Privacy Policy

Holdsworth Community Ltd respects the privacy of users of this website and is committed to protecting your personal information.

We collect personal information that you choose to provide, for example, your name or email address. Access to this information will be restricted to Holdsworth Community Ltd staff and other people authorised by Holdsworth. We do not collect identifiable personal information about you if you are only browsing the website.

Any personal information you provide to Holdsworth Community Ltd will be protected in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 and will only use it for the purpose for which it was provided to us. We will not share this information with anyone outside of Holdsworth Community Ltd, unless you give us permission to do so.

When you look at the pages on our site, information is automatically recorded for each page accessed identifying:

  • The IP (Internet Protocol) address of the machine which has accessed it
  • Your top-level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.)
  • The address of your server
  • The date and time of your visit to the site
  • The pages accessed and documents downloaded
  • The previous site visited
  • The type of browser and operating system you have used

The information collected during each visit may be collated to identify patterns of usage of the site. This will assist us in improving the site and the services offered on it.

Holdsworth Community Ltd will not disclose or publish information that identifies individual machines, or potentially identifies sub-groupings of addresses without your permission, unless it is required by law or otherwise in accordance with the New South Wales Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988. This Privacy Statement is applicable to Holdsworth Community Ltd website only and does not extend to websites linked to this site.

Client Privacy Policy

Holdsworth is committed to protecting and upholding the right to privacy of all clients, staff, volunteers, governing body members and representatives of agencies we deal with. In particular, Holdsworth is committed to protecting and upholding our clients’ right to privacy in the way we collect, store and use information about them, their needs and the services we provide to them.

 

Holdsworth requires staff, volunteers and governing body members to be consistent and careful in the way they manage what is written and said about individuals and how they decide who can see or hear this information.

 

Holdsworth is subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and associated legislation applying to aged care, health, and community service providers. The organisation will follow the guidelines of the Australian Privacy Principles in its information management practices.

 

Holdsworth will ensure that:

  • It meets its legal and ethical obligations as an employer and service provider in relation to protecting the privacy of clients and organisational personnel;
  • Clients are provided with information about their rights regarding privacy;
  • Clients and organisational personnel are provided with privacy when they are being interviewed or discussing matters of a personal or sensitive nature;
  • All staff, governing body members and volunteers understand what is required in meeting these obligations; and
  • It will adhere to all requirements imposed under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the requirements imposed by the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 (Cth), to strengthen the protection of personal information.

 

This policy conforms to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles which govern the collection, use and storage of personal information.

 

This policy will apply to all records, whether hard copy or electronic, containing personal information about individuals, and to interviews or discussions of a sensitive personal nature.

Privacy Policy​