We are commited to protecting your rights

Empower is committed to protecting your privacy. We have adopted the 10 National Privacy Principles (NPPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs came into effect on 21 December 2001. The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information. A copy of the National Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au. In accordance with the NPP’s all information provided to us will remain confidential and protected. It will be used only as outlined below.

What information do we collect?

Empower typically asks you for the following information:

  • Contact information (name, address, email address)
  • Peronal details such as date of birth, gender
  • Areas of interest

It is your choice how much of this information you provide

All information is held securely. We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.

How do we use this information?

We collect this information to:

  • Process donations and provide receipts
  • Maintain accurate details of our supporters’ history with the organisation
  • Keep our supporters informed about our work
  • Help us develop our marketing activities in a cost-effective way

To ensure your privacy is protected, information from your record will not be disclosed or altered unless requested by you. Please note: in some areas of our website links to other sites can be found. These sites are not controlled by Empower and therefore we cannot take responsibility for their content, claims of offer or privacy practices. Any on-line donations are processed through PayPal. Empower does not store or have access to your credit/debit card information. More information about PayPal’s privacy policy can be found on its website here (https://cms.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/Privacy_full&locale.x=en_AU ) Empower may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. This can include using a “cookie” which would be stored on your browser. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser settings.

Giving you control

  • All supporters of Empower for whom we have details recorded have the right to ask for a copy of these details at any time
  • Supporters also have the right to update and/or alter their details at any time. Please contact us to update your details.