Privacy Policy
The event organisers and City of Sydney take great care with practices that affect personal privacy and the policy relating to this follows.
Data Collected through the City of Sydney Business Awards program.
The event organisers, Business Events, and the City of Sydney are co-ordinating the City of Sydney Business Awards. In order to conduct the Awards program, personal and business information is collected through various means:
- Online nomination form on the website completed by businesses themselves, or their employees, which allows them to enter the Awards program
- Online booking form and ticket sales through the website for the Gala Awards Night
- Online voting form on the website completed by members of the general public
- SMS voting by the general public.
The event organizers do not sell personal information. Unless otherwise indicated on the online nomination form, the event organisers may disclose information collected on the form to partners of the City of Sydney Business Awards and the City of Sydney for future promotional and marketing purposes. We may also disclose information to third party contractors and service providers who assist in the delivery of the Awards program.
The event organizers hold the personal information collected in a secure database which is both physically and electronically secure. It is held in a professional hosting centre and protected behind firewalls and access to the data is only via authenticated web requests or via the user interface by an authenticated user. Should you wish to correct or change the information collected by the event organisers, please notify them of the change or correction by emailing . An email confirmation will be sent once the change or correction has been made.
Data that identifies the user can also be collected in the following circumstances:
Computer Information
It is a necessary part of visiting any web site, including the City of Sydney Business Awards site, that the user's web browser provides the machine's identity (its IP address) to the web server, so that the server can address the reply to the correct machine. In addition, the browser type and operating system are provided.
Navigation and ClickStream Data
Browsing any web site, including the City of Sydney’s Business Awards site, generates a trail of pages visited and the time apparently spent displaying each page.
Polls
No personal information is collected or retained when you vote in one of the City of Sydney Business Award polls. Only your vote is kept.
Cookies
We also manage some aspects of your connection to this web site using a facility called a cookie. This cookie identifies and recognises the computer (but not the person using the computer) when you visit some parts of City of Sydney Business Awards website.
Cookies are inert pieces of information that a web site can transfer to an individual's computer hard drive for record keeping. Cookies can not be shared with other web sites. Cookies can make using this site easier by storing information about your preferences.
The use of cookies is an industry standard and you will find that most major web sites 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 disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used.
Data Storage, Use and Disclosure, and Retention
All data described in the preceding section may be stored and archived for a period that is yet to be determined but is likely to be at least 12 months and quite probably seven years. Unless stated otherwise, the data is used by the event organisers and the City of Sydney and by staff involved in the website operation only for:
- Web site and system administration, including monitoring to prevent security breaches;
- customisation of the Web site to the user's needs; and
- evaluation, research and development.
Identified data can only be re-disclosed to the user if the user provides the unique request session number. Personally identified data may be disclosed to a third party only in circumstances in which such disclosure is legally authorised, such as in the investigation of a criminal offence, and in compliance with a search warrant or subpoena.
Users 16 and Under
If you are aged 16 or under, get your parent or guardian's permission before you provide personal information to the City of Sydney web site. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
Monitoring
If you believe that we have not followed the principles of this privacy statement, or would like to comment on these principles, please contact the event organsiers at: mail@sydneybusinessawards.com.au.
