Privacy Notice
Welcome to the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation (ABN 26 729 619 090) website: https://gurrumulfoundation.org.au/ (our “Website”).
The Privacy Act 1988 requires entities bound by the Australian Privacy Principles to have a privacy policy. This Privacy Notice outlines the personal information handling practices of the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation.
It also describes our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or otherwise collected by us, offline or online, including through our Website. In this Privacy Notice we, us or our means the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation.
Please read this notice in conjunction with our Terms & Conditions of Use including Website Security.
Your Privacy
Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation will only collect personal information that is necessary for our work. We never disclose the personal information of our donors and supporters to third parties, unless they are working directly on our behalf, or we are required to do so by law. We will never sell, rent, lend, or give away our donor and supporter list. Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation also actively seeks to ensure that all personal information collected is protected from misuse, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure.
Personal Information
The types of personal information we may collect about you include:
- your name;
- images of you;
- your contact details, including email address, mailing address, street address and/or telephone number;
- your credit card details;
- your demographic information, such as postcode;
- your preferences and/or opinions;
- information you provide to us through customer surveys;
- details of products and services we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our response to you;
- your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour;
- information about your access and use of our Website, including using Internet cookies, your communications with our Website, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider;
- additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our Website, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information; and
- any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.
We may collect these types of personal information directly from you or from third parties.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We may collect, hold, use, and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
- to enable you to access and use our Website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
- to contact and communicate with you;
- process your donation or purchase and provide receipts;
- communicate with you about how your donation is used;
- answer your queries;
- respond to your feedback or complaints;
- report to government or other funding bodies on how funding is used;
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
- to run programs, projects, grant rounds and competitions, and/or offer additional benefits to you;
- for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
- for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;
- to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We may disclose personal information to:
- third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors and payment systems operators;
- our employees, contractors, and/or related entities;
- our existing or potential agents or business partners;
- our program, project, grant partners;
- sponsors or promoters of any competition we run;
- anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party manage your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
Choice and consent: By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting, holding, using, and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice. You don’t have to provide personal information to us, however, not doing so may affect your use of this Website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Notice. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.
Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable to receive this such information. In certain circumstances, as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), we may refuse to provide you with personal information that we hold about you.
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
Complaints: If you believe that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint.
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of any communications (including any marketing communications) we may send, please contact us using the details below.
Storage and Security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification, and disclosure.
We cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies on our Website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, don’t tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do allow third parties, such as Google and Facebook, to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. When you choose to provide our Website with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We may use web beacons on our Website from time to time. Web beacons (also known as Clear GIFs) are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the visitor’s behaviour and collect data about the visitor’s viewing of a web page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.
The Spam Act 2003
The Spam Act forbids the sending of unsolicited emails, SMS, and MMS messages for commercial purposes from or within Australia or to people in Australia and bans the supply and use of software designed to harvest email addresses.
While charities do have some exemptions from this Act, the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation will be directed by the best practice guidelines developed on responsible electronic messaging practices by the Association for Data-driven Marketing & Advertising and administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Amendments
We will review this Privacy Notice from time to time, and if we change it, we will post any changes on this page so that you are always kept informed of the information we collect, how we use it and the circumstances under which we disclose it, if at all.
For any questions or notices, contact our Privacy Officer via email:
admin@gurrumulfoundation.org.au
Last updated: 26 February 2025