Privacy
Protecting the Privacy of your Personal
Information
In complying with the Privacy Amendment
(Private Sector) Act 2000, General Practice
South has developed a Privacy Policy that
governs its handling of personal
information.
Personal information means information or
an opinion (including information or an
opinion forming part of a database), whether
true or not, and whether recorded in a
material form or not, about an individual
whose identity is apparent, or can
reasonably be ascertained, from the
information or opinion. (p57 Guidelines on
Privacy in the Private Health Sector, Office
of the Federal Privacy Commissioner -
October 2001)
Our Privacy Policy governs:
what personal information is
being collected who is collecting personal
information how personal information is
used to whom and under what
circumstances personal information
is disclosed how personal information is
stored
In most circumstances, General Practice
South will:
only collect personal
information about you with your
consent (unless legally required
or authorised to do otherwise) collect your personal
information directly from you
(where possible and practicable) only collect personal
information about you that is
necessary and relevant to the
functions and/or programs of the
Division use staff to collect your
information who are appropriately
trained and have a specific role
in the purpose for which your
personal information is being
collected only use your personal
information for the purpose for
which it is collected or for a
directly related secondary purpose
that you would expect your
personal information to be used
for (unless legally required or
authorised to do otherwise) provide you with access to your
personal information (unless
legally required or authorised to
do otherwise) only disclose your personal
information to a third party with
your consent, or where you expect
such disclosure, or where we are
legally required or authorised to
do so take reasonable steps to keep
your personal information
complete, current and accurate take reasonable steps to ensure
personal information about you is
kept secure
Web Privacy
In
complying with the Privacy Amendment
(Private Sector) Act 2000, General Practice
South provides the following advice to users
of this web site about the collection, use,
disclosure and storage of personal
information.
The
aim of this advice is to inform users of
this site about:
-
what
personal information is being
collected
-
who
is collecting personal information
-
how
personal information is being used
-
access
to personal information collected on
this site
-
security
of personal information collected on
this site
-
What
personal information is being
collected
Unless
this web site asks for specific personal
information in order to respond to requests
for information or to register users for
particular services, only the following
information will be collected when you use
this site:
-
your
server address
-
your
top level domain name (for example
.com, .gov, .au, .uk etc)
-
the
date and time of your visit to the
site
-
the
pages you accessed and the documents
downloaded
-
the
type of browser you are using
-
This
information is collected for
statistical purposes and to enable
us to improve the navigation
functions of our web site
Who is collecting personal information ?
The above information is collected by our
Internet Service Provider Eftel.
Where
this site specifically asks for your
personal information (for example to respond
to requests for information or to register
users for particular services), your
personal information will only be collected
by staff of this Division who have
responsibility for responding to such
requests or administrating such
registrations.
How
is personal information used ?
Personal information collected on this web
site will only be used for the purposes
stated at the time of collection. Your
personal information will not be added to a
mailing list or used for any other purpose
without your consent.
Cookies
This web site only uses session cookies and
only during a search query of the web site.
Our Internet Service Provider has assured us
that no cookies are employed on this web
site except for those associated with the
search engine. The web site statistics for
this site are generated from the web logs as
outlined above.
Upon
closing your browser the session cookie set
by this web site is destroyed and no
personal information is maintained which
might identify you should you visit our web
site at a later date.
Cookies
can be either "persistent" or
"session" based. Persistent
cookies are stored on your computer, contain
an expiration date, and may be used to track
your browsing behaviour upon return to the
issuing web site. Session cookies are
short-lived, are used only during a browsing
session, and expire when you quit your
browser.
Access
to personal information collected on this
site
Unless required by law to do so the Southern
Tasmanian Division of General Practice will
only disclose personal information collected
on this site to a third party if consent has
been provided.
Security
of personal information collected on this
site
This site does not provide facilities to
guarantee the secure transmission of
information across the Internet. Whilst
reasonable efforts are used to provide
security, users should be aware that there
are inherent risks in the transmission of
information across the Internet.
Further
Information
For further information about our Privacy Policy,
our
Privacy Officer Ian McKnight or phone (03)
6234 4230.
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