Royal Adelaide Hospital Web Site Privacy Statement

This statement sets out Royal Adelaide Hospital's policies relating to the privacy of your personal information.

Royal Adelaide Hospital is operated in compliance with the South Australian Government's Information Privacy Principles, a copy of which can be obtained at: http://www.archives.sa.gov.au/privacy/principles.html.

The Royal Adelaide Hospital web site collects the following information from users:

1. A record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes - the user's IP address, the date and time of the visit to the site, the pages accessed and documents downloaded, the previous site visited and the type of browser used. 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 our service provider's logs. This information is analysed at the end of each month to determine the site's usage statistics.
   
   
2. Royal Adelaide Hospital retains the e-mail address of people who send E-mails through the Free Email Service for Media Releases. They are stored in a secure area within the Government's Message Services System and will not be used for any other purpose nor disclosed without your consent.
   
   
3. People who submit web sites for registration on Royal Adelaide Hospital, are asked to supply the following information:
   • Name
   • Agency
   • Phone number
   • e-mail address
     

This information is used to establish ownership of the material and enables the Royal Adelaide Hospital team to contact website administrators/content owners, to confirm (or not) the site registration and advise them of the location and category within Royal Adelaide Hospital where their website link has been placed. The information is then kept for contact purposes in the course of monitoring site currency. The information is stored in a secure area of the Royal Adelaide Hospital system.

No personal details are provided to any other individual or organisation, and access to this information is restricted to staff of Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Please note that Royal Adelaide Hospital contains links to a large number of other web sites that are included on the basis of containing content related to South Australian business, community or government. When a user has clicked on a link to another site, they leave the Royal Adelaide Hospital site and are no longer protected by the Royal Adelaide Hospital Privacy conditions.

This privacy statement is periodically reviewed in line with the ongoing development of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Website.