Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy

1. The Women in Higher Education Management (WHEM) Network respects your right to privacy and this policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information.

“Personal information” is information we hold which is identifiable as being abou you.

2. What personal information we collect

We may collect the following types of personal information from you:

• name
• address
• phone number
• fax number
• information from enquiries you have made
• communications between us

3. How we collect your personal information

We collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including: when you interact with us electronically or in person; and when you access our website.

4. Use of your personal information

We use your information to provide information to you. We also use it to improve our service and to notify you of opportunities that we think you might be interested in.

We do not provide your information to third parties.

5. Disclosure of your personal information overseas

We are likely to disclose your personal information to recipients in the following countries Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the UK.

6. Security of your personal information

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However we are not liable for any unauthorised access to this information.

7. Access to your personal information

You can access and update your personal information by contacting us on . We may charge a reasonable administration fee for this access.

8. Complaints about privacy
If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to Dr Kate White, Director, WHEM Network, School of Education and Arts, PO Box 663, Ballarat 3353, Australia. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.

9. Changes

Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. The revised versions will be uploaded onto our website, so please check back from time to time.

10. Website

When you visit our website

When you come on to our website we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.

Cookies

As is very common for companies, we use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. We use cookies to improve the experience of people using our website.

Third party sites

Our site has links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for these sites or the consequences of you going on to those sites.

June 2013