This Privacy Policy applies to all the publicly accessible pages on the TransGrid website (www.transgrid.com.au). TransGrid does not have any responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of third party sites linked to the TransGrid website.
Information we collect
When you look at the pages on the TransGrid site, our computers automatically record information that identifies, for each page accessed:
- the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the machine which has accessed it; your top-level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.);
- the address of your server;
- the date and time of your visit to the site;
- the pages accessed and documents downloaded;
- the previous site visited; and
- the type of browser and operating system you have used.
How we use the information collected
The information collected during each visit is aggregated with similar logged information and published in reports in order for TransGrid to identify patterns of usage of the site. This will assist us in improving the website site.
TransGrid will not disclose or publish information that identifies individual machines, or potentially identifies sub-groupings of addresses, without consent or otherwise in accordance with the New South Wales Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988.
Exceptions
TransGrid will collect, use and disclose more extensive information than stated above in the following circumstances:
- unauthorised attempts to access files which are not published TransGrid pages;
- unauthorised tampering or interference with files published on the TransGrid site;
- unauthorised attempts to index the contents of the TransGrid site by other sites;
- attempts to intercept messages of other users of the TransGrid site;
- communications which are defamatory, abusive, vilify individuals or groups or which give rise to a suspicion that an offence is being committed; and
- attempts to otherwise compromise the security of the web server, breach the laws of the State of New South Wales or Commonwealth of Australia, or interfere with the enjoyment of the TransGrid site by other users.
TransGrid reserves the right to make disclosures to relevant authorities where the use of the TransGrid site raises a suspicion that an offence is being, or has been, committed.
In the event of an investigation, TransGrid will provide access to data to any law enforcement agency that may exercise a warrant to inspect our logs.