Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Your privacy is important to GTA NSW ACT (“we”, “us” or “our”). To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available in the footer of the website. This website and sale of any products or services are governed by Australian law and any claim made will be heard in an Australian court and determined by Australian law.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
The statement and policies outlined herein are not intended and do not create any contractual or legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
The GTA NSW & ACT does not collect personal information about individuals except when individuals provide such information on a voluntary basis. For example, through registration for membership or events or purchase of resources.
We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
- to enable you to access and use our Site, associated applications and associated social media platforms.
- to contact and communicate with you.
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes.
- for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Site, associated applications and associated social media platforms.
- for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you; and
- to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
Personal information will not be sold or transferred to third parties without prior approval.
We may disclose personal information to third parties to:
- enable them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, webhosting and server providers, and payment systems operators
- our employees, contractors and/or related entities
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights
- collect and process data, such as Google Analytics or other relevant businesses
Upon request, we will make reasonable efforts to correct any information about you that is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out-of-date.
Copyright
This site and its contents are subject to copyright. The site material copyright is owned by Geography Teachers Association (NSW) Incorporated (GTA NSW & ACT), or in the case of some material, a third party. You may view this site and its contents using your web browser and electronically copy and print hard copies of parts of this site solely for personal, non-commercial use. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content of this site is strictly prohibited.
Cookies
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilises a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Viruses
GTA NSW & ACT cannot guarantee that any file or program available for download and/or execution from or via this site is free from viruses or other conditions, which could damage or interfere with data, hardware or software with which it might be used. You assume all risk of use of all programs and files on this site, and you release GTA NSW & ACT entirely of all responsibility for any consequences of its use.
Direct Marketing/Email Marketing
We use your information to send direct marketing to you which will generally be in the form of email marketing.
The direct marketing may relate to:
- our related products and services
- our electronic accessories and other products
- the products and services of other parties (affiliate)
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from GTA NSW ACT will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at any time.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.
Disclosure of Information
Generally, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action.
We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and GTA NSW ACT.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
Children Under the Age of 18 Years
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 18 years and they are not permitted to subscribe to our services, purchase any products (digital or otherwise) or use and/or submit their personal information on any of our website or applications. We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under 18 years of age. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at admin@gtanswact.org.au
Links to Third Party Websites
If we have included links on this site for your reference, we are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites.
Disclaimer
You agree that your access to, and use of, this site is subject to these terms and all applicable laws and is at your own risk. This site and its contents are provided to you on “as is” basis, the site may contain errors, faults and inaccuracies and may not be complete and current. GTA NSW & ACT makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied as to the operation of this site or the information, content, materials or products included on this site, except as otherwise provided under applicable laws. Neither GTA NSW & ACT nor its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, successors or assigns will be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of, or in any way related to, the use of this site and any other site linked to this site. This limitation applies to direct, indirect, consequential, special, and punitive or other damages you or others may suffer, as well as damages for loss of profits, business interruption or the loss of data or information.
Privacy Questions
If you have any questions or concerns about GTA NSW ACT’s Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact us at:
Email: admin@gtanswact.org.au
Call: +612 9052 6451 during business hours
GTA NSW ACT undertakes to promptly provide a response to the communication, in an appropriate and meaningful manner.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.
Updated 2025. All rights reserved.