This policy applies to AVLA Inc (“AVLA”, “us”, “our”, “we”). It applies to all of our services including our Website, any related portals, Customer Relationship Management Platforms, User Registrations, or any other service delivery tool provided by any of the service delivery teams.  

In short, this policy applies whenever we do something with your personal information.

“Personal information” means any information that could identify a living person. This includes things like names, email addresses and phone numbers. It also includes information that can “indirectly” identify a person. This can happen when small bits of information are combined to identify someone.

AVLA may collect personal information about you, including: 

1. Identity Information (e.g. Your name, birth date, age, gender, your answer to a security question, your location) 

2. Contact Details (e.g. Your email address, phone number, and address)  

3. Employment and Education (e.g. Your job titles or roles, the number of years you’ve been in a position or field, or your highest level of education) 

4. Engagement Information (e.g. Your location, what courses you’ve completed, how you have performed in job applications, events you’ve attended, etc) 

5. Usage Behaviours (e.g. When you visit the website, which pages you visit, whereabouts you click and how you solve problems) 

6. Personality Information (e.g. Your approach to teamwork, your team working skills, your other skills, talents and motivations) 

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are giving your consent for AVLA to collect the types of personal information listed above.

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a “lawful basis”. This can happen in four situations: 

1. Consent. You consent to us using your personal information. We talk more about consent below. 

2. Contract (Suppliers, corporate partners). We can use your personal information to help us prepare a contract for you. Preparing a “contract” includes when we use your personal information to create an account. We can also use your personal information to fulfil a contract we have with you.

3. Legal Obligation. We can use your personal information to enable us to fulfil our legal obligations. For example, we might need to store your payment details for tax reasons. 

4. Legitimate Interest. We can collect and use your personal information when we have a “legitimate interest”. We talk more about “legitimate interests” below. 

The table below outlines which lawful bases we use when we collect or use your personal information. 

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. However, we might have to stop offering you services that relied on your consent. This may mean that we will have to terminate your account. We will tell you how withdrawing your consent could impact the services we offer.  

You can withdraw your consent by emailing admin@avla.org.au. You can also email us to ask how withdrawing your consent will impact the services we offer you.

We can collect and use your personal information for our “legitimate interest”. However, we won’t use this basis if we can achieve our interests without using your personal information.  

Our “legitimate interests” include everything you’d expect that the organisation should be able to do. It includes our commercial and legal interests. For example, we have legitimate interests in: 

• Keeping information on our participants and users 

• Marketing 

• Fraud prevention  

• IT security 

• Being able to make future legal claims or defences, and 

• Being able to share information about possible outcomes or opportunities for participants.  

• Third Party supplier requirements 

Our “legitimate interests” also include the broader interests of society.  

We balance our legitimate interests against your interests. We will not use your personal information for our legitimate interests if it would significantly impact your interests. We place particular value on the interests of children and we do not keep any data on minors under the age of 16, electronically, anywhere. 

If we rely on our legitimate interests, we will document why we believe our interests outweighed yours. You can ask for a copy of this document by emailing admin@avla.org.au.

We collect the minimum amount of personal information necessary for us to achieve our purposes. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are giving your consent for AVLA to use your personal information for the purposes listed below.   

Our purposes include: 

1. Registering you as a member. For example, asking for your email address so that we can contact you. 

2. Verifying your identity. For example, sending you an email if you forget your password (where applicable). 

3. Grouping your information with the information of other participants to create group-level data. For example, combining your job placement with the placement of other people to create a placements average. This group-level data might be shared with others. 

4. Sharing information about your engagement, achievements and username with other users. For example, sharing your user name and achievements with AVLA Staff cross functionally.  

5. Recommending content for you. For example, recommending new courses based on what you previously studied. 

6. Recommending content for other users. For example, using information about what courses you’ve enjoyed to recommend courses to users who are similar to you. 

7. Improving our services. For example, looking at what you click on most to make things more accessible. 

8. Sending you messages about your account. For example, emailing you if your membership is about to expire. 

9. Sending you marketing information. For example, emailing you a copy of our newsletter. 

10. Giving your personal information to possible employers. For example, sending your information to a company looking for someone with your skills (assuming you have signed up for this).  

11. Responding to complaints. For example, emailing you to tell you what actions we have taken to address your complaint.  

12. Complying with our legal obligations. For example, sharing your personal information with law enforcement agencies where we have a legal obligation to do so.

Please review our Collection of Personal Information table for an outline on this information.

We collect your personal information in two ways: 

1. You give us your personal information 

   You might give us your personal information. You might tell us your name, age, and email address when you create an account via our website or apps, for example – if we collect your information via our fundraising apps. You might also tell us about your employment and education history or give us your payment information.  

   We might ask for information about your gender. We use this information to promote equity goals.  

2. We automatically collect your personal information 

   We collect personal information from you as you use our services. This includes information on your progress through our fundraising campaigns. It also includes information about how you use our services. We record information about when you log on, which pages you visit, whereabouts you click. We also record things like your IP address and the type of browser you used.

