Briefly, this web site is operated in compliance with the Australian Government's Information Privacy Principles which are outlined at www.privacy.gov.au and we try to comply with these principles at all times.

1. Our web site collects the following information from our online visitors: a record of each visit that logs a visitor's IP address, the date and time of their visit, the pages accessed and/or documents downloaded, their country of origin and the type of browser used (ie exactly the same type of information routinely collected by all web servers around the world). No attempt is or will be made to identify individual users or their browsing activities except in the unlikely event of an investigation where a law enforcement agency exercises a warrant to inspect our service provider's logs. We analyse the information collected by our web server at the end of each month purely to determine our web site's overall usage statistics.
   
   
2. We retain the e-mail addresses of people who send emails to us through this web site for the simple purpose of sending them a response. These email addresses are stored in a secure area of our office network (ie not on the website) and are not used for any other purpose. Nor will they be disclosed to any third party without the consent of the person who originally emailed us.
   
   
3. People who submit email addresses, web sites or other information for linking on this web site are agreeing to have them published on our web site by doing so. We will, however, remove or modify any submitted email address, web site URL or other supplied information on request.
   

Visitors should also note that this web site contains links to a number of other web sites that are included on the basis of containing content related to our own site's operations and/or as a service to our online visitors. When you click on a link to go to another site, you leave our own web site and are no longer protected by our Privacy Policy.

Information submitted to South Burnett.Health via our service registration form, email or other means will be placed on our website in the relevant category/categories as judged by us to be appropriate. By submitting a registration form, emailing us or contacting us by other means you consent to the publication of your information on our website.

South Burnett Health has no control over the subsequent use or disclosure of this information once it has been published on the web. Our website also contains information already in the public domain.

If you wish to have your information removed or amended in any way, please contact us - either by phoning us on (07) 4162-3899 during business hours or by email.

This privacy statement is periodically reviewed in line with the ongoing development of our web site and/or changes to Australian privacy laws.

 

Our web site is operated in compliance with the Australian Spam Act 2003, which may be viewed online at a variety of locations.

In a nutshell, we don't send out any spam emails. Nor do we do business with any individual or company who does. And we encourage all our visitors to do likewise.

We also use anti-spam filtering on our emails and we report any Australian who spams us to the proper authorities on receipt of their spam. Again, we encourage our visitors to do likewise in countries which have equivalent legislation to Australia. Or to request their legislators enact similar laws in countries which don't yet have anti-spam legislation; or to toughen existing laws up to Australian anti-spam standards where those laws are weak.

 

Specifically, South Burnett Online does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations regarding the correctness, accuracy, reliability, currency or any other aspect regarding characteristics or use of the information presented in South Burnett Health materials.

The user accepts sole responsibility and risk associated with the use and result of South Burnett Health material, irrespective of the purpose to which such use or results are applied. Users should confirm information from another source if it is of sufficient importance for them to do so.

In no event shall South Burnett Online be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever, resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or tort, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of South Burnett Health material.

The listing of any service or other entity on South Burnett Health does not serve as an endorsement of them by South Burnett Online.

South Burnett Online, its employees, agents, consultants and representatives do not accept any responsibility whatsoever including responsibility for negligence, physical damage, personal injury, economic loss, costs or expenses of any kind, or any other loss or damage whatsoever suffered or incurred by anyone as a direct or indirect consequence of errors in or omissions from the site, or related to action or inaction taken in reliance upon the contents of the site.

You should be aware that third party sites are not under the control of South Burnett Online and we can make no representation to you concerning the content of these sites. These references are provided only as a convenience to you.

 

The information contained in our databases and on other parts of our site is the result of original work on our part and has been acquired solely by our own research and/or public submissions to our website.

Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under copyright legislation, no part of this site or its contents may be reproduced or re-used for any commercial purpose whatsoever without written permission from the Chief Executive Officer, South Burnett Online.

Any inquiries about this should be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, South Burnett Online, PO Box 613, Kingaroy, 4610.

When you access the South Burnett Health web site you agree to retrieve materials for information only; to download a copy or printout for your personal use only; to include the copyright notice in any copy you make; and not to modify information found on the website without written permission from South Burnett Online.

Copyright for images and/or other non-textual material which appears on our web site is either the property of South Burnett Online or is used under licence and/or with the permission of the relevant copyright holders. This material may not be reproduced without the permission of those relevant copyright holders.

 

These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

If you'd like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, click here.

 

This organisation believed that easy public access to up-to-date information about all the health services that were available in the South Burnett via the Internet was a worthwhile goal which would help many people in the region. And the South Burnett Online network agreed.

In general - for a variety of reasons - most Australian health systems have been very backward in the adoption of the Internet. And (in particular) providing simple, easily-accessible information about basic health services to the public (eg: the contact details for local GPs, hospitals and other services) is one area where all levels of Government have failed badly.

South Burnett Health was designed to address this, and the first version of this website appeared online in 2007 and ran through until early 2009 when the SQRDGP changed to RHealth and also changed their direction.

However a second version of the site was relaunched in November 2010 using the South Burnett Online network's central databases to remove data redundancy and eliminate the need for medical professionals or health service providers to list (or update) their details on our network more than once.

This is the version of the site you're viewing now.