Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Statement 

About this statement: The domain name 'www.unglobalcompact.org.au: The United National Global Compact Network Australia (UNGCNA) is the trading name of the UNGC Local Area Network in Australia. The UNGCNA operates under Australian Corporate Law. Our functions and responsibilities require us to collect and handle large amounts of information about signatories, members, those who are wishing to join the UNGCNA, partners and stakeholder holder organisations who assist us in the work that we do. We are committed to achieving the highest standards in the protection of privacy and in our handling of personal and organisational information. We are required by law to take reasonable steps to let organisations (signatories and members) know the sort of information we hold, the purposes for which we collect it, and how we collect, hold, use and disclose that information.The Privacy Statement explains our policy for handling personal information which you may provide to us when you access and interact with our website. 

Emailing UNGCNA: When you send us an email, the contents of your email and your email address are generally retained by us for only as long as is necessary to respond to your inquiry. However, they may be retained for longer if you consent, or where we believe we are required or authorised by law to retain the information for a longer period. We may use your email address for any purpose for which you provide it. We may also use it to respond to feedback given to us about our website and our services, to provide you with any information you request, to confirm receipt of emails you have sent to us or if we need to contact you for any other reason. 

Collection of information: The information which we will collect about you depends on how and why you access our website. If you visit the website to read, browse or download information, our computer system will record information about the visit such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, the previous site you visited, your server's IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages accessed and any information downloaded. We only use this information for statistical, reporting and website administration and maintenance purposes. 

Links to other websites: Our website may contain links to websites which are owned or operated by third parties independent of UNGCNA including websites owned or operated by our signatories, members, partners and stakeholders. Those websites should contain their own privacy statements, and their owners or operators are responsible for informing you about their security and privacy practices. We are not responsible for information on, or the privacy practices of, such websites.

Cookies: Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual's hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you are on a site. Although this website does not directly use cookies, you should be aware that indirect cookies may be used when you follow a link from this website to another website. 

Security: We take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. If you are concerned about conveying sensitive material to us over the internet, you might prefer to contact us by email. We implement technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the information that we have under our control. However, you should be aware that there are risks in transmitting information across the Internet. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us online and individuals do so at their own risk. Any information that is added to our or any other website can be picked up by search engines like Google or Yahoo. This is not in our control, but is an automatic process. Sending or publishing information to the internet places that information in the public domain, where it can be picked up by search engines, even if removed by us or the website owner or publisher. 

Queries about the operation of this website: If you have any queries about the operation of this website, or if you wish to have access to personal information which we hold about you, or believe that the information which we hold may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, please contact: webmaster@unglobalcompact.org.au