Privacy Statement

Palliative Care Tasmania is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Palliative Care Tasmania website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Palliative Care Tasmania website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your personal information

Palliative Care Tasmania may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Palliative Care Tasmania may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your postcode, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Palliative Care Tasmania. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Palliative Care Tasmania for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Palliative Care Tasmania website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Palliative Care Tasmania public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Palliative Care Tasmania does not read any of your private online communications.

Palliative Care Tasmania encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Palliative Care Tasmania so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Palliative Care Tasmania is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Palliative Care Tasmania website.

Use of your personal information

Palliative Care Tasmania may collect and use your personal information to operate the Palliative Care Tasmania website and deliver the services you have requested. Palliative Care Tasmania may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Palliative Care Tasmania and its affiliates. Palliative Care Tasmania may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Palliative Care Tasmania does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Palliative Care Tasmania may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Palliative Care Tasmania may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Palliative Care Tasmania, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Palliative Care Tasmania does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Palliative Care Tasmania keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within Palliative Care Tasmania, in order to determine what Palliative Care Tasmania services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Palliative Care Tasmania to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Palliative Care Tasmania sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Palliative Care Tasmania or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Palliative Care Tasmania; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Palliative Care Tasmania, or the public.

Use of cookies

The Palliative Care Tasmania website may use “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise Palliative Care Tasmania pages, or register with Palliative Care Tasmania site or services, a cookie helps Palliative Care Tasmania to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Palliative Care Tasmania website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Palliative Care Tasmania features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Palliative Care Tasmania services or websites you visit.

Security of your personal information

Palliative Care Tasmania secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Palliative Care Tasmania secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this statement

Palliative Care Tasmania will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy. Palliative Care Tasmania encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Palliative Care Tasmania is protecting your information.

Contact information

Palliative Care Tasmania welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Palliative Care Tasmania has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Palliative Care Tasmania. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.