Privacy Collection Notice
The Australian Government is responsible for implementing a national campaign to end violence against women and children.
Stop it at the Start take a primary prevention approach and aims to help break the cycle of violence by encouraging adults to reflect on their attitudes and have conversations about respectful behaviours and relationships with young people aged 10–17.
This website provides resources to support you to better understand the current experiences of disrespect, reflect on your own actions as a role model, and have proactive, positive conversations about respect with others.
The campaign website includes a standard feedback form for you to contact the Department of Social Services (the Department) about issues with the site or questions about the campaign. Through this feedback form, some personal information may be collected in order to respond to the enquiries.
As part of the feedback form, we do not ask for you to provide your name, phone number or address. However, any comments or queries emailed to the Department directly will include your name, email address and other identity details. The department’s intention is for participants to not be identified or be reasonably identifiable. However, this may not always be possible due to various factors (for example, free text boxes and the nature of the questions). Where we are able to identify you (or reasonably identify you) from your response, we will handle your response in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) as it will be ‘personal information’.
We will collect your information (including any personal information) for one or more of the above purposes. This notice is designed to ensure you are aware of the purpose and certain matters in relation to that collection, as required by the Privacy Act.
Your personal information is protected by law, including under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
This privacy collection notice is designed to ensure you are aware of certain matters in relation to the department’s collection of your personal information, as required by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
What is ‘personal information’ and ‘sensitive information’?
Personal information is information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.
Sensitive information is a subset of personal information. It includes information or an opinion about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, membership of associations or unions, sexual orientation or practices, criminal record, or health, genetic or biometric information.
What we collect
If you choose to use the feedback form, we will collect some of your personal information (some of which could be sensitive information) including:
- name and email address if you choose to provide it to us
- any personal information you volunteer with us.
We may collect personal information from you as well as from other people. For example, we may collect personal information from you about:
- your personal views in relation to your experience, and others’ experience, with topics concerning consent if you choose to share them and
- feedback you choose to share with the department such as views about the campaign and website.
How we collect your information
Your personal information relating to your personal views will be collected if you choose to participate in the survey. We will do this by:
- Collecting information from you directly through an email submission.
Why we collect your personal information
Your personal information is collected in order to respond to your feedback form which includes:
- Retaining personal information you provide to us in the form.
If you do not provide your personal information (including sensitive information), we will not be able to respond to your feedback.
Who we disclose your personal information to
We may disclose your personal information to the following people, organisations or third parties:
- Other parties where the disclosure is authorised by law.
All entities contracted by us are subject to strict confidentiality, privacy and security obligations.
No information about you will be disclosed overseas.
Storage of your personal information
Storage of personal information (and the disposal of information when no longer required) is managed in accordance with the Australian Government records management regime, including the Archives Act 1983, agency-specific records authorities and general records authorities. This ensures your personal information is held securely by the Department.
All personal information collected by the Department is stored on Services Australia’s cloud storage, on servers located in Australia. Services Australia and the Department retains effective control over any personal information held on our cloud, and the information is handled in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Any information disclosed to third parties will be handled in accordance with the Privacy Act and stored in accordance with agreed security protocols.
More information
More information about how we handle your personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy contains more information about how you can access any personal information that we hold, and how to seek correction of that personal information. It also contains information about how to make a complaint about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, as set out in the Privacy Act. If you have any concerns or questions, you can contact us at privacy@dss.gov.au.
Confirmation and consent
This section only applies if you are providing sensitive information as part of your consultation response. Please note that you do not need to provide your sensitive information if you do not wish to do so.
By providing your sensitive information as part of your Consultation response, you consent to the department collecting your sensitive information and handling your sensitive information in accordance with this privacy notice.