Our Privacy Policy
Protecting your Privacy
The Administrators of www.whistleblowingethics.info are bound by the Commonwealth of Australia Privacy Act 1988, which sets out a number of principles concerning the protection of your personal information.
Set out below is information that are required to communicate to our customers. This organisation recommends that you keep this information for future reference.
Reasons for collecting information
This organisation only collects such information as is necessary to conduct business with you. You will always know what information is being collected and will have the option to choose how this organisation utilises your information to communicate with you. We will only collect information by lawful and fair means and not in an intrusive way.
Your Personal Information
Personal information held by this organisation may include your name, current and previous addresses, telephone/mobile phone number, email address, username or password and payment records such as credit card details and bank account numbers. Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to this organisation (eg about your authorised representatives). If so, this organisation relies on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to this organisation and to advise them that this organisation can be contacted for further information (see 'Contacting this organisation' below).
How we collect personal information
This organisation collects personal information in a number of ways, including:
| • | directly from you, when you provide information by phone or in application forms, or when you submit your personal details through this organisation's websites; |
| • | from third parties such as this organisation's related companies, credit reporting agencies or your representatives; |
| • | from publicly available sources of information; |
How we use your personal information
Your personal information may be used to:
| • | verify your identity; |
| • | assist you to subscribe to this organisation's services; |
| • | provide the services you require or make payment for those services; |
| • | administer and manage those services, including invoicing, support and collecting debts; |
| • | conduct appropriate checks for credit-worthiness and for fraud; |
| • | enable order fulfilment and/or product registration; |
| • | keep you informed about this organisation products and services; |
| • | fulfil legal and regulatory obligations. |
When we disclose your personal information
In order to deliver the services you require, this organisation may disclose your personal information to organisations outside of this organisation. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations only in relation to this organisation providing its services to you. These organisations may carry out this organisation's:
| • | billing and debt-recovery functions; |
| • | installation, maintenance and repair services; |
| • | marketing and telemarketing services; |
| • | market research; and |
| • | website usage analysis. |
This organisation takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.
In addition, this organisation may disclose your personal information to:
| • | your authorised representatives or your legal advisers (e.g. when requested by you to do so); |
| • | credit-reporting and fraud-checking agencies; |
| • | credit providers (for credit related purposes such as credit-worthiness, credit rating, credit provision and financing); |
| • | this organisation's related companies; |
| • | this organisation's professional advisers, including its accountants, auditors and lawyers; |
| • | other telecommunication and information service providers (for example, if you obtain services from other providers, this organisation may need to disclose your personal information for billing purposes); |
| • | government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law; |
| • | organisations who manage this organisation's business and corporate strategies, including those involved in a transfer/sale of all or part of its assets or business (including accounts and trade receivables) and those involved in managing this organisation's corporate risk and funding functions (eg securitisation); and |
| • | law enforcement agencies, government agencies, courts or external advisers where permitted or required by law. |
| • | Third parties, only where you have provided us with consent to disclose your personal information |
Information security
this organisation informs its employees about the importance of confidentiality and customer privacy through its operating procedures, training programs and internal policies. this organisation will take appropriate disciplinary measures to enforce the privacy responsibilities of its employees.
This organisation requires employees and contractors to perform their duties in a manner that is consistent with this organisation's legal responsibilities in relation to privacy.
This organisation will take all reasonable steps to ensure that paper and electronic records containing personal information are stored in facilities that are only accessible by people within this organisation who have a genuine "need to know" as well as a "right to know".
This organisation will review, on a regular and ongoing basis, its information security practices to ascertain how ongoing responsibilities can be achieved and maintained.
Help us to ensure we hold accurate information
This organisation takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information it collects, uses and discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That's why this organisation recommends that you:
| • | let this organisation know if there are any errors in your personal information; and |
| • | keep this organisation up-to-date with changes to your personal information such as your name or address. |
Correction of problems
If you have any questions or you believe that this organisation has not adhered to this Privacy Statement, please contact us. This organisation will then use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine if there is a problem and take the necessary corrective action.
Links
Our websites may contain links to other sites belonging to other parties and which are beyond the control of this organisation. Please note that we cannot vouch or be responsible for the privacy practices of other organisations sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Contact us:
Tel: +61 2 9797 6459 or +64 9 889 0417
Email: info @ whistleblowingethics.info