Privacy Policy

Genieus may use and disclose your personal information for the primary purpose of collection, or for reasonably expected secondary purposes which are related to the primary purpose, or for purposes to which you have consented, and in other circumstances authorised by the Privacy Act. Generally, Genieus may use and disclose your personal information for a range of purposes, including to:

• provide you with our products or services that you have requested;

• respond to your queries or feedback;

• analyse and improve all aspects of our business including, but not limited to, our business systems, processes, outcomes, communication, website, engagement and performance;

• provide you with any communications or publications in which we think you might be interested, or which you have requested;

• let you know about developments in our procedures, products, services, activities and programs that might be useful to you;

• facilitate your participation in social events and educational events;

• consider and manage funding applications for delegates to international and interstate committee meetings; and

• consider employment applications.

Genieus may disclose your personal information to third parties such as our project partners, our external service providers that provide services to us (such as training, website hosting or cloud storage, distribution of newsletters, standards and other publications developed by Genieus, and market research), other standards development organisations, your employer or nominating organisation, government, statutory or regulatory bodies and other committee members. We may disclose your personal information for the purposes set out above.

We may also disclose your personal information if it is required or authorised by law, where disclosure is necessary to prevent a threat to life, health or safety, or where we are otherwise permitted by the Privacy Act.

We do not sell or license your personal information to third parties.

Genieus will take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. The ways we do this include:

• limiting physical access to our premises;

• limiting access to the information we collect about you (for instance, only those of our team who need your information to carry out our business activities are allowed access;

• requiring any collaborative third party providers to have acceptable security measures to keep personal information secure; and

• putting in place physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards;

If we no longer require your personal information and are not legally required to retain it, Genieus will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify the personal information in line with our retention schedule.