Privacy Policy

Adapted from The Institution of Surveyors, Australia Inc. Privacy Policy 

The Institution of Surveyors NSW (ISNSW) is committed to providing you with the highest levels of membership service. This includes protecting your privacy. As a member of ISNSW, we respect your right to be aware of who has information about you, what they are doing with it and why, and who else they re sharing it with. The ISNSW has adopted a privacy compliance policy that cements this relationship with you. The policy reflects the new private sector privacy laws that have been introduced as an amendment to the Privacy Act 1988.

Collection

The ISNSW provides a range of services through the state office and its regional groups. This requires us to gather personal information that is retained on the state database. Some of this information is entered by you as well as by the state office.

Use and Disclosure

Our use and disclosure of information about you is dictated by the services the Institution provides and your current membership and financial status. We will not use or disclose this information for a purpose unrelated to this or outside your reasonable expectations unless we have your agreement or need to meet a legal obligation or authority. To provide our serve in the most cost effective way, we may need to utilise the service of others. Should this require us to share information, we will require those persons to respect your right to privacy. For example, we use a mailing for the distribution of journals and other literature about the Institution.

Help us to ensure that we hold accurate information. The state office and regional groups take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up to date. However accuracy of this information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. We recommend that you: -

• Inform the state office if there are any errors in your personal information; and
• Regularly update your personal information on the state online database.

Security

The security of your personal details is of the utmost importance to the Institution. We will safeguard this information from internal and external misuse through appropriate business management systems.

Contact Us

Should you require more detailed information about the way we use information about you, or should you be concerned about our treatment of this information please contact us.