Online Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement is intended to comply with the Australian Privacy Principals contained in the Privacy Act 1988, which governs the way organisations collect, use, store and disclose personal information and how individuals can access records containing their personal information.

Further information on the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles can be accessed through the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.

The information we collect when you register on our site may include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

The VHA uses this information for the purposes of maintaining membership records and providing member services, which may include:

  • conference and event registrations
  • information updates
  • access to research
  • participation in forums and collaborative projects
  • provision of training resources
  • recording your marketing and communication preferences

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.

The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information etc.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future electronic communications, please click the “Unsubscribe” link or advise us via vha@vha.org.au to be removed from our mailing list.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway provider’s database, which is only accessible by those authorised with special access rights to such systems, who are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information will not be stored on our server.

We do not use cookies.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, providing those parties agree to keep this information confidential. (For a list of our current third party online service providers, please view our Privacy Policy) We may release your information when appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may offer third party products or services on our website. These third parties have separate and independent privacy policies and we therefore hold no responsibility or liability for their website content or activities of theses linked sites. We recommend you read the privacy statements of any linked websites that you visit. We also seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any feedback about these linked sites.

This online privacy statement applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline. By using our website, you consent to our Online Privacy Statement.