Protecting Your Privacy

An integral part of protecting our commitment to customer service GC Business Growth are committed to protecting your privacy. GC Business Growth are bound by the National Privacy Principles, which sets out a number of principles concerning the protection of your personal information.

Set out below is information that GC Business Growth are required to communicate to our customers. Please retain this information for future reference.

GC Business Growth have a comprehensive internal privacy plan which seeks to ensure we adhere to our obligations set out in National Privacy Principles (NPPs), and ensure our staff, members and associates are assisting by workplace policies and procedures which support our commitment to privacy in regard to handling all information we receive and gather from our customers.

The following points detail the extent of the use of your information and how we treat that information in regard to privacy issues.

Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 & National Privacy Principles

The Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 became effective from 21 December 2001, and allows for the recognition of self-regulatory privacy codes backed by default legislative principles and a complaint-handling regime. The Act requires most private sector organisations to comply with 10 National Privacy Principles (NPPs). The NPPs establish minimum standards in relation to the collection, holding, use disclosure, management, access, correction and disposal of Personal Information about natural persons.

GC Business Growth are strongly committed to the protection of personal information and has adopted the recommendations of the NPPs, both for their web site, and the manner that we conduct our business generally. This Privacy Statement will explain how we protect your personal information in the light of the NPPs.

Collection

GC Business Growth collects information that is necessary for them to perform their services. Our server may log the following information: browser type and operating system, their domain and ISP.

How we use your personal information

Your personal information may be used to:

		verify your identity;
		assist you to subscribe to our services;
		assist you to subscribe to our services;
		provide the services you require;
		administer and manage those services;
		inform you of ways the services provided to you could be improved;
		conduct appropriate checks and searches – eg company searches
		maintain and develop our business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems.

Also, your personal information is collected so GC Business Growth can promote and market its services to you. We do this to keep you informed of our services. If you do not wish GC Business Growth to promote and market to you, please contact us.

Email Addresses

Email addresses are not provided to any party external to our company unless it is with your prior consent. Email newsletters, which are sent to you, are sent in such a manner that no other recipient of that email can see who the other recipients are.

Use and disclosure

The primary purposes for the collection of information is to enable our members to comply with Section 251L of the Income Tax Assessment Act (1936). If a secondary purpose arises that is unrelated to the primary purpose, then we undertake to advise you of such a purpose at the time of collection.

Information Quality

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we have collected is accurate and complete.

Data Security

We place a strong emphasis on the security of your information and use industry standard encryption technologies such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, when transferring and receiving data. SSL is compatible with recent versions of all major browsers. We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse and loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Our staff and subcontractors are trained to respect personal information with the utmost confidentiality.

Openness

We are open with you about the kind of personal information that we collect and will update this Privacy Statement to reflect any changes as they happen.

Anonymity

Due to the nature of our business, we will need to collect sufficient information to provide our services and thus we cannot give you the ability to transact with us anonymously. However, you are free to make initial inquiries without divulging your identity.

Onward transfers of personal information

Your information will not be made available to parties outside the scope of fulfilling the services you have requested from us. All members are directed to and are bound by our privacy policy. You must be aware that any information we hold can be requisitioned by the Australian Office of Taxation.

Sensitive information

We have no purpose in collecting information, which reveals the racial or ethnic origins of our customers, nor their political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union memberships, health status, or sexual orientation.

Complaints

Complaints about the acts or practices of GC Business Growth may be investigated by the Privacy Commissioner who has the power to award compensation against us in appropriate circumstances.

Please feel free to contact us and discuss our Privacy Statement.