Cerebral Palsy Alliance

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CP Blogs Privacy Statement

CP Blogs is an initiative of The Spastic Centre.

The Spastic Centre is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We do not collect personal information from you unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide it to us. We do not provide or sell information about our visitors to vendors. Please read the statement below for a more detailed explanation.

Introduction

The Spastic Centre, in New South Wales, Australia, is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its websites. The Spastic Centre respects and upholds a person’s rights to privacy protection under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act), the National Privacy Principles
(NPPs) and other applicable State and Territory privacy legislation, in regulating how it collects, uses, holds and discloses a participant’s personal information.

Personal Information: We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to our site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you.

Comments: Anyone may participate in the site by posting a comment to a blog. You will be asked to enter a username, which does not have to be your real name. Be advised that The Spastic Centre is not responsible for any loss of privacy resulting from you disclosing your real name or any other identifying information in your blog comment.

Subscribing to CP Blogs: You may subscribe to a CP Blog by providing your email address or using the RSS facility on the website.

The Spastic Centre will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information it collects, or uses is protected from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. The Spastic Centre will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that personal information is stored securely, and that only authorised persons have access to the information.

External Website Links: If any links are used that are offered through the CP Blogs website then the policies of the organisation operating that linked site will apply to any information the visitor provides once they have entered that link. The Spastic Centre is not responsible for the privacy or security of any such information.

Cookies: A ‘cookie’ is a small text file that is transferred to your computer hard drive by a web page server. The cookie stores information about the use of the site and can be retrieved by your web page server. Most web browsers are initially set to accept cookies.
However, you can choose if and how a cookie is accepted by configuring your browser accordingly.

Any personal information and any information generated through use of cookies will be used in accordance with this Privacy Statement for the purpose for which it was collected as well as any other purpose related to CP Blogs normal business operations, and also:

  • Other purposes connected with the operation, administration, improvement and development of CP Blogs;
  • Where The Spastic Centre suspects that fraudulent or other unlawful activity has been engaged in;
  • Where use is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious or imminent threat to life, health or safety or such a threat to public health or safety;
  • Where such use is otherwise authorised by or under any law;
  • Use of an email address in order to alert a subscriber to a change of status in their CP Blogs subscription and any changes or alterations in CP Blogs service that affect the subscriber.

Participation in Surveys and Research

From time to time we may ask visitors to participate in a voluntary survey. Survey information will be used to improve this website and our customer service

Changes to this Privacy Statement

If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use our visitors’ details, we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this statement.

For any questions about this Privacy Statement, CP Blogs procedures or online privacy issues please contact the CP Blogs Administrator:

  • E-mail: rcummins@tscnsw.org.au
  • Postal address: CP Blogs Administrator
  • The Spastic Centre
  • PO Box 184, Brookvale, NSW 2100

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