UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education respects the privacy of your personal information by adhering to privacy laws. This privacy statement outlines how UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education manages information collected through the use of its website. This information does not extend to external websites linked from the equity101 website.

Collection and use of information

Information is collected from users of equity101 in a number of ways:

(1)   Cookies

One way of collecting information is through cookies, which are small information files that many websites store on your hard disk. When you log on to your My101 from a particular computer for the first time, cookies containing your log on information will be saved to your hard disk. The server can then read your cookie file to confirm your identity for that site.

Cookies can only collect information that has been provided by the user, or information such as the IP address which the server already knows. UniSA will not use any electronic address captured by this means to send unsolicited commercial messages.

In the case of specific personal data, the University may only collect and use information for the purpose for which the person has expressly consented (unless otherwise required by law).

If you do not want information to be gathered on a cookie you please consult your Internet Service Provider who will advise you how to disable a cookie.

(2)   Email addresses

If you have provided us with your email address for inclusion in mailing lists, we may use your email address to send you the following types of email messages:

• Occasional updates about our services and events
• Email newsletters

These email messages are sent only when the recipient’s consent has been obtained. You may decline to receive email communication from us or request to unsubscribe from the email communication by emailing us using the email address provided with the above email messages. You will be asked to include the word "unsubscribe" in the subject field of the email to enable us to respond to your requests promptly.

We do not share your email address with other organisations for them to market their products or services to you. When we hire vendors to deliver emails to you on our behalf, they cannot use your email address for any other purpose.

Use of information

(1)   Website usage

UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education makes a record of your visit to the equity101 website site analysis software for the purpose of site maintenance and improvement.  The following information may be collected:

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

Any personal information collected through equity101 will be used for the following purposes:

• Website and system administration
• Communication
• Monitoring activity and trend statistics
• Research and development

If personal information we collect from you is used for any other purpose, you will be advised of this purpose when we request the personal information from you.  If you do not want your personal information to be used for this purpose, you are under no obligation to provide your consent for UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education to use it for that purpose.

(2)   Personal or financial information

A technically secure environment is in place when personal or financial information is collected to ensure that it cannot be accessed by other users or organisations.

UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education takes all reasonable steps to:

(a)   ensure that the personal information held by it is not subject to the loss, misuse of unauthorised access or alteration; and

(b)   To destroy or permanently de-identify personal information if it is no longer required.

No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except as provided for in this privacy statement or as required by law.  The personal information collected by UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education through equity101 will not be disclosed to a third party unless authorised by the user to do so, or as required by law.

A user of equity101 may request access to any personal information held by UniSA’s National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education about them.  Such information may be corrected by the user at any time.

For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, “personal information” is defined in accordance with the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 as “information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.”