MLA | Red Meat & Nutrition Common

Website privacy notice

1. General policy

Meat and Livestock Australia Limited (MLA) respects the privacy of individuals. Generally, MLA does not release personal information. However in response to a legal requirement, in the case of an emergency or in exceptional circumstances the Managing Director may at his or her discretion authorise the release of the personal information. In other situations the collection, use and disclosure of personal information are governed by MLA's privacy policy, which can be found at www.mla.com.au.

2. Collection

2.1 Information gathered by this site's technology
MLA may make a record of your visit and log your visit for statistical and business purposes. Such information may include your server address, domain name, IP address, the date and time of your visit, pages accessed, documents downloaded, previous site visited and the type of browser used.

2.2 E-mail
If you send MLA an e-mail message, or an email to any staff of MLA, MLA will record your e-mail address. MLA will only use your e-mail address for the purpose for which it was provided. MLA will not use your e-mail address for any other purpose (including adding it to any mailing list), without your express consent.

2.3 Information provided to MLA
If MLA requires you to complete an electronic form on this site and in doing so it requires you to enter personal information, MLA will collect that information to allow it to respond to your request. MLA will not collect personal information that would be unlawful, unnecessary or unrelated to its functions, activities or business.

2.4 Cookies
Cookies are small files of information that save and retrieve information about your visit to MLA's site. If you do not wish information to be gathered on a cookie it is possible to disable the acceptance of cookies by your web browser. If you want to do this you should contact your ISP.

If MLA's site uses a cookie to deliver contents specific to your interest, the cookie may also be used for an authentication purpose.

2.5 Links
If this site contains a link to another site, MLA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites.

3. Use

Personal information that you supply through this site will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and to assist MLA to conduct its business. This may include analysing information obtained on the site to determine the effectiveness of the site and to modify the site to improve the service that it provides.

4. Disclosure

MLA will not disclose your personal information to a third party except in accordance with this notice and its privacy policy, which can be found at www.mla.com.au.

MLA privacy policy

1. General policy

This policy sets out how Meat and Livestock Australia Limited (MLA) collects personal information. It also describes how MLA maintains, uses and discloses personal information. MLA respects the privacy of individuals. Generally, MLA does not release personal information.

However in response to a legal requirement, in an emergency or in exceptional circumstances the Managing Director may at his or her discretion authorise the release of personal information. In all other circumstances this policy governs the collection, use and disclosure of personal information.

2. Collection of personal information

Where MLA collects personal information it is collected for MLA's business purposes, which are detailed generally on MLA's website, www.mla.com.au. Where MLA documents request personal information, MLA will state the general purposes for its use and to whom it may be disclosed.

3. Use of personal information

MLA may from time to time send marketing material that MLA considers will be useful. It may also send material about MLA. If MLA is notified that a person does not wish to receive such information, it will not send it to that person. This does not apply to information that we are legally required to send.

MLA uses the personal information that it collects to fulfil its legal obligations and to keep its members, levy payers and relevant members of the public informed of MLA's business and the products and services that it provides.

4. Disclosure of personal information

Generally, MLA must obtain consent before it discloses any personal information. Consent may be given expressly or it may be implied by conduct.

Depending on the product or service, personal information may be disclosed to:

(a) external service providers (on a confidential basis and such service providers will be limited in their use of the information to the purpose of MLA's business only). In particular, MLA's database of members is maintained on a server operated by a third party, under contractual obligations of confidence;
(b) specialist advisers to MLA who have been engaged to provide MLA with legal, administrative, financial, insurance, research, marketing or other services; and
(c) any other person authorised, implicitly or expressly, when the personal information is provided to or collected by MLA.
MLA may at other times publish its disclosure practices in relation to specific products or services that it provides in relation to its activities.

5. Security of personal information

MLA takes all reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, unauthorised access, modification, disclosure or other misuse.

6. Sensitive personal information

MLA does not generally collect any sensitive information as that term is used in the privacy legislation (including information relating to racial or ethnic origin, membership of political bodies, religion or trade unions, sexual preferences or activities, criminal record, state of health or medical history). If MLA holds any sensitive personal information that information will only be used and disclosed by MLA for the purpose that which it was provided.

If MLA asks for sensitive information MLA will explain this.

7. Access to personal information

At any time a person may request access to personal information that MLA holds about them. MLA will process such requests within a reasonable time and may charge a fee to cover the costs of verifying the application and retrieving the information requested.

8. Correction of personal information

MLA should be promptly notified if there are any changes to an individual's personal information. A person may ask MLA at any time to correct personal information held by it about them.

9. Changes to this policy

MLA may amend this policy from time to time, and the policy will be published on MLA's website.