Overview

This Privacy Policy provides information on how TRACTION manages personal information including personal information collected through this website.

TRACTION realises the importance of ensuring that personal information held by the organisation is treated confidentially, and is committed to ensuring that all personal information is only collected, disclosed, used and stored in accordance with its governing Policies and Procedures.

Aim

TRACTION is committed to safeguarding your privacy. In this policy you can learn how TRACTION collects, uses and discloses your personal information when you engage with TRACTION.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to:

• Clearly communicate the personal information handling practices of TRACTION

• Enhance the transparency of TRACTION’s operations

• Provide an understanding of the sort of personal information TRACTION holds and how we handle that information.

Respect

TRACTION respects the privacy of all people who engage with the organisation, including program participants (young people) and families, employees, volunteers, contractors, beneficiaries, donors, business partners, sponsors and online users, and is committed to safeguarding your personal information when provided to us.

Who is affected by this policy?

This policy and accompanying procedures apply to all TRACTION stakeholders including team members (employees, volunteers, contractors, board directors and members), referral agencies, program participants (young people) and their families, beneficiaries, donors, business partners, sponsors and online users.

TRACTION’s Privacy Policy and Privacy Statement for Candidates and Team Members, does not apply to Acts or practices which directly relate to employee records of TRACTION’s current and former employees.

Definitions

Online Users: refers to anyone accessing the TRACTION website (www.traction.community).

Personal Information: is information or an opinion, including information or an opinion forming part of a database, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.

Personal information can be almost any information that is associated with an identifiable living individual. It can include correspondence, audio recordings, images, alpha-numerical identifiers and combinations of these.

For information to be personal information two criteria must be satisfied.

• It must be about an individual.

• The individual’s identity must be reasonably ascertainable from the information or opinion.

Information does not have to be true in order to be personal information and it does not need to be written down or recorded in another material form, such as a photograph or audio recording. It can be spoken or communicated in another way, for example, by sign language.

Sensitive Information: is information that is also personal information, about an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual preferences or practices, criminal record, or health, genetic, biometric information or biometric templates that is also personal information.

Privacy Statement