Privacy Policy and Disclaimer

Privacy Policy - AIST

AIST understands and respects the importance of protecting the privacy of individuals and is committed to complying with the national privacy principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988. The way AIST handles personal information is in accordance with the Privacy Act.

Collection of personal information:

AIST collects personal information:

• to process member registrations
• to maintain membership records
• to facilitate member elections to the AIST board
• to establish and run professional development programs
• to maintain academic records in accordance with regulatory body requirements
• to develop and establish member services and member benefits
• to identify information and services relevant to membership of AIST or to the industry
• to represent the not-for-profit superannuation industry with external parties
• to provide special offers on behalf of our industry partners

This information is collected to further AIST's objectives as set out in our constitution.

We collect information such as names, addresses, telephone and email contacts as well as information that helps build our contact profiles, such as employer, position title and areas of interest and expertise. We collect information on membership status, AIST events attended, and continuing professional development hours earned with AIST.

We seek to ensure that your contact details are correct through AIST's annual membership renewal process, direct communication with members and we have a secure member login capability on our website for you to update your own personal information and preferences at any time.

We also collect information about non-members for the purposes of providing information about membership, services and products, as well as to support our education, information, research and advocacy activities.

We keep our records in written and electronic format. We may also make sound and visual recordings at our events.

We also receive personal information from a range of third party sources, such as referrals, or from publicly available sources such as the internet.

Use and disclosure of personal information:

The personal information we collect about you will not be used or disclosed other than in accordance with the Privacy Act, and for the purposes for which the information was collected.

We may disclose personal information that we collect about you to the organisers, speakers and industry partners of our events. We may also disclose personal information about you to our service providers, such as technology providers, auditors, bankers and mailing houses to assist us in providing services. We may also be required to disclose personal information about you on the request pursuant to state or federal law, for example to regulators such as APRA.

If you are a member of the AIST board, or you participate in AIST committees or working groups, your contact information may be published in AIST's annual report, conference books or on our website.

AIST may on occasion distribute marketing material or other communications to you for the purposes of keeping you informed about your membership and entitlements, developments in the superannuation industry or other significant matters that fall within the objectives of AIST. This information may come from a third party on behalf of AIST and as part of it service offering to members. If you do not wish to receive marketing or third party communications from AIST, you should contact us.

Our website and electronic communications:

We endeavour to keep secure any personal information submitted to us electronically. However, transmissions over the internet cannot be guaranteed as totally secure, and therefore such information is provided to AIST at the risk of the person submitting the data.

Like many other websites, AIST's website uses 'cookies' to more effectively interact with your computer, tablet or mobile device. You can change your settings in your web browser software to reject the use of cookies.

Our website may from time to time contain links to other websites. AIST cannot control the privacy practices of these other websites and does not take any responsibility for how they might handle your personal information.

AIST uses website analytics to better understand the needs and interests of users of the site. This is a third party service that AIST utilises and it collects information about your use of AIST's website. The service we use is Google Analytics and their privacy policy is available on their website.

Security of personal information:

All of our data is stored in written and/or electronic formats and we safeguard your personal information using a combination of secure premises and secure storage systems, firewalls and encryption technology and internal policies to protect your personal information. We take all reasonable steps to secure your personal information and protect it.

Complaints:

In the event that you are concerned about the security of your personal information, or the information we may have collected about you, you should write to the Privacy Officer at AIST: Ground Floor, 215 Spring St, Melbourne VIC 3000.

We treat any privacy concerns seriously and we will respond to any concerns you advise us of.

AIST understands the importance of protecting the privacy of individuals and is committed to complying with the Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information collected.

This Policy applies to AIST who register people for events, exhibitions, conferences and who arrange Travel and Accommodation to those events.

If you do not wish to receive electronic communications from AIST, please contact info@aist.asn.au

If you wish to customise your communications preferences, please login here.

Disclaimer

The information on this site is of a general nature only.

AIST is neither appropriately licensed nor authorised to provide any legal, taxation, accounting or financial product advice of any form. Although we have made every effort to provide up to date, timely and accurate information, any information provided does not and cannot take your specific needs or circumstances into consideration and the onus is on you as the end user to obtain an appropriate level of information prior to acting.

You should look at your own personal situation and requirements before making any financial decisions and seek personal legal, tax, accounting and/or financial advice if appropriate. You should also refer to any relevant Product Disclosure Statements and/or Financial Services Guides before making any financial decisions.