Privacy policy.
1. We respect your privacy
1.1. Accounting for Nature Ltd respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information.
1.2. "Personal information" is information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.
2. Collection of personal information
2.1. Accounting for Nature Ltd will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you enter onto our website, provided to us directly or given to us in other forms.
2.2. You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send information, provide updates and process your product or service order. We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, when you provide information about your personal or business affairs, change your content or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, provide financial or credit card information, or communicate with our customer support.
2.3. Forms, data, documentation and other material provided to us may contain: • personal information about individuals associated with a project, project proponent or that material. This may include, amongst other things, contact information, job title and other relevant information about individuals and contact persons associated with the project or project proponent, and individuals responsible for preparation of relevant materials. It may also include information relating to properties associated with a project or project proponent; and • personal information about an expert or auditor. This may include, amongst other things, contact information, job title and other relevant information pertaining to the expert or auditor.
2.4. Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.
3. How we collect your personal information
3.1. How we collect personal information about you will depend on our relationship or interactions with you. Accounting for Nature Ltd collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically or in person, when you access our website and when we provide our services to you or to a project proponent you are associated with. We may 2 receive personal information from third parties, including when a project proponent, expert or auditor provides it to us. We receive a range of materials from project proponents, experts and auditors (including in connection with projects), which could include personal information. If we receive personal information from a third party (including a project proponent, expert or auditor), we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Directly from you:
We mainly collect information directly from you; for example, when you use our website or social media, you call or write to us, we interact with you in person, such as when you use our products and services or participate in training and workshops.
Indirectly:
There may be occasions when we collect information about you from someone else, such as:
Partners participating in our training or workshop programs
Experts and auditors, including when you make an inquiry but do not complete a registration
When someone else is engaged to deliver services on your behalf in relation to our services
Our service providers, including providers of data analysis services
Third parties that provide us with marketing leads
Providers of third-party websites, apps and social media platforms
If you provide us with information about other individuals, you are responsible for telling those individuals and letting them know that they can find a copy of this Privacy Policy on our website.
4. Use of your personal information
4.1. Accounting for Nature Ltd may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information, updates and our services. We may also make you aware of new and additional products, services and opportunities available to you. You may change your preferences on receiving marketing communications from us by emailing info@accountingfornature.org to change your preferences " We may use your personal information to improve our products and services and better understand your needs.
4.2. We may collect personal information in connection with a project, or a project proponent (including in any material provided to us by a project proponent, expert or auditor). If we do so, we may use that information: • for purposes connected to the project proponent's project, including without limitation for the purposes of managing our relationship with the project proponent, contacting the project proponent, reviewing and considering relevant information in connection with the project, registering and certifying the project, publishing details regarding the project and project proponent on our environmental account registry and related purposes; • for the purposes of research undertaken by or on behalf of AfN, for commercial purposes, for promotional purposes or for public purposes, provided that if we use your personal information for such purposes, we will not publish or disclose any of your personal information for such research, commercial, promotional or public purposes.
4.3. We may also collect personal information from experts or auditors in order for us to consider and manage accreditation of such experts and inclusion on our register of accredited experts and auditors and related purposes.
4.4. Accounting for Nature Ltd may contact you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to telephone, email, sms or mail.
5. Disclosure of your personal information
5.1. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services.
5.2. We may from time to time need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.
5.3. We may also use your personal information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of Accounting for Nature Ltd, www.accountingfornature.org, its customers or third parties.
5.4. Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside of Australia.
5.5. If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.
5.6. By providing us with personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding handling your personal information.
6. Security of your personal information - How we hold information and keep it secure
6.1. Accounting for Nature Ltd is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
6.2 IT Security
We hold your personal information in a combination of hard copy and electronic files. We use third-party information system providers who may store or have access to your personal information.
No data transmission over the Internet or website can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. However, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information in accordance with data protection legislative requirements and industry standards.
If we have given you (or you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and for complying with any other security procedures notified to you. We require that you do not disclose your passwords to anyone else.
7. Access to your personal information
7.1. You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). A small administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information. If you would like a copy of the information, which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at info@accountingfornature.org.
7.2. We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.
8. Complaints about privacy
8.1. If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to PO BOX 179 , North Tamborine, Queensland, 4272. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
9. Changes to Privacy Policy
9.1. Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.
10. Website
10.1. When you visit our website. When you come to our website (www.accountingfornature.org) 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.
10.2. Cookies. We may from time to time 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. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
10.3. Third party sites. Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Accounting for Nature Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.