Privacy policy

Health 42 A(BN 858 275 671 31) recognises the importance of protecting the privacy and the rights of individuals in relation to their personal information. This document is our privacy policy and it tells you how we collect and manage your personal information.
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We respect your rights to privacy under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and we comply with all of the Privacy Act’s requirements in respect of the collection, management and disclosure of your personal information.
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What is your personal information?
When used in this privacy policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act. In simple terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and profession.

What personal information do we collect and hold?
We may collect the following types of personal information:
- identification information, such as your name, email or occupation;
- details of our products and services you have enquired about, together with any other additional information necessary to respond to your enquiries.

We may also collect some information that is not personal information because it does not identify you or anyone else. For example, we may collect anonymous answers to surveys or aggregated and de-identified information (which means that it does not identify you or anyone else) about how users use our website or our products and services.

How do we collect your personal information?
When collecting personal information from you, we may collect in ways including:
- through your access and use of our services;
- during conversations between you and our representatives;
- or when you complete a form on our website. 

Cookies
In some cases, we may also collect your personal information through the use of cookies. When you access our website or our online products and services, we may send a “cookie” (which is a small summary file containing a unique ID number) to your computer.  Health 42 uses session-based cookies to help secure data in transit and ensure optimal online performance. Health 24 websites and online services also use persistent cookies for other purposes, like retaining user preferences across sessions. Both Health 42 and third-party (Google Analytics) cookies are used for analytics purposes, to determine which areas of our website have been visited and to measure transaction patterns in the aggregate. We use this to research our users’ habits so that we can improve our online products and services. Embedded third-party tools like Google Maps will also often utilise cookies.
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If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your computer does not accept them. Cookies can also easily be deleted.

What happens if we can’t collect your personal information?
If you do not provide us with the personal information described above, some or all of the following may happen:
- we may not be able to provide our products and services to you, either to the same standard or at all; and
- we may not be able to provide you with information about our products or services that you may be interested in.

For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
We collect personal information about you so that we can perform our business activities and functions and to provide best possible quality of customer service.

We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
- to provide services requested by you;
- to answer enquiries and provide information or advice about our products and services;
- to conduct business processing functions including providing personal information to our contractors, healthcare service providers or other organisations in order for us to provide you with our services;
- to process and respond to any complaint made by you; and
- to comply with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority.

We may also collect hold, use and disclose your personal information (but generally not sensitive information) for the following purposes:
- for administrative, service development, quality control and our research purposes;
- to update our records and keep your contact details up to date; and
- to assess the performance of our website and to improve the operation of our website.Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this privacy policy. 

To whom may we disclose your information?
We may disclose your personal information to:
- our employees, contractors or service providers for the operation of our website or our business, fulfilling requests by you and to otherwise provide services to you including, without limitation, web hosting providers, IT systems administrators, couriers, and professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors, business advisors and consultants; and
- any organisation for any authorised purpose with your express consent.We may also disclose your personal information without your consent when required or authorised to by law.

How can you access and correct your personal information?
We take reasonable steps to make sure the personal information we hold is accurate and complete.  You have a right to request access to your personal information and that it be updated or corrected if necessary. You may request access to any personal information we hold about you at any time by contacting us (see the details below). When you request access to information we hold about you, we will usually provide it to you in an electronic form. In order to protect your privacy, we will ask you to verify your identity before giving you access to the information.
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If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it.
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What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?
If you believe that your privacy has been breached, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information below and provide details of the incident so that we can investigate it.
We request that complaints about breaches of privacy be made in writing, so we can be sure about the details of the complaint. Our Privacy Officer deals with privacy complaints and any complaints should be directed to our Privacy Officer using the contact details below.
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After we have completed our enquiries, we will contact you, usually in writing, to advise the outcome and invite a response to our conclusions about the complaint. If we receive a response from you, we will assess it and advise if we have changed our view.
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Do we disclose your personal information to anyone outside Australia?
Health 42 does not disclose any type of information outside Australia geography.

Security
We store your personal information on electronic systems and take reasonable steps (including technological measures such as encryption and authentication, and administrative procedures and physical security) to ensure your personal information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Personal information is destroyed or de-identified when no longer needed.
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Links
Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third party website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website. Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.

Contacting us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy or a possible breach of your privacy, please use the contact link on our website or contact our Privacy Officer using the details set out below.
 
Privacy Officer

Tel: 0421 578 946

Email: privacy@health42.com.au
 
Changes to our privacy policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any updated versions of this privacy policy will be posted on our website. Please review it regularly.
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This privacy policy was last updated in January 2023.