The
Australian Health Insurance Association Limited (AHIA) is
committed to respecting the privacy of your information,
and recognises the need for appropriate protection and management
of any personal information that you share with us. Personal
information is any information about an identifiable individual.
This
privacy policy is made available to you in order to make
you aware of how AHIA collects and uses individual identifying
information of visitors to AHIA's website.
The
information you provide helps us provide more valuable information
to you. It also enables us to give you updates about our
services.
We
collect only information volunteered by you, such as survey
and feedback information, or site registrations, and use
such information for internal purposes only. AHIA may also
share such information with its health fund members strictly
for non-profit business purposes. AHIA does not sell such
information or provide it to any unaffiliated third parties.
If
you have any other questions about the AHIA's privacy policy,
please contact us at admin@ahia.org.au
Direct
collection of personal information
We
collect personal information when such information is specifically
and knowingly provided from users during (i) survey or site
registration promotions and (ii) subscription registration
for sites or services requiring such registration information.
We may occasionally inform our users of health financing
information and other health related information that we
believe our users will find interesting. However, we will
not provide your personal information to a third party without
your consent.
Choice
You
will be given the option to choose whether you would like
to receive such mailing upon registration. You can also
request, at any time, that your information not be used
for such purposes by sending an email request to us at the
address admin@ahia.org.au
Security
Wherever
your personal information may be held within AHIA, we intend
to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect this
personal information from unauthorised access or disclosure.
However, it is important to understand that no security
system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot
give an absolute assurance that personal information will
be secure at all times.
Childrens'
Privacy
No
information should be submitted to the AHIA by children
16 years of age or under without their parent's or guardian's
consent. We do not monitor the age of our user audience.
Access/Accuracy
You
may request access to personal information held by us relative
to yourself. We will respond to such requests within a reasonable
time. We will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely
manner to a users request to correct inaccuracies in the
personal information held by us. To request correction of
such inaccuracies, you may send updates and corrections
to admin@ahia.org.au