This web site is maintained and administered by the Western Australian Tourism Commission (WATC) trading as Tourism Western Australia. This privacy policy sets out the manner in which WATC will deal with information submitted to it through this web site by members of the public. WATC's privacy policy is based on, and is consistent with, the National Principles of the Fair Handling of Personal Information, published by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. The National Principles may be viewed on the Australian Privacy Commissioner's web site at www.privacy.gov.au.

When you visit this web site, a record of your visit is kept for statistical and research purposes. Similar records may be kept when you use any of the interactive features found in this web site.

The information kept for these purposes is:

• your server address
• your top level domain name (e.g. .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc.)
• the date and time you visited this site
• the pages of this site you accessed, and the documents you downloaded
• the previous site you visited
• the type of web browser you used

We will not attempt to use this information to identify you or your browsing activities under normal circumstances. However, this information may be used for those purposes in the unlikely event that a law enforcement agency or other party obtains and exercises a warrant, subpoena, or similar order to obtain access to our service provider's logs.

If you decide to register as a user of this web site, you will be asked to submit various items of personal and other information. This information will be stored so that we may use it for providing access to the site.

The information you provide will not be released to any third party not directly involved in the administration of VCite without your consent, unless WATC is compelled to do so by law.

The daily operation of VCite is managed by the Western Australian Visitor Centres Association on behalf of WATC.

Any person or organisation, whether or not a registered user of this web site, who believes that we have gathered and stored personal information relating to them, whether through this web site or otherwise, may contact us and request to view that information. They may also request the alteration of that information or its removal from our records. Any such request should be directed to the VCite helpdesk, which can be reached using the information on our contact information page.