Disclaimer, copyright and privacy information

Disclaimer

The NSW Government is committed to enhancing the public availability, dissemination and exchange of information. To this end, this website has been established by the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (also known as "the Department") so as to enable you to quickly and easily access information in relation to New South Wales (NSW) planning information and services on the internet.

The information provided on the iPlan site is provided on the basis that all persons accessing the site undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance, completeness and accuracy of its content. The Department cannot warrant and does not represent that the material which appears on the iPlan site or any linked sites is complete, current, reliable and/or free from error. The Department also cannot accept any 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 at this or any linked sites.

The Department takes no responsibility for the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of any maps, zoning information, or other information included in data provided by third parties, nor for the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of links to third party information sources (including Internet sites), for the purpose of, but not limited to developing land or buying land. A section 149 certificate obtained from your local council will contain zoning information and can identify land contamination and other matters the council considers relevant. (See a list of third parties providing geospatial data.)

The iPlan site is not intended to be, and should not be relied upon as, the ultimate and complete source of information on any particular topic.

Links have been provided on this site in line with the Department's desire to promote a free exchange of information. The Department does not necessarily endorse or support the views, opinions, standards or information that appear at the linked sites or in material authored by third parties and published on this site. You should be aware that the providers of linked sites will often have their own protocols and standards in relation to their sites and the information which appears on them. We urge you to familiarise yourself with any such protocols and standards. Similarly, you should also not interpret the absence of a link from the iPlan site to any other site as a criticism or comment by the Department on the provider of content of that other site. Links to information external to iPlan are identified by the following symbols:

•     Link to third party file
•   Link to third party dataset
•   Link to a third party site

You should bear in mind that some of the material that appears on the linked sites and on iPlan's site may possibly cause offence or upset to some people. The Department regrets, but cannot take responsibility for, any such offence or upset caused.

In the event that you are offended or upset by the material which appears on iPlan's site and/or any linked site, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with the Australian Broadcasting Authority ("ABA") who will then investigate the complaint an take such action as it thinks fit. If you would like to know more about the ABA's role in regulating Australian Internet content, you can visit its website at http://www.aba.gov.au

Copyright

Copyright subsists in the material on and accessible from this website.

Where the author of the material is a NSW Government agency, copyright in that material is held by the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales.

Unless otherwise stated, that material may be reproduced in whole or part for personal, in-house or non commercial purposes without charge or further permission, provided that the meaning is unchanged, disclaimers and the source of the material is acknowledged. Copyright in any such reproduced material shall remain reserved to the Crown.

If you wish to reproduce, alter, store or transmit Crown copyrighted material from this website for any other purpose, the please contact the Department via the appropriate section of this website.

Copyright in the materials appearing on the Internet sites which are linked to the iPlan subsists in the author of those materials or their copyright assignees. The Department cannot and does not give any permission in respect of the copyright in the materials appearing at third party Internet sites. You are strongly recommended to refer to the copyright statements at those sites and contact the site owners before making use of those materials.

Privacy Statement

This web site is provided and maintained by the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (also known as "the Department"). This privacy statement sets out the Department's practices relating to the privacy of your personal information. The Department's privacy practices are regulated by the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988 (NSW). Please note that the Department does not have any responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of third party sites linked to the iPlan site.

Under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988, you have the right to know the nature of the information that the Department collects about individuals who use its web site, for what purpose the information is being collected, and how the information is to be used. You may also request access to your personal information collected by the Department.

Email Management

By emailing the iPlan website, or submitting information via a form on the iPlan website, you consent to the use of the submitted information for the purposes for which this website was established, or other related purposes. Any information submitted to the site, if used, will be used anonymously. The Department, we will only retain and use your e-mail address for the purpose for which you have provided it. It will not be added to a mailing list without your consent.

Site Visit Data

To help the Department improve its website and provide better services to its users, the Department makes a record of your visit and logs the following information:

• the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the machine which has accessed it;
• your top-level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.);
• the date and time of your visit to the site;
• the pages visited.

Cookies are not used on the iPlan site to collect and store information.

Exceptions to the Rule

The Department will not collect, use and disclose more extensive information than stated above except in the following circumstances:

• unauthorised attempts to access files that are not published on the iPlan's pages
• unauthorised tampering or interference with files published on the iPlan site
• unauthorised attempts to index the contents of the iPlan site by other sites
• attempts to intercept messages or other users of the iPlan site
• communications which are defamatory, abusive, vilify individuals or groups or which give rise to a suspicion that an offence is being committed
• attempts to otherwise compromise the security of the web server, breach the laws of the State of New South Wales or Commonwealth of Australia, or interfere with the enjoyment of the iPlan site by other users
• any other circumstances permitted under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988

Contact the Department

If you have any questions about this disclaimer, copyright or privacy policy, please Contact us.