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Disclaimer

The website www.cancersa.org.au is an information service offered by The Cancer Council South Australia at no charge to users of the World Wide Web. The Cancer Council recommends you consult the most recent version of this User Agreement each time you view the website.

Please do not use the website if you do not agree to all of the following terms and conditions:

Acknowledge that the information on this website is provided "as is" for general information only.
The Cancer Council makes no warranties of any kind regarding this website, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the server that makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.
You agree to hold harmless The Cancer Council South Australia and its Directors and employees from all claims arising out of, or related to, your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this website or the information contained in this website or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed or downloaded from this website or another website to which it is linked to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights.
In no event will The Cancer Council or the contributors of information to this website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made, or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
This website is not intended to be a replacement for medical advice, and should not be relied upon as a substitute for consultations with qualified health professionals who are familiar with your individual medical needs.

The Cancer Council South Australia reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time.

The Cancer Council South Australia links to other websites

The Cancer Council South Australia may provide links to other websites which meet agreed criteria. However, these websites are not under control of The Cancer Council. In general, any website which has an address (or URL) which does not contain www.cancersa.org.au is such a website. These links are provided for convenience of reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by The Cancer Council of the organisation or individual operating the website, or a warranty of any type regarding the website or the information on it.

The opinions and recommendations contained in linked websites are not necessarily those of The Cancer Council or endorsed by The Cancer Council.

Links to The Cancer Council South Australia Website
You may provide a hypertext link to this website on another website, provided:

the link must "point" to the URL http://www.cancersa.org.au and not to other pages within the website
the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with The Cancer Council South Australia's name and trademarks
the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity other than The Cancer Council South Australia is associated with or sponsored by The Cancer Council South Australia, and
the link, when activated by a user, must display the website full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linked website.

The works of authorship contained in this website, including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned or licensed by The Cancer Council South Australia, and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sub-licensed, altered, stored by subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without The Cancer Council's prior written consent, except by educational institutions for educational purposes.

Respecting privacy
The privacy and identity of visitors to this website will be respected and any information provided to The Cancer Council via this website will be kept confidential.

Privacy

The Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000 recognises that people are very protective of their personal details and places strict limits on how such information is collected and handled by private sector organisations.

Any recorded information which can identify a person and which may or may not be sensitive, e.g. ethnic background, medical history, is subject to the legislation. The Cancer Council South Australia is a non government community based charitable organisation whose core business is cancer control. In order to carry out its work and to provide assurances of quality The Cancer Council needs to maintain data bases containing personal, and in strictly limited areas, sensitive information. To ensure compliance with the new legislation, effective from 21 December 2001 the following principles will apply to all data bases containing personal / sensitive information held by any member of staff or volunteer in relation to any program or activity.

Principles

Collection of Information
Personal information is only collected as necessary for agreed The Cancer Council South Australia programs or activities. Personal information about an individual is, where possible, collected from that individual.

Individuals about whom personal information is collected are made aware of:

The Cancer Council South Australia and its contact details
the fact that they can access the information
the primary purpose for which the information is collected
any possible secondary purpose such as evaluation and quality assurance.

Use and Disclosure of Information

Personal information about an individual is not used or disclosed for a secondary purpose unless:

the purpose is closely related to the primary purpose and the individual would reasonably expect the information to be used in this way, or
the information is health information and its use is necessary for research or statistical analysis relevant to public health, or
the individual has consented.

(Note: Legal obligations to disclose personal information may override the provisions of this privacy legislation).

Quality of Information

Reasonable steps are taken to ensure that all personal information collected and used is accurate, complete and up to date.

Security of Information

Reasonable steps are taken to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised use, modification or disclosure. Information is destroyed or permanently de-identified when it is no longer needed for any purpose for which it was collected.

Openness of Information
This policy document is available to anyone who asks for it. Reasonable steps are taken to let any person, on request, know generally what sort of personal information is held, for what purpose, how it is collected, stored and used.

Accessibility of Information
Information held about an individual is accessible at no charge to that individual on request (except where the request is frivolous or vexatious), and reasonable steps taken to ensure the information is accurate and up to date.

Identifiers
Identifiers used will be unique to this organisation.

Anonymity
Individuals have the option of not identifying themselves when dealing with The Cancer Council South Australia.

Sensitive Information
Sensitive information about an individual is not collected without that individual's consent, or the information is collected in the course of The Cancer Council activities where the individual is in regular contact in relation to those activities and the individual understands that the information will not be disclosed without consent, or the information is necessary for research relevant to public health, compilation or analysis of public health statistics, the management or monitoring of a health service and that purpose cannot be served by collection of non-identified information and it is impracticable to seek the individual's consent.

Confidentiality
Personal / sensitive information is collected and recorded on confidential data bases in support of agreed The Cancer Council programs and activities. Staff and volunteers who have access to the information in the course of their duties, respect its confidentiality and do not disclose it to any third party.

Breaches of confidentiality attract severe penalties.

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