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Privacy Policy


The Australia Bhutan Friendship Association (ABFA) is committed to protecting the privacy of your information. This Privacy Policy describes what we might do with any of your personal information which we may obtain when you seek to access and use our website. From time to time, we may give you notice of our information practices specific to any particular services that you request from us. These notices will clearly state what may override details of this general policy.

Information collected

When you browse our website, our web server will collect the following standard information for statistical purposes:

  • the IP address of the browser requesting pages or files;
  • the date and time of each request;
  • the pages or documents requested;
  • the type of browser used.

This is anonymous statistical data and we use this data to evaluate our website performance. We will not try to identify users or their browsing activities except in the event of an investigation where a law enforcement agency has exercised a warrant to inspect our web logs.

Use of cookies

Our website is cookie-free.

When you provide personal information

We collect personal information from you when you knowingly give us information, or when contacting us via our website, including email.

Why we collect information

  • to record interest in the Australia Bhutan Friendship Association;
  • to respond to queries;
  • to send you notices about events or activities in relation to the Australia Bhutan Friendship Association (ABFA).

By giving us information you consent to these uses, except that you have the choice of whether or not you wish to receive material about the Australia Bhutan Friendship Association. Please contact us at webmaster@australiabhutan.org.bt if you believe you have mistakenly received information after opting out or if you would like to opt out from receiving information.

We will use personal information about you only

  • as you consent;
  • for purposes related to the reason you gave us the information for, and even then, only if you would reasonably expect us to use it;
  • in statutorily required law enforcement, public health or public safety circumstances.

We will not disclose any personal information about you, except

  • to organisations related to the Australia Bhutan Friendship Association;
  • in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the Internet web server logs.

Security and confidentiality

We have implemented procedures to safeguard the security and confidentiality of your information. We continually review and improve these arrangements to ensure that we are doing all that is reasonably and technically feasible to protect your information.

Access

If you believe any information we have obtained about you as an individual is inaccurate or outdated or is misleading because it is incomplete and you wish to change this information, please send your request to webmaster@australiabhutan.org.bt.

What this Privacy Policy does not apply to

  • to corporate information (unless it is also about any identifiable person);
  • if you access another website through a link from our website. In this case the privacy policy of the owner of the linked website will apply. We cannot and do not make any warrant or representation as to the practices of any linked websites in the handling of your personal information.