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Welcome to the Southern Umpires
Association.
1 Protecting Your
Privacy
1.1 The Southern Umpires Association
Incorporated (“SUA”) are committed to providing
you with the highest levels of customer
service. This includes protecting your
privacy.
1.2 SUA is bound by the Commonwealth Privacy
Act 1988 , except in relation to our activities
carried on in the course of journalism. The
Privacy Act and this Statement sets out a
number of principles concerning the protection
of your personal information in relation to the
SUA's other activities.
1.3 While SUA is exempt from complying with the
Privacy Act in relation to its journalism
activities on the Web Site, SUA publicly
commits to comply with the Australian Press
Council Privacy Standards which deal with
privacy and the use of personal information in
the context of those journalism activities.
Further information about those standards can
be obtained at
http://www.presscouncil.org.au/pcsite/complaints/priv_stand.html.
1.4 Set out below is information that the
Privacy Act requires SUA to communicate to all
users of the Web Sites. We recommend that you
keep this information for future reference.
2 About us
2.1 The SUA
is one of Victorian Country Football's leading
umpiring organisations and is responsible for
supplying field, boundary and goal umpires to
the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League
incorporating the Casey-Cardina Football
League, Peninsula Football League, Nepean
Football League and the Mornington Peninsula
Junior Football League.
3 Your personal
information
3.1 We may hold a variety of personal
information about you, which may include your
name, date of birth, current and previous
addresses, telephone/mobile phone number,
e-mail address, bank account, occupation, your
SUA Username or password and any other PIN or
password used by you to access material on the
Web Sites.
3.2 Occasionally, you may need to provide
personal information about other individuals to
SUA (e.g. about your authorised
representatives). If so, we rely on you to
inform those individuals that you are providing
their personal information to SUA and advise
them that we can be contacted for further
information - see part 13 ("How to contact us")
below.
3.3 If you choose not to provide personal
information to us, we may not be able to
provide you with access to the Web Sites or to
the content, products and services available on
or from the Web Sites.
4 How we collect personal
information
4.1 SUA collects personal information about you
in a number of ways, including:
(a) directly from you, when you provide
information by phone, email, online (eg, on or
via the Web Site) or in documents such as an
application form;
(b) from publicly available sources of
information;
(c) from the organisations identified below
under "When we disclose your personal
information";
(d) from its own records of how you use your
SUA services, the Web Site and the content and
services available from the Web Sites; and
(e) when legally required to do so.
4.2 SUA also collects personal information
about you when you access and use the Web Site.
This is described further in part 5 ("How we
collect personal information from the Web
Sites") below.
5 How we collect personal
information from the Web Sites
5.1
When you visit the Web Sites, our web servers
record anonymous information such as the time,
date and URL of the request. This information
assists SUA to improve the structure of the Web
Sites and to monitor their performance.
5.2 SUA may also use "cookies" on the Web
Sites. Cookies are an industry standard and
most major web sites use them. A cookie is a
small text file that the Web Site may place on
your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a
means for the Web Site to remember your
preferences. As such, cookies are designed to
improve your experience of the SUA Web
Site.
5.3 In some cases, cookies may collect and
store personal information about you. SUA
extends the same privacy protection to your
personal information, whether gathered via
cookies or from other sources. You can adjust
your Internet browser to disable cookies or to
warn you when cookies are being used. However,
if you disable cookies, you may not be able to
access certain areas of the Web Site or take
advantage of the improved web site experience
that cookies offer.
5.4 SUA uses GoldenIT Weblizer to analyse usage
statistics on our websites. This analysis is
performed using data collected from the
website. This analysis is used to improve the
web experience of our users.
5.5 SUA may also collect Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses relating to you when you access and
use the Web Sites. IP addresses are assigned to
computers on the Internet to uniquely identify
them within the global network of computers
which makes up the Internet. We may collect and
manage IP addresses as part of the service of
providing internet session management and for
security purposes.
6 Passwords and usernames
6.1 We may issue you with various usernames or
passwords to allow you to access some of the
content and information on the Web Sites.
6.2 While we will make every reasonable effort
to ensure that your usernames and passwords not
disclosed to other people, you are ultimately
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
usernames and passwords and for ensuring that
no one except you uses these usernames and
passwords.
7 How we use your personal
information
7.1 Your personal information may be used by us
to:
(a) give you access to the Web Site and the
other content, products and services available
from the Web Site;
(b) enter you into our competitions and
promotions;
(c) administer and manage the Web Site,
including charging, billing and collecting
debts;
(d) inform you of changes to the Web Sites or
to the content, products and services available
from the Web Site\;
(e) research and develop the Web Site and our
other services;
(f) gain an understanding of your information
and communication needs in order for us to
provide you with improved Web Site, content and
services; and
(g) maintain and develop our business systems
and infrastructure, including testing and
upgrading of these systems.
8 When we disclose your personal
information
8.1 We may disclose your personal information
to each other and to organisations outside SUA
for the purposes set out in part 7 ("How we use
your personal information") above. Telstra
takes reasonable steps to ensure that these
organisations are bound by confidentiality and
privacy obligations in relation to the
protection of your personal information.
8.2 The outside organisations to which we
disclose information include:
(a) outsourced service providers involved in
the operation and management of the Web Site or
the other services we provide to you, including
those involved in:
(i) content and service development;
(ii) customer enquiries;
(iii) mailing systems;
(iv) billing and debt-recovery functions;
(v) information technology services;
(vi) installation, maintenance and repair
services;
(vii) market research;
(b) your representatives (eg your authorised
representatives or legal advisers);
(c) our professional advisers, including our
accountants, auditors and lawyers;
(d) government and regulatory authorities and
other organisations, as required or authorised
by law;
(e) organisations involved in managing our
corporate risk and funding functions (eg
securitisation).
9 Help us to ensure we hold accurate
information
9.1 We each take all
reasonable precautions to ensure that the
personal information we collect, use and
disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
However, the accuracy of that information we
hold depends to a large extent on the
information you provide. That's why we
recommend that you:
(a) let us know if there are any errors in your
personal information; and
(b) keep us up to date with changes to personal
information such as your name or address.
(see ‘How to contact us' below).
10 You can access your personal
information
10.1 You have a right to access your personal
information, subject to some exceptions allowed
by law. If you would like to do so, please let
us know. You may be required to put your
request in writing for security reasons - see
part 13 ("How to contact us") below.
10.2 We each reserve the right to charge a fee
for searching for and providing access to your
information.
11 Children's privacy
11.1 Children's privacy is very important to
us. We ask that children under 18 years of age
obtain a parent or guardian's consent before
accessing or using the Web Site.
11.2 While we will make every reasonable effort
to ensure that children's privacy and other
rights are not compromised, it is ultimately
the responsibility of parents to monitor their
children's Internet usage.
12 Changes to our Privacy
Statement
12.1 From time to time, we may need to change
this Privacy Statement to reflect our changing
business practices. We may change the Privacy
Statement at any time by posting the changed
Privacy Statement on our web site at and by
posting a notice to users on the homepage of
that web site stating that a change has
occurred.
12.2 All personal information collected and
held by us will be governed by our most recent
Privacy Statement, as posted on our web site at
www.sua.org.au.
13 How to contact us
13.1 If you have any questions in relation to
privacy, please contact SUA on (03) 9786
7186.
13.2 Alternatively, you can write to SUA
Privacy Manager, at P.O. Box 278 ,
Seaford , Victoria , 3198 or by sending an
email to privacy@sua.org.au.
SUA Privacy Collection Statement – April
2006
Southern Umpires Association Incorporated -
ABN 57 852 366 758
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