Westera Partners Pty. Ltd. ABN: 52 097 417 975 is private engineering consulting services business.
Our website address is: http://www.westerapartners.com.au.
Westera complies with the Privacy Act (1988) and the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017. Westera has established policies and procedures to comply with the relevant Australian privacy Principle s (APP’s). These aspects are covered within the Westera Integrated Management System (“IMS”) which are audited and updated periodically for compliance.
Westera has the necessary policies, procedures and resources in place to comply with its statutory requirements for notification and reporting of eligible disclosures and data breaches.
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Westera will only use your personal information when the law allows us to and when there is a we have a legal ground for doing so. This may include where:
Specifically, Westera’s uses of your personal information are as follows:
Westera may shares your data with third parties who are required to comply with the law and respect the security of your personal information and treat it in accordance with the law.
Your personal information may be shared with the following types of third parties:
Emails and visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you have sent us an email contact enquiry we will keep your personal data in accordance with our secure Email Storage System which provides for indefinite retention of emails.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Where we have collected your personal information while Westera is doing business with your organisation, we will keep your personal information while the business continues, or for as long as we have a view to doing business in the future and/or we see a commercial interest in holding your personal information.
Where you have provided us with your contact details to receive one of our subscriptions we will generally keep this personal data until you have unsubscribed from receiving our communications.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you have concerns or seek access to your personal information, Westera will not charge you a fee for reasonable access request to your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights).
Westera does reserve its right to charge a reasonable upfront fee however if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive.
In such circumstances Westera may refuse to comply with the requests.
