Privacy
Privacy Policy
Upon admission to a membership class, each member agrees that the Association’s collection, holding, use and disclosure of personal information is dealt with in its Privacy Policy.
The Association is committed to complying with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act when managing personal information.
This Privacy Policy sets out how the Association collects, holds, uses and discloses personal information. By providing your personal information to us, you consent to it being handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Association may amend this policy from time to time by publishing an updated version of the policy on our website. To ensure that you are aware of our current privacy policy, please check our website periodically.
Collection of Personal Information
The Association collects and holds personal information of prospective, current and former:
- Members of the Association;
- Clients and suppliers;
- Other persons who interact with the Association (e.g. by registering to attend events, receive materials or otherwise engage with the Association and its activities).
The kinds of personal information that we collect and hold comprises (depending on your relationship with the Association):
- Your personal details (e.g. name, contact details, date of birth, employment status and qualifications, titles, whether you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander);
- Your membership information (e.g. membership history, details related to the Association’s committees.
- The financial status of your membership.
Security of Personal Information
The Association is committed to keeping your personal information secure.
As we may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form, we use a variety of physical and electronic security measures to keep your personal information secure from misuse, interference, loss or unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. These include:
- Restricting physical access to our offices;
- Restricting access to our electronic systems;
- Password protecting our IT systems;
- Employing firewalls, antivirus software and secure databases;
- Requiring office bearers to take steps to keep personal information secure and treat it as confidential.
Access to personal information
Any person about whom the Association holds personal information may request access to that information by written request to the Association’s Privacy Officer. Such requests will be dealt with in accordance with Australian Privacy Principle 12 (which includes some situations in which we may not be able to provide access to personal information).
Correction of Personal Information
Any person who believes that personal information which the Association holds about them is not accurate, complete and up to date is invited to seek correction of that information by written request to the Association’s Privacy Officer. Such requests will be dealt with in accordance with Australian Privacy Principle 13.
If you request access to your personal information or ask us to correct or update information about you, we may need to verify your identity. In some circumstances, there may be a valid reason for us to deny your request to access or correct your information. If we do this, we will tell you why.
Complaints about privacy
If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to info@aavavoices.org - We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
Changes to Privacy Policy
Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion, and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy
Website
When you come to our website, we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.
We may, from time to time, use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
Our website may, from time to time, use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Ads. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
Our site may, from time to time, have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.
