This web site is provided and maintained by the Department of Planning. This privacy statement sets out the Department's practices relating to the privacy of your personal information. The Department of Planning's privacy practices are regulated by the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988 (NSW). Please note that the Department does not have any responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of third party sites linked to the Department of Planning

Under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988, you have the right to know the nature of the information that the Department collects about individuals who use its web site, for what purpose the information is being collected, and how the information is to be used. You may also request access to your personal information collected by the Department.

Email management
If you email the Department, we will only retain and use your e-mail address for the purpose for which you have provided it. It will not be added to a mailing list without your consent.

Site Visit Data
To help the Department improve its website and provide better services to its users, the Department's service provider, S-Central, makes a record of your visit and logs the following information:

• the user's service address
• the users 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;

Cookies are not used from the Department of Planning's site to collect information.