Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy sets out the approach which the Open Minds will take in relation to the treatment of Personal Information. It includes information on how Open Minds collects, uses, discloses and keeps secure, individuals’ personal information. It also covers how Open Minds makes the personal information it holds available for access to and correction by the individual.
This policy has been drafted having regard to Open Minds obligations under the Privacy Act. This policy is a public document and has been prepared in light of National Privacy Principle 5, Openness.
1. Collection
1.1 Open Minds will only collect personal information where the information is necessary for Open Minds to perform one or more of its functions or activities. In this context, “collect” means gather, acquire or obtain by any means, information in circumstances where the individual is identifiable or identified.
1.2 Open Minds collects Personal Information primarily to supply employees of member organisations and individuals who obtain Open Minds products and services directly from Open Minds with information and details of it’s products and services.
Open Minds also collects and uses Personal Information for secondary purposes including:
- provision of products and services
- accounting purposes
- business planning and product development
1.3 Open Minds will notify individuals (including, but not limited to, our customers) of the matters listed below at the time of collecting any Personal Information:
- the main reason that we are collecting Personal Information (this reason will be the Primary Purpose)
- other related Uses or Disclosures that we may make of the Personal Information (Secondary Purposes)
- our identity and how individuals can contact us, if this is not obvious that individuals can access the Personal Information that OPEN MINDS holds about them
- that individuals should contact Open Minds (even if they are not a member or an employee of a member) if
- they wish to access or correct Personal Information collected by us or have any concerns in relation to Personal Information
- the organisations or types of organisations to whom we usually Disclose the Personal Information
- where applicable, any law that requires the Personal Information to be collected the consequences (if any) for the individual if all or part of the Personal Information is not provided to Open Minds
1.4 Where it is not practicable for Open Minds to notify individuals of all of the Collection Information before the collection of Personal Information, Open Minds will ensure that individuals are notified of the Collection Information as soon as possible after the collection. Open Minds will provide “post collection notification” in those circumstances where it is not practicable to notify individuals about the collection of their personal information before it is collected.
1.5 Open Minds will not collect Sensitive Information from individuals except with express consent from the individual and only where it is necessary for Open Minds to collect such information for an activity or function.
1.6 Open Minds will not collect Personal Information secretly or in an underhanded way.
1.7 Open Minds will take steps to ensure that individuals on purchased lists are or have been notified of the information as outlined at 1.3.
2. Use
2.1 Open Minds will obtain an individual’s consent for Use of non-sensitive Personal Information for Secondary Purposes at the time of collection, unless the Use is a related Secondary Purpose which would be within the relevant individual’s Reasonable Expectations.
2.2 Open Minds Uses Personal Information primarily for the purposes listed in 1.2 above.
2.3 If Open Minds relies on the Direct Marketing exception to Direct Market to individuals it will ensure that:
i) individuals are clearly notified of their right to Opt Out from further Direct Marketing; and
ii) if the individual Opts Out of all Direct Marketing the Opt Out will be respected by Open Minds and implemented free of charge.
2.4 Open Minds will not use Sensitive Information for Direct Marketing.
2.5 Open Minds may use Personal Information to avoid an imminent threat to a person’s life or to public safety. It may also use Personal Information for reasons related to law enforcement or internal investigations into unlawful activities.
2.6 Open Minds will not use Personal Information without taking reasonable steps to ensure that the information is accurate, complete and up to date.
2.7 Open Minds will not attempt to match de-identified or anonymous data collected through surveys or such online devices as “cookies”, with information identifying an individual, without the consent of the relevant individual.
3. Disclosure
3.1 Open Minds may Disclose Personal Information to related or unrelated third parties if consent has been obtained from the individual.
3.2 Open Minds may Disclose Personal Information to unrelated third parties to enable outsourcing of functions where that Disclosure or Use is for a related Secondary Purpose and has been notified to individuals or where such Disclosure is within the individual’s Reasonable Expectations.
3.3 Open Minds will take reasonable steps to ensure that its contracts with third parties include requirements for third parties to comply with the Use and Disclosure requirements of the Privacy Act.
3.4 In the rare event that Open Minds is required to disclose Personal Information to law enforcement agencies, government agencies or external advisors Open Minds will only do so in accordance with the Privacy Act or any other relevant Australian legislation.
3.5 Open Minds may Disclose Personal Information to avoid an imminent threat to a person’s life or to public safety.
3.6 If a Disclosure is not for a Primary Purpose; is not for a related Secondary Purpose; or upfront consent has not been obtained, Open Minds will not Disclose Personal Information otherwise than in accordance with the exceptions set out at 3.1 to 3.5 above.
