Privacy Notice
   
 
Austinmer Rural Fire Brigade ("we") is committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This Website Privacy Notice explains our policy for dealing with personal information that we collect through our website austinmer.rfsa.org.au ("Website").

Throughout this Policy, we refer to your "personal information" which means information which identifies you as an individual or from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Your home address and home telephone number are examples of personal information.

We will post any changes to this Website Privacy Notice on the Website, so we encourage you to check this Website Privacy Notice from time to time.

In addition to the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions that apply to certain sections of the Website. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, we recommend that you review them wherever they appear. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.
 
     
 
INFOMATION COLLECTED
 
 
The information about you which we may collect through the Websites includes:
  • information collected when you register or update an online profile, which may include personal information such as your name and contact details
  • the content of electronic forms you submit via the Website, requesting us to provide information, or take actions.
  • any messages or comments you submit to us via the Websites, eg through an email or 'Contact Us' form, and
  • information collected when you participate in an online survey.
You may browse some information-only areas of the Websites without providing any personal information, however we may not be able to provide the full range of services through the Websites if we are not provided with the information outlined above.

In common with many commercial websites we may also collect aggregated information which tells us about visitors to the Websites but not the identity of those visitors. For example, we may collect information about the date, time and duration of visits and which pages of the Websites are most commonly accessed. This information is used by us to help to administer and improve the Website.
 
 
 
 
NO COOKIES
 
 
The Websites do not use 'cookies', small text files which are placed on your hard drive by some websites to store information.
 
 
 
 
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFOMATION
 
 
We may share personal information with other Rural Fire Service entities. We may use or disclose personal information that we collect about you:
  • for the purposes for which it was collected
  • where you have consented to the use or disclosure
  • to maintain our relationship with you
  • for purposes related to Austinmer Rural Fire Brigades research, planning, service development, security and risk management
  • to the extent that we are required or authorised by law to do so.
We may also use your personal information to keep you informed of our services, events, developments in firefighting and other matters. If you do not wish to be contacted for those purposes, please let us know using the contact details set out below. We aim to provide you with information and invitations that we consider may be of interest or relevance to your business.
 
 
 
 
LINKS
  
 
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of other organisations which may be of interest to you. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.
 
 
 
 
SECURITY
  
 
We use a number of mechanisms to protect the security and integrity of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once any personal information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Some sections of the Websites protect your personal information by requiring you to use a password. For your own protection, we require you to keep this confidential and to change your password regularly.
 
     
 
ACCESS TO INFOMATION
 
 
If you are a registered user, you can access and update the information on your profile by logging into the service using your email address and password. You can change your preferences there about what sorts of notifications you would like to receive from Freehills.

If you wish to request access to any other personal information which we hold about you as a result of our information collection practices outlined in this Website Privacy Notice, please contact us using the 'Contact details' set out below. Please provide as much detail as you can about the particular information you seek, in order to help us retrieve it. An access fee may be charged to cover our costs of providing the information to you.
 
     
 
CONTACT DETAILS
 
 
If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or wish to make a complaint about the way in which we have handled your personal information, you may contact us as set out below:
Email:
Phone:
(02) 4267 4768
Address:
Privacy Officer
Austinmer Rural Fire Brigade
C/O - 30 Foothills Road
Austinmer NSW 2515