​ Privacy Policy
This is the Privacy Statement for Community Health First.
We know your privacy is important and we take all possible steps to protect the personal information about you that we collect, store and manage.
The Community Health First initative *the initiave* is committed to the privacy principles issued by the Australian Privacy Princples, contained in the Privacy Act 1988, which governs the way organisations collect, use, store and disclose personal information.
The information we collect on our website
Generally, we do not collect personal information about you when you visit our website unless you specifically provide those details. You can visit most parts of the site without being required to provide personal details.
We, or our authorised service providers, may use cookies and other similar technologies for storing information to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience.
For statistical purposes our web server records all visitors to our site, but we are unable to identify individual IP addresses from this data.
If you send us a request by email, your email address, and any other personal information you choose to include, is revealed to us.
If you subscribe to our "email updates", “send a letter to members of parliament” or “Become a partner” an email is sent to us which provides your email address and contact information you provide.
How we use the information
The data collected by our web server is used to assess how many visits to the site we receive, and which parts of the site are most frequently accessed. We cannot identify individual visitors to the site from this data.
If you send us a query, request or comment by email or a form your email address is used to reply to you and for no other purpose. Your email address (and any other personal information you have chosen to send to us) is retained for our records only.
If you sign your name to the “send a letter to members of parliament” page, we may provide your NAME, POSTCODE, EMAIL ADDRESS and SUBMISSION TEXT to the following groups of people, for the purposes of the Community Health First campaign:
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Federal Ministers with portfolios related to health
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Victorian State Members of Parliament
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Automation websites including Wix, SendGrid and Make.
Other than this, we will not distribute any of the personal information you send to us via our website. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, providing those parties agree to keep this information confidential
Data Security
We use appropriate technology to protect the data we collect.