Privacy & Personal Information – Terms of Use

By agreeing to these Terms of Use and in consideration for being provided with informal access to the documents accessed through the DA Tracker or Property Enquiry webpages, or both, you:

• acknowledge that Council records and the information contained in Council records, which are accessed through the DA Tracker or Property Enquiry webpages may contain personal information, the disclosure and use of which by you could give rise to a breach by Council of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW);
• acknowledge that by permitting the inspection of a Council record or the information contained in a Council record through the DA Tracker or Property Enquiry webpages the Council does not expressly or impliedly consent to any further use or disclosure of personal information contained in the Council record;
• undertake to Council not to extract, reproduce, modify, aggregate, publish, communicate to the public, distribute, sell or use any personal information contained in the accessed records;
• undertake not to extract, reproduce, analyse or otherwise use or disclose, personal information contained in the accessed records, through any form of data scraping, screen scraping, web scraping, web harvesting, data mining or any other similar activity; and
• indemnify Council against all liabilities, losses, damages, claims, demands, actions, suits, judgments and any and all costs, expenses or disbursements suffered or incurred by, or made or brought against, the Council as a result of your breach of the above undertakings.

By making a submission on a development application, you acknowledge that you are likely to provide Council with personal information. That information is provided by you voluntarily.

That information is being collected for the purposes of contacting you in the course of consideration of the development application, to ensure completeness of our records in relation to the application and to ensure transparency in the development application process.

You can ask us to correct any errors or make amendments to personal information we have about you, subject to you providing Council with evidence verifying your identity.

Council will disclose any personal information provided in your submission on its DA Tracker to whomever may access the DA Tracker (including persons outside of New South Wales) for transparency. By making a submission you expressly consent to Council disclosing your personal information on the DA Tracker and using your personal information in connection with the processing, assessment and determination of the development application.

In consideration for being provided with access to the documents accessed through the DA Tracker or Property Enquiry webpage, or both, you:

• acknowledge that Council records and the information contained in Council records, which are accessed through the DA Tracker may be subject to copyright under the Copyright Act (1968) (Cth);
• acknowledge that it is unlawful, without the permission of the copyright owner, to reproduce, publish, or communicate to the public, a Council record or the information contained in a Council record in which copyright subsists;
• acknowledge that by permitting the inspection of a Council record or the information contained in a Council record through the DA Tracker the Council does not expressly or impliedly consent to any infringement of copyright;
• undertake to Council not to extract, reproduce, modify, aggregate, publish, or communicate to the public, distribute or sell the accessed records;
• undertake not to extract, reproduce, analyse or otherwise process any content in or relating to the accessed records, through any form of data scraping, screen scraping, web scraping, web harvesting, data mining or any other similar activity; and
• indemnify Council against all liabilities, losses, damages, claims, demands, actions, suits, judgments and any and all costs, expenses or disbursements suffered or incurred by, or made or brought against, the Council as a result of your breach of the above undertakings.