Councillor Peter Matic (he, him, his) knows that privacy is important to you. This privacy policy reflects his respect for your privacy. This policy describes how he deals with personal information that he collects through or stores within this website.
What is Personal Information?
When he talks about personal information, he means information or an opinion about an individual where you can tell or reasonably work out who the information or opinion is about.
Collection
He will only collect personal information about you that is relevant to his operations. This may include general information such as your name, email address, contact details and computer’s IP address.
Where reasonably possible, personal identifying information is only collected through his website when you knowingly provide it.
His website enables you to submit and publish personal information about you and other people. You are responsible and accept liability for ensuring that those people are aware that you are providing him with their personal information and of the terms of this privacy policy.
His purpose for collecting personal information should be clear when he collects it. If you are uncertain, please contact him at the address below.
You can generally visit his website without revealing who you are or other personal information. He will not collect any personal information about visitors to this website except where they are registered members, where information is provided by registered members or where a visitor provides him with personal information. He may use technology to keep track of which sections of our website you visit for internal purposes, including to help him improve our website and other services and to show advertising.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on his site, he collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to his website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on his site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, he will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, he will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Use and disclosure
He will only use your personal information as allowed by law. This means he may use it for the purpose it was collected, as disclosed to you at the time of collection, or as otherwise set out in this policy. If he wants to use your information for any other purpose, he will first seek your consent, unless he is not required to by law.
He generally only uses or discloses your personal information to:
- respond to your enquiries or comments; supply you with goods, services or information you have requested;
- tell you about any new developments, campaigns, or events he thinks may interest you;
- request your assistance (such as volunteering or donating to assist in his campaigns);
- disclose donations, whether required by law or otherwise;
- help him to improve his website and services;
- Liberal National Party candidates or members;
- other organisations that provide services to him, such as telecommunications companies, event organisers, IT contractors (such as website developers and hosts), lawyers, accountants, financiers and promotions and advertising companies; and
- meet any legal requirements.
Any information posted in comments or forums or communicated in chat areas becomes public information and you take full responsibility for the disclosure of such material.
If you believe personal information he holds about you is inaccurate or incomplete, please advise him. He will generally take reasonable steps to correct your personal information where inaccuracies are identified.
Third Party Applications
He uses third party social media and applications provided by the following third party organisations to engage with you:
Google – to track and analyse the visitors and their use of his website;
YouTube – to publish videos;
Instagram – to publish images and videos;
Twitter – to publish news and updates; and
Facebook – to publish information such as news, updates, photos and videos,
as well as other third party applications from time to time, which may be hosted on servers overseas.
If you have provided personal information to these third parties or are logged into accounts with these providers when you visit one of his websites, they may be able to identify you with the pages in his sites that you visit. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of any such site to which you supply personal information.
He may use and publish information you disclose through social media on our website.
Changes to this policy
To keep up with regulatory, technical and organisational change, he may amend this policy from time to time by publishing the updated policy on his website. Please visit his website regularly to keep up to date with any changes.
Contacting him
For further information, problems or complaints regarding our information handling practices, please contact him by writing to:
The Privacy Officer,
Councillor Peter Matic
Paddington Ward Office
44 Latrobe Terrace Paddington Qld 4064
