HealthInsite Glossary

Domain name

The code for the country or type of Internet connection a user comes from, such as ?.com? ?.gov? ?.au? ?.uk?

Information Privacy Principles
11 principles established under section 14 of the Privacy Act 1988. Commonwealth and ACT government agencies must comply with these principles in their handling of personal information in their possession. The principles can be accessed at SCALEplus, the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney General's Department.

Internet Service Provider

A company or organisation that provides access to the Internet for users.

Law enforcement agency

An agency of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory such as the Australian Federal Police, which exercises powers such as executing a warrant to seize documentation or goods or to search premises etc.

Notification

Automatic advice of new or updated material available via HealthInsite, provided to a user who registers for this service.

Pseudonym

A nickname or phantom name the user can choose to be known by on the site.

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