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Last Updated: 27 December 2019
Introduction
This Privacy Policy sets out how we will handle personal information.
We endeavour to comply with Australian privacy legislation where it applies to us, including by adopting practices, procedures and systems to ensure that we comply with applicable legislation.
This Privacy Policy is in addition to any rights you may have under the law.
Your use of this website is also governed by our Terms of Use and our Cookie Policy This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with those documents.
Definitions
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy:
Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting an updated version on our website. The updated policy will apply from the date it is made available.
If you have an Account, you may also receive an email notification, or a notification within your Account when we release an updated Privacy Policy.
Kinds of personal information we collect
On our website, we may collect the following kinds of personal information:
How we collect and store personal information
We may collect personal information through the use of the following methods:
For more information about our use of website analytics technology, please refer to our Cookie Policy
Personal information may also be indirectly collected from a third party if they provide it to us.
The personal information we collect is stored in a secure data centre maintained by our service providers and your connection to our website is encrypted via the HTTPS protocol. We have also engaged third-party service providers to provide security monitoring and routine testing of our website.
If you become a Member, personal information provided in connection with the Account will be deleted upon cancellation of your Account.
We may retain personal information to the extent necessary to comply with legal or taxation requirements.
We may retain de-identified, aggregated personal information for the purpose of analytics and to improve the services we offer.
Purposes for which personal information is collected, used and disclosed
We store and use the personal information collected for the following purposes:
We do not sell or disclose your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
We may disclose or provide access to personal information to third parties for the following purposes:
Accessing and updating your personal information
Under Australian privacy law, you have a right to request access to, and correction of, personal information that we hold about you.
You may access, or request correction of, the personal information we hold about you in the following ways:
Complaints
If you have a complaint about our handling of your personal information, you may contact us using the details provided at the end of this Privacy Policy. Your complaint should be made in writing and set out the relevant details of the complaint.
We will endeavour to respond to your complaint within a reasonable time. Usually this will be within 30 days after receiving your complaint, however, we may require additional time to respond if your complaint does not include necessary information, is complex or involves archived or historical information.
If you are unsatisfied with our response to your complaint, you may be entitled to refer the complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Last Updated: 6 January 2020Introduction
Our Cookie Policy describes what information cookies gather, how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored.
For the purpose of this Cookie Policy:
We may update this Cookie Policy at any time by posting an updated version on our website.
If you have an Account, you may also receive an email notification, or a notification within your Account when we release an updated Cookie Policy.
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this website uses cookies, which are small files that are downloaded to your device, to improve your user experience.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser or your device (see your browser Help for how to do this).
Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this website and other websites that you visit. If you disable cookies for this website, we may be unable to provide certain features or functionality, and your user experience may be degraded.
We may set a number of cookies when you browse this website, including:
If you become a Member or have an Account, we will use cookies for:
These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We offer e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details or preferences for future use.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this website.
How each of these third parties collect and handle personal information is set out in their respective privacy policies.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage].
Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site, including for the purpose of:
These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on our website or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the website for you.
We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioural advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways.
For these features to work the following social media sites may set cookies on your device:
Contact details
Enquiries or Complaints may be addressed to the following contact:
The Privacy Officer
AusTamiNews (9633625564 )
Postal Address: P.O.BOX 5087, Kenmore East, Qld 4069
Email: [email protected]