Privacy Policy

The Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch) values your privacy, and follows current Australian best practice guidelines to ensure your privacy is protected.

Generally, any information collected is provided by you when you chose to stay up to date. This normally includes your name, address and any preferences chosen by you in creating your profile. This information helps us customise your online experience to suit your interests and passions. We will not share your information with anyone else, except where legally allowed, or required (such as for donations and petitions to Parliament). We do not store credit card information.

When you comment on our content, you are acknowledging that your comments will be published with your name and your suburb. We do not allow anonymous comments. Our site is moderated and any comments that are defamatory or otherwise inappropriate will be removed.

We remind and encourage you not to disclose any personal information when commenting on content. Participants acknowledge that we cannot control the use of information you post publicly on this site.

When organising a petition, we will collect information required by the petition. From time to time, we will also conduct surveys designed to improve your website experience. We collect non-identifying information relating to website usage by visitors to the website via cookies in order to improve your website experience. This information includes time, date, IP address, browser and other general website usage information.

How?

Generally we collect information that you provide in the registration process, petitions, or surveys from a variety of sources. Information is also collected on third party platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, if you agree on these platforms to share this information. Cookies are used to collect non-identifying information.

Why?

Information is collected to improve, personalise and customise your website experience. Information is also used to communicate with you about various material.

In addition, we have specific obligations to disclose donations. When a donation is made we will record the necessary information, but do not store credit card information.

Subscriptions

All e-mails sent via automated mailing lists will clearly identify Labor, Labor HQ, or one of its representatives as the sender and will include a suitable method for unsubscribing.