Privacy principles
Principle 1 – collection
ourbrisbane.com will only collect personal information that is necessary
for the activities on ourbrisbane.com that you request.
ourbrisbane.com will only collect personal information by lawful and
fair means and not in an unreasonably intrusive way.
At or before the time ourbrisbane.com collects personal information from
you (or, if that is not practicable, as soon as practicable thereafter),
ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are aware
of:
- ourbrisbane.com’s identity and how to contact it
- the fact that you are able to gain access to the
information
- the purposes for which the information is collected
- the conditions under which ourbrisbane.com will
disclose information to other parties
- any law that requires the particular information
to be collected
- the main consequences (if any) for you if all or
part of the information is not provided
Where it is reasonable and practicable to do so, ourbrisbane.com will
collect personal information directly from you.
Where ourbrisbane.com collects personal information from a third party,
ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made
aware of the matters above.
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Principle 2 – use
ourbrisbane.com will only use personal information for the following
purposes:
- the uses that you have agreed to
- where ourbrisbane.com reasonably believes that the
use is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious and imminent threat
to an individual’s life or health
- where the use is required or specifically authorised
by law
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Principle 3 – disclosure
ourbrisbane.com will only disclose personal information if:
- you have consented to the disclosure
- ourbrisbane.com reasonably believes that the disclosure
is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to
an individual’s life or health
- the disclosure is required or specifically authorised
by law
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Principle 4 – data quality
ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to make sure that the personal
information it collects, uses or discloses is accurate, complete and
up to date.
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Principle 5 – data security
ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to protect the personal information
it holds from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification
or disclosure.
ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently
“de-identify” personal information if it is no longer needed for any
purpose.
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Principle 6 – openness
ourbrisbane.com will have clearly expressed policies on its management
of personal information and these will continue to be readily available.
ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to let you know broadly, what
sort of personal information it holds, for what purposes, and how it
collects, uses, and discloses that information.
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Principle 7 – access and correction
Where ourbrisbane.com holds personal information about you, it will provide
you with access to the information on request, in a form or manner suitable
to your reasonable needs, except to the extent that:
- providing access would pose a serious and imminent
threat to the life or health of any individual; or
- providing access would have an unreasonable impact
upon the privacy of other individuals; or
- the request for access is frivolous or vexatious;
or
- the information relates to existing legal dispute
resolution proceedings between ourbrisbane.com and you, and the information
would not be accessible by the process of discovery in those proceedings;
or
- providing access would reveal the intentions of
ourbrisbane.com in relation to negotiations with the individual in
such a way as to prejudice those negotiations; or
- providing access would be unlawful; or
- denying access is specifically authorised by law;
or
- providing access would be likely to prejudice an
investigation of possible unlawful activity; or
- providing access would be likely to prejudice:
- the prevention, detection, investigation,
prosecution or punishment of:
- criminal offences; or
- breaches of a law imposing a penalty
or sanction;
- the enforcement of laws relating to the
confiscation of the proceeds of crime;
- the protection of the public revenue;
- the prevention, detection, investigation
or remedying of Seriously Improper Conduct; or
- preparation for, or conduct of, proceedings
before any court or tribunal, or implementation of its orders;
by or on behalf of an enforcement agency; or
- ASIO, ASIS or an enforcement agency performing a
lawful national security function asks ourbrisbane.com not to provide
access on the basis that providing access would be likely to cause
damage to the national security of Australia.
Where providing access would reveal evaluative information generated
within ourbrisbane.com in connection with a commercially sensitive decision-making
process, ourbrisbane.com may give the individual an explanation for the
decision rather than direct access to the information.
If ourbrisbane.com has given you such an explanation and you believe
that direct access to the evaluative information is necessary to provide
a reasonable explanation of the reasons for the decision, ourbrisbane.com
will, at your request, undertake a review of the decision. The review
will be undertaken by an independent other than the original decision
maker.
Wherever direct access by you is impractical or inappropriate, ourbrisbane.com
and you should consider whether the use of mutually agreed intermediaries
would allow sufficient access to meet the needs of both parties.
If ourbrisbane.com levies charges for providing access to personal information,
those charges:
- will not be excessive; and
- will not apply to lodging a request for access.
If ourbrisbane.com holds personal information about you and you are able
to establish that the information is not accurate, complete and up to
date, ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable steps to correct the information
so that it is accurate, complete and up to date.
If you and ourbrisbane.com disagree about whether the information is
accurate, complete and up to date and you ask ourbrisbane.com to associate
with the information a statement claiming that the information is not
accurate, complete or up to date, ourbrisbane.com will take reasonable
steps to do so. ourbrisbane.com will provide reasons for denial of access
or correction.
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Principle 8 – identifiers
ourbrisbane.com will not adopt as its own identifier, an identifier that
has been assigned by a government agency (or by an agent of, or contractor
to, a government agency acting in its capacity as agent or contractor).
ourbrisbane.com will not use or disclose an identifier assigned to an
individual by a government agency (or by an agent of, or contractor to,
a government agency acting in its capacity as agent or contractor) except
where paragraphs (d) to (g) of Principle 2 or paragraphs (c) to (f) of
Principle 3 apply.
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Principle 9 – anonymity
Whenever it is lawful and practicable, you will have the option of not
identifying yourself when dealing with ourbrisbane.com.
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Principle 10 – transborder
data flows
Ourbrisbane.com will not transfer personal data outside Australia unless:
- ourbrisbane.com reasonably believes that the recipient
of the information is subject to a statute, binding scheme or contract
which effectively upholds principles for fair information handling
that are substantially similar to these rules; or
- you consent to the transfer; or
- the transfer is necessary for the performance of
a contract between the you and ourbrisbane.com, or for the implementation
of pre-contractual measures taken in respect of your request; or
- the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or
performance of a contract concluded in your interest between ourbrisbane.com
and a third party; or
- the transfer is for your benefit; and
- it is not practicable to obtain your consent
To that transfer; and
- if it were practicable to obtain such consent,
the subject of the information would give it; or
- ourbrisbane.com has taken reasonable steps to ensure
that the information which it has transferred will not be collected,
held, used or disclosed by the recipient of the information inconsistently
with these rules.
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Principle 11 – sensitive information
ourbrisbane.com will not collect personal information revealing racial
or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs,
trade-union membership, or details of health, disability or sexual activity
or orientation unless:
- you have consented; or
- the collection is required or specifically authorised
by law; or
- the collection is necessary to prevent or lessen
a serious and imminent threat to the life or health of any individual,
where the subject of the information is physically or legally incapable
of giving consent./li>
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