Privacy Statement
The Tasmanian Council on AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases (TasCAHRD) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of our members, board members, clients, supporters, volunteers and staff.
TasCAHRD supports and is bound by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 and the National Privacy Principles: http://www.privacy.gov.au/materials/types/infosheets/view/6583
TasCAHRD is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure and that you are aware of what information is held and your rights. TasCAHRD is subject to additional privacy obligations under the HIV/AIDS Preventative Measures Act 1993.
Information you provide
TasCAHRD has clear policies and procedures in relation to both privacy and confidentiality and is obligated to ensure that information is collected, used and stored in an appropriate manner under the Privacy Act 1988. If we no longer require your personal information it is our practice to securely destroy the information or delete it from our systems.
Personal information supplied to TasCAHRD will only be used for the purpose specified for which you are providing the information. Consent is required for collecting information about health and sensitive information, as if collected in accordance with TasCAHRD's Client Records policy, ensuring that clients are making informed decisions in regards to confidentiality and privacy.
How we use the information
When you become a member or board member you generally are asked to provide us with you name and contact details for communicating information about the work of TasCAHRD. Volunteers and staff are asked to provide information for the primary purpose of their employment or volunteer role with TasCAHRD. Personal information may be collected about staff and volunteers from other sources, for example: in the course of establishing and administering membership of a superannuation fund or regarding information about health to assist with maintaining or improving an individual's health and well being.
We may use the information for internal review and analysis and may also use it to produce certain consolidated statistics about our services. However, we will not disclose your individual information nor sell, trade or rent that information.
If we need to disclose any informaton to conform with any laws or legal process we weill inform you about what informaton has been disclosed and to whom (unless informing you is precluded by legislation), so that you can take necessary action. Consent to personal and sensitive information may be obtained either in writing or verbally.
Access and Security
A person must, on request, be given access to the health information held about them in accordance with TasCAHRD's Client Record Policy. General personal information collected is maintained on TasCAHRD databases, password protected and used only for the purpose of which the information has been obtained. Sensitive information must be coded and stored in a secure location separate from the coding information in accordance with TasCAHRD's Client Records Policy. TasCAHRD destroys or permanently de-indetifies personal information if it is no longer needed in accordance with the Client Record Policy and relevant legislation.
Complaints
A person who is dissatisfied with the way their personal information is handled is entitled to have their complaint dealt with by the Privacy Commissioners Officer after first attempting to resolve the issue formally following TasCAHRD's Feedback and Complaints Policy.