Privacy Policy

Brisbane Boys’ College is committed to providing security and protection of personal information to our staff and students. For this matter it is important to monitor our web site for people requesting information or browsing our web.

We at BBC respect the rights of the public and their privacy and we have developed a Privacy Policy to inform you about our privacy practices. What information we collect if you are browsing our web site If you visit our site to read or download information, the following is recorded on our server:

• Your server's address.
  
• The name of the top level domain from which you access the Internet (for example, .gov, .com, .edu, .org, .au, .nz etc).
  
• The type of browser you use.
  
• The date and time you access our site.
  
• The pages you have accessed and the documents downloaded.
  
• Your email address
  
• The Internet address to which you link directly from our site.

We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. Under no circumstances do we collect any personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, or sex life. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the Internet Service Provider's logs.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

We have enabled our web with SSL to verify people browsing our web pages. A digital certificate will be issued by the browser to identify the person and the site he/she is connecting from.

A customer connecting to a secure website is assured of:

• Authentication: The website is owned by the company that installed the certificate.
  
• Message privacy: Using a unique “session key”, SSL encrypts all information exchanged between your web server and your customers, such as credit card numbers and other personal data. This ensures that personal information cannot be viewed if unauthorized parties intercept it.
  
• Message integrity: The data cannot be tampered with over the Internet.

Email

Your e-mail address will only be recorded if you choose to send us a message or fill a web form. It will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and will not be added to a mailing list. We will not use your e-mail address for any other purpose, and will not disclose it.

Please Note: The Brisbane Boys' College recognises the insecure nature of e-mail and while every effort to maintain your confidentiality will be taken, the College is unable to guarantee the privacy of information transmitted via this system.

Cookie

A cookie is a piece of information or small file that an Internet site sends to your browser when you access information at that site. The web site uses a "cookie" for maintaining contact with you while you are browsing a website.

The cookie allows this web site to recognise you as an individual as you move from one page to another. However, currently we do not gather any of this information.

At the end of your session, you may leave this site to go to another web site, or you may close your browser. When you do this the cookie is immediately deleted. If you do not finish or close your session (i.e. stay logged on), the web site will automatically log you off after 20 minutes. The cookie stored within your browser will expire when you close your web browser.

Please note that some browsers can be configured to allow cookies to be accessed by servers other than the originating server. Even if you choose to receive this type of cookie, you can always set your browser to notify you when you receive any cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it in each situation in which one is sent.

You should be aware that cookies contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to “invade” your hard drive and return to the sender with personal or other information from your computer.

Copyright

In Australia, copyright law is contained in the Copyright Act-1968 and court decisions. Brisbane Boys’ College does not authorise copyright material to be reproduced without permission of the copyright owner. This includes printing material, saving to disk, copying files and downloading from the Internet. Downloading material from the Internet may infringe copyright, and should not be assumed that it is freely available.

Students or staff DO NOT have permission to copy software to or from any equipment owned by Brisbane Boys’ College, including staff laptops.

Failure to comply with the Copyright Act 1968 is a criminal offence. Further information about copyright in Australia can be found from the Australian Copyright Council.

For any enquiries please call:

Afzal Shariff
Director of IT Services