Beacon Foundation Website Privacy Policy
Beacon Foundation is committed to the protection of your personal information in accordance with the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
In general, you can view the Beacon Foundation website without revealing any information about yourself. However, there are times Beacon Foundation may seek and collect information from you (for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter).This Beacon Foundation Privacy Policy tells you about your privacy and describes the manner in which Beacon Foundation collects, holds and uses personal information collected through our website. If you wish to make any inquiries regarding this Beacon Foundation Privacy Policy, you should contact Beacon by email at the following address info@beaconfoundation.net.
Beacon Foundation may, from time to time, review and update this Beacon Foundation website Privacy Policy to take new laws and technology into account. All personal information held by Beacon Foundation will be governed by its most recent policy, posted on the website.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is any information or opinion (recorded in any form) about a person, whether true or not, from which that person may be identified.
Beacon Foundation collects personal information from its users via the Beacon Foundation website (website) or when you email us or contact us by telephone or mail.
Information collected via Beacon Foundation Website
Beacon Foundation will not collect any personal information about visitors to the website except when they knowingly provide it or as otherwise described below. For example, Beacon Foundation will collect personal information from visitors to its website when they register to receive e-newsletters or complete surveys.
When you visit and browse the website, Beacon Foundation’s website host will collect personal information for statistical, reporting and maintenance purposes.
This information will not be used to identify you and may include:
- the number of visitors to the website and the number of pages viewed;
- the date, time and duration of a visit; or
- the path taken though the Website.
Beacon Foundation’s website host uses this information to administer and improve the performance of the website.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are transferred to a user's computer hard drive by a website for the purpose of storing information about a user's identity, browser type or website visiting patterns.
If you access the Beacon website, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer's hard drive when you first log onto the website and it is automatically deleted from your hard drive after a period of thirty days.
Web Beacons
Web beacons are images that originate from a third party site to track visitor activities. Beacon Foundation does not currently use web beacons to track the visiting patterns of individuals accessing its website.
What information Beacon Foundation collects about you
Beacon Foundation collects or may collect the following kinds of information about visitors:
- Contact information. This may include an email address where Beacon Foundation can contact you. It may also include your name, mobile phone number, other phone numbers or address details.
- Communications (by email or other means, which pass through the Beacon Foundation systems) between yourself and Beacon Foundation.
- Other personal information provided voluntarily by you. This could be in response to surveys or online activities.
- Non-personally identifiable information, such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited etc. None of this information identifies you personally.
How Beacon Foundation uses the personal information it collects about you
Beacon Foundation uses the information it collects from you for the primary purpose for which it is collected and for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose of collection. Beacon Foundation generally uses personal information to:
- Provide you with products or services you have requested.
- Direct marketing in relation to promotional activities where it is impracticable for Beacon Foundation to obtain your prior written consent. However, when Beacon Foundation does this, we will provide an express option for you to decline receiving any further marketing communications from Beacon Foundation, via an opt out mechanism. Beacon Foundation will only send you emails if you have elected to receive such emails in response to an email we have received from you.
To whom do we disclose your personal information?
Beacon Foundation does not disclose your information to any advertising and marketing agents.
Beacon Foundation may disclose your personal information to its website host and technology service providers in certain limited circumstances, for example, when the website experiences a technical problem, to ensure that it operates in an effective and secure manner.
Otherwise, Beacon Foundation will not disclose any of your personal information to any other organisation unless the disclosure is required by law or is otherwise permitted by the National Privacy Principles.
Your consent
Beacon Foundation will only collect and use personal information as described above or otherwise with your consent and only within the limits of this Beacon Foundation Website Privacy Policy.
If you choose to not provide your personal information to Beacon Foundation for the purposes set out in this Beacon Foundation Website Privacy Policy, the only negative consequence for you will be that we will not be able to provide you with the requested product or service.
Updating, storage and security of personal information held by Beacon Foundation
Beacon Foundation aims to keep your personal information secure and up to date. Any personal information that is collected via the website or which is held on Beacon Foundation's computer systems is protected by safeguards including physical, technical (firewalls, SSL encryptions etc) and procedural methods.
Beacon Foundation does not collect sensitive or financial information about its visitors via the website.
Personal information that is held by Beacon Foundation in hard copy is stored securely on its premises and is only disclosed or used for the purposes described in this Beacon Foundation Website Privacy Policy.
You can update your contact and profile information at any time by logging onto the website and following the appropriate links.
Finding out what personal information Beacon Foundation holds about you
You are entitled to access personal information that Beacon Foundation holds about you. If you request access to your personal information, we will grant your request unless providing you with access would unreasonably impact upon the privacy of others or is not otherwise permitted under the National Privacy Principles. If Beacon Foundation refuses your request to access your personal information, it will provide you with reasons for our refusal.
A request for access can be done in any of the following ways:
phone: (03) 6234-4155
email: info@beaconfoundation.net
write to: National Operations Manager
Beacon Foundation
40 Molle St
HOBART TAS 7000
What to do if you have a question, problem or complaint about our use of your personal information
If you feel that your privacy has not been respected or that Beacon Foundation has conducted itself inconsistently with this Beacon Foundation Website Privacy Policy in respect of your personal information, please contact Beacon Foundation and ask for the Privacy Officer.