Australian Little Athletics respects your right to Privacy

Helensburgh Little Athletics is committed to protecting your right to privacy in accordance with the National Privacy Principles as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

We have created this web site for the enjoyment of our members, their friends and families. We need your personal information so that we can provide you with the services of this web site and continue to maintain and improve those services for you. However, we want you to understand and be comfortable with how we handle your personal information.

The privacy of your personal information is very important to us. That is why we have provided you with this explanation of our information handling practices as they relate to this web site.

Collection, Use & Disclosure of Personal Information

We collect your personal information so that we can give you all the benefits that come with being a Little Athlete. These include things like:

• using this web site;
• participating in sporting events;
• knowing what other Little Athletes are doing; and
• finding out more about Little Athletes.

We also use your personal information so that we can:

• maintain our relationships with sponsors;
• find out what you like and don't like and make sure we give it to you;
• let you know about things you might like to buy;
• working with the Government to help improve Little Athletics in Australia; and
• promoting ALA.

Why do you want my parent/guardian's information?

Your parents/guardians care about you and so we want them to know how you are progressing as a Little Athlete. We also need to know their personal information in case of an emergency and to help us improve LA.

We try to let your parents/guardians know that their personal information is collected during Member Registration on the web site. Ask them if they know we are collecting their personal information.

If your parents/guardians don't want you to give us their personal information then please don't. Get them to contact us instead and we will work something out.

What if I don't want to give you my personal information?

No problems, you don't have to. Unfortunately though, we can't provide you with the benefits of Member Registration if you don't give us your personal information.

Who else gets my personal information?

Our sponsors and other organisations may get your personal information.

Sponsors

Little Athletics has some great sponsors who help us to make your life as a Little Athlete even more fun and enjoyable.

When you give us your personal information our sponsors may get it too so that they can tell you about their own goods and services. Notices on this web site will tell you when the personal information you give us will also be given to sponsors. These notices will also provide further information about our sponsors' privacy practices. Just like us, our sponsors respect your right to privacy. This means that if you want to know what information our sponsors hold about you, or if you don't want to know about their goods then you can tell them so and they'll do as their told.

Our sponsors have made a promise to us that they will only knowingly use and disclose your personal information so that they can tell you about their goods and services.

Other organisations

Sometimes we need to tell other organisations about you and give them your personal information so that LA can do what it does. Other organisations include those that:

• print information for us;
• help us out with this web site;
• tell us about the law;
• give us insurance;
• help with sporting events, including medical people; and
• take care of other official type matters.

These organisations only have access to personal information to help us. They know that they are not allowed to use it for any other purpose unless you let them.

Cookies

Our web site may collect information about your computer that does not personally identfy you. This information may include details about your operating system, browser, domain name, and specific web pages you access on our site. We only collect this information in the aggregate and only use it to improve our web site.

We may use "cookies" to personalise and simplify your access to and use of our website. A "cookie" is a piece of data stored on your hard drive, which allows us to recognise your computer. Cookies are not linked to any personally identifiable information whilst on our site, but can allow us to enhance your online experience.

Cookies can assist by allowing you to navigate freely on our web site without the need to re-register, therefore saving you time.

If at any time you do not wish to accept cookies or wish to delete existing cookies, you may manually configure your browser to refuse cookies or may manually delete existing cookies from your hard drive. However, by deleting or refusing to accept cookies, you may frustrate or encumber your access to or use of areas or our website.

Access and Further Information

Did you know that you have a right to access your personal information? All your personal information that we hold about you is available to you if you ask us. More information about accessing your personal information, and about how we handle your personal information, can be found in the LA Privacy Policy.

If you think that we are doing something with your personal information that we shouldn't be then please let us know. You can let us know by getting in contact with our Privacy Officer.

You can contact our Privacy Officer at anytime via e-mail for more information about this policy and LA's Privacy Policy. Contact details for the Privacy Officer are:

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Changes to Policies

This Web Site Privacy Statement complements LA's Privacy Policy. Both policies may change from time to time. New versions will tell you about how we handle your personal information from the time the changes were made. We encourage you to keep an eye out for changes.

Further information on your rights can be found on the Australian Privacy Commissioner's Website ( http://www.privacy.gov.au)