Privacy Obligations
Our Privacy Policy sets out the obligations and policies of Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute (NORI) Limited. In particular, this policy details how we collect, use, disclose, store and enable access to your personal information, including both offline and online.
Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute is bound by the National Privacy Principles set out in Schedule 3 of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (“the Act”). A copy of the National Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au.
Personal Information
Personal information includes any information or opinion about an individual who is reasonably identifiable regardless of whether the information is true or not. Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute only collects the personal information, which at times includes sensitive information (health information), that it deems necessary for its operations or activities.
In general terms, the types of Personal Information collected by us may include, amongst other things, your name, address, date of birth, mobile and other telephone numbers, e-mail address, credit card or bank account details, occupation and employer, driver’s licence number, relevant national identity card details, emergency contact details, your image if required for membership identification purposes.
For potential employees, any application and personal information provided to Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute will be used solely for the purpose of assessing the suitability for the position applied for. Personal information provided will only form part of an employee record if the application is successful.
Use of Personal Information
Personal information collected about individuals will be used and disclosed by us to provide the services required or otherwise to enable us to carry out our operations and activities.
Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute will only disclose Personal Information to third a party business partner if they provide services to Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute that are consistent with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Where certain services are outsourced or contracted out, our contractors may access an individuals’ Personal Information. Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute contractors are subject to strict confidentiality obligations. Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute ensures that it only engages with reputable business partners.
Individuals consent to the use and disclosure of their Personal Information where it is incidental to a sale of any Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute business to a third party.
On request, Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute is obliged to disclose personal information if it is a legal requirement to do so in the region where the request is made.
Website, Digital and Online Privacy
This website is owned and operated by Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute. This Privacy Policy includes details about how Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute uses its websites and all Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute digital mediums (website) to collect and manage your Personal Information. By using this website, you agree to this entire Privacy Policy. This includes the collection and use of your personal information and your conduct on any Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute website or digital medium (website).
We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to our websites, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual.
Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute is committed to handling Personal Information collected online consistently in the same way that it handles Personal Information collected offline. Matters relating specifically to the collection and management of Personal Information online are detailed below.
Cookies: Cookies are data that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies, which are industry standard and are used by most websites, including those operated by us, can facilitate a user’s ongoing access to and use of a site.
They allow us to customise the website to your needs. If you do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, there is a procedure in most internet browsers that allows you to deny or accept the Cookie feature. You should note that Cookies may be necessary to provide you with some features of our websites.
SMS, MMS and Email Communication and Marketing: From time to time we will distribute information regarding Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute via SMS, MMS and Email. We will not distribute information using these means if requested not to. Customers are able to ‘unsubscribe’ from such forms of communication and clear instructions regarding how to do so is detailed in all such communications.
When Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute sends promotional content using these mediums, it only does so where there is a reasonable belief that the recipient would be interested in the subject matter.
Social Media: Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute supports the use of its various social media platforms for all reasonable comments, communication and feedback. At the time of writing this policy, these platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
The use of the Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute social media platforms must not be used to abuse other people, expose other people, inappropriate or offensive comments or content or for an illegal purpose. In the event that this occurs, the user may be blocked from access to the social media platform and any comment or post removed.
It is the user’s responsibility to protect their personal privacy when using the Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute social media platforms. We recommend that users do not include any Personal Information in their posts or comments.
Information posted to a Newcastle Orthopaedic Research Institute social media platform is recorded and used for the purpose of administering the platform and addressing any comments made or questions and feedback presented.