Who we are
Monash University, acting through Climateworks Centre, values the privacy of every individual’s personal and health information and is committed to the protection of personal information.
Personal and health information is handled in accordance with the Monash Data Protection and Privacy Procedure and Collection Statements – Data Protection and Privacy (monash.edu), the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic), the Health Records Act 2001 (Vic), as well as the European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (EU) where applicable.
Collection of information and confidentiality
In order to use the Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue, we may require information from you. The type of information that we may collect includes personal information, such as your name, and email address. We may need to collect such information to improve the services or information that we provide or to answer or forward any requests or enquiries. This includes feedback submitted through the feedback form on the website. We will keep your information confidential. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We rely on the information you provide to us to properly meet your needs and improve our services. You are entitled to withhold or restrict our access to information, but failure to provide the relevant information may mean that you are unable to access our services.
Use of your information
Personal information that you provide to us is used only for the purpose for which it is intended or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the intended purpose, including, for example, statistical reporting, quality and compliance auditing and research purposes. Your personal information provided to us via our website will only be seen or used by our employees or agents, for example, mailing houses, ecommerce providers, and social media channels, who are also bound by privacy laws.
Use of Cookies
To ensure we are meeting the needs and requirements of our website users, and to develop our online services, we may collect aggregated information by using ‘cookies’. Cookies are unique identification numbers, like tags, that are placed on the browser of our website users. The cookies do not in themselves identify users personally, but are linked back to a database record about them. Information that may be collected via cookies includes your domain name, IP address, the data and time of your visit, the pages accessed and documents downloaded, the previous site visited and the type of browser used. These cookies are shared with third party providers, but no personal data is included. Advertising cookies allow us to use information about the pages you visit on our website and the content you interact with to show you more relevant information when we advertise. Advertising cookies are shared with third party providers, but no personal data is included.
We do not use this technology to access any other personal information of a user in our records and a user cannot be personally identified from a cookie. If a user chooses not to have their browser accept cookies from our site, they are still able to view the text on their screens.
Email addresses
We may collect the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email or through the feedback form on the website. If you do not want to receive emails from us in the future, please contact us via the feedback form.
Storage and security of your information
The security of your personal information is important to us and we are committed to protecting the confidentiality of any information that we collect and ensuring that your information is stored safely and securely. We will take reasonable steps to protect the information you provide to us.
We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, modification, unauthorised access or disclosure of information that we have collected from you. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
Access to your information
You are entitled to request access to the information we have collected about you through this site and we will provide you with access to the information unless an exemption or restriction applies under law.
Changes to our Privacy Policy and practices
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. The handling of any information we collect from you (including information previously collected) will be governed by the most current version of this Privacy Policy. Please check this Privacy Policy regularly.
Updating your information
We will take reasonable steps to keep information which we hold about you accurate and up-to-date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us through the feedback form to have the information corrected.
Links to other websites
Links on our website to external websites are not covered within this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any website you link to from our website.
Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the feedback form.