Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 16, 2024

Loving Place is committed to protecting your privacy and is subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This Privacy Policy outlines how we handle your personal information in compliance with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The APPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.

A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at https://www.oaic.gov.au/.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• “Project” refers to The Loving Place project
• “Cookies” are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• “Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.
• “Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• “Service” refers to the Website.
• “Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Project. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Project to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Project, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Project in analyzing how the Service is used.
• “Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• “Website” refers to the Loving Place website, accessible from https://lovingplace.net
• “You” means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Personal Information

As in the Act, in this Privacy Policy “personal information” refers to information or an opinion about an individual who is reasonably identifiable. This Privacy Policy outlines how we deal with your personal information. All reasonable steps are taken by Loving Place to protect the personal information we collect from misuse, loss and unauthorised access.

How is Personal Information Collected?

This personal information is obtained in many ways including in person, via correspondence, by email, or via our website. We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties.

We collect your personal information for the primary purpose of the development, production, and communication of the Loving Place project. We may also use your personal information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure.

When we collect personal information, we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.

Personal information is only collected when a submission is made to the project.

The personal information we collect is limited to:

• Full name
• Email address
• Your submission

The submission form utilises Google Forms to collect and store submissions. When using the form, you are also subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Sensitive Information

Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information. We do not collect any sensitive information.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:

• Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
• Where required or authorised by law.

Security of Personal Information

Your personal information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security as no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

When your personal information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal information.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Project, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity)

We use Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Tracking and Performance Cookies

• Type: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Google Analytics
• Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website.
• Further reading: Google’s Privacy & Terms and Safeguarding your data

Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.

Privacy Policy Enquiries or Complaints

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us Grant Revell at [email protected]