Privacy Policy
38th Australian Conference of Economists (ACE09)
ACE09 understands the
importance of protecting the privacy of individuals and is committed to
complying with the Privacy Act 1988, and associates National Privacy
Principles, to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information
collected.
Our policy is to respect your
privacy and only use any data we collect in the direct service of
persons who have registered for, or are interested in, our
conference.
We never supply your details to
parties outside the ACE09 or its agents and will always respect
your wishes for removal from the email notices or the database. We will
only grant access to any part of collected data as part of service
supply if such suppliers have also been bound by a confidentiality
undertaking in advance.
The Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988
defines Personal Information to be "information or an opinion (including
information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or
not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual
whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the
information or opinion."
While you visit this website, we may collect different kinds of Personal
Information from you in a variety of ways.
(a) Clickstream Data
When you visit this website our server makes a record of your visit and
logs the following Personal Information:
- Your server
address;
- Your top level domain name (for
example .com, .gov, .au, .net, .edu, etc);
- The time and date of your visit to
the website;
- The pages and documents you have
accessed or viewed; and
- The type of browser you are
using.
(b) Emails and Electronic Forms
The Personal Information collected by the ACE09 when you send us an
email, or if you complete and submit one of the electronic forms on our
website, will include your email address and may also include some of
your Personal Information. In all cases and at all times, this Personal
Information will only be used for the stated purpose for which it was
provided.
The 38th Australian Conference of Economists (ACE09) records your email
address and Personal Information in the following instances:
- When you send feedback via email or electronic forms.
(c) Our use of cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information stored
on your computer by the ACE09 website server. It is information
that your web browser sends back to the ACE09 website server
whenever you visit it again. Cookies are used to 'remember' your browser
between page visits. In this situation, the cookie identifies your
browser, not you personally. No Personal Information is stored within
the ACE09 cookies.
Purpose and use of Personal Information we collect from you
The Personal Information we collect from you is collected for the
following purposes:
- Website and system administration,
including monitoring to prevent security breaches;
- Enhancement to the website to the
user's needs; and
- Communication, statistics,
research and development.
No attempt will be made to identify individual users or their browsing
activities other than as disclosed in this privacy statement or as
required by law. The Personal Information collected on this website will
not be disclosed to a third party except where authorised by you or
required by law.
Publication of your Personal Information
All Personal Information collected by ACE09 is protected by the
Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 and any subsequent Federal legislation.
Information on the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 can be found on the
Federal Privacy Commissioner's website http://www.privacy.gov.au/
Access to the Personal Information we collect
If you wish to know what, if any, Personal Information we hold about
you, or wish to correct any Personal Information we may hold about you,
you may access and correct such Personal Information at any time by
contacting us using the contact information provided.
Security of your Personal Information
Your Personal Information will be held in strictest confidence. We take
all reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information we hold in
our servers is not subject to loss, misuse or unauthorised access or
alteration. We also take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently
de-identify Personal Information if it is no longer required.
This website does not, however, provide facilities for the secure
transmission of information across the Internet. You should be aware
that there are inherent risks associated with the transmission of
Personal Information via the Internet.
You should also note that if you link to a non-ACE09 website from this
website, a different privacy and security statement is likely to apply.
Therefore, once you leave this website, you should check the
online privacy and security statements of the new website you are
visiting.
When to check this privacy statement
We may make changes to this privacy statement from time to time, so you
should check it each time you visit this website.
If you require further information, contact our
office at:
Australian Conference of Economists
(ACE09)
PO Box 193 Surrey Hills
Victoria 3127
Phone 03 9895 4471
Fax 03 9898 0249.
