Privacy Statement
NIF acts in accordance to the Privacy Policies and Procedures of the University of Queensland.
The University of Queensland complies with Australian and Queensland privacy laws and guidelines. The University of Queensland treats information collected by it as confidential. Information supplied by you will only be used for the administrative or educational purposes of the University or in accordance with a specific consent given by you.
The University of Queensland will not make available to a third party any personal information supplied by you unless required or permitted by law. This may also occur where you have consented to the disclosure. The University may distribute aggregated statistical information for statutory reporting purposes but only in a form that will not identify any person individually.
You may read more about the University of Queensland’s Privacy Management here.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Cookies
As is common practice, this site uses cookies. Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your device to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser ‘Help’ for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.
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Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a consistent experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies and Embedded Content
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time, we may test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site and ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
We use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites may set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. If you are still looking for more information about how Cookies are collected and used, please contact us.
Who we share your data with
We do not collect or share personal information with any third parties. Aggregated statistics about the usage of the NIF website may be used for reporting or shaping strategy.