Privacy Policy

Warrnambool Art Gallery Foundation understands that privacy is important to you and wants your experience online to be as enjoyable and safe as possible when you use the wagf.com.au web site.

Warrnambool Art Gallery Foundation will respect the privacy of all patrons. Warrnambool Art Gallery Foundation complies with the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) in the way that it handles personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how Warrnambool Art Gallery Foundation handles your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act.

We recognise your right to privacy and are committed to protecting it. Therefore, we treat all information, including your personal details, as private and confidential, and we will not disclose this information to other individuals or organisations without the user’s knowledge and consent, unless required by law.

None of the information provided to Warrnambool Art Gallery Foundation will be released, shown to or shared with any other party without the consent.

Via our website we collect information that you voluntarily provide in order for us to provide services and products that you may request. We may also use the personal information we collect for other business purposes such as to better understand customer service provision, enhance relationships, make appropriate offers, or facilitate third party offers we feel will be of interest to you.

Categories of Information We Collect

Requests for Information

When you request additional information related to our services or properties, we will generally request your name and contact information such as street address, phone number, and email address.

Collection of Information Through Web Technologies

We may automatically track and collect your IP address, domain server, the type of computer and type of web browser you are using and use “cookies” to (i) customize content specific to your interests, (ii) ensure that you do not see the same advertisement repeatedly, and (iii) store your password so you do not have to re-enter it each time you use the sites. Some of the websites linked to this site are operated, hosted and managed by other companies who may also track and collect this information.

What are Cookies?

“Cookies” are pieces of electronic information (specifically, a string of text) that your browser and your operating system store on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can store a user’s ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of previous selections or purchases. Cookies can enhance the user’s visit. The use of cookies is an industry standard-you’ll find they are used by most major commercial websites.

How We Issue and Use Cookies

We issue and use cookies to enhance your visit and the services that we offer on our web sites. The web sites consist of many pages of content that we want you to be able to find the information and offers that interest you, as quickly and easily as possible. The use of cookie technology helps us to achieve that objective.

We issue and use cookies to keep track of the areas of the sites which interest our visitors most. Many improvements and updates to the sites are based on such data as the total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies.

Visitors to these sites who accept cookies may be presented with targeted messages, offers and ads on the site and via email that we believe would be of value, based on observed preferences. If you have submitted your email address, you may receive targeted messages we believe you will find of value. Remember, you may request to be removed from our email lists.

Your Choice to Accept or Deny Cookies

You can choose whether to accept or deny cookies; your browser on your computer is often initially set to accept cookies. However, you can choose to deny cookies and continue browsing the sites. Keep in mind that your choice to accept or deny a cookie is different from your choice to accept/deny email messages.

If you enter or choose to leave our website via links to other sites (including those of content providers, vendors, affiliates and partners), your visits to those sites are not covered by this Internet Privacy Policy.

Third Party Websites

We do not control and shall not be responsible for the collection of personal information by third party websites. Third party websites that are accessed through links on our websites have separate privacy practices. We have no responsibility or liability for the practices and policies implemented by third parties on their websites. You may contact them directly to ask questions about their privacy practices and policies.

Internet Privacy Policy Changes

In the future, we may make changes to this Internet Privacy Policy. The revised Internet Privacy Policy will be displayed via a link on this website so that you will know what types of information we gather and the categories of third parties with whom we may share the information.

Effective Date: This Internet Privacy Policy is effective as of January 1, 2007