Privacy Policy

The Grace Tame Foundation privacy policy 

Last updated: April 2025 

In the course of carrying out our activities, The Grace Tame Foundation Limited (ABN 61 650 363 689) (we, us or our), and our subsidiaries and related bodies corporate, will collect, store, use and disclose personal information. We are committed to the protection of your personal information and to compliance with applicable privacy laws. 

Personal information 

Personal information and/or personal data (the terms commonly used in applicable privacy laws), is information or an opinion about an identified or reasonably identifiable individual, whether or not the information or opinion is true and whether or not the information is recorded in a material form.  

Types of personal information we collect and hold 

We collect and hold personal information about individuals for the provision of our products and services (including our websites and other online platforms and services) and purposes connected to those products and services.  

Consistent with the provision of our products and services, the types of personal information we may collect, and hold includes the following: 

1. Identity and contact details – including individuals’ name, address, telephone number, email address and other documentation that relates to your identity; 

1. Profile data – profile information, usernames, passwords and preference data; and 

1. Other information – text of communications gathered in the course of our interaction with you, including where you comment within our platforms and/or otherwise interact on live-chat, social media and emails, and other information from your interactions with us online, including cookie information, security tokens, IP address, URLs, search histories and other associated information. 

How we collect and hold personal information  

We may collect personal information directly from you in the course of providing our products and services, from our website and other online platforms, and/or directly from you, including using cookies (data files placed on your device or computer), log files and security tokens.  

Personal information is held securely, is subject to various security protections and is held only for as long as the information remains relevant to the purpose for which it was collected.

Purposes for which we hold, use and disclose personal information  

We will not use or disclose personal information for any secondary purpose, unless that secondary purpose is related to the primary purpose for which we have collected that information, and you would reasonably expect the disclosure in the circumstances, or unless you consent to that use or disclosure. 

The purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose information may include: 

1. conducting our advocacy, which includes promoting our projects and/or campaigns, or the projects and/or campaigns of a third party, to you; 

1. to communicate information about our advocacy that may be of interest to you; and 

1. to provide you with information or advertising relating to our advocacy (including targeted advertisements) or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you; 

1. to improve and optimise our platforms (including our websites) and services; 

1. for our internal administrative, research, planning, and marketing purposes; and 

1. to comply with legal obligations. 

We may also disclose personal information to third party partners (including our clients and customers) who help us fulfil and deliver our products and services to you, as well as third party technology and marketing partners, including but not limited to Amazon Web Services and Google (including Google Analytics) and other technology and marketing service providers.   

The disclosure set out above includes disclosure of your personal information to our third party partners (including our clients and customers) when you engage with our websites and any products and services that are associated with, fulfilled by, and/or in partnership with, such partners. These partners may contact you directly, and their use of your personal information and/or any queries you have about the personal information they hold and how they are using it, will be governed by their privacy policy. It is your sole responsibility to review such privacy policies. 

Opting Out

The Grace Tame Foundation truly values the generosity of our donors, which helps us achieve our mission. As part of our outreach, we may use your personal information for direct marketing purposes to keep you informed about upcoming events, appeals, projects, and other activities.

Rest assured, whenever we use your information for these purposes, we will always provide a clear option for you to opt out of receiving these communications.

Please note that The Grace Tame Foundation will only use your data to update you on how your support is contributing to our mission, and we will never sell your information to third parties.

If you wish to opt out of these communications, you can use any of the links provided in our digital communications or email us at info@thegracetamefoundation.org.au.

Changes to this Privacy Policy 

We will review and update this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how we collect, hold, store and use personal information.  

Retention, access and correction 

We will only keep records of your personal information as long as they are still necessary for the purposes for which we collected such personal information. 

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure any personal data we collect, use or disclose is up to date and accurate. If you believe personal information that we hold about you is not up to date or accurate, you may ask us to correct it. 

You may ask us to provide you with details of the personal information we hold about you, and copies of that information. We will respond to your request and attempt to provide you with the data within 30 days of receipt of your request. 

If we provide you with copies of the information you have requested, to the extent permitted by law, we may charge you a reasonable fee to cover the administrative costs of providing you with that information. Please direct all request for access and correction to info@thegracetamefoundation.org.au

Overseas disclosure  

We are unlikely, in the course of providing products and services, to disclose personal information overseas. 

Complaints 

If you consider a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) has occurred, you may direct your query to our Privacy Officer using the details set out below and we will attempt to resolve your complaint. If you do not consider our response satisfactory, you may contact the Australian Privacy Commissioner at its website www.oaic.giv.au or by telephone on 1300 363 992.   

Contacting us 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please contact us at info@thegracetamefoundation.org.au