General

We recognise that your privacy is very important and we are committed to protecting the personal information we collect from you. The Privacy Act and the IPP’s govern the way in which we must manage your personal information and this policy sets out how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise manage personal information about you. We encourage you to check our website regularly for any updates to this privacy policy.

Types of information collected

We may collect and hold personal information about you including information that can identify you, including but not limited to your name, address and phone number. These contact details are required to provide you with services associated with the conference. Personal information will generally be collected directly from you through the use of our standard forms, over the internet, via email, through a telephone conversation with you or through day to day business. There may, however, be some instances where personal information about you will be collected indirectly where it is not reasonably practicable to collect personal information directly from you. We will endeavour to notify you about these instances in advance, or where that is not possible, as soon as reasonably practicable after the information has been collected.

Purposes of collection

The personal information that we collect and hold about you depends on your interaction with us. Generally, we will collect and hold your personal information for the purposes of:

providing services to you
to respond to queries made by you
to keep you informed of the status of a conference or event you have expressed an interest in, or are attending
providing you with information about other services that we, our related entities and other organisations that we have affiliations with offer, that may be of interest to you
providing you with promotional information about us, our related entities and other organisations that we have affiliations with
facilitating our internal business operations, including the fulfilment of any legal requirements
analysing our services and customer needs with a view to developing new and/or improved services
to monitor our website performance
keep you up to date of our achievements
notification of new appointments, future conferences and events

Internet users

If you access our website, we may collect additional personal information about you in the form of your IP address and/or domain name. Also, our website may use cookies. The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and to prepare customised web pages for them. Cookies do not identify you personally, but they may link back to a database record about you. If you register on our website, we will then link your cookie back to your personal information details. We use cookies to monitor usage of our website and to create a personal record of when you visit our website and what pages you view so that we may serve you more effectively.

Failure to provide information

If the personal information you provide to us is incomplete and/or inaccurate, we may be unable to provide you with the services you are seeking.

Use and disclosure

Generally, we only use and disclose personal information about you for the purposes for which it was collected (as set out above).

Security

We store your personal information in different ways, including in paper and in electronic form. The security of your personal information is important to us. We take all reasonable measures to ensure that your personal information is stored safely to protect it from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, including electronic and physical security measures.

Access

You may access personal information we hold about you, upon making a written request. Leishman Associates will endeavour to acknowledge your request within 14 days of its receipt and to provide you with access to the information requested within 30 days. We may charge you a reasonable fee for processing your request. We may decline a request for access to personal information in circumstances prescribed by the Privacy Act. If, upon receiving access to your personal information or at any other time, you believe the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, please notify us immediately. We will take reasonable steps to correct the information. Where practicable, we will inform any third party to whom the personal information has been disclosed that a correction has been made.

SPAM Act 2003 & Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007

Leishman Associates are committed to observing its obligations under the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. If you receive a commercial electronic message from us and you do not wish to receive any further messages of this nature from us, either unsubscribe using the supplied link in the electronic message, email us at [email protected] or phone +61 3 6234 7844.