IAB Australia Privacy Policy:
IAB Australia is committed to upholding your privacy in accordance with the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act 1988, including the Australia Privacy Principles set out in Schedule 1.
This commitment extends to your personal information that we collect, use, hold or disclose, whether via this website or in any other way by IAB Australia.
The Types of Personal Information Collected by IAB Australia
The Privacy Act defines Personal Information to mean:
“information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:
- a) whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
- b) whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.”
Collection and Use of Personal Information
You voluntarily provide personal information to us (or a third-party service provider on our behalf), such as name, postal address, email, or telephone number, when you take actions such as registering on our Website or making a request for information or services. We may process this information for purposes such as responding to your requests or providing you with marketing, transactional communications, or access to events, interactive features (e.g., conferences or webinars), or other services.
Why we collect Personal Information
We may collect your personal information for the following reasons:
- to register you for our events and seminars
- to log you in to the IAB Australia website
- to sign you up to one of our e-learning courses
- for research and analytics to improve our content and services provided to members
- To comply with our legal obligations.
Collection of this personal information is usually done via written forms (generally online) email or telephone.
Please note we may also use third party platforms such as Eventbrite and Thinkific, who may collect your personal information to register you for our events or allow you to enrol in IAB Australia educational programs. Use and collection of your personal information by such platforms will be subject to the third-party platform’s privacy policy and notices.
Cookies
We may use first- or third-party “cookie” technology that can process information associated with devices that visit our website.
“Cookie information” typically includes such data as the referral web domain, the type of operating system and browser you are using, mobile device identifiers, IP address, pages that you visit, the date and time of your visit, how long you stay on a page, location data, information relating to activities on our Website (e.g., “clickstream” data), log-in details, and other technical attributes of visits to our Website. This information may be processed for purposes such as analytics (e.g., understanding how visitors utilize our Website, visitor demographics), advertising (targeted or otherwise) and related measurement purposes (e.g., understanding its effectiveness, attribution), confirming membership status or what products you (or the entity to which you may be associated with) subscribed to, and storing log-in information so you don’t have to re-enter them each time you return to our Website.
You may stop or restrict cookies on your computer or delete them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences and you should consult the operating instructions that apply to your browser for instructions should you wish to do so and in general to determine how best to configure your browser settings to meet your requirements.
Disclosure of Personal Information to third parties
We do not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except with your permission or where required to comply with our legal obligations.
Circumstances where we may seek your permission to share your Personal Information with third parties are generally limited to the operation and securing of our IT systems.
Marketing communications
IAB Australia will send you emails and other electronic communications (for example on social media) about our activities to keep you up-to-date and maintain the relationship between you and IAB Australia. All our communications have a clear opt-out or unsubscribe procedure if you no longer want to receive them.
Protection and Security of Personal Information
IAB Australia takes its obligations under the Privacy Act to keep your personal information secure very seriously.
We adhere to data minimisation principles and collect only the necessary data required to provide you with our services and enable your use of these services and our website.
You can contact us to access, update, correct or delete your personal information
We will do our best to keep your personal information accurate and up to date as required by law. However, if you become aware of any errors or inaccuracies, please contact us at iabaustralia@iabaustralia.com.au.
Similarly, while we will destroy or de-identify Personal Information within a reasonable period once it is no longer needed, as required by law, if you become aware of Personal Information that we hold about you and would like us to delete it, please contact us iabaustralia@iabaustralia.com.au.
You can also contact us (on the same details) if you are not sure what Personal Information we hold about you or would like to access it. Please note we will need to verify your identity before we release any information to you.
Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about the collection, disclosure or handling of your Personal Information by IAB Australia, please address them to:
The Privacy Officer, IAB Australia and send them to iabaustralia@iabaustralia.com.au
We will endeavour to respond to your complaint within 2 weeks. If you are not happy with our response or you do not think that the matter has been resolved, you can refer the matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.