Privacy & Policy

Privacy
Copyright
Disclaimer
Feedback from Service Users

Privacy

As a service of Women's Health Victoria, BreaCan is committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality and security of information provided by you to us. In terms of the relevant Privacy legislation, we ensure that your personal information will not be disclosed to others, execpt if required by law or other regulation.

BreaCan only collects 'personal information' (which is information which identifies an individual or from which the individual's identity may be reasonably ascertained) necessary to carry out its activities and services.

Personal information collected may include name, address, telephone, email and fax details, along with details of their cancer experience. For donors it may include financial details.

• We will only collect personal information from you with your prior knowledge and consent.
  
• Where we collect sensitive health related information, we will only do so with prior consent. Individuals are not obliged to provide this information and it can be withdrawn at anytime.
  
• We will only use personal information provided by you for the purposes for which it was collected.
  
• We will not disclose your personal information to a third party.
  
• You have the right to access any personal information held by us that relates to you.
  
• Access to BreaCan's services and activities is possible without disclosing personal information, except in the case of the Feel Good Gentle Exercise Program or borrowing items from the Library.
  

We use Google Analytics to track visitors to the website. We use this information to monitor the performance of the website and to assist us with identifying potential areas within the website for future development. The types of data we collect about visits include the date and time of the visit, where you have come from, length of visit, pages viewed and the type of internet browser used. These statistics cannot identify individuals.

Individuals wishing to access their personal information or change details can do so by getting in touch with the BreaCan resource centre.

This website contains links to external websites. BreaCan takes no responsibility for the privacy practices or content of the external websites.

BreaCan as a service of Women's Health Victoria also adheres to the privacy policy of WHV. BreaCan takes reasonable steps to protect all the personal information it holds in hard copy and electronic format from misuse or loss.

If you have any queries about our privacy statement please get in touch.

Copyright

Unless otherwise specified, all information and materials on this website are copyright and are protected by copyright laws of Australia.

BreaCan endeavours to keep the information on this website up-to-date but can not guarantee that the information provided is completely accurate. However, any mistakes brought to our attention will be corrected as soon as possible.

This website contains links to external websites. The views and opinions stated in the external websites do not necessarily reflect those of BreaCan. BreaCan takes no responsibility for the content of the external websites. Our copyright policy does not extend to these external websites. You should check the Copyright policy for each external site where relevant.

Disclaimer

BreaCan endeavours to keep the information on this website up-to-date but cannot guarantee that the information provided is completely accurate. However any mistakes brought to our attention will be corrected as soon as possible.

This website contains a number of links to external websites and these links are provided for information purposes only. The views or opinions stated in the external websites do not necessarily reflect those of BreaCan. BreaCan takes no responsibility for either the content or the privacy practices of the external websites. Any links to external websites does not imply endorsement by BreaCan of the views expressed by the organisations or individuals responsible for the external websites.

This website does not host or receive funding from advertising or from the display of commercial content. BreaCan will not knowingly use individuals or source information from an individual or organisations that stands to gain commercially from the association. Any real or potential bias will be disclosed.

Feedback from Service Users

In order to provide a responsive service BreaCan considers positive and negative feedback as equally important in facilitating quality improvement. We encourage service users to tell us what they think of the service. This may happen in a range of ways - for example through providing feedback via this website’s get in touch form, sending a letter or talking to a staff member. We are also committed to resolving service users’ complaints promptly and fairly consistent with the service’s complaints policy.

For further information contact BreaCan on 1300 781 500
Content updated: 9th July 2009