Privacy Policy

Greater Union Organisation (which includes Greater Union and Birch Carroll & Coyle) is committed to ensuring your personal information is protected. Greater Union Organisation understands and appreciates you are concerned about your privacy and about the confidentiality and security of information we may collect about you. This Privacy Policy Statement is a derivative of the Amalgamated Holdings Limited (AHL) Privacy Policy Statement, the company which owns Greater Union Organisation. It will explain how we go about treating your personal information.

In addition to this Privacy Policy Statement, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions, which apply to our collection and use of your personal information e.g. information provided when entering a competition, subscribing to a newsletter, or participating in a survey. If there is any inconsistency between this Privacy Policy Statement and those specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.

The information we collect about you

The types of personal information we collect about you will depend on what services you use or products you acquire. This may include collecting your name and address, your email address, your contact address, credit card details and, where you have the option to comment on our services or products, whatever other information you choose to supply to allow us to provide products and services to you.

How we use your information and whom we may disclose it to

The information that we collect about you is used to help you access the services or acquire the goods that Greater Union Organisation provides more easily. The information we collect from you is strictly confidential. We do not sell, rent, loan, trade or lease the addresses stored in our databases to any third parties.

We may disclose the personal information, other information or data we collect from you if:

You give us your consent.

You would reasonably expect us to disclose it for another purpose, and that other purpose is related to the purpose specified to you at the time of collection.

In this way we may use your information to send you out promotional material, which you may find of interest. If you do not wish to receive any of this material you may simply choose to "unsubscribe" from our mailing lists and no further material will be sent to you.s

If you post reviews or comments on the site, you grant AHL and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such reviews and comments throughout the world in any media. You also grant AHL and its affiliates and sub licensees the right to use the name that you submit with any review or comment, if any, in connection with such review or comment.

Access and Content

Any personal information that we collect about customers including email addresses will be kept in a database which is accessible only by those authorised to perform normal daily tasks such as updating addresses and renewing membership.

Our Security Procedures

Once we receive personal information from you, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, up to date and stored in a secure environment and accessed only by authorised persons.

Where cookies fit in

Cookies are pieces of information that a website can transfer to an individual's computer hard drive for record keeping. The use of cookies is an industry standard and many websites use them. Cookies are useful for facilitating a user's access to and use of a site. They allow us to track usage patterns and compile data that can help us improve our services to you. Cookie information is used in aggregated form - we do not use it to identify you as an individual. However, if you do not wish any information to be collected through the use of cookies you can change the functions in most web browsers to deny the cookie feature. You can also delete cookies from your hard drive at any time.

Contact Information

We take the privacy of your information seriously and it is important that you understand how we manage your personal information. If you have any questions or comments in relation to this Privacy Policy Statement or if you wish to access your personal information or update it please contact us at privacy@greaterunion.com.au or by mail addressed to:

Privacy
Greater Union Organisation
49 Market Street
Sydney NSW 2000

You should provide us with as much detail as possible about the particular information sought, in order to help us retrieve it. An access fee may be charged. If AHL does not allow you to access your personal information we will provide you with the reasons for our decision.

Greater Union Organisation adhere to the following privacy principles

• Greater Union Organisation only collects personal information by fair, lawful and non-intrusive means.
• Greater Union Organisation only uses or discloses information for the purpose for which it was collected unless the person has provided permission to send direct marketing material.
• Greater Union Organisation takes reasonable steps within the boundaries of accepted everyday work practises to ensure that the personal information it collects, uses or discloses is accurate, complete and up-to date.
• Greater Union Organisation implements systems that protect the personal information it holds from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
• Greater Union Organisation have a policy document outlining its information handling practices and make this available to anyone who asks.
• Greater Union Organisation provides printed and digital means for individual access to personal information it holds about that individual on request.
• Greater Union Organisation do not adopt, use or disclose, an identifier that has been assigned by a Commonwealth government 'agency'.
• Greater Union Organisation do provide methods for customers to interact anonymously whenever it is lawful and practicable to do so.
• Greater Union Organisation does not transfer personal information to a recipient in a foreign country in circumstances where the information will not have an appropriate level of protection.
• Greater Union Organisation does not collect sensitive information unless the individual has consented, it is required by law - or in other special specified circumstances, for example relating to health services provision and individual or public health or safety.