, in order to determine what MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal, or the public.

Use of Cookies

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal pages, or register with MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal site or services, a cookie helps MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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 MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø 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

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal is protecting your information.

Contact Information

MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø Portal has not adhered to this Statement, please contact MD´«Ã½¹ÙÍø at servicedesk@thelakes.qld.edu.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.