Humane Society International is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information safe. You can visit the our web site hsi.org.au without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our web site includes areas in which visitors can provide personally identifying information, we have developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you.

Humane Society International (HSI) - ABN 63 510 927 032 - may collect the following types of personal information: 

Name, mailing or street address, email address; telephone number/s, age or date of birth, occupation or job title or any other contact details you wish to provide.

How do we collect your personal information?

HSI collects your personal information directly from you in most cases, where reasonable and practicable. When collecting personal information from you, we may collect in ways including: when you make a donation; complete a survey; sign a petition or action form; through your access and use of our website or during conversations between yourself and our representatives.

General Information Collection and Use

HSI is the sole owner of the information collected. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. 

HSI uses an outside mailing house, and a secure credit card processing facility. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Security

HSI ensures all precautionary steps are taken to protect personal information from any misuse or interference.

• Financial information is stored encrypted on our password protected database.
• Hardcopy records of personal information are destroyed using a certified secure document destruction facility.
• We use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online.
• All personal information, not just the sensitive information, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our supporters information is protected. 
• The servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

Sending information overseas 

HSI does not disclose your personal information to any person or body outside Australia for any purpose.

Opt out

All direct marketing communication has an opt out prompt. Any request to be removed from the database is acted on immediately. Any enquiry relating to the source of an individual’s information is answered quickly and at no charge.

Cookies

HSI uses cookies in order to make the results available for your on-site searches. Cookies are not used for any other reason on this site. A cookie is a small file that is sent out by a web site, accepted by the user's browser, and placed on the user's hard drive. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed, and then chose which cookies you want to accept. HSI does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to HSI.

Contact information 

If you have any questions about your personal information, any corrections or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy or a possible breach of your privacy, please contact us:

Email admin@hsi.org.au

Send mail to the following postal address:

Humane Society International
PO Box 439
AVALON NSW 2107
Call: 1800 333 737

Street Address:

Suite 5a Level 1
27 Old Barrenjoey Road
AVALON NSW 2107