All personal information collected by Young Achievement Australia (YAA) is protected by the Privacy Act 1988. Information on the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 can be found on the Federal Privacy Commissioner's web site.
YAA is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information that YAA receives and collects from you.
Scope:
This text provides a summary of the full YAA Privacy Policy, which describes in detail YAA's privacy practices. For those who do not wish to use the Internet, YAA provides alternative ways of providing information. For example, forms may be printed and lodged by post.
Personal information YAA collects:
- YAA collects personal information (such as your name, address, email address, date of birth, school year and preferred days) where that is necessary for performance of its functions.
- Generally, YAA collects your personal information directly from you.
- YAA's web server automatically records information when you visit this website and logs certain information, including the uniform resource locators ("URLs") of web pages that you visit.
Use, Sharing of Information and Disclosure:
- We only use your personal information for the purposes for which you provide it to us and for directly related purposes (unless otherwise required by or authorised under law).
- We may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties outside of YAA. - When we use third parties to assist YAA in processing your personal information, we require that they comply with YAA's Privacy Policy, the Information Privacy Principles in the Commonwealth's Privacy Act 1988, and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We may disclose your personal information to third parties in limited circumstances authorised under law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (eg, preventing fraud or imminent threat to the life or health of the individual concerned or another person and ensuring the security of YAA statutory functions).
Access to your information:
We will provide you access to your personal information upon request and let you either correct such information if it is inaccurate or delete it, when reasonably possible.
Important information:
YAA is bound by the Information Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988.
