Super for Survivors Privacy Policy
Super for Survivors is an initiative formed in partnership with Websters Lawyers, Fighters Against Abuse Australia, The Grace Tame Foundation, and The Carly Ryan Foundation. The partners of this initiative are also referred to herein as “We”, “Us”, or “Our”. The aim of Super for Survivors is to advocate for victims and survivors of sexual abuse in Australia through a National Redress Scheme which would allow them to access the superannuation of perpetrators of sexual abuse as compensation for their suffering.
Super for Survivors strives to ensure client confidentiality and privacy, and that personal information is kept safe and used only for its intended purposes. We are bound by and comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (‘the Act’), including the Australian Privacy Principles as set out in Schedule 1 of the Act.
WEBSITE
Our website www.superforsurvivors.com.au does not collect any personal information except the information provided by you on our contact forms.
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION COLLECTED AND USED BY US
The Super for Survivors website will collect and use information in accordance with the requirements of the Act and the Australian Privacy Principles. Depending upon how you use our website, we may collect information including:
- Name
- Phone number
- Email address
- State of Residence
- If a victim of abuse, whether or not your offender has been convicted (optional)
- The offenders’ name (optional)
- Any personal information voluntarily provided by you
HOW WE SECURE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
We do not store your personal information on our website. Any personal information that you provide via the website is stored on our secure computer network and is used only for the purposes for which it was provided.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
The collection of personal information provided by you could be used in one or more of the following circumstances:
New enquiries
If you believe you have a potential claim and would like to discuss this with a lawyer, Websters Lawyers will reach out to you using the contact details provided by you.
To allow us to appropriately address your enquiry, we may collect other personal and confidential information to determine if we are able to provide assistance. People making enquiries are under no obligation to provide personal or confidential information.
If an individual or corporation provides personal or confidential information voluntarily, the person or corporation consents to the Super for Survivors partners using this information in accordance with this policy. Super for Survivors partners may retain personal and confidential information provided during a new enquiry in the event that future assistance is required.
Clients
Should you become a client of Websters Lawyers, they will collect personal and confidential information deemed necessary to provide legal assistance. They will collect information which is necessary for:
- Communication with you
- Providing legal services
- Seeking authority or consent to use testimonials on their website
- Provision of newsletters and marketing material
- Business analysis
- Record keeping
With the exception of the testimonials, most of this information is usually collected by means other than our website.
To ensure the accuracy of information held and used, Super for Survivors and their partners must be notified if your personal circumstances or information changes.
Marketing
We may use personal information collected from our contact forms for marketing purposes. This may include, but is not limited to, using email addresses or mobile numbers to distribute updates, newsletters, and other marketing materials from time-to-time.
Information collected from our Super for Survivors website may also be used for statistical purposes. This information is not able to be matched to specific website users.
Cookie Policy
Our website may use cookies to capture data about your internet activity. We do not use cookie data to personally identify you. If you do not want to use cookies, you can set your internet browser to reject them.
Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics and its advertising features to promote the services of the Super for Survivors partners. Google and other third parties automatically collect data about traffic to the Super for Survivors website via advertising cookies and identifiers. This enables us to display ads on other sites that are relevant to you, based on your previous visits to this site. If you would like to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, please click here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Third parties
Super for Survivors partners may disclose personal and confidential information to employees and agents of Super for Survivors partners, corporations, entities or individuals who assist in the provision of our services (including, but not limited to IT providers, Cloud servers, security providers, data storage providers, and business analysts).
STORAGE OF RECORDS
Super for Survivors partners will securely store all relevant files for a period of seven years.
USEFUL LINKS
The following links may be of use and assist in the understanding of the relevant legislation and policies pertaining to privacy. The links provided are websites that are not controlled by Super for Survivors partners or their affiliates. Super for Survivors partners will not be liable for the protection of any private or confidential information you may provide to these external websites as they fall outside the scope of our privacy policy.
https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/
https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/other-privacy-jurisdictions
https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/content/privacy-committee-sa
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
Subject to the exceptions contained in the Act, if you require access to the information held by Super for Survivors partners, we will require requests to be forwarded in writing with a certified copy of your identification. Super for Survivors partners reserve the right to charge the reasonable cost of the provision of the requested information. The cost of such will be provided upon the formal request being received by us and prior to the collection of the requested information, documents or material.
PRIVACY COMPLAINTS
Any complaints regarding this policy should be made in writing to the relevant Super for Survivors Partners. In the event that we are unable to assist with the complaint, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Consumer at the following website: https://www.oaic.gov.au/
VARIATION OF POLICY
We reserve the right to vary the contents of this policy from time to time.