Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies only in respect of personal information collected in connection with or through the use of this web site.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://betterhealthcaretechnology.org.

The Better Healthcare Technology Foundation aims to engage the general public with health professionals through this website. It is designed to provide an efficient information pipeline to members of the public, our patients, donors and volunteers. The website has blogs and information sections that provide ample opportunity for question, answers, education and information on the progress of Foundation projects and special initiatives. There is a particular emphasis on reporting the latest and greatest new healthcare techniques and technology. The Foundation seeks to encourage work on tomorrow’s research, development and technology today. In doing so, it ensures that our patients receive the most up-to-date healthcare as it evolves into clinical practice.

The Foundation supports physics, engineering or other associated science initiatives in medicine that lead to innovative new techniques or technology and directly benefits patients in Australian, New Zealand and Asia Pacific (APAC) hospitals. Cancer care, methods of diagnostic imaging and applied engineering and physics in clinical medicine are our major areas of activity. The Foundation seeks to widen physics, engineering, and associated sciences in medicine activities to all  clinical research and development using its expertise combined with the new technology and methods of the day.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

BHT only collects personal information that is necessary for our functions and activities as an Australian and New Zealand organisation funding and supporting physics, engineering and related science techniques and technology applied in medicine.

The personal information we collect about you, or that you provide to us, will be dependent on your relationship with us, the services we provide to you, the way in which you choose to interact with us and your level of engagement with us.

Any personal information collected by us will be carefully stored and saved and will be used only for the purposes of providing services to you and for disclosure to the third parties mentioned below.

Personal Information you give us

You may give us personal information when you fill in forms on our websites or when you correspond with us by phone, email, in writing or otherwise.

Subscribers of the website can be for non-professional or professional interests. Registration of non-professional users would ordinarily be limited to name and email address.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms:

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Cookies (EU Policy)

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We intend to keep track of the domains from which people visit us. We analyse this data for trends and statistics. When you access our web site, our server will make a record of your visit and log the following information:

1. Your IP address which may provide your server address, top level domain name, (eg. .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc)
2. The date and time of your visit to the site
3. The pages you have accessed and documents downloaded
4. The previous site you have visited
5. The type of browser you are using
6. The operating system you are using

Who we share your data with

When you visit our websites, we may collect the following information automatically:

• technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, your geographic location, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
• information about your visit, including the source of your visit, the full click path, mouse movement through our websites (including date and time); services you viewed, searches made on our websites, page response times, download errors and length of visits to certain pages.

We will not include your personal details on any of our sales or marketing databases unless you authorise us to do so. If we wish to collect personal information about you (such as name and email contact information) via the internet, then we will operate by these principles:

• We will expressly ask you for that personal information. When we ask you for that personal information, we will tell you how we intend to use that personal information if you choose to give it to us. For instance, we may wish to use that personal information to:

1. personalise and tailor our information, services or products for you;
2. to identify who we are communicating with; or
3. to inform you of further information relating to our services or products, or to this web site;

In general, this information will only be used for statistical purposes, unless we believe some particular problem requires more detailed analysis.

Use and Disclosure

So as to best serve you, BHT shares information with, and occasionally acquires information from:

• Other companies associated with BHT.
• Various third parties whom we ask to perform services for us (such as agents employed to fulfil certain tasks) or to whom information must be disclosed to in the course of providing services to you.
• BHT does not sell or disclose any information held by it to third parties or contractors and does not transfer personal information overseas. We do not sell or disclose personal information to any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

We may also retain certain records for other legitimate reasons (including after your relationship with us has ended), for example to maintain records of articles published in our content, to resolve any potential disputes and to comply with reporting and retention obligations.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

You may give us personal information when you fill in forms on our websites or when you correspond with us by phone, email, in writing or otherwise.

Subscribers of the website can be for non-professional or professional interests. Registration of non-professional users would ordinarily be limited to name and email address.

Additional information

When you visit our websites, we may collect the following information automatically:

• technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, your geographic location, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; and
• information about your visit, including the source of your visit, the full click path, mouse movement through our websites (including date and time); services you viewed, searches made on our websites, page response times, download errors and length of visits to certain pages.

We will not include your personal details on any of our sales or marketing databases unless you authorise us to do so. If we wish to collect personal information about you (such as name and email contact information) via the internet, then we will operate by these principles:

• We will expressly ask you for that personal information. When we ask you for that personal information, we will tell you how we intend to use that personal information if you choose to give it to us. For instance, we may wish to use that personal information to:

1. personalise and tailor our information, services or products for you;
2. to identify who we are communicating with; or
3. to inform you of further information relating to our services or products, or to this web site;

• We intend to keep track of the domains from which people visit us. We analyse this data for trends and statistics. When you access our web site, our server will make a record of your visit and log the following information:

1. Your IP address which may provide your server address, top level domain name, (eg. .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc)
2. The date and time of your visit to the site
3. The pages you have accessed and documents downloaded
4. The previous site you have visited
5. The type of browser you are using
6. The operating system you are using

How we protect your data

Any personal information collected by us will be carefully stored and saved and will be used only for the purposes of providing services to you and for disclosure to the third parties mentioned below.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Subject to some exceptions allowed by law, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and you do not have to give a reason when asking for access to your personal information. You can obtain your personal information by contacting the BHT Administrative Secretary at Suite 3.13, Aero 247, 247 Coward Street, Mascot NSW 2020 Australia. All such inquiries or complaints:

• must be in writing;
• will be handled with impartiality and discretion within 21 days;
• must include a payment of $10 plus GST for time and other costs incurred in providing and processing access to your personal information.

What third parties we receive data from

This website may contain links to third party websites and services. Please be aware that BHT is not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of these third party websites and services. This notice applies solely to information collected by this website.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

In general, this information will only be used for statistical purposes, unless we believe some particular problem requires more detailed analysis.

Use and Disclosure

So as to best serve you, BHT shares information with, and occasionally acquires information from:

• Other companies associated with BHT.
• Various third parties whom we ask to perform services for us (such as agents employed to fulfil certain tasks) or to whom information must be disclosed to in the course of providing services to you.
• BHT does not sell or disclose any information held by it to third parties or contractors and does not transfer personal information overseas. We do not sell or disclose personal information to any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

The BHT is bound by the National Privacy Principles in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act). The BHT acknowledges and respects the privacy of individuals and its members and will comply with the principles of the Privacy Act whenever personal information is collected, used and disclosed by us.

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