Under the Privacy Act 1988 (as amended) the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) Program is obliged to comply with requirements effective from 21 December 2001. The following policy statement provides an overview of how we are meeting these privacy compliance obligations.

 

Policy Statement Protecting your privacy is important to the AYAD Program. Whenever we collect and otherwise deal with your personal information, we are governed by the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) which are contained in the Privacy Act 1988. Therefore, whenever collecting and dealing with information such as your name, address, email address or phone number and any sensitive information such as health information, we will be bound by the NPPs. Whenever we collect personal information from you, we will make every reasonable attempt to inform you of why we are collecting your information, to whom we will disclose that information and the purposes for which we intend to use that information. In general, the purposes for which we collect your personal information include: to process an application to become a participant in the AYAD Program to facilitate your placement in an appropriate assignment to liaise with Host Organisations and government departments to facilitate your assignment to assist you with services whilst you are placed in the AYAD Program to provide feedback and follow-up on your assignment to obtain feedback from you about your experiences to allow us to review and improve our program to keep you informed of AYAD developments To ensure that these purposes are fulfilled, the information will be stored, processed and handled in a manner that complies with the NPPs. To place you in our program, it will be necessary, where relevant, to pass on some of the information that you provide to appropriate third parties such as overseas government departments, Host Organisations, health service providers, our insurer and auditors, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). Where it is necessary for us to collect sensitive information from you such as information about your health, we shall only disclose this information after receiving your consent to do so.

 

At all times, we will take great care to ensure that your personal information is protected and treated confidentially and in accordance with the Privacy Act. If you believe that we have not dealt with your personal information in a manner that complies with the Privacy Act or if you wish to access personal information that we hold about you, please write to or email the Director at the following address:

 

The Director AYAD Program

Level 1, 41 Dequetteville Terrace,
Kent Town South Australia 5067
Australia