Privacy Statement

United Way Ballarat is very mindful of the importance of your privacy.  United Way Ballarat will not sell, trade, give or rent any information obtained from you to third parties.

United Way Ballarat may at times collect and store information about you as part of the services we offer on the website.  However, in doing this, we will abide by certain principles and take all reasonable steps to comply with those principles.

In order to provide an up to date and ongoing service, United Way Ballarat collects the personal data that you volunteer when making a donation at unitedwayballarat.com.au or by contacting us through email.  Upon making a donation with unitedwayballarat.com.au website you will be required to provide some basic personal information.  Only that information for the “required” fields is needed to access services on the website.  This information is used for identification purposes and to contact you when necessary.

On completion of your online donation, SSL encryption is implemented to ensure all your credit card and personal details are kept secure and private.  We may also log the IP address of your computer and session details to safeguard against fraudulent activity.

unitedwayballarat.com.au requires you to provide certain information about yourself in order to provide services to you.  Your information will be used by United Way Ballarat for the purpose of processing and receipting only, unless specified.  United Way Ballarat will not pass on your details to any third parties unless you instruct otherwise.

This information is only accessible by you, as a logged in user, and United Way Ballarat for administration purposes.  We will not rent, sell or exchange information about you to third parties unless specifically authorised by you.

United Way Ballarat employees, including any person/s acting as agents for the purpose of the normal maintenance of the website, are trained in and obliged to respect the confidentiality of our clients or any person who visits our website.

You can access our website home page and browse the public area of the website without disclosing personal information.  United Way Ballarat will not require you to identify yourself to us except where it is necessary to use our w ebsite services.

United Way Ballarat will take all reasonable steps to ensure that any information you give us will be subject to this privacy policy and current statutory laws.

You have the right to request access to personal information which United Way Ballarat holds about you and to advise us of any perceived inaccuracy.  The Commonwealth Privacy Act does set out some situations where you are not entitled to access this information.  To make a request, you will need to complete an application form verifying your identity and specifying what information you require.  A fee may be charged for providing access.  We will advise you of the likely cost in advance.

Enquiries

If you have any questions about privacy-related issues please contact us at:

E-mail:  info@unitedwayballarat.com.au 
Post:    Privacy Officer,  United Way Ballarat Community Fund,  PO Box 50,  Ballarat 3353 Tel:     (03) 5331 5555