By selecting the 'I Agree' button at
the end, agree to the Conditions of Use.
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The use of this system is subject to your agreement to the Conditions of
Use.
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To the maximum extent permitted by law, Penrith City Council is not
liable to you for loss or damage of any kind (however caused, including by
negligence) arising from or relating in any way to the contents of this website
and/or your use of it
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All matters relating to this website are governed by the laws of the
State of New South Wales, Australia.
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The World Wide Web exists across open public networks that are neither
secure nor private. Accordingly, the user acknowledges and accepts the risk
that any communication to or from this website may be intercepted, used or
modified by third parties.
You consent to receiving your certificate in
an Adobe PDF format, as an attachment to an email.
You are responsible for specifying the email account to which Council should
send the certificate. You acknowledge that network conditions may result in
emails not being delivered promptly, or at all, and that certificates may be
corrupted or damaged in their passage across the Internet. Council does not
verify whether certificates have been received without error or in the form in
which they were sent.
Council is not liable to you arising from or related in any way to:
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any act or omission of Council in good faith and without
negligence;
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the failure of Council to receive any instructions, information or
document by a particular time or at all unless the failure was the result of a
negligent act or omission of Council; or
3.
any act or omission of a third party including, without
limitation, a telecommunications or Internet service provider.
If you have not received a certificate you have applied for or
believe that the certificate you have received has been corrupted or damaged,
please contact Council on (02) 4732 7777.
When you apply for a Certificate you must accurately identify the land (eg by
reference to a lot and Deposited Plan.) It is your responsibility to check the
contract, mortgage, survey or other relevant documents to verify that you have
accurately identified the land to which your application relates.
Penrith City Council has certain
obligations in relation to the personal information that it obtains from
persons who use its website. Please read this statement to learn what
information Council collects about you, why it is collected and what is done
with it.
Collecting Personal Information
In completing any of the forms
available on this site you will provide Penrith City Council with
"personal information". This is defined in the Privacy and Personal
Information Protection Act 1998 ("PPIPA") to be "information or
an opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be
ascertained from the information or opinion". Personal information
collected by Council will include your name and any other information included
in the forms.
Further, when you visit Council's
website the following information is recorded for statistical purposes:
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The address of your server;
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The top-level domain from which you accessed the Internet (such as
.com,.org,. gov, .edu, .au, .nz, etc.);
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The type of browser used;
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The date and time of your visit to the site;
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The pages you visited and the documents you downloaded;
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The links you followed to come to and leave the site;
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Any other information that is recorded
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This information is used to create reports to tell Council the number of
visitors to the site, what areas are most visited, what areas are least visited
and technical design information such as broken links. This information is used
to assist Council in making the site more useful to visitors.
Personal information collected from you
is held and used by Council as permitted by Privacy and Personal Information
Protection Act 1998 ("PPIPA"). Under PPIPA you are entitled to be
informed of:
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the fact that personal information is being collected;
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the name and address of the agency collecting and holding the
information;
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the purposes for which the information is being collected;
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the persons and bodies to whom the information will be disclosed;
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whether the provision of the information is mandatory or voluntary;
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the consequences (if any) of not providing the information; and
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your right under PPIPA to apply to have access to your information or to
have it corrected.
Council has various functions under the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979, the Local Government Act 1993
and other legislation. Personal information is collected to enable Council to
perform the functions under these Acts. Under PPIPA, other agencies
(particularly law enforcement agencies) may have the right to gain access to
personal information about you that Council holds. Indeed, some agencies
(particularly law enforcement agencies) have legal authority to inspect our
Internet Service Providers' logs and obtain your address if required for an
official investigation. Further, Council records may be available for public
inspection and copying, including under the Government Information (Public
Access) Act 2009.
At the request of an individual to whom
personal information held by Council relates, Council must provide the
individual with access to the information. Council must, at the request of an
individual to whom personal information held by Council relates, make
appropriate amendments to ensure that the personal information is, among other
things, accurate.
The contents of this website (which
includes downloadable material) are subject to copyright and are protected by
laws of Australia and other countries through international treaties.
Penrith City Council grants you a
non-exclusive licence to reproduce the contents of this website in your web
browser (and in any cache file produced by your web browser) for the sole
purpose of viewing the content. Penrith City Council reserves all other rights.
By agreeing to use this system you
agree to indemnify Council against any infringement by you of any third party
Intellectual Property rights, including Copyright.
I accept that use of the data by me
shall be limited to my own personal use or for the use in the ordinary course
of my business. I shall not on-sell or distribute the data for reward to any
other third party, nor shall I produce any hardcopy products, incorporating the
data for commercial use.