Catalyst Australia

website privacy policy

Your privacy is important to us. Changes to Australian privacy laws over the last couple of years have resulted in more protection for web users. Catalyst Australia Inc. “Catalyst” respects your right to privacy and will protect it when you visit this web site. Here are some things you should know about how we protect your privacy.

E-mail

When you send us e-mail, we may keep your email for tracking purposes, but we won't share your e-mail address with anyone outside of Catalyst Australia Inc. employees and its contractors. We'll only use your e-mail address to respond to your requests for information.
When you send an email through this site, eg to a member of Parliament, the email will include your email address and full name.  A petition signed by you on this site will include relevant personal details that are required to submit the petition.

Information collection

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, our server will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. Our server automatically collects and stores only the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain (for example, "mycompany.com.au" if you use a private Internet access account, or "myschool.edu.au" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;

• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

• The date and time you access our site;

• The pages you visit; and

• If you linked to our web site from another web site, the address of that web site.

• We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

Website subscribers

When you subscribe to our website we will store your details on a web server or storage device maintained by Catalyst Australia Inc. Your information will only be used for communicating with you about Catalyst events and information or events and information that Catalyst believes may be of interest to you. It will not be shared with any third parties without your express written (including email) permission. By subscribing to the website we will automatically add your name to our email bulletin and other Catalyst ‘lists’. By law, you have the right to unsubscribe from any email list at any time of your choosing. The process for unsubscribing will be made plain on both our website and in the body of any broadcast email you receive from us.

Links to other sites

Our website has links to other web sites. When you leave the Catalyst Australia Inc. web site to go to another web site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of that site. Catalyst Australia Inc. cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided there.
Linking to a web site does not constitute an endorsement by Catalyst Australia Inc., or any of its employees, of the sponsors of the site or the content presented on the site.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.

Disclaimer and limitation of liability

This web site and the information it contains is provided as a public service by Catalyst Australia Inc. This system is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features, and for other like purposes. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring. Unauthorised attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat or circumvent security features, or to utilise this system for other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.

Restriction of liability

Catalyst Australia Inc. makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this web site and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this web site. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this web site or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this web site to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by Catalyst Australia Inc.

Ownership

Information presented on this web site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Information downloaded or otherwise retrieved from Catalyst Australia Inc. in any format can be placed on other organisation’s websites provided it includes proper attribution.
Proper attribution includes acknowledgment of the author/s and the wording “For more forward thinking like this, visit Catalyst Australia’s website http://catalyst.org.au”