The Australian Privacy Act went into effect in early 1989. As defined by the law, it gives "natural persons" greater control over how their personal information is handled.
The Australian Privacy Act ensures the following rights:
- The right to know why your personal information is being collected, how it will be used, and to whom it will be disclosed.
- The right to have the option to not identify yourself, or to use a pseudonym in certain circumstances.
- The right to ask for access to your personal information (including your health information).
- The right to stop receiving unwanted direct marketing.
- The right to ask for your personal information that is incorrect to be corrected.
- The right to make a complaint about an organization or agency the Privacy Act covers, if you think they've mishandled your personal information.
How Higher Logic helps your organization
- Our platforms provide compliance tools so that your organization can honor privacy-rights inquiries and data-deletion requests.
You can find information on how these tools function on our current GDPR Resources page on HUG.
- Our Data Processing Agreement (https://www.higherlogic.com/legal/privacy/) provides more information on our Technical and Organizational measures.