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HEI Privacy Policy

 

This policy tells you how Hunter Environmental Institute Inc. (HEI) processes and protects your personal data. We aim to be clear when we collect your data, let you know what we will use it for and keep it secure.

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Hunter Environmental Institute Inc. (HEI) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") is designed to help you understand what information we gather, how we use it, what we do to protect it, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service. Unless otherwise indicated below, this Privacy Policy applies to any website that references this Privacy Policy, any Company website, as well as any data HEI may collect across partnered and unaffiliated sites.

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For purposes of this Agreement, “Service” refers to the HEI’s service which can be accessed via our website at https://www.hei.org.au/ and through our mailouts (emailed Newsletters, Updates, etc). The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to HEI. “You” refers to you, as a user of the Service.

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When providing us with your details you accept this privacy policy and authorise HEI to collect, store and process your personal data in the ways mentioned in this policy and for the purposes for which you have supplied it to us. If you would like more information or have any questions, please email us at hunterenviroinstitute@gmail.com.

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We may collect both “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information” about you. “Non-Personal Information” includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. “Personal Information” includes information that can be used to personally identify you, such as your name, address and email address.

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We may collect personal information about you when:

  • You sign up to our mailing list(s),

  • You make a one-off donation or sign up to donate regularly,

  • You pay a membership fee,

  • You sign up to attend or participate in one of our events,

  • You become involved in one of our training programs or campaigns,

  • You fill out a survey or quiz we send you,

  • You apply for a paid or volunteering role with us.

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The information we collect may include, among other details, your name, address, email address, preferred phone number, your involvement in HEI campaigns or activities.

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If you make a donation or pay your membership, we will collect the details necessary to process this payment e.g. bank account details to set up a Direct Debit and ask for consent to use your contact details to send you updates on our campaigns and occasional appeals.

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We do not store credit or debit card details and when making an online donation or membership payment your payment details are processed by a third-party secure server payment gateway.

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We will not collect sensitive personal information unless there is a clear reason as to why we need it. We will only collect this with your consent, and we will give clear notices so that you know why we need this data and how long we will keep it for.

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