Terms & Conditions

 Disclaimer

The contents of this website are intended for informational purposes only. The Social Blueprint Inc. shall in no event accept any liability for loss or damage suffered by any person or body due to information provided on this site or linked sites.

The information on the The Social Blueprint Inc. website is provided on the basis that persons accessing the website undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content.

 

Website privacy

You can access The Social Blueprint Inc. home page and browse our website without disclosing your personal information. We do not collect personal information when you visit or browse. Where you submit an email automatically generated from the website, or complete and submit a form online, your personal information will be managed in accordance with the policy set out in this Statement. Credit card details you supply to us are not stored on our website or on any The Social Blueprint Inc. database. They are transferred securely by our service provider to the bank. The Social Blueprint Inc. only retains a transaction number, which cannot be linked to your credit card details.

 

Web statistics and data collection

Pages on the site may be coded with Google Analytics software. This software stores a cookie in your browser, which contains a unique identifier, and sends information to Google. This enables Google to track the number of unique visitors to the site. In no way does this unique identifier identify a user personally. We do not and will not marry any data collected by Google with any personal information.

While you can browse this website anonymously, without disclosing your personal information, we may not be able to provide the full range of services through this website if we are not provided with the information outlined above.

When you provide us with personal information about other individuals, reasonable steps must be taken to ensure this fact is brought to the other individuals’ attention. We rely on you to make them aware:

  • that such information will or may be provided to The Social Blueprint Inc.
  • of the types of third parties we may provide it to
  • of the relevant purposes that we and such third parties will use it for
  • how they can access it
  • of any law that required the information to be collected and
  • the consequences for the informant if any of the information is not provided.

The Social Blueprint Inc. will also, in appropriate circumstances, take reasonable steps to ensure that an individual is or individuals are made aware that it holds information in respect to them.

 

Cookies

Like many sites, this website may use cookies from time to time.

Cookies are small data files that a website is able to place on a user’s hard drive to record aspects of that user’s experience of the website. For example, we may use cookies to record that a user visited a particular section of the website, that their browsing software was a particular version or to ensure that online applications and transactions do not require you to re-input information when moving between web pages. In this way, cookies can improve the operation of the website, and make the experience more efficient, more enjoyable or more personalised. Importantly, in depositing information on a user’s computer and referring to it later in the same session (sessional) or on a subsequent visit (persistent), cookies do not need to identify the user or record any personal information.

The default settings of browsers like Internet Explorer may allow some or all cookies, but users can easily take steps to erase cookies from their hard-drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. However, some parts of sites may not function fully for users that disallow cookies.

 

Web beacons

This website may use web beacons from time to time, also known as web bugs, pixel tags or clear GIFs, as some pages on the site are coded with Google Analytics (see further information above under Web statistics data collection).

Used in combination with cookies, a web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, which is placed on a site or in an email that is used to monitor the behaviour of the user visiting the site or receiving the email.

When the HTML code for the web beacon points to a site to retrieve the image, at the same time it can pass along information such as:

  •                         the IP address of the computer that retrieved the image
  •                         the time the web beacon was viewed and for how long
  •                         the type of browser that retrieved the image and
  •                         previously set cookie values.

Web beacons are typically used by a third party to monitor the activity of a site. If you have concerns about web beacons, turning off the browser’s cookies will prevent web beacons from tracking your activity. The Web beacon will still account for an anonymous visit, but your unique information will not be recorded.

 

Clickstream data

This website’s web server may automatically record non-personal clickstream data. To the extent that any clickstream data could make you identifiable, we will not attempt to identify you from clickstream data unless required by law or to investigate suspected improper activity in relation to the website or to assist in law enforcement.

The following clickstream data may automatically recorded by this website’s web server for statistical and system administration purposes only:

  • your server address
  • your top level domain name (e.g. .com, .au, .gov)
  • the date and the time of your visit to the site
  • the pages you accessed and downloaded
  • the address of the last site you visited
  • your operating system
  • the type of browser you are using.

 

Phone Number and Email subscription service

The personal information we collect via the email subscription system is your email address.

In addition to using the information for the purpose of providing our email subscription service you have requested, we may also use or disclose the personal information that we collect about you for the following purposes:

  • research
  • the compilation or analysis of statistics
  • those in the public interest or
  • any other purposes required or authorised by law – other than by publication of the information in a form that identifies an individual, it is impracticable to get that individual’s consent before the use or disclosure and in the case of disclosure The Social Blueprint Inc. believes the recipient of any of the information will not disclose it.

We may preserve the content of any electronic message that we receive. Any personal information contained in that message will only be used or disclosed in ways set out in this Privacy Statement. We will not use that information to add you to a mailing list without your consent.

 

Links to external websites

This website privacy statement does not extend beyond this website. When following links to other sites from this website, we recommend that you read the privacy statement of that site to familiarise yourself with its privacy practices.

 

Disclosure of personal information

We may share personal information within The Social Blueprint Inc. and with third parties. The types of third parties to whom we may disclose that personal information includes our service providers who assist us in providing this website and our products and services such as organisations who provide archival, auditing, professional advisory, banking, mailhouse, delivery, recruitment, call centre, technology, marketing purposes, research, utility and security services. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties acting on your behalf, for example your solicitor or interpreter.

An example of circumstance when we may need to disclose your personal information outside of The Social Blueprint Inc.:

  • If we use a contractor to help us mail out educational or promotional material, we will need to provide them with your name and address details.

 

Data quality and data security

We make every effort to ensure that personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Most of our information is collected or received directly from the person concerned, and is used for its intended purpose without delay.

Where personal information is disclosed or made available to contractors (for instance, to manage a major project or do a large mail-out), we ensure that the contract requires confidentiality, restricts the use of the information to the purposes of the contract and clarifies what happens to personal information when the contract finishes. Wherever possible, arrangements are also made to enable us to monitor the contractor’s compliance. Where contractors are involved in the delivery of core services, we ask them to comply with the Information Privacy Principles.

 

Information security risks

We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control. However, you should be aware that there are risks in transmitting information across the Internet. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us online and individuals do so at their own risk. Once any personal information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

If you are concerned about conveying sensitive material to us over the Internet, you might prefer to contact us by telephone or mail. We will remove personal information from our system where it is no longer required (except where archiving is required).

 

Online payments

If you make a payment using this website, we may process your payment with the assistance of a reputable third party electronic payments service provider and present you with an online receipt for your records.

 

Access to your information

You can request access to the personal information we hold about you at any time. We will try to give you access with as little formality as possible and without charging a fee. However, where your request is difficult or time consuming to answer, or where it involves personal information about other people, we may have to use freedom of information procedures to process the request.

If you become aware that personal information we hold about you is not accurate, complete or up to date, you can ask us to correct it.

 

Staying anonymous

Most of the things we do do not require you to provide us with personal information.  For instance, if you make an enquiry we can help you over the telephone or by email without the need for you to give us any of your personal details.

 

Privacy complaints

If you are unhappy about the way we have handled the privacy of your personal information, you may complain by telephone or in writing. Oral complaints that are judged to need more than five days to respond must be put into writing.

To make a complaint privacy complaint email hello@socialblueprint.org.au.

Our Privacy Coordinator will handle the investigation of a privacy complaint. The Social Blueprint Inc. will acknowledge oral and written complaints within 5 working days, and will provide a full response within 20 working days.