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This policy at a glance

• This is an information site. You can browse it without submitting your name, contact details or other information through a form.
• We collect the personal information you provide when you contact us. Like any website, we also process limited technical information automatically when pages are requested.
• We do not use advertising technologies or cookies to track you, and our cookieless analytics do not join a visitor’s activity across visits or devices.
• We never sell personal information, and we share it only with the service providers who run our site (or where the law requires it, or in the limited circumstances set out in this policy).
• Ask for access or correction at any time, and you can ask us to delete your information too, subject to records we have to keep — we respond within 30 days.

This summary is for convenience. The full policy below is what applies.

Tech Futures Australia Ltd (ABN 97 662 365 120) (“Tech Futures”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what personal information we collect through our website, tfa.org.au, how we use it, and the rights and choices you have. We handle personal information in line with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). We adopt the APPs as our privacy standard by choice — as a small charity, TFA is not currently required by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to comply with them — and we stand by every commitment in this policy. We will also comply with any privacy laws that otherwise apply to us.

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Who we are

Tech Futures Australia is a not-for-profit digital technology education charity. This website provides information about our organisation and work. Our programs website, techfutures.org.au — which hosts our online courses, learning platform and accounts for teachers and other educators — has its own privacy policy, available at techfutures.org.au/privacy. If you have any questions about this policy or your personal information, contact us at support@tfa.org.au

Information we collect

This site is an information site. You can browse it without submitting your name, contact details or other information through a form. Like any website, it automatically processes limited technical and usage information when pages are requested. Depending on how you use the site, the information we collect may include:

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Contact enquiries — if you contact us through the form on our contact page, we collect the details you provide (such as your name, email address and your message) so we can respond.

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Technical and usage data — technical information such as browser type and version, device information, and the pages you visit and how you interact with our site. We use this to keep our site secure and to understand and improve how it is used. Like any website, ours needs your device’s IP address to deliver pages and keep the site secure. The providers that host and protect our site may keep it, or information derived from it, in technical logs for security and operational purposes. Google Analytics does not log or store your IP address (see “Cookies, analytics and similar technologies”).

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Communications — if you contact us, we keep a record of that correspondence.

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A note about “sign up for updates” — the “Sign up for updates” buttons on this site are links to our programs site, techfutures.org.au. Any details you enter there are collected by that site under its own privacy policy. No sign-up details are collected on this site, and we do not send newsletters or updates from it.

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Cookies, analytics and similar technologies

We take a deliberately minimal approach. We do not use cookies or similar technologies to track you, to recognise you across visits, or to build profiles of individuals, and we do not use any advertising, remarketing or ad-targeting technologies. Because we do not track you in this way, our site does not display a cookie-consent banner.

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Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 in a privacy-protective, cookieless mode to understand how our site is used, such as which pages are viewed. Because it runs without cookies, each visit is treated as anonymous: it is not linked to you and not joined up across visits or devices. Google Analytics does not log or store your IP address, and we do not build profiles of individuals.

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How we use your information

We use personal information to:

• respond to your enquiries;
• operate, secure, maintain and improve our site; and
• meet our legal, administrative and reporting obligations as a registered charity.

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Who we share your information with

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with trusted service providers who help us run our site, and only as needed to provide their services. These include:

• Google LLC (Google Analytics 4) — analytics. The analytics data involved is limited to approximate location, device and browser information, and anonymous usage data such as which pages are viewed; Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses, and no analytics cookies are used. We use Analytics for aggregate measurement and site reliability, not for advertising, remarketing or profiling. Our optional Google Analytics data-sharing settings are switched off, so our analytics data is not shared with other Google products and services, and Google uses it only as needed to provide, maintain and protect Google Analytics. Google is based in the United States; its privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.
• Webflow — hosting and delivery of our website;
• Airtable — managing enquiries submitted through our contact form.

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We may also use or disclose personal information where required or authorised by law, or in the limited circumstances permitted under the APPs, which we apply as our standard — including where it is unreasonable or impracticable to obtain consent and we reasonably believe the use or disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to the life, health or safety of any individual, or to public health or safety; where we reasonably believe it is necessary to take appropriate action in relation to suspected unlawful activity or serious misconduct connected with our activities; or where it is reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend a legal or equitable claim.

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Overseas disclosure

Some of our service providers store and process data outside Australia, including in the United States. Webflow serves our website from the region closest to the visitor, with the United States as a fallback. For visitors in Australia this is usually an Australian region, though processing may occur overseas. Google and Airtable are also located in the United States. Where we disclose personal information overseas, we take reasonable steps to ensure it is handled consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles.

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How long we keep your information

We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this policy, and to meet our legal and administrative obligations. In particular, you can ask us to delete your personal information at any time, and we will do so, subject to any records we are required to keep for legal, administrative or security reasons.

When information is no longer needed, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify it.

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Your rights and choices

You can:

• request a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
• ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or out of date; and
• ask us to delete your personal information, subject to any records we are required to keep for legal, administrative or security reasons.

To make a request, email us at support@tfa.org.au. We will respond within 30 days.

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How we protect your information

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against loss, misuse and unauthorised access, including access controls and reputable service providers. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but we work to safeguard your information.

We use the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme as our data-breach response standard, even though it does not currently bind TFA as a legal requirement. If we suspect a data breach that may meet the scheme’s serious-harm threshold, we will promptly assess it in line with the scheme. Where we have reasonable grounds to believe that threshold is met, we will inform the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and notify affected individuals where practicable. If direct notification is not practicable, we will publish a notice on our site and take reasonable steps to publicise it, in line with the scheme.

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Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

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Contact us

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about how we handle your personal information, please contact us at support@tfa.org.au. We will acknowledge your complaint, investigate the circumstances, ask for any further information we reasonably need, and give you our response and reasons in writing. We aim to complete this within 30 days; if we need more time, we will tell you why and when we expect to respond. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au for information about your privacy options and whether it can consider your complaint. Because we follow the APPs by choice rather than as a legal requirement, the OAIC may not have the power to investigate our handling of your information.

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