Accessing personal information (cont.)
Wherever direct access by you is impractical or inappropriate we should consider together whether the use of a mutually agreed intermediary would allow sufficient access to meet both our needs and concerns.Marketing and promotional offers
The Society may use personal information to advise you of new productions or events we believe may be of interest, including newsletters, invitations to productions and functions and general information about the Society. The Society honours any request not to receive unsolicited, personally targeted promotional material. You may exercise your choice or preferences at any time, by telephone on (08) 8447 7239 or by email paulags@optusnet.com.auOur Web Site/The Internet
The Society operates and controls the Web site www.gandssa.org.au
You can generally visit the site without revealing personal information, unless you choose to provide such information. The information received depends upon what you do when visiting the site.
This site maintains the same level of security for Personal Information collected in an electronic format as it does for that collected in paper format.However, if you are providing Personal Information via an email or an online form you should be aware that there are some risks to transmitting data via the Internet unless it is encrypted with a security certificate. This site uses encryption and related server side mechanisms for secure data transfer in certain areas of the site where financial transactions may take place (e.g. credit card details), in other cases where no financial transactions take place web forms usually will not have encryption.
The web site includes content that can be accessed exclusively by Society members. To gain access to the content members are required to 'register' for online access. This allows the Society to verify the membership status of the visitor. A password is also nominated by the member at this time. These details are securely stored on the web server to allow members to access the content during future visitors without having to register each time. On subsequent visits, the membership number and password are verified against the data on the server. The purpose of these sections of the site is to provide additional information and content to Society members.
This Web site contains links to other sites. The owner of this site is not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other web sites and encourages you to examine each sites privacy policy and make your own decisions regarding the accuracy, reliability and correctness of material and information found.
Site visit data
As is the case for nearly all web sites, this site makes a record of your visit, logging the following information for statistical purposes:
- your servers address the name of the top-level domain from which you access the Internet (for example, .gov, .com, .au, .nz, etc)
- the date and time of the visit to the site
- the pages accessed and documents downloaded
- the previous Internet address from which you linked directly to this site. (In the cases where the referring site declines to pass this information on, these details are not obtained by the statistics server.)
We will not identify users or their browsing activities, except where a law enforcement agency (or government agency) may exercise a legal authority to inspect the ISP logs (e.g. by warrant, subpoena or notice to produce).
Cookies.
- We may use "cookie" files to enhance the use of the Society web site for the Society's members, customers and web site users. A "cookie" is a small text file placed on a computer's hard drive by our web page server in order to recognize that someone has visited the Society web site before, and to apply the configuration preferences that he or she has chosen. Other than the information provided by the
- Society web site visitor, cookie files do not contain information that can be used to identify an individual visitor. You can disable cookies using your Internet browser's settings. Please consult your browser's help function for information on how to disable cookies. Note that if you disable cookies, certain features of our web site may not function properly. We do not require anyone to accept cookies in order to use the Society web site.
The Society also employs the use of email technology as a means of communicating with our members. Email will only be used to respond to a member query lodged by this medium, or where specifically consented to by the individual.
Email and online forms that you send us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmission of the information. As a result, confidential or sensitive information should not be submitted by this method.
Generally, we will retain the content of incoming email messages, details of the sender and any response provided by the Society. Email transmissions and content may also be monitored by authorised the Society personnel for security reasons.How is the information used that I submit in online forms or applications?
Where you specifically decide to lodge an application or request, disclosure of personal information will be required to enable the Society to respond.
Information typed into any online application or request form will only be collected by us if you submit the application or request. If at any stage you cancel your application or log out prior to submitting the details, any information previously entered up to that point is automatically deleted.
Any information collected from a submitted online form is kept strictly confidential and is used by the Society to identify you and respond to your request. The details are accessed only by authorised the Society staff, agents or contractors in the course of legitimately actioning your request. Personal contact details are also used to confirm and update your membership record.