PRIVACY

National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples Ltd, ABN 47 143 207 587 (including its agents or related entities, at the Congress) recognises the importance of dealing with the collection, security, quality of and disclosure of personal information in accordance with the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy describes how the Congress will use and handle any personal information collected from you.

Collection of Your Personal Information

The Congress does not collect personal information about you without your knowledge. The Congress may collect personal information about you if you:

(a) wish to apply to be a Member, Delegate and/or Chair of the Congress;
(b) submit or are asked to provide information about yourself for consideration for potential inclusion in one of our publications, programs or events;
(c) wish to participate in Congress events or activities;
(d) request to be added to the list to receive email news and updates relating to the Congress; or
(d) wish to conduct other transactions or activities on the Congress Website.

You are not required to provide the Congress with this information but, if you choose not to, you may not be able to participate in some of the activities of the Congress or receive services from the Congress.

The personal information the Congress holds, may include:

(a) contact details – your email address, name, mailing address, telephone number; and
(b) demographic information and age, gender, identity as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander for example

Use of Your Personal Information

By providing your personal information to the Congress, you are agreeing that it can be used for the following purposes:

(a) for any purpose notified to you at the time of collection;
(b) to provide you with any product or service you may have requested;
(c) to ascertain your suitability to participate as a Member, Delegate or Chair of the Congress;
(d) to provide you with information regarding the Congress or Congress publications, events or campaigns.

Where you provide information as part of an application under point (c) above, you are also agreeing that the Congress may disclose your personal information to third parties to the extent necessary to verify or confirm the information, provided that the Congress uses its best endeavours to ensure that any such recipient respects the privacy of your personal information, takes steps to ensure the security of your personal information, and undertakes to comply with the NPPs and the terms of this policy.

The Congress may also make any disclosure that is permitted by the NPP or the Privacy Act, or which it may be required to make by law.

Spam

The Congress will not send unsolicited emails or other such communications to you. You will generally be offered the option to opt out of receiving such communications at the time of collection of personal information. On each email you receive from the Congress, you are given the opportunity to unsubscribe. If you choose to unsubscribe, the Congress will remove your e-mail address permanently from that mailing list.
Alternatively, please contact the Congress if you no longer wish to participate in the Congress activities or if you have erroneously received an email or other such communication from the Congress.

Cookies

Certain non-personal information may be recorded by our systems through cookies. Cookies are used by many websites and are small text file placed on your computer hard drive. Cookies do not personally identify you and the Congress does not use cookies to obtain such information. Cookies determine if you have previously visited the Website and identify what pages you have accessed from the Website.

You can disable cookies through your internet browser but if you do this, you might not be able to visit or participate in some parts of the Website.

The Congress may use the information obtained from the cookies for statistics, internal Congress purposes and to improve the services the Congress provides to you. This information will not personally identify you.

Storage Of Data

We store personal information for varying periods of time depending on the purpose for which it is collected. In accordance with the NPPs this will be stored in a secure manner and made available only to those employees and management who need access to the information in order to perform their roles. Once we determine that we no longer require the personal information it will be destroyed in a secure manner.

Access To Personal Information

Subject to some exceptions you have the right to request access to any personal information held by the Congress, which relates to you, in accordance with the NPPs.

Sometimes it may be impractical to provide you access to this information without cost. The Congress will determine and charge appropriate fees from time to time as it sees fit for providing access in those circumstances.

In order for you to access information you must provide us with sufficient information to enable us to properly identify you. Any requests for access must be made in writing to the Congress Privacy Officer at the address below.

If personal information held by the Organisation is inaccurate or out of date you have the right to request it to be updated or corrected. If there is a dispute as to whether the information we hold is correct or out of date the Privacy Officer will endeavour to resolve this.

Disclosure Of This Privacy Policy

We will make copies of this privacy policy available upon written request. Due to the changing nature of the personal information we may collect and our business, we reserve the right to change this Policy from time to time as our needs dictate. If you have questions about how we deal with personal information these should be forwarded in writing to info@nationalcongress.com.au