Victorian Labor values the protection of your privacy and follows the Privacy Act 1988 and current Australian best practice guidelines to ensure your privacy is protected.
What information?
Generally, the information collected by Victorian Labor is provided by you in the registration process. This normally includes your name, address and any preferences chosen by you in creating your profile. This information helps us customise your online experience to your best needs. We do not store credit card information. We will not share your information with anyone else except where legally required, such as for donations to Victorian Labor and petitions to the Victorian Parliament.
As part of registering as a Campaign Connect member you acknowledge that your comments will be published with your name and suburb. We do not allow anonymous comments. Campaign Connect is moderated, and any comments that are defamatory or otherwise inappropriate will be removed. See the Comment Moderation Policy.
Registered participants are reminded not to disclose other personal information when contributing to forums and blogs. Participants acknowledge that Victorian Labor cannot control the use of information you post publicly on this site.
When organising a petition Victorian Labor will collect information required by the petition. From time to time Victorian Labor will also conduct surveys designed to improve your website experience. The information collected in these surveys in non-identifying. Victorian Labor also collects other non-indentifying information relating to website usage by visitors to the website via cookies in order to improve your website experience. This information includes time, date, IP address, browser and other general website usage information.
How?
Mostly we collect information that you provide through registration processes, petitions or surveys from a variety of sources including the Campaign Connect Community and mailing list.
Cookies are used to collect non-identifying information.
Why?
Information is collected to improve, personalise and customise your website experience. Information is also used to communicate with you about material you have opted to receive.
Subscriptions
All Victorian Labor Internet mailing lists use a double-opt-in process which requires a request and confirmation of the request for an e-mail address to be added to a mailing list. All e-mails and newsletters sent via automated mailing lists will clearly identify Victorian Labor or its representative as the sender and will include a suitable method for unsubscribing.
Disclosure of information
Personal information provided to Victorian Labor and information collected by Victorian Labor will not be disclosed to any other third party except where legally required.
In the case of credit card transactions, the IP address of the visitor may be recorded, however this information will not be used or disclosed except where legally required.
Copyright
This work is copyright. Permission is given for non-profit electronic viewing and distribution. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, this material may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission providing the material is not altered in any way and due acknowledgement is given. Any person wishing to distribute this material should seek also advice on their legal obligations under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
Feedback
If you've got something to say, Victorian Labor would like to know about it. We would encourage you to join the Campaign Connect community and participate in our discussions. In addition, you can provide feedback directly to Labor's parliamentary team by using the e-mail address on each of their pages.
You are generally able to update your details through our website, however please contact Victorian Labor if you wish to access or change any details in accordance with the Privacy Act.
The contact details for Victorian Labor are:
Victorian Labor
360 King Street
West Melbourne, VIC 3003
ph: 03 9933 8500
email: info@vic.alp.org.au