Crm for Aged Care is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. This policy explains how Crm for Aged Care manages the personal information that we collect, use and disclose and how to contact us if you have any further queries about our management of your personal information.
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or would like us to send you a copy, please contact us at info@crmforagedcare.com.au.
Kindly note that our Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. The current version is the one shown on our website.
Crm for Aged Care may collect information about you in a variety of ways.
Usually, we will collect personal information directly from you (or from your authorised representative) where practicable.
For example, when:
• you enquire about a product or service offered by us or our participating providers
• you apply for a product offered by us or our participating providers
• you contact us by telephone, via mail, email or online
• you visit our website and provide your contact details
• we supply any other products or services to you
• you enter into any trade promotions, competitions, specials or other offers with Crm for Aged Care or our partners.
We may also collect, use and disclose personal information about customers or potential customers from third party sources or a publicly available source, or from marketing and similar lists legally acquired by us.
If you wish to provide us or disclose with personal information about another person (such as a family member), you must first obtain their permission and please make sure that you tell them about the content of this policy. In addition, when providing that personal information to us you agree that:
• you have drawn this Privacy Policy to that person’s attention;
• that person has agreed to you providing their personal information to us; and
• that person understands and agrees that we may use, disclose and manage their personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
The kinds of personal information that we collect and hold about you will depend on the circumstances of collection, including whether we collect the information from you as a customer, participating provider, contractor, stakeholder, job applicant or in some other capacity.
For example, if you enquire about a product or service offered by our participating providers, we may collect your name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth and any other information required to provide you with relevant information.
Any personal information that you provide via our website or contact centre (for example, to enquire about a product or service offered by our participating providers) is collected and stored by Crm for Aged Care for the purposes described below.
To provide some of our services, we may need to collect and hold your sensitive information (such as medical or certain lifestyle information). We will only collect sensitive information about you with your consent or where we are otherwise authorised by law to do so.
We may record calls that you make to us in certain circumstances, including for training purposes and for the purposes described below.
If we are not able to collect your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with our products or services or do business with you or the organisation with which you are connected.
We collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for a variety of reasons related to the operation and promotion of our, and our participating providers’ business, including to:
• provide services and products to our customers;
• correspond with our customers and deal with their enquiries and complaints;
• recommend appropriate providers to our customers;
• maintain and improve our customer service;
• protect our lawful interests and meet our regulatory and legal obligations;
• verify our customers’ identity and personal information;
• consider job applicants for current and future employment;
• manage our relationships with our participating providers, suppliers and stakeholders;
• respond to lawful requests from courts, law enforcement officers and government agencies;
• carry out internal functions including training; and
• conduct marketing research and analysis.
We may also use your information for other purposes required or authorised by or under law, including purposes for which you have provided your consent. Your consent may be written, verbal or implied from your conduct.
We may exchange your information with:
• our participating providers to allow the assessment and provision of our customers’ required products and services;
• our contracted service providers, including:
o information technology service providers;you apply for a product offered by us or our participating providers
o data processors and data analysts;
o organisations authorised by Crm for Aged Care to conduct promotional, research or marketing activities;
• law enforcement agencies or government authorities;
• any persons acting on your behalf including those persons nominated by you, executors, trustees and legal representatives; and
• other third parties where we have your consent.
These third parties may be located in Australia or overseas. If we disclose personal information to an overseas recipient, we will take steps to ensure they comply with this policy, applicable privacy laws and our reasonable directions.
Before providing, or authorising us to provide, your personal information to any of our participating providers, you should consider the relevant providers’ privacy policies.
We hold personal information electronically and in hardcopy form, both at our own premises and with the assistance of our service providers. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is protected from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
We implement a range of measures to protect the security of personal information, including – depending on the circumstances – electronic access controls, premises security and network firewalls.
It is important that the information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date. Please update your details online where possible or contact us at info@crmforagedcare.com.au if you believe that your personal information is inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or may otherwise be misleading.
Our website is professionally hosted and steps are taken to ensure it operates in a secure environment. You should however be aware that there is always an inherent risk in transmitting your personal information via the Internet.
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer for record-keeping purposes. The information collected may be used by Crm for Aged Care to improve and customise your experience on our website. In addition, we collect aggregated non-personally identifiable data from our website to help us maintain and improve delivery of our service and marketing. This aggregated information assists Crm for Aged Care to improve content and website navigation.
When you visit any of our online resources, our system may collect information about your visit for statistical purposes, including:
• server address;
• top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.);
• the date and time of your visit to the site;
• the pages you accessed, and documents downloaded during your visit;
• the previous site you visited;
• if you’ve visited our site before; and
• the type of browser used.
We record this data to maintain our server and improve our services. There are several methods and packages that we use to collect visitor behaviours on each of our online platforms. Like a host of commercial web site operators, Crm for Aged Care uses tools to measure and analyse internet usage across our web site. This enables us to track the number of unique browsers to our web site.
Whilst links to third party websites are provided on our website, we are not responsible for the content or practices of these third-party websites.
These links are provided for your convenience and do not represent our endorsement of any linked third-party website. We recommend that you check the privacy policies of these third parties prior to providing them with any personal information.
You can login to our portal to manage your profile and the information provided by you (your authorised representative). Further, you can write to us at info@crmforagedcare.com.au and tell us the information that needs to be modified or ask us to call you and assist you in the process.
If we deny or restrict access to the information you have requested, we will give you written reasons for this decision when we respond to your request.
Please write to us at info@crmforagedcare.com.au if you have any concerns or complaints about the manner in which we have collected or handled your personal information. We will investigate your complaint and will endeavour to respond to you in writing within 30 days.
If you consider your privacy concerns have not been resolved satisfactorily by us, or you wish to obtain more information on privacy requirements, you can contact the Australian Information Commissioner on 1300 363 992 or visit their website at www.oaic.gov.au.
Please contact us at the following email (info@crmforagedcare.com.au) if you have any concerns about privacy, including if you:
• have queries, concerns or complaints about the manner in which your personal information has been collected or handled by Crm for Aged Care
• would like to request a hardcopy of this privacy policy or discuss any issues relating to this policy or privacy matters generally
• would like to request access to or correction of the personal information we hold about you.