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ABA Privacy
Policy
Introduction
The Australian Breastfeeding
Association (ABA) is a non-profit organisation offering counselling,
information, education and support services to the community. It has many
sectors and activities.
Through these varied operations,
ABA gathers information from subscribers and other people to enable
delivery of services and to improve the nature of the services
provided.
ABA understands individuals'
concerns regarding confidentiality and takes seriously its obligations in
respect of all information it gathers. The Australian Breastfeeding
Association is committed to being consistent to both its mission and the
laws of Australia. It therefore seeks to abide by the Privacy Act (1988).
Privacy Policy
Framework
This framework ensures the organisation
including all its employees, volunteers with office bearing positions,
sectors and activities collect, use, hold, correct and disclose personal
information in a manner that conforms to the amended Privacy Act (1988).
Privacy
Policy
All personal information collected by
all sectors of the Australian Breastfeeding Association will comply with
the National Privacy Principles as detailed below and as amended from time
to time:
How and Why we Collect Personal
Information
- Nature of information:
The information we
collect in most cases relates to our customers and subscribers but can
relate to suppliers and other parties with which we
deal.
Personal Information is gathered for a range of purposes,
including: the provision of information; provision of counselling, group
& association services; the compiling of subscriber and membership
lists; and internal fundraising within the association.
In this
policy 'personal information' means any information or opinion about an
individual from which her/his identity is apparent or can reasonably be
ascertained.
- Collection of information:
In accordance
with the NPPs, where practical, you may deal with us on an anonymous
basis. However, as a provider of a wide range of services, we frequently
find that it is necessary to collect personal information during the
course of providing our services.
Personal information is
collected directly from you when you provide this information by phone
or in documents such as applications forms.
When personal
information is collected from you, you will be advised at the time of
collection or as soon as practical after its collection as to: the
purpose of collection and the fact that you can gain access to the
Personal Information.
- Sensitive information:
As a provider of
information and counselling services we may need to collect personal
health information or other sensitive information about you to provide
our services to you. We will only ask you for information where we
believe it is necessary for us to know that information in the course of
providing our services.
What we do with your
information
You may request that your personal
information not be used for the purpose of fundraising for the association
by contacting ABA's Privacy Officer.
In general only volunteers with office
- bearing positions and employees of ABA may view your personal
information. We will only grant access to other parties other than our
volunteers with office bearing positions and employees of ABA to view
personal information where we believe that it is necessary and in your
best interests for those people to view that personal information.
ABA will only disclose personal
information to parties other than our volunteers with office bearing
positions and employees of ABA if: that disclosure is required to give
effect to the purpose for which we collected the Personal Information; you
have consented to that disclosure; we believe that the disclosure may
lessen a risk of harm to the health or safety of any person; we believe
that unlawful activity is being undertaken and Personal Information is
disclosed as part of our investigation into this activity; we are required
by law to disclose this activity; the disclosure is required for the
enforcement of a criminal law or a law imposing a pecuniary penalty or for
the protection of public revenue; or the third party is ABA’s agent or
contractor and is required by us to keep that personal information
confidential and will only use that information for the purpose for which
it is disclosed.
Quality and Security of Personal
Information
We will take reasonable steps to ensure
that personal information is accurate and provide opportunities for
individuals to update their personal information.
Personal Information is stored in both
hard copy and on computer. Reasonable steps will be taken to ensure that
hard copies of personal information and personal information stored on
computers are secure.
We regularly delete, destroy or
de-identify personal information if the information is no longer needed by
us.
Openness
This Privacy Policy is available on
ABA's website www.breastfeeding.asn.au. Hard
copies are available on request from ABA's head office.
Further information on privacy can be
obtained from the Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au.
Any queries with respect to this
Privacy Policy should be directed to ABA's Privacy
Officer.
How to Access and Correct Your
Personal Information
You can update your personal
information at any time by contacting our Privacy
Officer.
You may access your Personal
Information by contacting ABA's Privacy
Officer. Access is generally granted within 30
days of that request.
We may impose a reasonable charge for
access to cover administration costs.
A request by an individual to access
their personal information may be withheld in a certain number of limited
circumstances, as per the Privacy Act (1988).
Where ABA does withhold personal
information, we may instead choose to give you a summary of that
information.
Identifiers
ABA does not use any prohibited
identifiers (for example tax file or health care card numbers).
Anonymity
You are able to access ABA's
counselling service anonymously. However personal information may be
collected if you access other ABA services or activities.
Transborder data
flows
Although it is not usual for ABA to
transfer personal information overseas, if personal information is
transferred overseas, we will wherever practical obtain your written
consent before doing so. If obtaining your consent is not practical, then
the information may still be transferred if, as part of the agreement for
the transfer of that information, the other organisation agrees to comply
with ABA's privacy policy.
Modifications to this
document
ABA may modify this Privacy
Policy and the way it handles personal information at any time at its sole
discretion. Such modifications will be consistent with current privacy
legislation.
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