Last updated: 1 July 2023

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We respect your privacy

We are a voluntary collective of individuals working to develop a common information resource on climate change (climatebreak.com). We respect your right to privacy and are committed to safeguarding the privacy of website visitors, consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and, to the extent applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected by the website climatebreak.com, via the website directly or promoted communication methods (including email). 

 

“Personal information” is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you. This includes information such as your name, email address, or any other type of information that can reasonably identify an individual, either directly or indirectly. 

 

What personal information is collected

You can access climatebreak.com without submitting any personal information. If you send us an email, we will use your name and email address only to respond to your email and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. 

 

We may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us. 

 

Cookies

When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. As a general rule, however, it is not possible to identify you personally from our use of cookies. 

 

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. Please note that this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. 

 

Website analytics

We may use cookies and software tools to measure and collect non-identifiable session information, including website traffic, page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. This is to help us to develop and improve climatebreak.com.

 

How we collect your personal information

You directly provide us with most of the personal information we collect. We collect personal information when you voluntarily email us at email addresses with the domain name climatebreak.com that are publicised on climatebreak.com.

 

By providing us with personal information, you consent to the supply of that information subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. 

 

We may also receive personal information from third parties or other sources such as public websites or social media services and combine that with information we collect through your direct contact. For example if you choose to link to or publish your personal information on another website or a social media service, e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, we may receive information about you from that website or service. This includes, without limitation, profile information, profile picture, user ID associated with your social media account, language, country, and any other information you permit that website or social media service to share with third parties. The information we receive is solely dependent upon that website’s or service’s privacy settings. If we do, we will use and protect that combined information as set out in this Privacy Policy. 

 

How we use your personal information

We may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information about climatebreak.com. We may also make you aware of additional features, services and opportunities available to you. 

 

We will use personal information only for the purposes that you consent to. This may include to:

• respond to your email; 

• administer climatebreak.com and associated services;

• manage, undertake research for and develop climatebreak.com;

• provide you with information relating to climatebreak.com; 

• communicate with you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to, by email; and

• investigate any complaints. 

 

If you withhold your personal information, it may not be possible for us to respond fully or to provide you with information or opportunities. 

 

We may post personally identifiable information (including name and occupation) on our website in statements of support or to give credit for contributions. We obtain the person’s consent via email prior to posting these. If you would like to request the removal of your personally identifiable information from the site contact us at privacy[at]climatebreak.com. 

 

Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our volunteers, officers, advisers, suppliers, partners or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

 

If we do disclose your personal information to a third party, we will protect it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

We may disclose your personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, legal proceedings or in response to a law enforcement agency request. 

 

How we store your personal information

We are committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. 

 

Climatebreak.com is hosted on the Wix.com online platform. Data collected on Wix.com (which is non-identifiable) may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store data on secure servers behind a firewall. You can review Wix.com’s Privacy Policy at wix.com/about/privacy.

 

The third party services we use for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, and links to their privacy policies, are as follows:

 

• We use Proton Mail for our website emails (e.g. contact[at]climatebreak.com; privacy[at]climatebreak.com). You can review Proton’s Privacy Policy at proton.me/legal/privacy.

• We use Proton Drive, Google Drive and other Google applications (including Google Documents and Google Sheets) for data storage and collaboration. You can review Proton’s Privacy Policy at proton.me/legal/privacy and Google’s Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy. 

• We use Trello for project management. You can review the Privacy Policy of Atlassian, the parent company of Trello, at atlassian.com/legal/privacy-policy.

• We use Chanty as a team collaboration tool. You can review Chanty’s Privacy Policy at chanty.com/privacy-policy.  

 

Any personal information is only accessible by relevant members of the team and advisers. 

 

Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures, we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us.

 

Data Transfers

Information that we collect will from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties or sites located in countries outside of Australia. It is not possible to identify each and every country to which your personal information may be sent. 

 

By submitting your personal information to us, you expressly consent to the disclosure, transfer, storage or processing of your personal information outside of Australia. In providing this consent, you understand and acknowledge that countries outside Australia may not have the same privacy protection obligations as Australia in relation to personal information. If your personal information is mishandled in any jurisdiction, we disclaim responsibility and you will not have a remedy under Australian law.

 

You acknowledge that personal information that you submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

 

Links to other websites

Climatebreak.com contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

 

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

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GDPR

In some circumstances, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) provides additional protection to individuals located in Europe. Where this is the case, there may be additional rights and remedies available to you under the GDPR if your personal information is handled in a manner inconsistent with that law.

 

Access to your personal information

You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act (Cth), and to the extent applicable the EU GDPR. If you would like a copy of the information which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at privacy[at]climatebreak.com.

 

We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act (Cth) or any other applicable law. 

 

How to contact us about privacy

If you would like to access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you, you can contact us at privacy[at]climatebreak.com. 

 

If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send details of your complaints to privacy[at]climatebreak.com. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint. 

 

Changes to Privacy Policy

Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.