Privacy Policy

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

Generally, Asbestos and Silica Awareness collects personal information to carry out its functions properly and efficiently, and only uses personal information for the purposes for which it was given to Asbestos and Silica Awareness and for directly related purposes (unless otherwise required by or authorised under law).

We collect and store information to identify you each time you visit our website to request a service. Your training is tracked and any feedback you provide may be used to improve our services and web site.

In addition, to provide some services from Asbestos and Silica Awareness, we will need to know your credit card details so that payment can be processed.

COMMUNICATION - EMAILS AND ELECTRONIC FORMS

The Asbestos and Silica Awareness servers may record your email address if you send us a message online. Your email address will not be added to a mailing list, unless you have provided it to us to subscribe to one of the Asbestos and Silica Awareness subscription services.

Where you choose to send us a completed electronic form (for example, when you register as a user on our website) that includes your personal details, we collect personally identifiable information, such as name and email address.

The information collected by email or electronic forms will be used only for the purpose for which you provided it, and we will not disclose it unless one of the circumstances described below under the heading “Information Sharing” has been satisfied.

LOG INFORMATION (BROWSING)

When you access Asbestos and Silica Awareness online services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your server address, your top-level domain name (for example, .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc), the date and time of visit to the site, the pages accessed and documents viewed, the previous sites visited, and the browser type, browser language, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

COOKIES

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. It is information that your web browser sends back to our web site server whenever you visit it again. We use cookies to ‘remember’ your browser between page visits. In this situation, if you log into the Inscope Training.com.au website the cookie will store your user credentials.

ACCESS AND ALTERATION OF RECORDS CONTAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you provide personal information in relation to our online services, Asbestos and Silica Awareness will allow you access to your personal information and we will correct your personal information if it is inaccurate (subject to restrictions on such access/alteration of records under the applicable provisions of any law of the Commonwealth).

The Freedom of Information Act 1982 also provides you with an opportunity to request access to documents in the possession of Asbestos and Silica Awareness.

INFORMATION SHARING

Asbestos and Silica Awareness only discloses personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• Where you are reasonably likely to have been aware, or made aware by way of a privacy notice, that your personal information is usually passed to the relevant parties
• Where you have consented.
• Where we believe on reasonable grounds that the disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to your life or health or that of another person.
• Where the disclosure is required or authorised by or under law, or
• Where the disclosure is reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the criminal law or of a law imposing a pecuniary penalty, or for the protection of the public revenue.

INFORMATION SECURITY

Asbestos and Silica Awareness takes all reasonable steps to protect the personal information that we hold against loss, against unauthorised access, use, modification, or disclosure and against other misuse.

DATA INTEGRITY

Asbestos and Silica Awareness takes reasonable steps to make sure that the personal information we collect, and store is accurate, relevant, up to date, complete and not misleading.

ENFORCEMENT

If you have any questions/complaints about privacy, confidentiality, or access to your personal information, please contact Asbestos and Silica Awareness’s Privacy Contact Officer by writing to:

Privacy Contact Officer
Asbestos and Silica Awareness
PO Box 183
Capalaba QLD 4157

MORE INFORMATION AND CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

More information on our Privacy Policy can be found in our Student Handbook.
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.