WIRE Web Site Privacy Statement
Overview
This Website Privacy Statement applies to this website which is operated by the Women's Information Referral Exchange ("WIRE") under the domain name www.wire.org.au (Website). This Website Privacy Statement explains how Personal Information will be treated as you access and interact with this Website.
Where this Website Privacy Statement refers to "Personal Information", it means information which identifies an individual or from which an individual's identity can reasonably be ascertained eg. name, address and phone number.
We will post any changes to this Website Privacy Statement on the Website, so we encourage you to check this Website Privacy Statement from time to time. Any information collected under this current Website Privacy Statement will be handled in accordance with this Website Privacy Statement. After the changes take effect, all new information collected, if any, will be subject to the revised Website Privacy Statement.
Information collected
The Personal Information about you which this Website may collect includes:
any messages or comments you submit to us via this Website, which may include Personal Information such as name, email address and telephone number;
information which you may provide in our online forum; and
information submitted when you register an event, which may include name, email address, telephone and fax number.
You may browse the information-only areas of this Website without providing any Personal Information.
[In common with many websites we may also collect aggregated information which tells us about visitors to this Website but not the identity of those visitors. For example, we may collect information about the date, time and duration of visits and which pages of this Website are most commonly accessed. This information is used by us to help to administer and improve the Website.]
Limits of cookies
This website does not use "cookies" that originate from other servers. The only cookies are those used for site administrative purposes to store temporary session information. No user logins are required to browse the site and no personal information is gathered via cookies. (cookies are small text files which are placed on your hard drive by some websites to store information).
Use and disclosure of information
We will use Personal Information that we collect through the Website in accordance with the WIRE Personal Information Management Policy and this Website Privacy Statement for the purpose(s) for which we collected it or related purposes, where you have consented to the use or as required or authorised by law. We collect Personal Information to help us to provide the services or information requested by individuals.
We will not disclose any Personal Information which we hold about you to any third parties without your consent, except in the rare circumstances that:
fraud or unlawful activity is suspected;
the disclosure is required or authorised by law; or
the disclosure is in relation to legal proceedings or the orders of a Court or Tribunal.
We may use and disclose aggregated non-personally identifying information collected through the Website as part of our process of constantly improving the Website.
Making donations and becoming a member of WIRE
WIRE does not as yet have the facility to accept donations or applications for membership on-line. However, the Website includes forms which can be printed off and faxed or mailed to us for these purposes. The Personal Information which you provide on those forms is handled in accordance with the WIRE Personal Information Management Policy.
We may preserve the content of any email or "Contact us" message or other electronic message that we receive. Any Personal Information contained in those messages will only be used or disclosed in ways set out in this Website Privacy Statement. The message content may be monitored by our service providers or our employees for purposes including troubleshooting, compliance auditing and maintenance or where email abuse is suspected.
Links
This Website may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of other organisations which may be of interest to you. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of Personal Information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us and individuals do so at their own risk. Once any Personal Information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Forum
WIRE provides users of this Website with a Forum to share their views. Please be aware that any information provided on, or disclosed on the Forum becomes public information which anyone using the Website may access. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information in this area.
Women's Stories
The Website includes a number of "women's stories" as examples of the types of issues with which we can assist. Although the information included in the profiles is based on the types of questions which women ask WIRE, the information does not relate to any particular individual
Access to information
If you wish to request access to any Personal Information which we hold about you as a result of our information collection practices outlined in this Website Privacy Statement, please contact us using the "Contact details" set out below. Please provide as much detail as you can about the particular information you seek, in order to help us retrieve it. An access fee may be charged to cover our costs of providing the information to you.
Contact details
If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, wish to make a query about your Personal Information or complaint about the way in which we have handled your Personal Information, you may contact us as set out below:
Email: wire@wire.org.au
Phone: 03 9921 0870
Address: WIRE - Women's Information
210 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne, 3000.
Version 1.1 - Date of Publication November 2002
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