Privacy
© Commonwealth of Australia 2008
Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) is currently contracted to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to provide certain services required for a project with DEEWR. Information collected on this website belongs to DEEWR and therefore DEEWR's Privacy Policy applies at all times. A full copy of DEEWR's Privacy Policy is available at www.deewr.gov.au.
DEEWR is not responsible for content provided via external links from this website.
All personal information collected by the DEEWR is protected by the Privacy Act 1988. Information on the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 can be found on the Federal Privacy Commissioner's web site.
The Department is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information that DEEWR and DEEWR-funded service providers (collectively, DEEWR) receive and collect from you.
Scope
This document provides a summary of the full DEEWR Privacy Policy, which describes in detail DEEWR's privacy practices. The full Privacy Policy is available www.deewr.gov.au.
For those who do not wish to use the Internet, DEEWR provides alternative ways of providing information.
Personal information DEEWR collects:
- DEEWR collects personal information (such as your name, email address, and date of birth) where that is necessary for performance of its functions, including functions related to services provided by Aspect on behalf of DEEWR under the Helping Children with Autism package. Information will be used by DEEWR to inform the ongoing and future operations of this program and related functions.
- Generally, DEEWR collects your personal information directly from you. However, there are circumstances where we collect personal information from a third party, such as another Australian Government Department if you have consented or would reasonably expect us to collect the information in this way.
- The servers that this website is hosted on automatically record information when you visit this website and logs certain information, including the uniform resource locators ("URLs") of web pages that you visit.
- DEEWR uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to collect data about the use of web browsers in order to improve the quality of service. No personal information is stored within this website's cookies.
Use, Sharing of Information and Disclosure:
- DEEWR only use your personal information for the purposes for which you provide it to us and for directly related purposes (unless otherwise required by or authorised under law).
- DEEWR may share aggregated non-personal information with third parties outside of DEEWR.
- When DEEWR use third parties to assist in processing your personal information, we require that they comply with DEEWR's Privacy Policy, the Information Privacy Principles in the Commonwealth's Privacy Act 1988, and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- DEEWR may disclose your personal information to third parties in limited circumstances authorised under law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (eg, preventing fraud or imminent threat to the life or health of the individual concerned or another person, ensuring the security of DEEWR statutory functions, and protecting the public revenue).
Access to your information
DEEWR will provide you access to your personal information upon request and let you either correct such information if it is inaccurate or delete it, when reasonably possible. Read more in the full privacy policy.
Important information:
DEEWR is bound by the Information Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988. The Aspect website follows the Federal Privacy Commissioner's Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government Worldwide Websites. For privacy-related information about specific DEEWR programmes/services, please check the relevant privacy notices for those specific programmes.
How to contact us:
Privacy Contact Officer – Loc GC21
The Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
GPO Box 9880 Canberra ACT 2601
Australia