Privacy Policy

We take your privacy seriously.

Privacy Policy

Suicide Prevention Central Coast is bound by information set out in the following link. Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 No 133 https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/act/1998/133

The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998/133 (PPIP Act):

  • protects your privacy rights in NSW by making sure that your personal information is properly collected, stored, used or released by NSW public sector agencies via the Information Protection Principles (IPPs)
  • gives you the right to see and ask for changes to be made to your personal information.
  • allows you to make a complaint to the NSW Privacy Commissioner https://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au  if you believe a NSW public sector agency has misused your personal information or breached one of the IPPs.

Information we collect

Generally, you control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website.

When entering and using our website

When you enter and use our website you accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your Personal Data. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.

We may use cookies for:

  • Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited.
  • Our website analytics.
  • Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details.
  • Allowing you to share content with social networks.

You can modify & control data

You may modify and control how and when cookies are set through your browser settings. If you choose to reject cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly, and you may be unable to use some of our services that require registration in order to participate, or you will have to re-register each time you visit our site.

 At user registration or when using products or services

When you are registering or when using our website and services, we will collect some or all of the following information: your first and last name, email address, and phone number.

How your information is used

We use your information for our legitimate interests including:

  • Provide our products and services you have requested.
  • Respond to your questions.
  • Make improvements to our website.
  • Contact you with updates.
  • Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you.

Communications and emails

From time to time Suicide Prevention Central Coast may email you electronic newsletters, e.g.  Mail Chimp, email updates, announcements, surveys or other information. If you prefer not to receive any or all of these communications, you may opt-out by following the unsubscribe directions provided within the electronic newsletters and announcements. You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from Suicide Prevention Central Coast.

Sharing information with affiliates and other third parties.

We do not sell or rent your Personal Data to third parties for marketing purposes.  We do, however, engage third party companies and individuals to perform services on our behalf.  The types of services and providers may include:

Analytics services (Google Analytics).

Advertising networks (Google, Facebook, Bing, or Amazon).

These third parties have access to your information so that they may perform these tasks on our behalf and they are prohibited by us from using or disclosing your information for any purpose other than to provide this assistance, except to the extent required by law. We may permit our service providers to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for other purposes.

Retaining Your Personal Data

We retain personal information after we have used the personal information for the purposes for which we collected or received it. The duration that we keep your personal information for will be influenced by the nature of that information, and any applicable regulatory requirements.

We will delete this data from the servers at an earlier date if you so request, as described in “Reviewing, Correcting, and Removing Your Personal Data” below.

 Reviewing, correcting, and removing your personal data.

Upon request Suicide Prevention Central Coast will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Data. If you provide us with your Personal Data, you have the following rights with respect to that information:

  • To review the user information that you have supplied to us
  • To request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in user information that you have supplied to us
  • To request that your user information not be used to contact you
  • To request that your user information be removed
  • To request that your user information be deleted from our records

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy policy. These websites will likely have their own privacy policies. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your Personal Data.

Protecting children’s privacy

Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16, we realize that a child under the age of 16 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us at info@suicidepreventioncentralcoast.org.au. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within 30 days. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.

Our email policy

You can always opt out of receiving further email correspondence from us. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the unlikely transfer of our business.

Our security policy

We have built our website and products using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your Personal Data.  We and the third parties, who provide services for us, also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your Personal Data.

Changes to our privacy policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If Suicide Prevention Central Coast decides to change this privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so that our visitors, users, and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your Personal Data in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise, we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ Personal Data in agreement with the privacy policy in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.            

Google Analytics privacy policy

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, and demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with Personal Data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Our legal basis for processing personal data (EEA Individuals Only)

If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for processing your personal data will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal data from you only where we have your consent to do so.

If we collect and use your personal data in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our website and communicate with you as necessary to provide information regarding our services to you and for our legitimate commercial interest. These legitimate interests include, for example, responding to your queries. 

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Please contact us at info@suicidepreventioncentralcoast.org.au

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