Privacy
Inner East Community Support (‘’, ‘we’ or ‘our’) is committed to ensuring the privacy of its stakeholders is stored, protected and managed in a manner consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles (APP). This Privacy Policy sets out the manner in which IECS collect, use, disclose and manage personal information. From time to time, it may be necessary for IECS to review its Privacy Policy and the information contained in this document. We will notify you of any changes by posting an updated version on our Website.
Collection
We usually collect personal information directly from you.
IECS collects the following types of personal information:
- Community organisation personnel details when applying for grants.
- Contact details of people that attend functions or events conducted by IECS.
- Photos, videos and other electronic records of events and functions that IECS attends.
- Sometimes we collect or confirm this information from a third party. We will use reasonable efforts to obtain your consent to do this.
Use and Disclosure
IECS collect, hold and use your personal information in order to:
- assess and process your grant application;
- assist you with queries or concerns;
- facilitate the making of community investments in projects selected by IECS and to market products and services to the members of the community organisation;
- collaborate with community organisations in joint projects for the benefit of the community group, its members, the wider community or IECS;
- comply with legal or regulatory obligations imposed on us; and
- To do these this, IECS may disclose your personal information to organisations that carry out functions on behalf of IECS such as mailing and printing houses. IECS does not disclose your personal information to overseas recipients.
Storage and Security
Our employees are obliged to respect confidentiality. IECS holds personal information of community organisations on local computers. IECS may link the personal information with the community organisations it deals with.
Our Website
We use our best efforts to ensure that information received via our Website remains secured within our systems. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. We use cookies on our Website. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you may be able to delete or reject cookies through your browser settings.
Access and Correction
Under the Privacy Act you may request access to and seek correction of your personal information held by (or on behalf of) IECS. You can request access to and seek correction of your personal information held by IECS by contacting us on the contact details below.
Privacy Concerns or Complaints
If you have any concerns or complaints about the treatment of your personal information by IECS you can contact the IECS Executive Assistant on the contact details below. IECS will promptly investigate your complaint and notify you of the outcome. If you are still not satisfied, you can in some cases refer your complaint to the:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Web: www.oaic.gov.au
Phone: 1300 363 992
Contacting Us
If you have any further questions about our Privacy Policy, what personal information we may hold in relation to you or about the way we manage your personal information you can contact us as follows:
Executive Assistant