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Community Gardens Australia Incorporated (CGA) is committed to the principles of privacy and has developed this policy based on the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). It outlines our obligations to members and others with respect to how we manage their personal information. This governs the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure, and dispose of personal information.
A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.aoic.gov.au
Our website address is: https://recipe.communitygarden.org.au.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select ‘Remember Me’, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Security of personal information
Personal information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
When personal information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify it. However, most of the personal information is or will be stored in documents or files which will be kept by us for a minimum of seven years.
Access to personal information
Individuals may seek access to the personal information we hold about them and can update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. Individuals seeking access should contact us in writing to secretary@communitygarden.org.au.
CGA will not charge any fee for such requests, nor for the copying of materials made available to the individual.
Publication and review of policy
This policy is available on our website.
Complaints and enquiries
The CGA secretary is responsible for handling complaints and enquiries about our privacy policy and administration of personal information.
Please forward any feedback to secretary@communitygarden.org.au.