Internet Privacy Policy

Personal Information
Personal information includes any information or any opinion that identifies an individual, including but not limited to names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and other personally identifying information. Personal information about any visitors to the website is only collected when it is voluntarily submitted via our enquiries form or email, or any other format in which you knowingly enter your personal information. We may need to collect this personal information to provide you with further services or respond to enquiries.  It is intended that our Privacy Policy will manage your personal information in a way that is consistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.

Use and disclosure of information
Personal information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the primary purpose for which it is submitted or for any other purpose related to the primary purpose. Examples of primary purpose include to assist us to provide our services to you or to provide information to our clients. If your information is to be used for any other purpose, we will disclose these uses to you at the time the personal information is obtained.

Personal information is obtained in various ways, including consultations, enquiry forms, by telephone and email, via this website, from third parties such as referrers and sometimes from publicly available sources. Please note that we do not guarantee website links or policies of authorised third parties. Please note that copies of correspondence sent from the website, that may contain personal information, are stored in archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only. 

If any individual does not wish for their personal information to be collected in any of the ways anticipated in this Privacy Policy, Cherie Dalton may not be in a position to provide psychological or supervision services to that individual. When engaged in services with Cherie Dalton Psychology personnel, you will be required to provide written consent to engage in such services, and this information may be required to be released under certain circumstances. Full details of this information is provided to all clients before and/or during the initial consultation with Cherie Dalton Psychology, and your questions will be answered in this regard at that time.
Outside of the conditions listed above, personal information may be disclosed where we are required to comply with a legal requirements such as law, regulation, court order, subpoena or warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. We may also use your Personal Information to protect the rights, property or safety of Cherie Dalton Psychology, our clients, or third parties.

Security
Whilst no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure, we strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our site, and we review and update our security measures considering current technologies. We aim to take necessary steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online services. Once we do receive your personal information, we will also make our best efforts to ensure it security on our systems.

Please note also any contractors of Cherie Dalton Psychology or any contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

Cookies and Google
If you use our website, we may utilise 'cookies' which enable us to monitor traffic patterns and to serve you more efficiently if you revisit the website. In most cases, a cookie does not identify you personally but may identify your internet service provide or computer. However, in some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you.

Cherie Dalton Psychology extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other resources, as detailed in this policy. We also use permanent cookies to enable asic web traffic analysis using Google Analytics, which, for example, shows us which areas of our website are popular against those that are not visited often.  This allows us to prioritise our enhancements to the website.

For more information on how Google uses your data, visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Access to information
We will endeavour to take all resonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up-to-date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect you may contact us to have the information corrected.

Links to other sites
This website may contain links to other websites. These links are intended for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

Consent
By using our website, or purchasing a service, youa re agreeing to the terms of this policy. We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy as the business needs require. We will notify you of such changes (whether by direct communication or by posting notice on our website), after which your continued use of our website or services or your continued dealings with us shall be deemed to be your agreement to the modified terms.

If you do not agree to our continued use of your personal information due to the changes in our Privacy Policy, please contact us at reception@cheriedaltonpsych.com.au.  This policy is a compliance document prescribed by law rather than a legal contract between two or more persons. However certain contracts may incorporate all or part, of this policy into the terms of that contract, but in such a way they do not give rise to contractual obligations on to Cherie Dalton Psychology, but do create contractual obligations on the other party to the contract; and the consents provided in this policy become contractual terms provided by th eother party to the contract.

Questions or concerns
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's website: https://www.oaic.gov.au