"The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government is a unique collaboration of universities and professional bodies committed to the advancement of local government. The Centre's vision is: World-class local government to meet the emerging challenges of 21st century Australia"

The purpose of the ACELG Privacy Statement is to let visitors to the ACELG website know what information is collected about them when they visit, how the information is used, and whether or not it is disclosed.

When you visit the ACELG website, ACELG makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes:

• your server address
• your top-level domain name (for example, .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc.)
• the date and time of your visit
• the pages you accessed and documents downloaded
• the previous site you visited, and
• the type of browser you used.

No attempt is made to identify individual visitors or their browsing activities, except in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the organisation's logs.

Some sites on the World Wide Web use 'cookies' to track visitors' access to the site. ACELG does not use cookies to gather personal information about visitors, except when they are used within a specific web-based application for session-management purposes.

Your email address is only recorded by ACELG when you send the organisation a message, and it will only be used for the purpose for which you provided it. ACELG will not use your email address for any other purpose, and will not disclose it or add it to a mailing list without your consent.

Some parts of the ACELG website provide electronic forms that allow you to request particular information from the organisation. Personal information is only requested in order for ACELG to respond to your inquiry.

ACELG does not collect or solicit any personal information via the ACELG website which might be unlawful, unnecessary or unrelated to the functions or activities of the organisation, or unfair or unreasonably intrusive.

ACELG will only publish personal information on the ACELG website if it has been collected for this purpose with your knowledge, or if you have consented to the disclosure. When giving such consent you should be aware that information published on the ACELG website is accessible to millions of users world-wide, that it will be indexed by search engines, and that it may be copied and used by any web user. This means that once information is published on the ACELG website, ACELG has no control over its subsequent use and disclosure.