Decision Analysis Services Pty Ltd (DAS) respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our employees, clients, subcontractors, suppliers and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988. This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information. “Personal information” is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
DAS will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you enter onto our website, network, provide to us directly or give to us in other forms
You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send information, provide updates, process payments and invoices and pay salaries. We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, when you provide information about your personal or business affairs, change your content or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, provide financial or credit card information, or communicate with us in any other way.
Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
DAS collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically or in person, use DAS IT assets, when you access our website and when we provide services or employment to you. We may receive personal information from third parties. If we do, we will protect it as set out in the Privacy Policy
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
DAS may use personal information collected to provide you with information and updates of our services and practices. We may also make you aware of new and additional products, services and opportunities available to you. We may use your personal information to improve our products and services and better understand your needs.
DAS may contact you by a variety of measures including but not limited to telephone, email, SMS or mail.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or sub-contractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services.
We may from time to time need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, during a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.
We may also use your personal information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of Decision Analysis Services Pty Ltd, it’s clients or third parties.
Information that we collect from time to time may be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside of Australia. These may include, but are not limited to the UK and Poland.
If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.
By providing us with personal information you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding handling your personal information.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
DAS is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In orderto prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of information that you transmit to us or receive from us. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
The Australian Government has recently legislated changes to the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024. We encourage and expect our staff to be aware of their personal obligations regarding this as it applies to any privacy data they may be exposed to in the completion of their employment duties at DAS.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988. If you would like a copy of the information, which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact your line manager.
We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in circumstances set out in the Privacy Act 1988.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT PRIVACY
If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send details of your complaints to your line manager. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications either electronically or in writing. Please check back from time to time to review our policy.
WEBSITE/ICT
When you visit our website When you come to our website (https://www.das-int.com/en-au/) we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service. See Website Privacy Policy for more information.
Cookies: We may from time-to-time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our website may from time-to-time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google AdWords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.
Third Party Sites: Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Decision Analysis Services Pty Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices of other 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 personal identifiable information.
ICT Assets: All employees are issued with a DAS Pty business mobile and laptop for business activities such as voice calls and access to DAS ICT systems. The DAS Pty ICT system is continually monitored. If monitoring reveals evidence of misuse or criminal activity, it will be used to support disciplinary and / or legal proceedings. By accessing the DAS Pty ICT systems, you confirm that you have read, understood and will comply with the DAS ICT.
