Privacy Statement

Baw Baw Shire Council recognises that your privacy is very important to you and we are committed to safeguarding it.

This website may contain links to other sites, and Council does not assume responsibility for the contents or actions of any linked sites.

We reserve the right to disclose demographic and summarised information about visitors to the site provided that this information does not in any way disclose the identity of any individual visitor.

We only use your personal information to help us to improve our services to you, to provide you with information you have requested and to inform you about additional services that may be of interest to you. We may also use your personal information to provide you with notices, newsletters and updates. No cookies are employed on the website except those relevant to search engines.

Baw Baw Shire Council is not liable for events or consequences arising from unauthorised access to your personal information. We ask you to keep your contact details and passwords confidential.

Disclosure

Baw Baw Shire Council will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep any information we hold about you secure. Baw Baw Shire Council employees are also obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held.

External organisations to which personal information may be disclosed include Baw Baw Shire Councils contracted Service Providers who perform various services for and on behalf of Baw Baw Shire Council.

We will also ensure that your personal information is not disclosed to other individuals, institutions and authorities outside Council except if required or authorised by law or explicitly permitted by you. For example, in the event of an investigation into suspected unlawful or improper activity, a law enforcement agency or government agency may exercise its legal authority to inspect the web server's records (e.g. in relation to hacking or abusive messages).

For enquiries regarding Baw Baw Shire Council collecting and using your personal information contact Council’s Privacy Officer on 03 5624 2411.

Do Gooder (the advocacy platform powering this online action) processes personal information from you that you enter on this form so that we can provide the functions and related services to you and The Campaigner (the organisation responsible for this online action) for their legitimate purposes, including possibly exporting it to other systems, and to effectively respond to enquiries and communications related to those services.

Specifically when you enter:

• Your location data (residential address or postcode) it is used to locate your elected representative, to pre-populate your email signature and to provide The Campaigner with a visualisation of the location of the support for this campaign.

• All other data you may enter, including your email address, name, telephone number, commentary and so on is used by The Campaigner to advocate for the campaign’s goals and where required may be sent to the target of the campaign.

The data collected by Do Gooder is also used by us in aggregate form to improve the service and may be held on your behalf outside your country of residence by our third party service providers. These providers are bound by contract to only use personal information on our behalf, in accordance with agreed terms. While the privacy laws of the country in which personal information is stored or transferred may be different from those in your country, we will always have safeguards in place when storing or transferring personal information. We will never sell, rent, loan or in any other way pass your information on to other parties other than to provide this service to you and The Campaigner.

The personal information collected by Do Gooder is held subject to a Data Processing Agreement between Do Gooder and The Campaigner in compliance with the EU's GDPR and Australian law.

Learn more about our privacy policy here