Cairns Regional Council collects personal information from you, including information about your name, email address, address, telephone number, commentary or opinion. We collect this information to carry out our statutory and legal responsibilities and to deliver our services. We will only use your information for this purpose. It will otherwise not be used or disclosed unless authorised or required by law. Your personal information will be handled in accordance with the Information Privacy Act When you use our websites or apps, we collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.
While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. We will only do this:. You agree that any personal data entered by you using the website or apps must be true, accurate and complete. You must not enter any data that:. You are able to access information held by Council about you under the Right to Information Act. If you have questions or concerns regarding Council's treatment of your information please contact our Customer Service Centre on 69 22 47 or email council cairns.
Please note that some records eg, land records etc are open to public inspection under current legislation. When you visit Council's website, our web measurement tool and internet service providers automatically record anonymous information on website activity for statistical purposes only, including the number of users who visit the web site, the date and time of the visits, the number of pages viewed, the type of browser and operating system used, and navigation patterns.
This information on its own does not identify an individual but it does provide us with statistics that we can use to analyse and improve our website. We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service or when you access the service by or through a mobile device "usage data". This usage data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the service by or through a mobile device, this usage data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information.
