Privacy Policy

Definitions:

User: Any person visiting the Relationship & Families ByDesign website, including but not limited to students, graduates, staff, faculty, visitors.
Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of information stored on your computer by our website server. It is information that users' web browser sends back to our website server whenever you visit it again. Cookies are used to 'remember' users browser between page visits.
Personal Information: The Privacy Act of 1988 defines Personal Information to be "information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion."
Relationship & Families ByDesign Website: The website is located at http//www.familiesbydesign.com

Policy:
Relationship & Families ByDesign collects and maintains personal data on participants, staff, volunteers and customers as relevant to their relationship within Relationship & Families ByDesign. This information is maintained within a managed Data Base, treated with the highest confidentiality and not distributed beyond Relationship & Families ByDesign without the consent of the participant, volunteer, customer or staff member.

I. Personal Information collected when students, staff or visitors use the Relationship & Families ByDesign website
While users visit our website we may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways:

Clickstream Data
When users visit our site our server records the visit and logs the following Personal Information:
- User's server address;
- User's top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .net, .edu, etc);
- The time and date of the visit;
- The referring website;
- The pages and documents accessed or viewed;
- The type of browser used
Emails and Electronic Forms
When users send us an email, or if users complete and submit one of the electronic forms on our website, it will include their email address and may also include some Personal Information. In all cases and at all times, this Personal Information will only be used for the stated purpose for which it was provided.
Relationship & Families ByDesign records users' email address and Personal Information in the following instances:
- When users subscribe to and receive our newsletter
- When users send feedback via our contact email or electronic forms
- When users register for a Relationship & Families ByDesign event or promotion using an online form
- When users respond to an email from a Relationship & Families ByDesign staff member
- When users enroll in a Relationship & Families ByDesign course or program
Use of cookies
Cookies are used to hold session information for users. The cookie identifies your browser, not you personally. No Personal Information is stored within the cookies.

II. Purpose and use of Personal Information we collect from users
Personal Information is collected for the following purposes:

To further define and understand our demographic for marketing purposes
Website and system administration, including monitoring to prevent security breaches
Enhancement to the website to the user's needs
Communication, statistics, research and development

No attempt will be made to identify individual users or their browsing activities other than as disclosed in this privacy statement or as required by law. The Personal Information collected will not be disclosed to a third party except when authorized by users or required by law.

III. Publishing Personal Information
We only publish Personal Information on our website if it has been collected for this purpose with users' knowledge, or if users have otherwise consented to the disclosure.

When giving such consent users should be aware that Personal Information published on this website is accessible to millions of users from all over the world, that it will be indexed by search engines and that it may be copied and used by any web user. This means that, once the Personal Information is published on this website, Relationship & Families ByDesign will have no control over its subsequent use and disclosure. For example, participation in the What People Say section of our website may involve submitting personal information into the public domain.

IV. Access to the Personal Information we collect
If users wish to know what, if any, Personal Information we hold about them, or wish to correct any personal information we may hold about them, they may access and correct such personal information at any time by contacting us.

V. Security of Personal Information
All personal information collected is protected by the Privacy Act and any subsequent Federal legislation. Personal Information will be held in strictest confidence. We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Personal Information we hold in our servers is not subject to loss, misuse or unauthorized access or alteration.
Access to our data base records is limited to personnel with a legitimate interest in such information as part of their duties within Relationship & Families ByDesign.