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Aus CVD Risk Calculator responses will be submitted and stored anonymously. No contact information will be collected. Only the aggregated data will be used. Individual responses will not be personally identifiable. If you have any questions about privacy please contact our Privacy Officer via GPO Box 9966 in your capital city, or by calling 13 11 12. A copy of our Privacy Notice is available below or on request. [HFPSB046-230606-L]

Privacy Notice

Version, June 2023

This is the Privacy Notice of the National Heart Foundation of Australia ABN 98 008 419 761 (Heart Foundation) for the cvdcheck.org.au website (the website), owned by the Heart Foundation and developed in collaboration with the Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance (ACDPA) with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (the Department). The website is intended for use by health professionals, and not by the general public.

The Privacy Act 1988 requires entities bound by the Australian Privacy Principles to have a privacy policy. This Privacy Notice is the Heart Foundation’s externally facing privacy policy. This Privacy Notice outlines the Personal Information handling practices of the Heart Foundation.

Overview

The Heart Foundation collects, holds, uses and discloses Personal Information to carry out functions or activities of the Heart Foundation including, but not limited to, promoting, implementing and disseminating the 2023 Australian cardiovascular disease risk calculator (Aus CVD Risk Calculator) and Guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk (the Guideline) on behalf of the Department.

The Australian Privacy Principles

The Heart Foundation respects and upholds your right to privacy protection under the law, including the Australian Privacy Principles. This regulates how we collect, use, disclose and hold Personal Information. We have a detailed policy and set of procedures to ensure that only authorised staff have access to Personal Information and that Personal Information remains confidential and is only used for appropriate purposes and in accordance with this Privacy Notice.

The Collection of Personal and Sensitive Information

The Personal and Sensitive Information of patients, collected by health professionals on the patient’s behalf, including health information, will only be collected as necessary for a particular function or activity, or to enable the Heart Foundation to carry out its work and deliver services to the community.

The website does not collect information that will identify patients (Personal Information) e.g. name, address, date of birth, phone number or email address.

The website does collect health information of patients (Sensitive Information) e.g. blood pressure, smoking status, age and self-identified ethnicity, to calculate the patient’s individual cardiovascular disease risk score.

This health information will be used by the Heart Foundation in de-identified aggregated form to prepare reports for the Department and for the Heart Foundation’s use in analysing the prevalence of CVD risk in the Australian population.

How We Collect Information

We collect Sensitive Information when someone uses the Aus CVD Risk Calculator on the website.

The Heart Foundation also collects usage data when you visit our site. This includes the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you visited us from, the parts of our site you visit, the date and duration of your visit, and information from the device (device type, operating system, screen resolution, language, country you are located in, and web browser type) you used during your visit, including any data you provided to us during your visit, in order toevaluate and improve the website..

How We Keep Information Secure

Information you provide to us is stored securely in our databases and only accessed by staff or contractors authorised by the Heart Foundation. The Heart Foundation uses a range of hardware and software security measures to protect its information and to ensure that only authorised staff and contractors are granted access, as required.

Disclosing Information

The Heart Foundation will not provide your Personal Information to any other individuals or organisations without your prior consent except where required by law to do so or where that information is provided on a confidential basis to contractors who provide services to the Heart Foundation (for example database management, printing and mailing). In these cases, we ensure that our contractors are also bound by the Australian Privacy Principles to keep your Personal Information confidential.

Aggregated data from the Aus CVD Risk Calculator and www.cvdcheck.org.au website will be used by the Heart Foundation to report to the Department on the promotion, implementation and dissemination of the 2023 Aus CVD Risk Calculator and Guideline.

The Heart Foundation’s Privacy Officer can be contacted by:
Phoning:
13 11 12
Writing to:
The Privacy Officer
Heart Foundation
GPO Box 9966
In your capital city
Emailing:

Visiting our websites

This website and pages may use cookies to improve your experience and display targeted content relevant to you. You may refuse all cookies or disable cookies and JavaScript from this website however some functions may be unavailable.

Cookies do not personally identify you; they recognize your browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to the Heart Foundation, you remain anonymous to the Heart Foundation. You have the ability to manage the use of cookies on your computer using controls in your browser. The website may use statistical information collection tools (such as Google Analytics) to track site visits, navigation and performance within the website for the purpose of monitoring and improving the site. If you are concerned about the use of these tools, you can configure your browser to send a "Do Not Track" request with your browsing traffic. The website may also use third party cookies, Google Analytics Advertising Features including: Remarketing with Google Analytics, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings (Link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads). Further information regarding behavioural advertising, including ways to manage your online privacy, is available at http://www.youronlinechoices.com.au/ The Heart Foundation uses Hotjar in order to understand your needs and optimize our website and your experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand your experiences (e.g. how much time you spend on which pages, which links you choose to click, what you do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our website with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on your behaviour and devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in the form of a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor the Heart Foundation will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy. You can opt-out of the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link. Where you provide your email address to us we will only use it for the purpose it was provided, unless you have consented to us using it for additional purposes, and we will not pass it on to any other person or organisation unless we have disclosed this to you or we are required by law to do so. The website may contain links to other sites of interest. The Department and the Heart Foundation do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or privacy practices of those websites. Please check the privacy policies on other websites before you provide your Personal Information to them.

Our Website Security

By using this website, you acknowledge and agree that the internet is inherently insecure and that you enter any details at your own risk. You acknowledge that you will not hold the Department or the Heart Foundation liable for any security breaches, viruses, Trojans or other malicious software that may infect your computer or any loss of data, revenue or otherwise that may occur as a result of using this website.

The Spam Act 2003

The Spam Act prohibits the sending of unsolicited emails, SMS and MMS messages for commercial purposes from or within Australia or to people in Australia, and bans the supply and use of software designed to harvest email addresses. While charities do have some exemptions from this Act, the Heart Foundation will be guided by the best practice guidelines developed on responsible electronic messaging practices by the Association for Data-driven Marketing & Advertising in conjunction with industry and consumer representatives and administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Changes to our Privacy Notice

The Heart Foundation may, without notice, amend or modify its Privacy Notice by posting the amended Privacy Notice to the website.

Questions or complaints about Privacy

If you have any complaints, questions or concerns about the information the Heart Foundation holds or about the accuracy of that information, please contact the Heart Foundation’s Privacy Officer.

The Heart Foundation’s Privacy Officer can be contacted by:
Phoning: 
13 11 12
Writing to:
The Privacy Officer
Heart Foundation
GPO Box 9966
In your capital city
Emailing:

If you would like to access the information that we hold, or make a complaint about a potential breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, you can write to the Privacy Officer at the address provided above. We will respond to your complaint or endeavour to give you access to the information requested within two weeks. In order to maintain the confidentiality of your Personal Information, we will ask you to come into the Heart Foundation office nearest you and to bring with you specific identification before we give you access. If it is not practical for you to visit our office, we will arrange to check your identification before we mail the information to you.

If the information that we hold about you is incorrect or not up-to-date, we will update it as soon as possible after you have shown us how and why it is incorrect.

In the unlikely event that we are unable to provide you with access to your Personal Information for legal reasons as specified in the Privacy Act, we will provide you with reasons for denying access. If you are not satisfied with the Heart Foundation’s response to your complaint, question or concern, you may wish to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Further information can be found on the Commissioner’s website at www.oaic.gov.au or by calling 1300 363 992.

Website accessibility

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