The Town of Gawler is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement outlines how personal information collected through this website is handled.
This site is owned and operated by Town of Gawler using software licensed from Social Pinpoint. For details on how the Town of Gawler collects and protects your personal information, refer to their Privacy Policy below. For details of how Social Pinpoint may access personal information, please refer to Social Pinpoint’s Privacy Policy.
What information do we collect?
When you create an account or participate on the Your Voice Gawler website, we may collect personal information that you choose to provide. This can include your email address and basic demographic details such as age or gender, which may be supplied during registration or when you take part in activities like surveys, forums or feedback forms.
You are welcome to view any publicly available areas of the site without registering or providing personal details.
We also gather information based on how you interact with the website. This may include your survey responses, comments, submissions and other contributions made through engagement activities.
In addition, Your Voice Gawler collects certain information automatically for website analytics and system management purposes, including:
- Your IP or server address
- Date and time of your visit
- Pages viewed and time spent on each page
- Navigation path through the website
- Operating system and browser type
- Files downloaded, such as documents, images or videos
- Approximate geographic location
- Browser language and internet service provider
Where this information could reasonably identify you, Council will not attempt to do so unless required to investigate unlawful activity or a breach of regulations.
How do we use your information?
The information we collect is used to:
- Manage and administer the Your Voice Gawler website and user accounts
- Enable participation in engagement activities
- Communicate with you about consultations, projects, events and initiatives
- Respond to enquiries or feedback you submit
- Identify you when you log in to your account
- Send updates or newsletters where you have consented, or where required for site administration
- Attribute comments or submissions you make on the site
- Analyse website usage to improve functionality and user experience
- Support Council decision-making and policy development
- Understand whether engagement activities are reaching a broad and diverse range of community members
- Fulfil any additional purposes explained at the time your information is collected
Any content you choose to post publicly on the site may be visible to other users and visitors.
Please note that submissions received by Council are generally not confidential and may be subject to release in accordance with applicable freedom of information legislation. If you wish your submission to be treated as confidential, you should clearly indicate this at the time of submission. By participating on Your Voice Gawler, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.
Requesting access or correcting your personal information
If you would like to request access to, update, or remove any personal information you have provided to the Town of Gawler, please contact Council by emailing YourVoice@gawler.sa.gv.au
Links
This website privacy statement does not apply to other websites we may link to. We recommend you read the privacy statement when you access another site.
