Newsboys Foundation

Privacy Policy

Newsboys Foundation – Website Privacy Policy

About

Newsboys Foundation places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy was created because Newsboys Foundation is firmly committed to the privacy of our website users. This policy explains what types of information is collected by Newsboys Foundation’s website, www.newsboysfoundation.org.au and how this information is used. By using the Newsboys Foundation’s website, you consent to Newsboys Foundation using your personal information as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information Collected
Newsboys Foundation’s website users that transact on our website or sign up to receive Newsboys Foundation’s e-communications voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name and e-mail address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always “opt out,” of receiving communications from Newsboys Foundation, either now or at any time in the future.

IP Addresses
Newsboys Foundation uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.newsboysfoundation.org.au and for statistical metrics to track website visitor traffic via Google Analytics.

Cookies
Newsboys Foundation uses cookies to remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. Cookies also collect information about which pages on our website you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to our website (for example, from Google, another search engine, social media or otherwise) and what you view or select on our site.  A “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us track the information and features you are particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of our website so we know which parts of our site are most popular. Specifically, we use Google Analytics for this purpose.  By using Newsboys Foundation’s website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google’s Privacy Policy and for the purposes set out above. You can disable or reject cookies by changing the setting in your web browser.

How Your Information May Be Used
We use your personal information to provide you with personalised service, to send e-mail communications to you, to send you newsletters, to answer your requests, to process donations, etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitor information about our website. This lets us see which features on our website are the most popular so we can better serve your needs.

Access To Information

You may gain access to personal information that we hold about you. You can have us correct any errors or delete the information we have about you.  Please contact us to receive a copy of the information we hold about you (if any).

 

External Third Parties

We may share your personal information with the parties set out below for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy:

  • Service providers acting as processors based in Australia who provide IT and system administration services;
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, consultants and insurers based in Australia who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting service; and
  • Specific third parties such as Google, Stripe, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress and Give.

Email Privacy
Newsboys Foundation does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone.

External Links
Newsboys Foundation’s website includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.newsboysfoundation.org.au domain, and Newsboys Foundation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, officers and contractors who have a business need to know. They will only access your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.  We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for analytical, research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

 

International Visitors

Newsboys Foundation’s website is hosted in Australia and our work is solely conducted in Australia.  However, if you choose to use our website from the European Union or another region outside of Australia, from a region with laws governing data collection that differ from Australia, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of such region to Australia for storage and processing.  If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is effective from 25 May 2018.  In that case, Newsboys is the Controller and responsible for your personal data and our Privacy Officer is the Data Protection Officer (DPO).  Newsboys has taken all necessary steps to comply with the GDPR and we will only use your personal information and data as the law allows us to.  Under certain circumstances, EEA residents have rights under the GDPR to request access to their personal data, request corrections, request erasure of data, object to processing, request restriction of processing, request transfer of data and withdraw consent of processing data. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact our Privacy Officer (acting as DPO) as set out below.

Modifications
This Privacy Policy is effective from 25 May 2018.  We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.

Questions

If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at: [email protected]