Privacy Policy

Our Commitment

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to communicate to you how we manage, collect, deal with, protect and allow access to personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (the APPs). We understand the importance placed on the privacy of your personal information. We will endeavour to make you aware of the contents of this Privacy Policy before or as soon as reasonably practicable after collecting any personal information about you.

This Privacy Policy is available at our website at lionsclubs.com.au. We may be contacted at any time at [email protected]

Scope

The District is therefore taking all reasonable steps to comply with the Act and to protect the privacy of any personal or corporate information held by it.

The District collects and holds personal information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and the like for the primary purpose that such information was collected. This includes information required by The District in order to acquaint members, or other individuals in the community, with particulars of activities and projects undertaken by The District.

Normally, the personal information is collected from the members or other individuals concerned. It is acknowledged that members, or other individuals, are under no obligation to provide the information however, if certain information is not provided the The District will not be able to fulfil its obligations or provide the service requested. Most information is stored in the National Office under the supervision of the Executive Officer.

The District takes all reasonable steps to protect the security of the personal information held by it, whether stored in electronic or hard copy form. Subject to the exceptions contained in the Act and APPs, each member, or other individual, may gain access to his or her personal information held by the The District subject to the payment of reasonable expenses incurred in extracting such information.

Our website

A person may use our website anonymously but any information which a person chooses to submit to us will be treated in accordance with this Policy. Our internet service provider may record details of visits to our site and when visiting our site your visit may be logged and the following information collected:

• the visitor's server address, domain name and browser type;

• the date and time of the visit to the site;

• the pages accessed and the documents downloaded;

• the previous website visited;

• the user's operating system; and

• the links followed from other sites to get to the current site.

The website visit information listed above is collected for statistical and research purposes only and will only be utilised internally by the organisation.

The gaining of access by any member, or other individual, to his or her personal information will be facilitated by contacting: