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Privacy Policy

University of Sydney

In this Privacy Policy, 'us' 'we' or 'our' means the University of Sydney ABN 15 211 513 464, which operates Mind Your Mate. We are committed to respecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy sets outs out how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information.

By providing personal information to us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other arrangements that apply between us. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing changes to it on our website. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

Personal information includes information or an opinion about an individual that is reasonably identifiable. For example, this may include your name, age, gender, postcode and contact details.

What personal information do we collect?

We may collect the following types of personal information:

  1. name;

  2. mailing or street address;

  3. email address;

  4. telephone number and other contact details;

  5. your device ID, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;

  6. details of the products and services we have provided to you or that you have enquired about, including any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and respond to your enquiries;

  7. any additional information relating to you that you provide to us directly through our website or indirectly through your use of our website or online presence or through other websites or accounts from which you permit us to collect information;

  8. information you provide to us through customer surveys; or

  9. any other personal information that may be required in order to facilitate your dealings with us.

We may collect these types of personal information either directly from you, or from third parties. We may collect this information when you:

  1. register on our website;

  2. interact with our sites, services, content and advertising

Why do we collect, use, and disclose personal information?

We may collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

  1. to enable you to access and use our website and products and services;

  2. to operate, protect, improve and optimise our website, products, services and business and our users’ experience, such as to perform analytics, conduct research and for advertising and marketing;

  3. to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you; and

  4. to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our users, and enforce our agreements with third parties.

To whom do we disclose your personal information?

We may disclose personal information for the purposes described in this privacy policy to:

  1. our employees and related bodies corporate;

  2. third party suppliers and service providers (including providers for the operation of our websites and/or our business or in connection with providing our products and services to you);

  3. professional advisers, dealers and agents;

  4. our existing or potential agents, business partners or partners;

  5. anyone to whom our assets or businesses (or any part of them) are transferred;

  6. specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by us; and/or

  7. other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

Security

We may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form. We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, interference and loss, as well as unauthorised access, modification or disclosure and we use a number of physical, administrative, personnel and technical measures to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

Links

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or any content on, those linked websites, and have no control over or rights in those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ substantially from our Privacy Policy, so we encourage individuals to read them before using those websites.

Accessing or correcting your personal information

You can access the personal information we hold about you if you contact us. Sometimes, we may not be able to provide you with access to all of your personal information and, where this is the case, we will tell you why. We may also need to verify your identity when you request your personal information. If you think that any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.

Making a complaint

If you think we have breached the Privacy Act, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your personal information, you can contact us. Please include your name, email address and/or telephone number and clearly describe your complaint. We will acknowledge your complaint and respond to you regarding your complaint within a reasonable period of time. If you think that we have failed to resolve the complaint satisfactorily, we will provide you with information about the further steps you can take.

Contact Us

For further information about our Privacy Policy or practices, or to access or correct your personal information, or make a complaint, please contact us.