Business Transactions – Craig Ray & Associates https://craigray.com.au/admin Solicitors, Queensland, Australia Wed, 14 May 2014 11:47:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.3 https://craigray.com.au/admin/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-CR-2-32x32.png Business Transactions – Craig Ray & Associates https://craigray.com.au/admin 32 32 New privacy laws could affect your website’s privacy policy https://craigray.com.au/admin/new-privacy-laws-could-affect-your-websites-privacy-policy/ Wed, 14 May 2014 11:47:59 +0000 http://craigray.com.au/admin/?p=323 [...]]]> New changes to the Privacy Act 1988 have now come in to force and will affect government agencies, businesses with an annual turnover of more than $3 million, or business and entities in certain industries.

The changes introduce a new set of harmonised privacy principles that all privacy policies of individual business and other relevant entities must comply with. The principles outline matters such as:

  • access to privacy policies
  • how an individual can access their personal information stored by an entity
  • what types of information are collected and held by the entity
  • why information is collected by the entity
  • how complaints in relation to privacy matters are to be resolved
  • disclosure matters

The Office of the Australian Information has produced several fact sheets in relation to the recent changes. These can be accessed on their website.

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