The Trapeze website is maintained by The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. This Privacy Policy applies to all the publicly accessible pages on the Trapeze site located at www.trapeze.org.au. Trapeze does not have any responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of third party sites linked to the Trapeze site.
Users of the Trapeze site are entitled to expect that any information as a result of that use will be treated within the terms of the New South Wales government's privacy responsibilities and obligations. The New South Wales government's privacy practices are regulated by the New South Wales Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988.
When you look at the pages on the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network 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, .edu, .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.
Only sessional cookies are used from the Trapeze site to collect information. This information is unable to be retained once the user session has ceased.
The information collected during each visit is aggregated with similar logged information and published in reports in order for Trapeze to identify patterns of usage of the site. This will assist us in improving the Trapeze site and the services it offers.
Trapeze 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.
Trapeze will collect, use and disclose more extensive information than stated above in the following circumstances:
- unauthorised attempts to access files which are not published Trapeze pages;
- unauthorised tampering or interference with files published on the Trapeze site;
- unauthorised attempts to index the contents of the Trapeze site by other sites;
- attempts to intercept messages of other users of the Trapeze 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 Trapeze site by other users.
Trapeze reserves the right to make disclosures to relevant authorities where the use of the Trapeze site raises a suspicion that an offence is being, or has been, committed. In the event of an investigation, Trapeze will provide access to data to any law enforcement agency that may exercise a warrant to inspect our logs.
Information collected is stored in an appropriately secure format and held by Trapeze for archival purposes. When the information is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected it is deleted.
Trapeze provides a facility on the site to allow users to provide input into the future development of the site and to comment on the provision of service by Trapeze.The provision of personal details on feedback is optional. Users may provide personal details for the purpose of receiving a reply to their feedback. This information will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided.
Users can subscribe to the Trapeze newsletter. This is optional. This information will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided.
Trapeze may publish aggregated information about feedback on the site, to the extent that it does not identify or cannot be used to identify individual users.
Due to the developing nature of privacy principles for online communication, this policy may be modified or expanded in light of new developments or issues that may arise from time to time. The amended policy will be posted to this site and will operate from the time it is posted.