Website Collection Notice

Website collection notice

This Notice applies to the collection by Forensicare (Forensicare, we, us) of information about you when you visit its website at www.forensicare.vic.gov.au.

Collection of personal information

When you visit this website, Forensicare may collect personal information about you where you provide it, such as by submitting an online query, providing feedback, registering for an event or registering an interest in working with us. If you decide not to provide us with the personal information that we request about you, we may not be able to fully respond to your query or feedback and we may not be able to register your attendance at an event and you may not be able to browse and/or apply for any of our job vacancies directly through our website.

The types of personal information we collect may include your name, address, email address, contact number, date of birth and other personal or contact information included in your enquiry or feedback.

Use and disclosure

Forensicare will use and disclose your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and usually for the purposes for which you provided it or where the use or disclosure is required or permitted by law. Where you attend our events we may use your information to keep you informed of future events where we think these may be of interest to you.

Automatic collection of data via website

Forensicare collects statistics about the use of our website to help make the site more usable. We do this using software techniques such as cookies, web beacons and clickstream data, (each of which are described in more detail below). While this information is about or monitors users, Forensicare does not use them to identify individual users of the Forensicare website.

Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that the website uses to recognise repeated usage, facilitate better access to and use of the website. The use of cookies is standard and you will find that most websites use them. Most internet browsers are pre-set to accept cookies. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your internet browser to refuse cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, if you disable cookies, this may affect the functionality of our website for you.

Web beacons

A web beacon is an image used to monitor the behaviour of visitors to Forensicare’s website. The Forensicare website uses web beacons to collect clickstream data.

Clickstream data

Clickstream data refers to visitor logs and statistics that provide useful information about users’ online experience without identifying individuals. Typical clickstream data collected includes:

• A visitor’s computer address (i.e. Internet Protocol (IP) address) and relevant domains
• Times and dates of site visits
• Pages accessed (including most visited and least visited) and files downloaded
• Browsers and operating systems used by visitors

Forensicare website uses clickstream data purely for statistical purposes (such as the most popular searches and the times).

Application of our Privacy Policy

For further information about how Forensicare handles the personal information it collects about you from our website, please read our privacy policy, which explains in more detail how we handle your personal information, how you can seek access to, or correction of, your personal information, how you can make a complaint and how we will deal with such a complaint. Click here to view Forensicare’s privacy policy.

More information

For queries relating to health information:

Health Information Manager
Forensicare
Locked Bag 10
Fairfield VIC 3078
Email: health.information@forensicare.vic.gov.au
Telephone: (03) 9495 9100