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This site is owned and operated by VicHealth using software licensed from Harvest Digital Planning (Harvest). For details on how VicHealth collects and protects your personal information, refer to their Privacy Policy below. For details of how Harvest may access personal information, please refer to Harvest’s Privacy Policy.
VicHealth is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information in accordance with the Information Privacy Principles (IPPs), which are set out in the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.
The IPPs govern the collection, use, handling and disclosure of personal and sensitive information.
This
Privacy Statement explains how VicHealth will handle your personal
information when you access and interact with this Website.
For
the purposes of this Privacy Statement, the term 'personal
information' has the same meaning as provided in the Privacy and Data
Protection Act 2014, that being:
'information or an
opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a
database), that is recorded in any form and whether true or not,
about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be
ascertained, from the information or opinion'.
Collection of
personal information – general principles
It is intended that this Website can be used anonymously. However, for some functions, the collection of personal information is necessary or unavoidable.
Examples of where it may be necessary or unavoidable for VicHealth to collect your personal information via this Website may include when you or another person:
In most cases, you will know if we are collecting your personal information because you will be requested to provide it.
There are two exceptions to this:
Use and disclosure of personal information
We will only use personal information provided for the purposes for which it was collected as outlined in the Top Spin Terms and Conditions, or for a secondary purpose where we are permitted to do so under the Privacy and Data Protection Act, 2014.
We may disclose personal information to third parties engaged to carry out services on behalf of VicHealth, and if required by law.
Web analytics
VicHealth websites use cookies to make your experience of the site easier and more efficient. A cookie is a small data file placed on your hard drive by a web page server. A cookie cannot retrieve any data from your hard drive, pass on a computer virus, or capture your email address. The cookie will remain on your computer as a record for future visits to this Website.
You
can configure your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie,
providing you with the opportunity to either accept or reject it. You
can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser or
deleting all cookies from your computer.
VicHealth
uses Google Analytics to collect data to track how our visitors
interact with this Website. This data includes the number of visits
to the Website, the time and date of visits to the Website and its
pages, where the user came from, what the user did on the site and
whether the user has completed any transactions on the site such as
newsletter registration, demographics and interest reporting (such as
where the user is from, age group, gender and interest area).
This
information is anonymous and is used for statistical purposes to
ensure that our Website is providing information relevant to our
users.
Google
Analytics uses a first-party cookie and JavaScript code to collect
this information.
Linked Sites
This Privacy Statement applies only to the Top Spin website and does not apply to Linked Sites.
When
accessing Linked Sites from any hyperlink appearing on this website,
we recommend that you read any applicable privacy statement or policy
applicable to that Linked Site.
Accessing and correcting personal information
You may request access, at any time, to any personal information we may have collected about you.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is accurate, complete and up to date whenever VicHealth collects, discloses or uses it.
You
may also request that we correct your personal information if you
think it is not accurate, complete or up to date.
How to make privacy enquiries
Should you wish to gain access to, or request the correction of, your personal information held by VicHealth, or if you have any other general enquiries relating to this Privacy Statement, please contact the VicHealth Privacy Officer at privacy@vichealth.vic.gov.au, or write to us at:
Privacy
Officer
VicHealth
PO
Box 154
Carlton
South
3053
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