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Privacy Policy

How we handle and store your information.

We collect personal information for:

 - Event bookings

 - Financial membership 

 - Email and SMS Subscribers

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The Greek Community of Tasmania respects the privacy of individuals by treating al personal information as confidential and by handling it in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles. We respect your right to pray and understand the need to protect your personal information.

 

This Privacy Policy sets out how we manage the personal information that we collect about you. It also describes, in general terms, the types of personal information we hold, for what purposes and also sets out how that information is collected, used, stored and disclosed by The Greek Community of Tasmania. Please read this privacy policy before using the website at www.greekcommunitytas.com.au (the “website”) or submitting any personal information. By using our website, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit our website to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

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Your personal information is not collected if you only browse our website.

Collection of Your Personal Information

As a community organisation, during the course of its activities, The Greek Community of Tasmania will collect, use and disclose personal information from:

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  1. Visitors to, and users of, our website, including any user submitting an enquiry or form on our website;

  2. People who engage with the Community in relation to events;

  3. People who engage with the Community for the purpose of rental of spaces, language classes, dance classes or other events;

  4. People who engage with the Community in relation to financial memberships;

  5. People who subscribe to SMS and/or email marketing.

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This information can be collected:

  1. directly from you;

  2. when you submit a form (or subscribe);

  3. when you access and interact with the website or a member of the Community board/office team,

  4. from other sources.

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The information collected may include your name, mailing or residential address, telephone number, email address and other transaction and or registration details. If you choose not to provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide the information, goods or the service you may require, or to fulfil one or more other purposes of collection of your personal information.

Use and Disclosure of your Personal Information

Personal information is used the Communityby for its legitimate business purposes, as disclosed at the time of collection. It is also used for ancillary purposes such as locating and identifying subscribers and community members or otherwise servicing The Greek Community of Tasmania's relationship with its stakeholders.

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Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

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You acknowledge and consent that by providing your personal information to us that we may use and disclose your personal information for the purposes for which it was collected or for a related or ancillary purpose such as:

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  1. to facilitate and process any ticket orders;

  2. to carry out or respond to your requests;

  3. to our third party service providers to assist us in providing and improving our services to you, and to analyse trends in sales and better understand our customer’s needs or to develop, and improve market our products and services to you;

  4. for regulatory reporting and compliance with our legal obligations;

  5. to various regulatory bodies and law enforcement officials and agencies to protect against fraud and for related security purposes;

  6. to our third party service providers to include in a database compiled by us or our third party service provider for use in direct marketing of promotions, product and services we think may be of interest to you;

  7. to manage your subscription to SMS or email marketing; 

  8. to resolve a complaint by you about anything issue relating to the Community. 

Use and Disclosure of your Personal Information

A cookie is a small piece of text that is placed within the memory of a computer and can be later retrieved by web page servers. We use cookies to enhance your interaction and convenience with our website and do not use cookies to record any personal information. Cookies may record information about your visit, including the type of browser and operating system you use, the previous site you visited, your server’s IP address, the pages you access and the information downloaded by you. While this anonymous statistical data may be aggregated and used in broader statistical analysis by us and our web monitoring service provider to improve our services, at no time can we personally identify you as the source of that data. Your browser may allow you to disable cookies.

Accuracy of Your Personal Information 

The Community aims to ensure that all personal information held about you is collected and used in accordance with the National Privacy Principles. If you believe your personal information as held by The Community is not accurate, complete or otherwise requires amendment, please do not hesitate to contact the The Greek Community of Tasmania.

Personal Information Security 

We have implemented appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security procedures in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Access to your personal information is limited to those who specifically need it to conduct their responsibilities.

Transmission of Your Data

While care is taken to protect your personal information on the website, unfortunately no data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed as 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you send to us or receive from us online. This is particularly true for information you send to us via email as we have no way of protecting that information until it reaches us. Once we receive your personal information, we are required to protect it in accordance with the Act.

Transmission of Your Data

The Community acknowledges and respects its stakeholders' choice to "opt-out" of direct marketing communication activities undertaken by The Community. If you not wish to receive promotional material from The Community, please contact us and indicate the particular promotional material you do not wish to receive. All emails, SMS and newsletters from this website allow you to opt-out of further mailings by clicking on the link or responding “unsubscribe”,

Transmission of Your Data

More information about your privacy rights, the Act or the National Privacy Principles is available from the Federal Privacy Commissioner's website at www.privacy.gov.au

Resolving Your Privacy Concerns 

If you are concerned with the way your personal information has been handled, please contact or write to us, or alternatively, contact The Community as set out below. If your personal information has not been handled in an appropriate way, we will take steps to remedy your concerns in a reasonable time. Any privacy complaint will be handled by Hill Street in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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Greek Community of Tasmania
65-67 Federal Street
North Hobart TAS 7002
Telephone: (03) 6231 0822
Email: admin@greekcommunity.com.au

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