We might share your personal information with third parties, including: 

• A potential employer, third party service provider or event organiser. We might share your personal information with your employer, education institution or an event organiser. We do this when you are using our services because of them. For example, you’re using our services as part of your involvement in a social connections program, and the third-party provider is providing a service while AVLA run the event. 

• Payment processing (Companies). We might share your name, contact details and payment information with another company to help us protect and process the information. For example, we might share your information with a third party who can better manage payments. 

• Email service providers. We might share your information with a third party to help us communicate with you. For example, we might use a third-party tool to send you personalised content. 

• Security and fraud prevention companies. We might share information about how you’ve used the services to help security companies identify any risks to our services. 

• Data and analytic software providers. We might use third party software to monitor your engagement. We might also use third party software to help us gather better data. 

• Companies interested in your talents. We might share your personal information with companies who are interested in hiring you. You can withdraw your consent to this at any time. 

By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are giving your consent for AVLA to share your personal information with the types of third parties listed above.

Sometimes, we might send your personal information overseas (for example, IP addresses stored when collecting survey results via a third party provider, such as SurveyMonkey). We take steps to make sure that any personal information we send overseas will be protected. 

We only send your personal information overseas if: 

• The country we are sending your personal information to has an “adequate data protection framework” as determined by the European Commission’s adequacy decisions. 

• We are sending your personal information to a company that has binding rules that will protect your data. 

• We have a binding agreement with the party that will ensure your data is secure. 

• You have consented to us sending your personal information overseas. 

You can email us for more information about who we might share your personal information with. To contact us, email admin@avla.org.au.

AVLA takes steps to keep your personal information secure. Our website and data collected therein is based on Australian servers.

Data Minimisation and Storage Limitation 

We only collect as little personal information as necessary for us to achieve our purposes. We also delete any personal information after we no longer need it (more on this below). These strategies help us limit the potential harm of any data breach. If we don’t have it, they can’t steal it. 

Technical Measures 

We’ve taken technical steps to protect your personal information. We remove your name from the rest of your data wherever we can. This makes it harder for an attacker to identify you. We also use end-to-end encryption when we transmit your data. This makes it harder for any attacker to read the information that we may send to third parties. 

Other Measures 

We have taken steps to ensure that our whole team knows what they can do to protect your personal information. Our employees participate in training on email, internet and cyber security. We don’t give employees access to your personal information unless they absolutely need it. These steps help limit the chance for things to go wrong.

Generally, we delete or anonymise personal information once we no longer need it for our purposes. However, our legal obligations or legitimate interests might mean we keep the information for a bit longer.  

Review this table to understand when we will erase your personal information. 

You have rights over your personal information. We are committed to helping you enjoy these rights.  

Your right to access your personal information 

You have a right to access the personal information we keep about you. This includes information about: 

• What personal information we have about you 

• Why we use your personal information

• Who we share your personal information with 

• How long we plan to keep your personal information for 

• Where we collect your personal information from 

• Proof of your consent (if we’re relying on your consent) 

• Why we thought our legitimate interests outweighed your interests (if we’re relying on our legitimate interest) 

You can ask for a copy of this information by emailing admin@avla.org.au. We will provide you with a copy for free.

We will need to verify your identity before we give you a copy of your personal information. We might ask you to confirm some of your personal information to help us verify your identity. We will aim to give you a copy of your information within 28 days from when you have verified your identity.  

We might not give you certain bits of information if we believe this is necessary to protect the rights of other people. If this happens, we will tell you why we didn’t give you full access. 

If you aren’t happy with how we handle your request, you can tell us by emailing admin@avla.org.au. You can also send a complaint to someone outside AVLA (more on this below).   

Your right to correct your personal information 

We try our best to keep our records up-to-date. However, you can ask us to correct your personal information if you believe we have missed something. To contact us, email admin@avla.org.au.    

Your right to erasure 

You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information. We will erase your information by following the process outlined above. To ask us to erase your personal information, email admin@avla.org.au.     

We might not be able to offer you certain services if you erase your personal information. We will tell you which services will be impacted before we erase your personal information.  

Your right to restrict how we use your personal information 

You can ask us to not use your personal information for certain purposes. You can make this request if: 

• You believe we are using inaccurate personal information about you, and you want us to stop using it until we have corrected it 

• We have been using your personal information unlawfully 

• We no longer need the personal information for one of our purposes, but we need to keep it for legal reasons 

• You are challenging our “legitimate interest” to use your personal information 

To ask us to restrict how we use your personal information, email admin@avla.org.au.   

We can still store your personal information even if restrictions are in place. If your information is restricted, we will tell you before we start using it again. 

We will work with you to help you enjoy your privacy rights. You can contact us about any concerns you might have by emailing admin@avla.org.au.     

You can also complain to somebody outside of AVLA. Your options will vary depending on where you live. 

Australian Users can send a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. More information about making a complaint can be found on their website. 

For other users, you can email us and we will help you find somebody to send a complaint to. You can also get legal advice for more information on how you can take your complaint further. 

We may change this policy over time. The effective date is shown at the top of this webpage. We will change the effective date whenever we update our policy.

We will tell you if we make any changes to this policy. We encourage you to come back to this policy from time to time so that you know how we are using your personal information.