Manufacturing Industry Skills Council (ABN 88 006 4411 685) is a registered public company trading as Manufacturing Skills Australia (MSA).

MSA offers a variety of services to industry and government as well as training organisations and regulatory authorities. MSA is a leading industry advisory body and is committed to the promotion of the highest standards of compliance in all regulatory matters affecting our members and industry in Australia. The National Privacy Principles have been incorporated into this privacy policy.

When you access this site and submit any Visitor Data to us, your submission is an acknowledgment of, and agreement with, the terms of this statement.

What is Visitor Data
Visitor Data refers to the information we hold and collect about people who interact with our website. Visitor Data includes information about the individual and the organisation they represent, such as:

• the name and title of the individual
• organisation's legal name, business or trading names
• an email address
• the telephone, facsimile, postal and street addresses of the organisation or individual
• information disclosed in any enquiry or message submitted by the individual including the subject matter of the enquiry or message

Use of Visitor Data
Any Visitor Data collected by MSA from this site will only be used as necessary for the business to be transacted between us and for the purposes of providing our Visitors and stakeholders with better services and products.

We may, in the ordinary course of our own business, use Visitor Data to:

• provide information and seek feedback on issues related to Vocational Education and Training
• alert you to regulatory or compliance matters that might affect you
• market our products and services
• identify improvements to the web site content and/or navigation
• obtain your consent or authority to use the Visitor Data in a particular way not mentioned here

Manufacturing Skills Australia may use software to analyse usage statistics on our web site. This analysis is performed using anonymous data collected from the Manufacturing Skills Australia website. No personally identifiable information will be collected by that monitoring software and we will not link this anonymous statistical data to any personal information you may have volunteered to Manufacturing Skills Australia for registration purposes or for any other requests for products and services.

Privacy and Security
Any Visitor Data collected by MSA from this site will not be given to any third party by us, unless it is specifically required by law (law enforcement rights or where there is a threat to someone's safety involved are the usual cases) or where full details have been given to you and you have provided us with your approval or consent.

Visitor Data held by us is kept in a private and secure location. Access to the Visitor Data is limited to authorised persons which means MSA employees and in some cases contractors and consultants who are all bound by contractual obligations to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of that Data.

Manufacturing Skills Australia is continually assessing and updating its systems to ensure the security of information on the web site as well as that retained on our independent systems. All reasonable efforts are made to provide an acceptable level of confidence that Visitor Data cannot be used by unauthorised persons or in a manner likely to affect the reputation or standing of Visitors.

You should be aware that our website from time to time will contain links to other sites and those sites may have different privacy provisions. Manufacturing Skills Australia is not responsible for those sites or for any consequences of you accessing them through our website.

Where there is a password or key provided to you to access this site or any secure part of it, then it is your responsibility to keep that password or key secret to avoid any unauthorised use of or access to your personal information.

Access to your personal information
If you have registered to the web site you will be able to use your password to log in and update your preferences or unsubscribe from our email updates. You will also be able to update your personal information if it changes.

Alternatively you can email info@mskills.com.au requesting to be removed from our database. You may at any time request Manufacturing Skills Australia to delete all Visitor Data held by us in relation to your organisation and we will take all reasonable steps to action that request promptly. However, there may be technical or other constraints to completely destroying all details of your visit and the information contained in your Visitor Data, as well as legal and statutory duties and responsibilities imposed on us that might also prevent us from destroying or removing from our records all such information.

Technical information
Cookies may be used to store user passwords and to gather statistical information that will assist in understanding what users find interesting and useful on our website. MSA staff cannot access your password, and no personal information can be identified about the user through cookies. However, using cookies will enable you to take full advantage of the services we offer. The use of cookies is an industry standard and you'll find most major websites use them. Most Internet browsers are pre-set to accept cookies. If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. Alterations to these settings may, however, affect the functionality of our web site.

A piece of code may also be embedded into pages of our web site. This provides statistical site usage information relating solely to Internet usage behaviour. The code is not used and will not be used to collect or store personal information.

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