AUSTRALIAN PRIVACY POLICY
1. General
Australian Local Government Women's Association respects the privacy of every individual who visits our Site or
responds to our interactive advertisements. This Privacy Policy outlines the
information Australian Local Government Women's Association will collect and how we will use that
information. This Policy will also instruct you on what to do if you do not want
your personal information collected or shared when you visit the Australian Local Government Women's Association Site or respond to our advertisements.
2. Personally Identifiable Information
Australian Local Government Women's Association will
not collect any personally identifiable information about you (that is, your
name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) unless you provide it to us
voluntarily.
If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected, please do not submit it to us. If you have already submitted this information and would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us at the Site, listed at the bottom of this Policy. We will use reasonable efforts to delete your information from our existing files.
When you do provide us with personally identifiable information, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise: we may store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services; we may use that information to contact you; to protect our rights or property and we may provide that information to third parties.
3. Children
Australian Local Government Women's Association has no intention of collecting any
personally identifiable information (that is, name, address, telephone number,
or e-mail address) from individuals under thirteen (13) years of age. Where
appropriate, Australian Local Government Women's Association will specifically instruct children not to
submit such information on our Site or advertisements. If a child has provided
us with personally identifiable information, a parent or guardian of that child
should contact us at the e-mail address or phone number listed at the bottom of
this Statement if they would like this information deleted from our records. We
will use reasonable efforts to delete the child's information from our existing
files.
4. Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collected
Automatically
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is
not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the
type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer operating system
you are using, and the domain name of the website from which you linked to our
Site or advertisement.
5. Information We May Place Automatically On Your Computer's Hard
Drive
When you view our Site or advertisements, we may store some
information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "Cookie"
or similar file and will help us in many ways. For example, Cookies allow us to
tailor the Site or advertisement to better match your interests and preferences.
With most Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard
drive, block all Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Please
refer to your Browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these
functions.
6. Who to Contact
If you have submitted personally identifiable
information through our Site or interactive advertisement, and would like that
information deleted from our records, please send an e-mail with your details
and a contact number to our consumer relations department using the address
Privacy Inquiry. We will use reasonable efforts to delete this information
from our existing files.
Further questions? Contact us at our e-mail address karen.mckeown@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au.
7. Basis of Privacy Policy Principles
The privacy principles of
this policy are based on respect for international standards of privacy
protection, such as the Information Privacy Principles set out in section 14 of
the Commonwealth Privacy Act, 1998, and section 6 of the New Zealand Privacy Act
1993 and the Australian Privacy Charter.
8. Security of Information
Australian Local Government Women's Association takes reasonable
steps to preserve the security of "cookie" and personal information in
accordance with this Site's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as
totally secure. Accordingly, Australian Local Government Women's Association strives to protect such
information Australian Local Government Women's Association cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you
do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission we take reasonable
steps to preserve the security of the information in our systems.
9. Acceptance and Changes to Privacy Policy
You acknowledge and
accept that your use of the Site indicates your acceptance of this Site's Terms
& Conditions and the Privacy Policy.
This is a current Privacy Policy. It replaces any other Privacy Policy for this Site published on this Site to date. Australian Local Government Women's Association may at any time vary the Privacy Policy by publishing the varied Privacy Policy on this Site. You accept that by doing this, Australian Local Government Women's Association has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.






ALGWA offers an annual scholarship of $500.00 to a female student whose tertiary studies relate to an area of local government. It is currently awarded to an eligible student of Armidale University. The aim is to encourage women to become involved in local government and to perpetuate the memory of Marjorie Propsting, a woman who was definitely a leader and role model for women making a career in local government, or becoming an elected member of council.