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PROCURE PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated 14th June 2023

 

Scope

This Privacy Policy (“the Privacy Policy”) applies to your access and use of ProCure website http://www.procure.org.au (the ‘Site‘). Use of the term “Site” includes any content, functionality and services offered on or through ProCure.

If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy and would prefer that we not collect, use, or share your information as we describe, you should not use this Site or provide us with any information.

ProCure was developed and is managed by a team of researchers at Sydney Children’s Hospital, the Children’s Cancer Institute and the University of New South Wales (‘we‘, ‘us‘, or ‘our‘).

We are dedicated to ensuring that we comply with our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Australia) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

This Privacy Policy outlines:

  • what information we collect, how we collect that information, and how we use that information;
  • when and with whom we may share information we collect; and
  • your choices regarding your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected, stored, used and disclosed by us through the Site.

You consent to our collection and use of your personal information in the manner detailed in our Privacy Policy.

 

Collection and use of personal information

“Personal information” means information or an opinion, in any form whether true or not, about an identified individual or an individual who is reasonably identifiable. Only personal information that is relevant to and reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes, functions, activities and objectives of the Site are collected, including to work with our members, employees, other individuals and pharmaceutical companies. Only personal information which you have voluntarily provided to us, or consented to us collecting, is collected.

The type of personal information collected in respect of an individual includes, but is not limited to your name, username, email address, professional role, practice site.

If you provide us with personal information about another person, please make sure that you tell them about this Privacy Policy. We will only retain personal information of another person other than yourself if that individual consents to our collection of such personal information. Within a reasonable period after receiving that personal information, we will determine whether or not we could have collected that personal information had we solicited the information from the relevant person. If we determine that we could not have, we will destroy that personal information or ensure that it is de-identified as soon as practicable (and provided that it is lawful and reasonable to do so).

We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the primary purpose of confirming you meet the Site registration and access requirements (i.e., that you are an Australian healthcare practitioner.

 

Disclosure of personal information to third parties

In general terms, personal information held by us may be used or disclosed to third parties for one or more of the following purposes:

  • Clinician access to the Site
  • Communications to users about the Site and its services. This may involve the disclosure of your personal information to third parties engaged by us to assist with the sending of notices or information or to manage our communications;
  • Reporting to regulators and government departments in relation to the Site or as otherwise required by law;
  • Providing de-identified and/or aggregate information about users to academic or research institutions and academic or research publishers, that we consider to be appropriate bodies for us to share information about users;
  • Conducting or facilitating research for purposes related to the Site;
  • Otherwise collecting, using, or disclosing personal information in a manner consistent with the purposes, objectives, and functions of the Site.

 

Storage of personal information

We are committed to ensuring the security of personal or company information. We are responsible for ensuring that personal information is protected by such security safeguards as is reasonable in the circumstances to take against loss, unauthorised access, modification, disclosure or other misuse of personal information.

Any personal information will be stored in our computer systems, using reasonable security measures. We also take reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. This includes taking appropriate security measures to protect electronic materials, and requiring our service providers to do so too. However, we cannot and do not guarantee that these efforts will always be successful. This is especially true for any information that is transmitted electronically and that is unprotected until it reaches our servers.

 

Access to personal information

You are entitled to request access to your personal information held by the Site. You are entitled to request the correction of any personal information. If you would like to access your personal information or if you believe that your personal information may be inaccurate, out of date or incomplete, you can make a request by contacting us.

 

Up-to-date information

We make every reasonable effort to keep your personal information accurate, up to date and complete. You can assist by keeping us informed of any updates such as address change, email change or legal name change. Please contact us as soon as practicably possible when your personal information changes.

 

Reporting breaches of privacy

If you have any concerns that your privacy has been compromised or have any other privacy related complaint, please contact us and you will be contacted within 10 business days to confirm receipt of your email. Your complaint will be investigated, and you will receive a response within a reasonable time. If after receiving the response, you still consider that your privacy complaint remains unresolved, you may then, for example, take your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

 

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting changes on this Privacy page. You are expected to check this Privacy Policy from time to time to take notice of any changes. You are entitled to request that the content of this Privacy Policy be delivered to you in a different format, and we undertake to act in a timely manner and take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to deliver such information to you in the form specified by you upon our receipt of such a request.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or its handling of personal information, you can contact us by email at: 

SCHN-PRISM-DrugAccessNavigator@health.nsw.gov.au  

Please print or download a copy of this Privacy Policy for your records.

This Privacy Policy was approved 14th June 2023

This Privacy Policy was last updated 14th June 2023