Privacy Policy
We love privacy almost as much as we love you, our rabble-rousing fans. So keeping your information safe is important to us. This Privacy Policy sets out our information handling procedures and the rights and obligations that you and we have in relation to your personal information. In the event of any inconsistency, the legislative requirements will prevail the provisions of this document.
This Policy is created in compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
We will only collect, use and disclose your personal information if it is reasonably necessary for the functions and activities associated with our work waking the world to the threats of climate change and eco-collapse.
Definitions
Personal information means information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable whether the information or opinion is true or not; and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
Sensitive information means:
What personal information do we collect?
The type of personal information that we collect and hold will depend on the nature of your dealings with us.
We may collect personal information from you including your name, postal and residential address, email address, telephone numbers, age, date of birth.
How do we collect personal information?
We will generally collect personal information directly from the owner of the personal information.
For instance we solicit and collect personal information on our website, on sign-up to our online database, in face-to-face meetings, email correspondence, telephone calls and mail.
On occasion, we may collect personal information from a third party. For example, if we purchase a list from a trustworthy third party to help us expand our support-base.
We will generally obtain consent from the owner of personal information to collect their personal information. Consent will usually be provided in writing however sometimes it may be provided orally or may be implied through a person’s conduct.
On occasion, we may collect personal information online via a third party service provider. Where a third party is involved in online data collection we always recommend that you review their Privacy Policy.
We’ll only ask for personal information that is reasonably necessary for the activities that you are seeking to be involved in.
Can you deal with us anonymously or using a pseudonym?
Of course you can. You don’t have to provide all the personal information and/or sensitive information that we request from you. If you do not provide this information it may limit our ability to reach you with our services or keep you updated.
How do we use personal information?
We may collect, hold, use or disclose your personal information for the following general purposes:
More specifically, we may collect, hold, use or disclose personal information to:
We may publish the photos and videos submitted as part of our campaigns using web and social media platforms.
If you have any concerns about your personal information being used in any of these ways, you must notify us immediately.
Who do we disclose personal information to?
We may disclose your personal information to:
We may disclose personal information to a recipient overseas (for example where we have outsourced a business activity to an overseas provider) in accordance with the Privacy Act, where we take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipient does not breach the APPs in relation to the information.
Otherwise, we may disclose personal information to a recipient overseas in accordance with the Privacy Act where:
If you have any concerns about your personal information being disclosed in any of these ways, you must notify us immediately.
What do you need to know when using our website?
When you visit our website, we may collect and store your computer’s assigned IP address, the date and time of your visit, the information accessed and the referring page. We will also collect other non-identifying data for statistical purposes. This information is not linked to your personal information unless required by law.
Like many websites, from time to time our website may use cookies, tracking pixels and related technologies. Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. We use cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalize the website. Also, cookies may also be used to track how you use the site to target ads to you on other websites.
Cookies may also be used to record non-personal information such as the date, time or duration of your visit, or the pages accessed, for website administration, statistical and maintenance purposes. Any such information will be aggregated and not linked to particular individuals unless required by law.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser.
Please note that some parts of the website may not function fully for users that disallow cookies.
How do we store personal information?
We take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information in our possession from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
We protect personal information in a number of ways including:
If we no longer need personal information, we will take reasonable steps to destroy the information or ensure that it is de-identified.
How you can access your personal information?
If you want to access your personal information held by us you can do so by contacting wakeup@rouserlab.com
Please be aware that we can refuse access to your personal information in a number of circumstances under the Privacy Act.
We will seek to handle all requests for access to personal information as quickly as possible.
How do we ensure the quality of personal information?
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that we collect from you is accurate, up-to-date and complete.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information that we use and disclose is, having regard to the purpose of the use or disclosure, accurate, up-to-date, complete and relevant.
You may contact wakeup@rouserlab.com to update the personal information that we hold.
How can you make a complaint?
If you wish to complain about any breach or potential breach of this privacy policy you should contact wakeup@rouserlab.com.
It is our intention to resolve any complaint to your satisfaction, however, if you are unhappy with our response you are entitled to contact us at wakeup@rouserlab.com.
Policy review
This policy is effective from May 2020 and will be reviewed periodically or as required by law.
To contact us at about privacy, email wakeup@rouserlab.com
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Rouser exists thanks to seed funding from the Graeme Wood Foundation.
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