privacy statement

About this Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement applies to the WestNet Rail website, which is operated by WestNet Rail Pty Ltd (ACN 094 721 301) (WestNet Rail) under the domain name www.wnr.com.au. It explains how your personal information will be treated as you access and interact with the WestNet Rail website.

In addition to this Privacy Statement, there may also be specific additional privacy provisions which apply to certain sections of the WestNet Rail website. Because those specific additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, you should review them when they are accessible to you on the WestNet Rail website. If there is any inconsistency between this Privacy Statement and those other specific additional provisions, the specific additional provisions will prevail.

WestNet Rail takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although WestNet Rail strives to protect such information, WestNet Rail cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Information collected

The information that WestNet Rail collects about you depends on how you use the facilities offered by the WestNet Rail website.

If you visit an unsecured area of the WestNet Rail website (that is, an area where you are not required to log on) to read, browse or download information, our system will record the date and time of you visit to the site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. However, our systems will not record any personally identifiable information.

If you decide to use the interactive facilities offered by the WestNet Rail website, then we will collect and retain the information that you submit to us using those interactive facilities. If you choose not to provide certain personal information, WestNet Rail may not be able to provide you with access to those interactive facilities.

The WestNet Rail website also contains links to the websites of third party providers of goods and services (Third Party websites). If you have accessed Third Party websites through the WestNet Rail website and if those third parties collect information about you, WestNet Rail may also collect or have access to that information as part of our arrangements with those third parties.

Third Party websites should contain their own privacy statements, and those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.

Use and Disclosure of Information

We will only use or disclose personal information in accordance with specific additional provisions relating to privacy which apply to certain areas of the WestNet Rail website and as otherwise set out in this Privacy Statement.

We only collect personal information about you that is necessary to perform our functions and activities. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to deal with you, or provide you with a product or service.

We may collect your personal information to: verify your identity; assist you to use our services; provide the services you require; administer and manage those services; offer new services to you; and maintain our relationship with you.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law, courts, government agencies, law enforcement bodies and other regulatory bodies.

We will not sell or disclose your personal information to spammers or direct marketing operators.

Accuracy of your information

WestNet Rail takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information it collects, uses and discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That's why WestNet Rail recommends that you:

  • let us know if there are any errors in your personal information; and
  • keep us up-to-date with changes to your personal information such as your name or address.

If you are a subscriber to one of the WestNet Rail's website interactive facilities, you may change your personal details by using the relevant facility on the WestNet Rail website.

Accessing your personal information

If you would like to access your personal information, you will need to put your request in writing, for security reasons, and either send it by mail to The Corporate Communications Officer, WestNet Rail Pty Ltd, 2-10 Adams Drive, Welshpool, Western Australia 6106, or by facsimile to (08) 9212 2921 or by email to information@wnr.com.au.

Acceptance and changes to Privacy Statement

You acknowledge and accept that your use of the WestNet Rail website indicates your acceptance of the Website Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement.

This is the current Privacy Statement. It replaces any other Privacy Statement for the WestNet Rail website published on the WestNet Rail website to date. WestNet Rail may at any time vary the Privacy Statement by publishing the varied Privacy Statement on the WestNet Rail website. You accept that by doing this, WestNet Rail has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.