PRIVACY POLICY
ABC Radio Australia News is strongly committed to protecting your privacy while interacting with our content, products and services. We want to provide a safe and secure environment for you and your children.
This policy applies only to ABC Radio Australia News and not to other companies' or organisations' websites to which ABC Radio Australia News is linked.
Collection of information
Information is collected from you primarily to make it easier and more rewarding for you to use our services. Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked to provide information such as your name, email address or information about what you like and do not like. It is entirely your choice whether to respond to these questions or not.
ABC Radio Australia News collects two types of information. The first type is anonymous information. For instance, we may collect information to tell us that five thousand people visit this Privacy Policy today, but we do not know their names, where they live or their date of birth - they are 'anonymous' to us. Another example of ABC Radio Australia News collecting anonymous information is when ABC audiences are invited to respond to surveys on the ABC website. The surveys may ask you for demographic information such as your age, gender and postcode. This information is collected for research purposes, is used in the aggregate (where possible), and remains anonymous. Many of the individuals who access our services are anonymous to us.
The second type of information that ABC Radio Australia News collects is personal information. ABC Radio Australia News will collect personal information that lets us know the specifics of who you are such as your name, email address, or postal address, when you provide it to us. With this information, ABC Radio Australia News can provide a variety of personalised and enhanced services that are not available to anonymous users. We hope that you will find it beneficial to provide individually identifiable information about yourself to us because it will make our services more valuable to you.
Use of anonymous information
ABC Radio Australia News automatically gathers anonymous information to monitor the use of ABC Radio Australia News like the numbers and frequency of visitors to ABC Radio Australia News and its areas, very much like television ratings that tell the networks how many people tuned in to a program. We only use such data in the aggregate. This collective data helps us determine how much our audiences use parts of the site, so we can improve ABC Radio Australia News to assure that it is as appealing as we can make it for as many users as possible. ABC Radio Australia News may publish or provide this aggregate data to other people.
Use of personal information
ABC Radio Australia News will only use the personal information you have chosen to provide us for the purpose for which you provided it. ABC Radio Australia News will not use it for any other purpose without your consent.
Disclosure
There will be occasions where it will be necessary for the ABC to disclose your personal information to third parties. The ABC may be required by law to disclose the information, or the ABC may be required to disclose your personal information to third parties to provide the service you have requested, for example, if you purchase products online from the ABC Shop, the ABC will need to disclose your personal information to third parties in order to bill and deliver your products. However, the disclosure will only be made where it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which you disclosed your personal information. Otherwise than stated above, we do not disclose personal information that you may give us, such as your name, address, email address or telephone number, to any organisation or person outside the ABC unless you have authorised us to do so. For example, when you contribute to an online forum you may want to publish your name and email address.
No sale of personal information
Under no circumstances will ABC Radio Australia News sell or receive payment for licensing or disclosing your personal information.
Access and correction: personal data
If ABC Radio Australia News holds your personal information the ABC will where possible provide you with access to the information. The ABC will take reasonable steps to correct the information so that it is accurate, complete and up to date.
Security
The ABC operates secure data networks that are designed to protect your privacy and security.
Complaints about privacy
If you have any complaints relating to online privacy issues on our websites, please notify ABC Radio Australia News. While the ABC accepts no liability for any material or links posted to the service, we will investigate all complaints.
Changes to ABC Radio Australia News privacy policy
If we decide to change the ABC Radio Australia News Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here.