3.7 Open Minds does not generally share its customer lists on a commercial basis with third parties but if it did, it would only do so if we had the appropriate consent of the individual involved.
4. Information quality
4.1 Open Minds will review, on a regular and ongoing basis, its collection and storage practices to ascertain how improvements to accuracy can be achieved.
4.2 Open Minds will take steps to destroy or de-identify Personal Information after as short a time as possible and after a maximum of seven years, unless the law requires otherwise.
5. Information security
5.1 Open Minds requires employees and contractors to perform their duties in a manner that is consistent with OPEN MINDS’ legal responsibilities in relation to privacy.
5.2 Open Minds will take all reasonable steps to ensure that paper and electronic records containing Personal Information are stored in facilities that are only accessible by people within Open Minds who have a genuine “need to know” as well as “right to know”.
5.3 Open Minds will review, on a regular and ongoing basis, its information security practices to ascertain how ongoing responsibilities can be achieved and maintained.
6. Access and correction
6.1 Open Minds will allow its records containing Personal Information to be accessed by the individual concerned in accordance with the Privacy Act.
6.2 Open Minds will correct its records containing Personal Information as soon as practically possible, at the request of the individual concerned in accordance with the Privacy Act.
6.3 Individuals wishing to lodge a request to access and/or correct their Personal Information should do so by contacting Open Minds, as per the details on the back of this document.
6.4 Open Minds will not normally charge a fee for processing an access request unless the request is complex or is resource intensive.
7. Openness
7.1 Contact with Open Minds via phone or web inquiry will be the first point of contact for inquiries about privacy issues. Any formal privacy related complaints should be directed in writing to the Open Minds, PO Box 8142, Woolloongabba, Qld, 4102.
7.2 Open Minds will endeavour to manage any privacy related complaint efficiently and in a timely manner.
7.3 Open Minds websites will contain a prominently displayed privacy statement and will include a copy of this Open Minds Privacy Policy.
8. Anonymous transactions
8.1 Open Minds will not make it mandatory for visitors to its web sites to provide Personal Information unless such Personal Information is required to answer an inquiry or provide a service. Open Minds may however request visitors to provide Personal Information voluntarily to Open Minds (for example, as part of a competition or questionnaire).
8.2 Open Minds will allow its customers to transact with it anonymously wherever that is reasonable and practicable.
9. Transferring personal information overseas
9.1 Open Minds generally does not send information overseas.
9.2 If Personal Information must be sent by Open Minds overseas for sound business reasons, Open Minds will require the overseas organisation receiving the information to provide a binding undertaking that it will handle that information in accordance with the National Privacy Principles, preferably as part of the services contract.
10. Glossary
Collection Information means the information outlined in 1.3 notified to individuals prior to, or as soon as practical after, the collection of their Personal Information.
Direct Marketing means the marketing of goods or services through means of communication including written, verbal or electronic means. The goods or services which are marketed may be those of Open Minds or a Related Body Corporate or those of an independent third party organisation.
Disclosure generally means the release of information outside Open Minds, including under a contract to carry out an “outsourced function”.
Health Information means information or an opinion about:
- the health or a disability (at any time) of an individual
- an individual’s expressed wishes about the future provision of health services to him or her
- a health service provided or to be provided to an individual that is also personal information
- other personal information collected to provide or in providing a health service
- other personal information about an individual collected in connection with the donation or intended donation by the individual of his or her body parts or body substances
Opt Out means an individual’s expressed request not to receive further Direct Marketing.
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.
Primary Purpose is the dominant or fundamental reason for information being collected in a particular transaction.
Reasonable Expectation means a reasonable individual’s expectation that their personal information might be Used or Disclosed for the particular purpose.
Sensitive Information means: (a) information or an opinion about an individual’s:
(i) racial or ethnic origin; or
(ii) political opinions; or
(iii) membership of a political association; or
(iv) religious beliefs or affiliations; or
(v) philosophical beliefs; or
(vi) membership of a professional or trade association; or
(vii) membership of a trade union; or
(viii) sexual preferences or practices; or
(ix) criminal record;that is also personal information or
(b) Health Information about an individual.
Use means the handling of Personal Information within Open Minds.
Contacting Open Minds
If you require further information regarding Open Mind’s Privacy Policy, contact us.
Brisbane Head Office
66 Annerley Road (PO Box 8142)
Woolloongabba Qld 4102
P: 07 3896 4222 F: 07 3896 4200