Privacy Statement

This policy governs all pages hosted at www.stepwise.org and registration for this site. It does not apply to pages hosted by other organizations to which we may link and whose privacy policies may differ. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated.

 Personally identifiable information

We will collect personal information in the process of conducting business. That personal information may be obtained directly from you, via another contact in your organisation or through a third party who we believe has informed you that your details may be provided to us. We do not normally obtain or store information that is deemed by the Privacy Act to be "Sensitive Information".

We store personal information to ensure that we can maintain contact with the organizations and people with which we do business. This contact may be verbal, electronic or written. The reason for the contact may be to inform, request assistance or to maintain a relationship.

 Collection of information

The information we collect will only be that which is necessary for the conduct of our business and our relationship with you. Stepwise uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications such as our e-newsletter.

Information gathered by us in one instance may be used in another instance unless you expressly requested that we do not. However, we will only use the information which we receive about you for the purpose of doing business with you or in connection with that purpose.

Where practical, we will only collect information directly from you. If we collect it from another source, we will do what is reasonably possible to inform you that we have collected the information.

 Storage of personal information

Your information is held either in paper-based records or in electronic form in our databases. We take proper precautions to ensure the security of that information.

If your information is no longer needed, we will either delete it from our systems or de-identify it, so that it cannot be attributed to you personally.

 Sharing information

If you have subscribed to Stepwise’s e-newsletter, we will send you the newsletter once per month. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We do not disclose your personal information to anyone. If we intend to do so, we will contact you before we do.

 Protecting personal information

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we hold is accurate, and we will put into effect any changes that you ask for.

If you wish to view the personal information that we have stored please e-mail, fax or write to us. We will disclose your personal information ONLY to be extracted and made available for viewing by you at the Stepwise office (Note: This will not included any passwords or security relevant information). We will not mail or e-mail your personal information document to you but we will notify you in a timely manner when it is available for viewing at our office.