Privacy Policy 

We respect your privacy and want to provide the following details about the collection of personal information.

What is Personal Information?
Information or an opinion about an individual where you can tell or reasonably work out who the information or opinion is about.

Collection
Only personal information about you that is relevant to our organisation will be collected. This may include general information such as your name, e-mail address, contact details and computer’s IP address.

Where reasonably possible, personal information is only collected through our website when you knowingly provide it. For example, information such as your name, address and email may be requested, to provide you with information you have requested.

This website enables you to submit and publish personal information about you and other people. You are responsible and accept liability for ensuring that those people are aware that you are providing us with their personal information and of the terms of this privacy policy.

The purpose for collecting personal information should be clear when we collect it. If you are uncertain, please make contact via the address below.

You can generally visit this website without revealing who you are or other personal information. Personal information about visitors to this website will not be collected. Technology may be used to keep track of which sections of our website you visit for internal purposes, including to help improve the website and other services.

Use and disclosure
Personal information collected will only be used as allowed by law. This means it may be used for the purpose it was collected, as disclosed to you at the time of collection, or as otherwise set out in this policy. If your information is to be used for any other purpose, your consent will first be sought unless it is not required by law.

Your personal information will generally only be used to:

  • respond to your enquiries or comments;

  • supply you with information you have requested;

  • tell you about any new developments, campaigns, or events that may interest you;

  • request your assistance (such as volunteering or donating to assist in campaigns);

  • disclose donations, whether required by law or otherwise;

  • help to improve our website and services;

  • assist other organisations in providing services to us, such as telecommunications companies, event organisers, IT contractors (such as website developers and hosts), lawyers, accountants, financiers and promotions companies; and

  • meet any legal requirements.

Any information posted in comments or forums or communicated in chat areas becomes public information and you take full responsibility for the disclosure of such material.

If you believe personal information held about you is inaccurate or incomplete, please make contact via the email address below. We will generally take reasonable steps to correct your personal information where inaccuracies are identified.

Third Party Applications
Third party social media and applications provided by the following third party organisations are used to engage with you:

  • Google & Squarespace – to track and analyse the number of visitors and their use of this website;

  • YouTube – to publish videos;

  • Facebook – to publish information such as news, updates, photos and videos,

  • as well as other third party applications from time to time, which may be hosted on servers overseas.

If you have provided personal information to these third parties or are logged into accounts with these providers when you visit this website, they may be able to identify you with the pages in our sites that you visit. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of any such site to which you supply personal information.

Information you disclose may be published through social media on this website.

Changes to this policy
To keep up with regulatory, technical and organisational change, this policy may be amended from time to time by publishing the updated policy on this website. Please visit this website regularly to keep up to date with any changes.

Contacting us
For further information, problems or complaints regarding information handling practices, please make contact by emailing:

whitsunday@parliament.qld.gov.au