This policy outlines our ongoing commitment to maintain the privacy of your personal information. We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988. The APPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your personal information.
A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au.
What is Personal Information and why do we collect it?
When you join Northside Creative Photography Inc as a member, or during your membership with us, we may need to collect some of the following information about you:
This information will be used by our admin team to manage your membership with Northside Creative Photography and to organise and run our activities.
We offer Members the opportunity to receive groupinformation by email. When you sign-up to our mailing list we will ask for your email address and will use this data to send you information about our events and activities. We will only send you information that is related to Northside Creative Photography. Anything we send you will include a clear option to unsubscribe, and you can do so at any time by replying to the email.
We do not knowingly collect or store any personal data about children under the age of 13.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We will never pass on your details to third parties for marketing purposes.
Our software provider, HarmonySite has access to the data stored in our website. HarmonySite has its own Data Protection Policy.
Security of Personal Information
Your personal information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
Our data retention policy is to review all data held on individuals at least every two years and remove data where we no longer have a legitimate reason to keep it. Where you have withdrawn your consent for us to use your data for a particular purpose (e.g. unsubscribed from a mailing list) we may retain some of your data for up to two years in order to preserve a record of your consent having been withdrawn.
Access to your Personal Information
You can contact us at any time to access, update or correct the data we hold on you. Please advise us as soon as possible if the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate.
Website operation
When a person visits our website, we collect and analyse anonymised data on how many people have visited, what pages they have looked at, and other statistical information.
We also use cookies on our website to allow members to log in and out of our members-only section. Cookies can also store user preferences to make the website quicker and easier to use. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. However, switching off cookies may prevent some aspects of our website from working fully (e.g. you may not be able to access our members area).
Policy Updates
If we make changes to our privacy statements or procedures we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email individuals affected with the new details. Where required by law, will we ask for your consent to continue processing your data after these changes are made.
Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries
If you have any queries or complaints about or Privacy Policy, please contact us.
