Privacy Policy

At Tai Chi and Qi Gong for Health , we take a great deal of care when we handle your personal information and we do so in line with the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) that can be found at the OAIC website ( www.oaic.gov.au ).

Tai Chi and Qi Gong for Health has developed a simplified and extended policy to help you better understand how your data is stored and used by us, as well as the purpose for which it is used and why. This simplified version will give you a quick snapshot, or if you’re up for a thorough read, please view our extended Privacy Policy further below.

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected by Tai Chi and Qi Gong for Health ( www.tcqg.com.au ).

What does Personal Information mean?

Personal information is information that may identify you or by which your identity may be reasonably determined. Such personal information may include your name, address, other contact details, your date of birth, or any other information that may be provided by you in order to access or make use of our services at www.bellingenyouthorchestra.com.au . In this privacy policy, ‘personal information’ has the same meaning as defined by section 6 of the Privacy Act 1988 (‘Privacy Act’).

How is my Personal Information Collected?

The main way we collect personal information is through you directly or through your authorised representative. That is, when you visit us at www.tcqg.com.au and submit your personal information or request your personal information to be used (i.e. by subscribing to an email newsletter or filling out a contact form or enroling in a course).

We sometimes collect personal information from a third party or from a publicly available source, but only if:

you have consented to such collection or would reasonably expect us to collect your personal information in this way, or

if it is necessary for a specific purpose such as the investigation of a privacy complaint.

Your personal information may be collected through the following services that are used on our website:

3rd party commenting (Disqus, Livefyre, IntenseDebate, Google+ etc)

Social Network widgets and buttons (Pinterest, Twitter etc)

Third party polling and survey plugins (GetFeedback, Survey Monkey etc)

We only collect personal information for purposes which are directly related to our functions or activities under the Privacy Act, the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act), and only when it is necessary for or directly related to such purposes.

How do you use my Personal Information?

We only use personal information for the purposes of which we collected have it – purposes which are directly related to one of our functions or activities that on the whole create a better user experience for you at www.taichiandqigongforhealth.com.

We do not give personal information about an individual to any government agencies, private sector organisations or anyone else unless one of the following applies:

you would reasonably expect, or have told us, that information of this kind is usually passed to those individuals, bodies or agencies

it is otherwise required or authorised by law