The Licensing Executive Society - Australia and New Zealand Inc. (LESANZ) is committed to good privacy practice. While LESANZ does not fall within the scope of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), in formulating its approach to privacy LESANZ has taken into account the National Privacy Principles set out in that Act and other laws on privacy.
LESANZ is a chapter of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). LESI is an international, non-profit organisation. Members of LESANZ are also members of LESI.
If you are a member of LESANZ, we may collect, hold and use your personal information. This information includes name, address, organisation details, information relating to professional experience and some financial details. We collect, hold and use your personal information in order to provide and market LESANZís services to you and fulfil administrative functions associated with those services.
This includes, but is not limited to: ï providing you with membership services, such as distribution of newsletters and information about meetings, events and workshops, conferences and courses; ï providing you with access to our website, including access to the Meeting Directory and other services; ï processing membership renewals and other transactions; and ï other administrative functions associated with membership services. If you are not a member of LESANZ and request information or services from LESANZ, we may collect, hold and use your personal information for the purpose of providing the information or services to you. The Editor of our Newsletter may collect personal information in the course of gathering materials for inclusion in the Newsletter. This is generally limited to name, organisation contact details and email address.
LESANZ does not collect any personal information about you from your use of this website except if you are a member and have specifically provided that information when updating or amending your membership details online. When you visit our website, or download information from it, an automatic record of your visit is made which includes: your internet address, the date and time of your visit to the website, the pages you accessed and documents downloaded and the type of browser you are using.
This information is only used for statistical purposes. We make limited use of cookies on our website. We only use cookies to supply content to the website, not to store any of your personal information. A cookie is a small message given to your web browser by our web server. The browser stores the message in a text file, and the message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. When cookies are used on this site, they are used to store information relating to your visit such as a unique identifier, or a value to indicate whether you have seen a web page. They are used to distinguish your Internet Browser from the thousands of other browsers. This site will not store personal information such as email address or other details in a cookie. Most Internet browsers are set up to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to change the settings of your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to your computer, giving you the choice whether to accept it or not.
We may disclose your personal information to service providers, contractors and strategic partners from time to time to help us to provide and market our services to you eg. our Secretariat. As LESANZ is a chapter of LESI, members of LESANZ are also members of LESI. We may disclose your personal information to LESI in order for LESI to provide and market LESIís services to you. We may also disclose your personal information to other chapters of LESI located outside Australia from time to time for the purpose of providing LESANZ ís services to you. LESANZ provides members with access to a Membership Directory which includes membersí personal information and is provided for the purpose of networking and cross referral. Members access the directory on the website by logging into the membersí only section using a unique log in and password.
The Membership Directory is in two parts: a national Membership Directory which only LESANZ members have access to and a world-wide Membership Directory which LESI members have access to. We will not include your personal information in either part of the Membership Directory unless you agree to us disclosing your personal information to other LESANZ and LESI members in this way. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to market your organisationís services and expertise to other members.
We use a variety of physical and electronic security measures including firewalls and secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised use or disclosure. The Internet is not, however, a secure environment. If you send us information, including your email address, it is sent at your own risk.
Members can request to have their details on the website updated or amended at any time by contacting the Secretariat.
For further information on LESANZ ís approach to privacy, please contact the LESANZ Secretariat on 5942 7066.