Privacy

On you application to be a member of the Club we collect and hold:

• The name by which you will be known in the Club
• Your home address
• Your phone numbers for contact purposes
• You email address for contact purposes
• You Golflink number and home Club
• Your date of birth
• We also store your date of entry to the Club database
• Ultimately your date of leaving the Club

The Club has a general duty of confidentiality towards you and wll not disclose you data to anyone except in the following circumstances:

• where disclosure is compelled by law;
• where disclosure of contact details to other members is made with your express or implied consent.

The reason we collect and hold personal information are"

• to comply with the requirements of the Victorian Model Rules for Incorporated Associations
• to enable us to communicate with you and assign eligibility for age based competitions within the Club.

We collect all personal information directly from you whether by you completing an online application, or completing a paper application form.

We do not collect any other information about you or attempt to collate other information with the data you supply.

All of the information we hold about you is be stored electronically in a secure data centre located in Melbourne.

If your membership application is not accepted all collected data is erased from the database.

We do not disclose member's personal information to anybody other than phone numbers, email and suburb to other members as specifically authorised by the member. Where supplied by or arranged with the member passport style photographs will be displayed in the members area of the web site

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We do not use cookies in any way.

All personal information about you is held in a password protected database. All changes to your data are advised by email. At least once a year the Secretary will email you the details of the data held and request that you advise of any corrections needed. The responsibility for the accuracy of the data held is yours.

If you have a question or complaint about how your personal information is being handled by us please contact us by emailing the webmaster at webmaster vetsgolfvic.org.au.

If you are unhappy with the response, you can contact the secretary secretary vetsgolfvic.org.au who will report the issue to the Committee for action.

Under the Privacy Act you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) about the way we handle your personal information. Please note the OAIC requires any complaint must first be made to the respondent organisation. The law also allows 30 days for the respondent organisation to deal with the complaint before a person may make a complaint to the OAIC.

The Commissioner can be contacted at: