Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of the Office of the Public Advocate, Victoria. Protecting your privacy and your personal information is an important aspect of the way we create, organise and implement our activities on-line and off-line.
Our privacy policy supports and endorses the state and national privacy regimes.

We will only collect personal information from you with your prior knowledge and consent. You can access our web site home page and browse our site without disclosing personal information. This site does not use cookies. (A cookie is a block of data that is shared between a web server and a user's browser. Cookies give the server information about a user's identity, preferences or past behaviour.)

We will only use personal information provided by you for the purposes for which it was collected. We will not disclose your personal information to a third party. We ensure that your personal information will not be disclosed to other state institutions and authorities except if this is required by law or other regulation.

We are implementing technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from: unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. We will remove personal information from our system where it is no longer needed, (except where archiving is required).

Please note:
This privacy policy does not extend beyond this web site. When linking to other sites from this web site, we recommend that you read the privacy statement of that site to familiarise yourself with its privacy principles.