Privacy

Our website address is https://rifa.org.au

The website is powered by WordPress and is hosted by CSIRO.

Australian Privacy Principles

CSIRO is a body corporate established by section 8 of the Science and Industry Research Act 1949 and is bound by the Privacy Act 1988, as an agency. The Privacy Act regulates the collection, use, disclosure, storage and security of personal information of government agencies and private organisations. The Privacy Act includes 13 binding Australian Privacy Principles with which CSIRO must comply in relation to its management of personal information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters placed on your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. It is information that your web browser sends back to our website server whenever you visit it again. We use cookies to ‘remember’ your browser between page visits. In this situation, the cookie identifies your browser, not you personally. No personal information is stored within our cookies.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Clicky to collect anonymised data about your interaction with our websites, which are hosted by a third-party provider. We may also use our own analytics on our websites.

The types of data collected may include your IP address, browser and operating system, screen size, geographic location, search terms and pages visited, actions performed on pages, and date and time of webpage access. This data is collected for the purposes providing you with a better experience of, and improving our websites.

Embedded content from other websites

Where the RIFA website links to external sites, these websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Contacting RIFA partners

No personal data can be left on the website as there is no login function or mechanism to leave comments.

When you send an email to a RIFA partner organisation, the content and your details, including your email address, become part of our records. Your email address, acquired in this way, will not be added to any mailing list unless specified in a collection statement or unless we obtain your consent.