PRivacy Policy
This website is operated by the Future Group as convenors of Businessfor75.
We understand your concerns about privacy and the security of your personal information. Your privacy is important to us, and we are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). We are committed to protecting the personal information that we hold about you. To ensure compliance with the Privacy Act and as part of our commitment to ensuring the security of your private and confidential information, we have established and implemented this Policy.
We will take reasonable steps to protect your information
Comply with the notification requirements of the Act if we are aware of your information being lost or compromised
Never sell your information to a third party, use information we collect from you and from other sources to provide services to you and to improve how we operate and provide those services.
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Collecting your personal information: What is personal information? Personal information is information or an opinion that allows others to identify you. This includes your name, gender and contact details.
Why do we collect, hold and use your personal information? We will only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to offer and administer our services and products, or to provide information about a service or product or any other information that you have requested from us. We will collect personal information only by lawful and fair means. If you interact with Business for 75, we may collect information to identify and interact with you.
What type of information can we collect from you? Personal information: namecontact details technical and usage information (e.g. IP address, cookies when you use our website)
Sensitive information: For some of our products and services, we may also need to collect sensitive information about you where the information is necessary for one or more of our functions or activities and you consent to the collection, or it is required or authorized by law.
How do we collect your information?Unless impracticable or unreasonable to do so, we will collect information directly from you. This might be when you contact us by telephone, email, letter or online in order to complete a product or service application, or any other kind of administrative form. Our emails may contain automatic features that collect personal information. You can engage with us through social media, our website, or our mobile phone app. If we are permitted by law to do so, we may collect information about you from third parties. We may collect this information from our affiliates, Authorised Representatives, or other third parties such as employers.If you ask us, we will take reasonable steps to let you know how we have sourced your personal information, unless it is obvious from the circumstances that you would know or would reasonably expect us to have the information (such as where we are dealing with your advisers).
Modifying your consent and opting-out of marketing. We may use your personal information to contact you to discuss this campaign or other business campaigns associated with Businessfor75. You may modify or withdraw your consent, or opt-out of receiving direct marketing at any time by contacting the Privacy Officer: privacy@futuregroup.com.au. If you receive electronic communications, such as an e-newsletter, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in the communication.
Using and disclosing your personal information: We will generally only use and disclose your personal information for the purpose that it was collected for, any related purpose that you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose it for, for the purpose of analytics, or as permitted under this Privacy Policy or under any law. “Aussie Business For A Fair Deal On Gas” otherwise has a duty to maintain the confidentiality of its clients’ information unless disclosure is permitted with your consent or compelled under any law.
Using your personal informationYour information may be used for the following purposes: “Aussie Business For A Fair Deal On Gas”; delivering an open letter to government; email contact regarding the activities of “Aussie Business For A Fair Deal On Gas” or other Businessfor75 campaigns; email contact regarding any similar future advocacy activities. The names of companies that have signed the open letter will be made public, appear on the website and be available to media. We may also reach out to request assistance in promoting “Aussie Business For A Fair Deal On Gas”, either through media or social media. We may conduct data analysis and data analytics on the information we hold. Generally, this information is based on aggregated data that does not contain information that identifies individuals.
Disclosing your personal information: We may disclose your information to our affiliates or third-party service providers to assist us in providing, managing and administering our services and products, such as:any third party on specific matters if you have expressly consented to the disclosure; our Authorised Representatives; and other third party service providers or where required by law.
Holding and retaining your personal information: We take reasonable precautions to protect and secure your personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or unauthorised disclosure.Y our personal information is held by us electronically on secure systems provided by cloud service providers. Personal information held electronically is secured by passwords, encryption and firewalls in line with Australian information security standards. We undertake audits and monitoring of staff access to our systems. Your personal information is only retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was collected, unless we are required to retain the information for a certain period of time under an Australian law or court or tribunal order. Once no longer required, we take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal information.
Resolving privacy issuesIf you have any questions, would like further information about our privacy and information handling practices, would like to discuss opt-outs, believe that your privacy has been breached or you have a privacy complaint, please contact the Privacy Officer:
Post: Attn: Privacy Officer
Future Group
Level 3, 31 Alfred Street Sydney NSW 2000
Email: privacy@futuregroup.com.au.
We are committed to respecting your privacy and we will respond to you as soon as reasonably possible. You can also refer to our Complaints Policy for information on how we manage and respond to complaints.If you are not satisfied with the resolution of your complaint, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by one of the options below:Post: GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au.Phone: 1300 363 992Online: https://www.oaic.gov.au.
Web beacons: We may also use tracking technologies called web beacons to collect information about your visit to our sites. Like cookies, this technology enables us to track pages and content accessed and viewed by users on “Aussie Business For A Fair Deal On Gas” sites. Also, when we send HTML-formatted (as opposed to plain text) emails to our users, this technology may be embedded in such emails. Using web beacons allows us to determine whether emails have been opened or links were accessed, and to identify aggregate trends, individual usage, and generate statistics about how our site is used.You can avoid web beacons by choosing to open emails in plain text. You can manage these settings through your email application.
Links to other websites: You may be able to access external websites by clicking on links provided on Business for 75 websites. These websites aren’t subject to our privacy standards and procedures. Once you leave our websites, our privacy policy no longer applies.You’ll need to review those websites directly to view a copy of their privacy policies and to ensure your personal information is protected.
Social media applications: Whilst we may use social networking platforms for communications, we won’t ask you to supply personal information publicly over these platforms.