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Your personal information is important to us

We recognise that your privacy is very important and that you have a right to control personal information. We know that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take that seriously. The following sections set out how we handle and protect your personal information and safeguard your privacy.

How we collect information from you

Private data is collected from each person that visits the Climate Institute website and then stored in accordance with the Privacy Act of 1988.

This information includes but is not limited to:  the IP address of the computer you accessed the site from, the pages you have read, and if you choose to give it to us, your email address.

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