Privacy Policy.

Your privacy

Make A Difference with Economics may collect personal information to support the growth and positive impact of this organisation. We are committed to being responsible with the collection and storage of personal information. Our guiding principles towards personal information include:

• Only collecting personal information we need
• Keeping personal information safe
• Treating personal information with care.

How we collect, manage and store personal information complies with the Privacy Act 1988. The following sets out how we handle personal information.

What is personal information

Personal information is any information that could identify you. This information can be in any form and can include single pieces of information or it can be a collection of information.

Implied consent

If we ever collect your personal information directly from you, you consent to Make A Difference with Economics using this information in accordance with this privacy policy.

What information is being collected and how is it being used

Make A Difference with Economics may collect personal information about you when:

• you visit our website
• you contact us
• you sign up for one of our competitions or programs.

We may also collect personal information to:

• run our competitions and programs
• support marketing and advertisement of our competitions and programs.

We will only collect personal information where we have a lawful purpose to do so. We will only use your personal information for the reason it is collected.

Use of cookies

We use cookies to gather data about how users interact with our website to help us improve our site. This information is aggregated and does not identify you personally; rather, cookies identify your computer. The aggregated data we collect is only viewable by our website administrators and partners who help us manage the website. If you don't want to receive cookies from us, you can set your browser to alert you of a cookie being offered, or to reject all cookies. Doing this may affect the usability and functioning of the website.

Visitors to our website

We may also collect personal information via our website that you provide voluntarily. This includes contacting us through email, signing up for our competitions and programs, our file transfer service and surveys we run on our website.

If you sign up for a competition or program through our website, your details will be stored in a secure third-party database (for example, Google Forms) and will only be used in the running of that competition or program.

Contacting us

If you contact us through email, your email address and any other pieces of personal information you provide may be collected and stored in order to effectively reply back and to be used in the future for appropriate purposes related to our competitions and programs. When contacting us, you may choose to explicitly state that you do not consent to the collection of any personal information provided in the email.

How we store personal information

Any personal information that is collected will be held and stored securely, in accordance with our policies. Sometimes, it may be stored or accessed on our behalf by authorised third parties to the extent that is necessary. Any third party involved in the storing and accessing of personal information will be subject to our information security and privacy requirements.

When we may share your information

We may share your personal information in situations that generally include:

• to third parties to the extent necessary in order to run and promote our competitions and programs
• where required to by law
• to report significant misconduct or breach of duty
• where there is a serious threat to health or safety.

Request your personal information

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to correct it. To do this, to raise any other questions you may have about this privacy policy, or to make a privacy complaint, contact us at econ.made@gmail.com.