Privacy
The Land Development Agency treats your right to privacy seriously and all personal information it collects is treated as confidential and is held in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth). Personal information is information relating to an individual that can be used to identify, or reasonably ascertain, a person’s identity.
The personal information collected by the Land Development Agency includes your name, age group, the size of your family, contact details, occupation and your preferences for residential or commercial accommodation. The full details of the personal information collected can be found in the questions and forms used by the Land Development Agency in relation to its projects. Your personal information is collected both from yourself and third parties such as our agents or companies with whom we are associated in relation to the development and marketing of Land Development Agency projects. Your personal information is collected by the Land Development Agency to inform you of projects and to assist us in our marketing research.
The Land Development Agency will only disclose your personal information to a third party in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth) and requires those third parties to treat your personal information in the same manner as the Land Development Agency. The organisations to which the Land Development Agency may disclose your personal information include:
- financial, legal, administrative and other service providers;
- marketing agencies (for demographic research purposes) and any sales agents which we engage;
- associated companies and their agents in relation to the development and marketing of Land Development Agency’s projects;
- government agencies to whom we owe statutory obligations; and
- people from whom the Land Development Agency may collect your personal information, including your agent.
Once a property is purchased from LDA, the sales information in relation to this purchase will be supplied to various ACT Government Agencies to prepare and sell property sales reports to commercial organisations concerned with the development, sale or marketing of land.
If you would like to access your personal information held by the Land Development Agency, you can do so by contacting us in writing at:
Land Development Agency
GPO Box 158
CANBERRA CITY ACT 2601
There will be no fee for accessing your personal information held with us.
You may also correct your personal information if it is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date. The Land Development Agency will delete your personal information from our database if you make such a request in writing.
