Informing the Agenda - Privacy Collection Notice
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Project Overview / About the Project / Your Submission
The Australian Human Rights Commission (Commission) collects and handles personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Archives Act 1983 (Cth) and our Privacy Policy.
By providing responses to our questions as part of this submission process and providing your submission to us, you consent to the Commission collecting and using your personal information and sensitive information for the purposes set out below. If you provide any additional materials as part of your submission, such as photographs, drawings or other creative works, you consent to us using that material for these purposes and grant us a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free licence for us to use that material.
We may use the information you provide to us for the purposes of the Informing the Agenda Project and to develop resources, reports and other published documents aimed at communicating the perspectives of First Nations Peoples and driving transformative change for First Nations communities. This includes the development of Commissioner Kiss’ five-year agenda goals, advocating for human rights considerations, analysing key themes, and publishing other Commission resources and reports.
If you select that you would like your submission to be published with your name, it may be published on the Commission’s website with your name and personal information attached. If you have selected to have your submission de-identified, it may be published on our website, but will not include your name and any content from that submission used by the Commission will not be attributed to you. The Commission may redact parts of published submissions for reasons including privacy.
We may publish your responses to our demographic questions in a de-identified and aggregated way. We may also publish case studies, examples and quotes from your submission, however, we will only publish this in a way that will not identify you, unless you have consented to be publicly identified with your submission. Resources produced by the Commission will be published under a Creative Commons license and the contents of the resource will be able to be used freely for other purposes.
If you consent for us to do so, we may also use the information you provide to contact you concerning your submission and/or to update you on the work that your submission has informed.
If you include the personal information of others in your submission (for example, the name of another person), this information will also be collected by us, but we will not use that information or notify them that we have collected their information.
The information you provide to us may be disclosed to other third parties as part of us using it for the purposes set out above or if we are required to do so by law, including under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth). We may also disclose information to make a voluntary report or under our mandatory reporting obligations. For example, if you describe instances of child abuse or neglect, threats of self-harm and/or harm to others that are currently happening.
Our Privacy Policy sets out how you can make a complaint about how we have handled your information and how we will deal with your complaint.
If you would like to contact the Social Justice Team with any further questions or concerns you can email the Commission at informingtheagenda@humanrights.gov.au.