Website privacy policy

The Nurse Midwife Health Program Australia (Nurse Midwife HPA) collects information and data about people who use our website. This brings important legal and ethical responsibilities. Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed in accordance with the Privacy Act 1998.  

This policy explains how we collect, store and use your information and data. We will review and update this policy when any relevant laws change or if we change how we do things. 

Information and data we collect 

We use cookies and collect data about your browser type and the operating system you use, including your IP address, geographical location, referral source, length of visit and number of times a page is viewed.  

If you do not want this data collected for any reason, you can block or disable cookies (if you do so, you may not be able to use certain features and functions of our website).  

We also collect information you voluntarily give us via any forms completed on our website. Read the Nurse Midwife HPA privacy and confidentiality policy.  

Why we collect information and data  

Your information and data help us to understand what you are looking for from our program.  

Your data and information may be used for: 

• customising the website and its content   
• improving your experience with our website, program and resources  
• sending newsletters, updates or invitations. You can unsubscribe at any time 
• answering enquiries or following up on feedback or complaints   
• providing supporting evidence when seeking grants or other funding 
• statistical purposes, including reporting 

 We may disclose information and data about you: 

• to the extent we are required to do so by law 
• in connection with any legal or prospective legal proceedings 
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights 

Our program may use your information and data for secondary purposes related to the primary reason it was collected. This will only be for reasonable things outside what you have consented to. We will not share your personal information with or sell it to third-party marketers.  

Storage of information and data  

We use the recommended industry standards to protect your information and data. The security of your information and data is important to us.  

Here are the steps we take: 

• website protection measures (such as encryption, firewalls and anti-virus software) 
• access restrictions to computer systems (such as login and password protection) 
• restricted access to office premises 
• staff training and implementation of policies and procedures that cover access, storage and security of information 

Our service partners 

We use third-party service providers to process and store your data.  

 Here are the third-party providers we use:   

• Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC), which we use to manage and send emails to things you sign up for, like the newsletter
• Google Analytics, which we use to analyse and report on website use 
• Microsoft, which provides our email service
• Serversaurs, which hosts our website
• Craft CMS, whose software (and associated add-ons) we use to manage our website content

We will not share your personal information with any other third parties unless we have your permission or if the law requires us to. 

Third-party websites should have privacy and security policies, which we encourage you to read before supplying your information. 

We do not control links to third-party websites. We provide them for your convenience. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of those websites. Third parties may be outside of Australia. The country to which we are most likely to send your personal information is the United States. 

Social media  

Our program records individual visits to our social media pages, including Facebook, Instagram and Linked In. This information is used for statistical purposes and to help improve our program. We may use statistical data within our reporting.  

This information will not be disclosed to any other government agency, organisation or individual unless we are required by law to do so.  

For further information, please see:  

• Facebook – data policy 
• Instagram – data policy  
• Linked in – privacy policy  

Security measures 

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your information and data. 

It should be noted that data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet. You are responsible for keeping your passwords and user details confidential. 

Breaches or complaints  

Personal enquiries, feedback comments or concerns about our website privacy policy or breaches of this should be directed to info@nursemidwifehpa.org.au  

Accessing your information 

In most instances, we will give you access to your personal information, although there are certain circumstances in which we will not provide such access in accordance with the Privacy Act.  

You can seek access to, and update or correct, any personal information by unsubscribing to or email or by contacting info@nursemidwifehpa.org.au