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Privacy Policy

The Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should FECCA ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

This Privacy Policy provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that FECCA collect from you.

FECCA may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from November 2011.

Information FECCA Collects

  1. Unidentified details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data.
  2. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you signup to our Friends of FECCA register.
  3. Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason, such as information received through the Contact us form.

Use of Your Information

The information that FECCA collects and stores relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide you with information, updates and news regarding our work or that of the sector. In addition, FECCA may use the information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our work.
  2. To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect your access and our work.

FECCA does not share personal information with other organisations or individuals outside of FECCA except in the following limited circumstances:

  1. FECCA has your consent. FECCA requires opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information
  2. FECCA has, in good faith, belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violation thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of FECCA, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Storing Your Personal Data

FECCA uses industry standard security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control.

Data that is provided to us is stored on secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore FECCA cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where FECCA have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Access to Information

Should you wish to receive details that FECCA holds about you please contact us.

Your Consent

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of information as outlined in the above documentation. If FECCA decides to change our privacy policy, FECCA will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information FECCA collects, how FECCA uses it, and under what circumstances FECCA discloses it.