The CANRI program coordinators respect your privacy as a user of the CANRI website. This notice explains what information about you is collected when you visit the CANRI website, how we use that information and what we will not do with your information.

Web server logs

Like virtually all servers on the Internet, our web server logs page requests to the CANRI website and CANRI applications. None of the details we log can be used to identify an individual. For each page request, the server records these standard usage details:

• Date and time the request was made
• Hostname of the requesting machine (eg “canri.nsw.gov.au” or “server23.bigpond.com”)
• Name and size of the file requested from our site
• The brand and version of your web browser and operating system (eg “MSIE 5.01; Windows 95”)
• Status of request (whether an error occurred)
• The referring website and page (the web page from which you hyperlinked to the current page)

If you typed in a username and password to access a restricted area of the site, then the username you entered is logged (but not the password).

Any parameters you enter by typing or clicking on an interactive web page are also logged. For example, the server logs terms used in search forms, and the area and data layers displayed in maps.

These details are summarised in standard statistical reports of site usage. We will also produce more detailed reports to help us track usage of CANRI applications, for example to summarise the area, scale and data selections requested in CANRI maps. These reports do not identify individual users, but present summary counts, percentages and so on. We use this information to understand how the CANRI site is being used, in order to improve the quality of the service we provide.

CANRI email lists

When you subscribe to a CANRI email list, you supply your name, organisation and email address.

In respect of email subscriber information –

We will:

• store it securely on the CANRI mail server and the CANRI coordination database
• use your email address to deliver messages posted to the list you have subscribed to
• produce summary statistics which help us understand CANRI’s audience and better manage the CANRI program

We may:

• use it to communicate with you or your organisation about CANRI, by other means than the email list. For example if we want to contact a particular organisation about CANRI, we may search the subscribers’ list for a member of that organisation to contact.
• publish the total number of subscribers to a list

We will not:

• Publish or reveal the personal details you have supplied to any third party, nor to staff of CANRI agencies who are not directly involved in CANRI administration
• use the details supplied for any purpose unrelated to the CANRI program

Cookies

Some CANRI applications use cookies to maintain the link between the user’s web browser and the application server during a user session (as per the Java Servlet specification). These cookies do not contain any personally identifying information.

Removing your information from our database

If you do not wish to receive email messages about CANRI, please use the Feedback/Register form to leave the list you were subscribed to. This will ensure your information is deleted from the mailing server and from the CANRI coordination database. If you encounter difficulty in removing your name from our lists, please email canri@canri.nsw.gov.au for assistance.

Copyright

The CANRI website presents static information pages which are held on the CANRI server, as well as application pages which are sourced from other servers and which provide information from NSW Government agencies and other organisations.

Static CANRI information

Copyright in the static information pages held on the CANRI website is, subject to the operation of the Copyright Act 1968, vested in the Crown in the right of the State of New South Wales. The material appearing on these pages may be reproduced in whole or part, provided the meaning is unchanged and its source is acknowledged.

The correct method of citing a CANRI static web page is: NSW Government Community Access to Natural Resources Information Program (current date in day month year). CANRI website. Internet address of web page.

CANRI applications

Copyright in the materials presented on CANRI application pages is vested in the author of those materials.

The author or custodian of information presented on CANRI application pages appears in the custodian’s metadata record, which is normally linked (usually from the dataset title) on each page where data is presented. For further information about use of a dataset, contact the data custodian using the details provided in the metadata record.

Where the author of a CANRI application is a NSW Government agency, and unless otherwise stated on the application pages, the materials which appear there may be reproduced in whole or part, provided the meaning is unchanged and the source is acknowledged.

The correct method of citing a NSW Government CANRI application website is: Managing agency (current date in day month year).
Name of application. Internet address of application home page.

For example: Environment Protection Authority NSW (3 March 2001). SoEdirect. http://soedirect.nsw.gov.au

The NSW Government cannot and does not grant any permission or authority in respect of the copyright in materials appearing on the CANRI site which are sourced from an organisation other than a NSW Government agency. You are strongly recommended to refer to the copyright statements of the organisation in question before making use of those materials.

If you are unsure of the copyright provisions described above, you should contact the CANRI coordination team by email at canri@canri.nsw.gov.au for clarification, before using material from a CANRI site for commercial purposes.

Disclaimer

The CANRI Program is intended to enhance the public availability, dissemination, exchange and integration of natural resources information. To that end, the CANRI website has been established as an entry point to enable you to quickly and easily access information on the Internet relevant to natural resource management in New South Wales.

The CANRI website provides access to a broad framework of applications, catalogues, operators/models and data repositories. These components are distributed over the Internet and are owned and managed by a number of government agencies, other organisations and individuals. The information presented on CANRI websites is provided and maintained by these various custodian agencies and organisations to their own standards.

The CANRI Program Board and the NSW Government cannot warrant and do not represent that the information on the CANRI website or the CANRI applications is complete, current, reliable and/or free from error. Neither body can accept responsibility or liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense you might incur as a result of the use of, or reliance upon, the materials which appear on CANRI sites.

The information you obtain from using CANRI sites will depend upon the search topic and method that you use and the information that is being provided by the data custodians. The CANRI framework and its applications are not intended to be, and should not be relied upon as, the ultimate and complete source of information on any particular topic.

To understand the quality and intended use of a dataset presented on a CANRI website, view the data custodian’s metadata record, which is normally linked (usually from the dataset title) on each page where the data is presented. For further information about a dataset, contact the data custodian using the details provided in the metadata record.