Privacy

 

PURPOSE:
 

The Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology (we, our, us) recognise the importance of protecting the privacy and the rights of individuals in relation to their personal information. This document is our privacy policy and it outlines how we collect and manage your personal information in order to provide our services.

We respect your rights to privacy under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act) and we comply with all of the Act’s requirements in respect to the collection, management and disclosure of your personal information.

 

What is your personal information?

When used in this privacy policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Act. In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and profession or occupation. If the information we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.


What happens if we can’t collect your personal information?

If you do not provide us with the personal information described above, some or all of the following may happen:

  • we may not be able to provide the requested products/services to you, either to the same standard or at all;

  • we may not be able to provide you with information about products/services that you may want, including information about events, member benefit, vacant positions; or

  • we may be unable to tailor the content of our websites to your preferences and your experience of our websites may not be as enjoyable or useful.

 

For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?

We collect personal information about you so that we can perform our Society activities and functions and to provide best possible quality of customer service.

We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes to:

  • Provide products/services to you and to send communications requested by you;

  • Answer enquiries and provide information or advice about existing and new products/services;

  • Provide you with access to protected areas of our website;

  • Assess the performance of the website and to improve the operation of the website;

  • Conduct business processing functions including providing personal information to our contractors, service providers or other third parties;

  • undertake administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), planning, product or service development, quality control and research purposes of ASVP, contractors or service providers;

  • Update our records and keep your contact details up to date;

  • Process and respond to any complaint made by you; and

  • Comply with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority of any country (or political sub-division of a country).

 

Security:

As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

 

Links:

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third party website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website. Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.  Links are not to be viewed as an endorsement of a linked website or their products/services.

 

Contacting us:

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy or a possible breach of your privacy, please use the contact link on our website or contact our Privacy Officer using the details set out below.

We will treat your requests or complaints confidentially. Our representative will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved. We will aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved in a timely and appropriate manner.

Please contact our Privacy Officer at:

Privacy Officer

Australian Society for Veterinary Pathology

Email:  admin@asvp.asn.au

 

Changes to our privacy policy:

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any updated versions of this privacy policy will be posted on our website.