The Department of Culture and the Arts logs visits to DCA’s websites and records the following information for statistical purposes:
- The user's server address
- The user's top level domain name (eg. .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.)
- The date and time of the visit to the site
- The pages accessed and documents downloaded
- The object size
- The transaction type
- The number of milliseconds that the transfer required
- The previous site visited
- The type of browser used
- Browser capabilities
- Connection speed
- Operating system.
No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect DCA’s logs.
When a user moves to another site, they leave DCA’s websites and are no longer protected by these privacy conditions.