Privacy Policy

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance with the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website Security and Privacy Statement. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted).

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia regularly reviews developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia strives to protect such information, adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance with the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website Security and Privacy Statement. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted).

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia regularly reviews developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia strives to protect such information, adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.

The information that adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia collects about you is dependent on how you use the facilities offered by the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website.

If you visit an unsecure area of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website (that is, an area where you are not required to log on) to read, browse or download information, our system will record the date and time of your visit to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. However, our systems will not record any personally identifiable information.

The adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website offers a number of interactive facilities including tools such as online enquiry forms.

If you decide to complete an online enquiry form, the information that you enter into the online form will only be collected by adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia if you submit your online enquiry form. If at any stage you cancel your application or log off prior to submitting your application, the information you have entered up to that point will be automatically deleted.

The adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website also contains links to the websites of other agencies (“Third Party websites”). If you have accessed Third Party websites through the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website and if those third parties collect information about you, Third Party websites should contain their own privacy statements and those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.

It is necessary for adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia to collect your IP address for your interaction with various parts of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website. Your IP address is the identifier for your computer when you are using the internet.

For instance, adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia collects and stores your IP address when you submit your online enquiry form on adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia contact page, as part of our security for adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia. adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia uses this information when we attempt to detect and prevent fraudulent spamming. We store your IP address for security and audit purposes only. Your IP address will not be used by us or released to any third party except in the case of security, inappropriate behaviour or fraud issues, such as unauthorised access to your or our computer systems or fraudulent transactions.

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia uses Facebook, Paypal, Google and YouTube to deliver its online advertising where adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia banner advertisements are placed on Third Party websites (‘Advertising Company’).

When you view a adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia advertisement on a Third Party website, the advertising company uses ‘cookies’ and in some cases ‘web beacons’ to collect information such as:

• The server your computer is logged onto.
• Your browser type.
• The date and time of your visit.
• The performance of their marketing efforts.

When you access the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website after viewing a adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia advertisement on a Third Party website, the advertising company collects information on how you utilise the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website (eg which pages you view) and whether you complete an online application.

The advertising company and tracking companies (‘companies’) use that information to perform statistical analyses of aggregate user behaviour, but those analyses are not based on personal information. adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia uses those analyses to measure advertising effectiveness and relative consumer interest in the various areas of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website. As a general rule, no personal information is collected by the Companies in this process. If, however, any information is automatically collected, these companies are required under their arrangements with adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of that personal information.

We use “cookies” as a fundamental part of our interaction with your Internet browser. The purpose is to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective website.

A “cookie” is a small text file placed on your computer by our web page server. A cookie can later be retrieved by our webpage servers. Cookies are frequently used on websites and you can choose if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring your preferences and options in your browser.

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia uses cookies for two different purposes. We allocate a cookie to each Internet browser that visits the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website. This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you. We use this cookie:

• to allocate a adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia identification number to your Internet browser (but we cannot identify you from this number);
• to determine if you have previously visited the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website;
• to identify pages you have accessed and Third Party websites you have accessed; and
• for security purposes.

Most of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website operates by using this type of cookie.

Accordingly, if you wish to make full use of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website, it is required that you accept cookies.

adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia also uses cookies for secure services (that is, an area where adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia uses encryption) on the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website. These cookies are used for a variety of purposes, including for security and personalisation reasons. If your browser is configured to reject all cookies you will be unable to use secure services on the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website that require cookies in order to participate. Those services include (but are not limited to):

• Online applications;
• Online Enquiry Forms.

You may still be able to use some information-only pages even if you do not accept cookies.

We will preserve the content of any e-mail that you send us, if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Your e-mail message content may be monitored by our adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia employees for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected; our response to you may be monitored for quality assurance issues.

We will only use or disclose personal information or information generated by cookies in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (PIPP Act), specific and additional provisions relating to privacy which apply to certain areas of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website and as otherwise set out in this Security and Privacy Statement.

You acknowledge and accept that your use of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website indicates your acceptance of the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website Security and Privacy Statement.

This is the current Security and Privacy Statement. It replaces any other Security and Privacy Statement for the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website published on the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website to date. adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia may at any time vary the Security and Privacy Statement by publishing the varied Security and Privacy Statement on the adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia website. You accept that by doing this, adfa – The Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.