Privacy Policy

The Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) recognises the importance of our members’ privacy, and takes a number of steps to protect that privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for personal information collected online.

Effective: May 25, 2018

Who we are

Our website address is: https://sasp.org.au

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

To comply with European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this Privacy Policy outlines the ways in which SASP processes Personal Data. “Personal Data” is data that can be used to identify you, directly or indirectly, alone or together with other information.

Directory

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

We do not store any information from your contact form on our website. Your query is e-mailed direct to our communications officer to respond to, and includes your contact name, email, and comments.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This website, https://sasp.org.au does not use any analytics software.

Non-Personal Information that We Collect

We automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you when you visit our Site. This information includes your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which is the number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. This number does not identify your name, email address, or other personal information. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Site.

We also collect non-personally identifiable information through the use of cookies. A cookie is an alphanumeric file that a Web site puts on your hard drive so that it can remember something about you while you are using the Site or when you return to the Site. Cookies make it easier for you to use our Site. We use a cookie in order to allow you to stay logged into this Site. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information nor do we combine information collected through these cookies with other personally identifiable information about you. The cookies may remain on your hard drive after you cease using the Site. You may decline to accept cookies by modifying your Web browser settings. If you choose to decline cookies, however, you may not be able to sign up for or use certain features of the Site that depend on your Web browser accepting cookies.

Who we share your data with

This website, https://sasp.org.au, only shares financial transaction data relating to our website and services handled by our payment services provider, Paypal. These are transaction data related to SASP memberships and conference payments. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about PayPal’s privacy policies and practices here: https://www.paypal.com/au/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

Data Retention 

We will retain Personal Data for as long as your account is active. We will also retain your Personal Data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. In cases where we no longer need to process your Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we will delete your Personal Data from our systems.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as your site password), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not received data from third parties.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not engage in automated decision making and/or profiling with your user data.

How to contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the privacy or security of your information, you may contact us in any of the following ways:

  • You may send a message to us using the contact form here.
  • You may send mail to the following address:

SASP Communications Officer
Mathew Marques
Department of Psychology and Counselling
School of Psychology and Public Health
La Trobe University, Victoria, 3086, Australia

  • You may call the following telephone number:

+613 9479 2024 (Mathew Marques, SASP Communications Officer)