Privacy Policy
It is Media Pride's policy to respect and protect your privacy. Media Pride follows Australian best practice guidelines and the Privacy Act 1988 to ensure the protection of privacy of all its Members.
Collection, use and disclosure of information
We will only collect personal information from you with your prior knowledge and consent. You can access our website home page and browse our site without disclosing personal information.
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to process and maintain your membership;
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to enable a copy of the Media Pride newsletter(s) to be distributed to you, by email;
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to identify you as a Media Pride Member at our functions; and,
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on occasion, to promote other services that may be of interest or value to you. This may include information about our own products and services, or the products and services of other organisations, with whom we have developed a community service partnership.
If information is not provided, Media Pride may not be able to provide these services.
Our website may contain links to other sites. This privacy policy does not extend beyond this website, and Media Pride is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these sites. When linking to other sites from this website, we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the privacy policy of such sites.
Media Pride is sole owner of all collected information. We shall not sell, share or rent any information in any way different to the purposes indicated in this statement. Media Pride will only provide access to membership related information pertaining to the individual named on a single Membership to the Member appearing on that Membership.
We ensure that your personal information will not be disclosed to other institutions and authorities unless we seek your consent or except if required by law or other regulation.
Cookies
Cookies are data that is sent by a website and stored in a user’s computer. The cookie is recognised by the website each time the user visits the website. A cookie can contain data such as the parts of a website a user has visited or the duration of the user’s visit to the website.
Generally, Media Pride website does not use cookies. If any part of the Media Pride website uses cookies users will be advised. However, it is recommended that users set their browser to identify the presence of cookies and to give them the option of accepting or rejecting them.
Storage and security
Your personal information is stored securely to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. We will remove your personal information from our system upon a written request from you, or where and when it is no longer required (except where archiving is necessary).
When you visit mediapride.com.au, our Internet Service Provider makes a record of your visit and logs the following information (metadata):
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your server (IP) address;
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your top level domain name (for example: .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc.);
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pba.org.au pages you access and any documents you download; and
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the type of browser you are using.
We may use this information to analyse trends, administer the site, track members or visitors’ movements and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to any personal information.
If our privacy policy changes, the revised policy will be posted on this website so you are aware of what information we collect and how we use it. We shall handle all personal information according to the privacy policy under which it was collected.