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Privacy Policy

Date of Last Update: 13 December 2024

This is the privacy policy of the Neil Evans Melanoma Foundation Ltd ABN 54 655 922 651 (weus or our).

  1. We respect your privacy
    1. We respect your right to privacy and are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information.
    2. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) and to the extent applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
    3. “Personal information” is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you. This includes information such as your name, email address, or any other type of information that can reasonably identify an individual, either directly or indirectly.
    4. You may contact us in writing at hello@nemf.org.au for further information about this privacy policy.
  2. What personal information is collected
    1. We will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you provide to us by way of submission to our website using the donation, fundraising and subscription functions.
    2. You may provide information such as your name, address, email, telephone number, and city.
    3. Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.
    4. Generally, we do not collect sensitive information about you unless required by law or where it is required in order for us to provide you with the services. “Sensitive information” includes information relating to race, political or religious beliefs, sexual orientation and sexual life, criminal convictions, membership of professional or trade associations or unions, biometric information or information about your affiliation with certain organisations such as professional associations. If Sensitive Information is required, we will limit its collection to the minimum amount required to perform our services.
  3. How we collect your personal information
    1. We collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you contact us with a question or enquiry, subscribe to our mailing list, make a donation or when you access our website.  We may use ‘cookies’ on our website. Cookies are an industry standard and most major websites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our website may place on your computer as a tool to remember your preferences. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser.
    2. Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval or these websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.
    3. By providing us with personal information, you consent to the supply of that information subject to the terms of this privacy policy.
  4. How we use your personal information
    1. We will use personal information only for the purposes that you consent to. This may include to:
      1. communicate with you about donations, products, services, campaigns, causes and events;
      2. provide you with information and support services, and to evaluate and report on those services;
      3. conduct and/or fund research into the causes of cancer, as well as diagnosis, treatment and cures;
      4. to provide you with information about cancer risk factors and to seek your support for campaigns;
      5. enable you to assist us with volunteering, community fundraising, advocacy and other activities where we seek the community’s assistance;
      6. communicate with you in relation to our operations, activities and objectives;
      7. communicate with you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to, by telephone, email, SMS text message, or mail. Where we use your personal information for this purpose, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out; and
        investigate any complaints.
    2. If you withhold your personal information, it may not be possible for us to provide you with our products and services or for you to fully access our website.
    3. We may disclose your personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, legal proceedings or in response to a law enforcement agency request.If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases.
  5. Disclosure of your personal information
    1. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.
    2. As a result of these practices, we may disclose personal information to overseas recipients but will take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipient does not breach Australian Privacy Principles in relation to the information.
    3. If we do disclose your personal information to a third party, we will protect it in accordance with this privacy policy.
    4. Where practicable, you will be given the opportunity to engage with us on an anonymous basis or using a pseudonym.
  6. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Union (EU)
    1. We will comply with the principles of data protection set out in the GDPR for the purpose of fairness, transparency and lawful data collection and use.
    2. We process your personal information as a Processor and/or to the extent that we are a Controller as defined in the GDPR.
    3. We must establish a lawful basis for processing your personal information. The legal basis for which we collect your personal information depends on the data that we collect and how we use it.
    4. We will only collect your personal information with your express consent for a specific purpose and any data collected will be to the extent necessary and not excessive for its purpose. We will keep your data safe and secure.
    5. We will also process your personal information if it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or to fulfil a contractual or legal obligation.
    6. We process your personal information if it is necessary to protect your life or in a medical situation, it is necessary to carry out a public function, a task of public interest or if the function has a clear basis in law.
    7. We do not collect or process any personal information from you that is considered “Sensitive Personal Information” under the GDPR, such as personal information relating to your sexual orientation or ethnic origin unless we have obtained your explicit consent, or if it is being collected subject to and in accordance with the GDPR.
    8. You must not provide us with your personal information if you are under the age of 16 without the consent of your parent or someone who has parental authority for you.
  7. Your rights under the GDPR
    1. If you are an individual residing in the EU, you have certain rights as to how your personal information is obtained and used. We comply with your rights under the GDPR as to how your personal information is used and controlled if you are an individual residing in the EU.
    2. Except as otherwise provided in the GDPR, you have the following rights:
      1. To be informed how your personal information is being used;
      2. Access your personal information (we will provide you with a free copy of it);
      3. To correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
      4. To delete your personal information (also known as “the right to erasure” and “the right to be forgotten”);
      5. To restrict processing of your personal information;
      6. To retain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes;
      7. To object to your personal information being used; and
      8. To object against automated decision making and profiling.
    3. Please contact us at any time to exercise your rights under the GDPR at hello@nemf.org.au.
    4. We may ask you to verify your identity before acting on any of your requests.
  8. Hosting and International Data Transfers
    1. Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties or sites located in countries outside of Australia.
    2. Our office is located in Australia. However, in the event that we open offices or facilities outside of Australia, any transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards.
    3. You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or service may be available, via the internet, around the world.  We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
  9. Security of your personal information
    1. We are committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
    2. Where we employ data processors to process personal information on our behalf, we only do so on the basis that such data processors comply with the requirements under the GDPR and that they have adequate technical measures in place to protect personal information against unauthorised use, loss and theft.
    3. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us.  Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure your that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this privacy policy.
  10. Access to your personal information
    1. You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), and to the extent applicable the GDPR. If you would like a copy of the information which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at hello@nemf.org.au.
    2. We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), to the extent applicable the GDPR or any other applicable law.
  11. How long will we keep your personal information?
    1. Your personal information will not be kept for longer than is necessary for us to fulfil the specific purposes outlined in this privacy policy, and to allow us to comply with our legal requirements.
  12. Complaints about privacy
    1. If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to hello@nemf.org.au. We take complaints very seriously and will respond as soon as practicable after receiving written notice of your complaint and within 30 days at the latest.
  13. Changes to privacy policy
    1. Please be aware that we may change this privacy policy in the future. We may modify this privacy policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website. Please check back from time to time to review our privacy policy.