Privacy statement
All personal information collected by Australian Prescriber will be kept strictly confidential and stored securely. All and any information collected at this web site – including the content of application forms, and e-mail addresses – will be used only for the intended purposes and will not be sold, re-used, rented or loaned for other purposes.
Data elements recorded for the purposes of updating the mailing list are:
- name
- e-mail address
- postal address
- category of occupation e.g. general practitioner
Such information is used only for the distribution of Australian Prescriber and its related publications, and for communication with readers. Mailing list information can be sent to Australian Prescriber in other ways:
- by mail
Australian Prescriber Mailing Service
GPO Box 1909
CANBERRA ACT 2601 - by fax - 02 6241 4633
- by phone - 02 6241 6044
Readers should advise Australian Prescriber of any change of address so that mail is not sent to a discontinued address. Contact details can be removed from the Australian Prescriber mailing list at any time on request.
Any personal information provided to Australian Prescriber by site users will be treated with the utmost care, and will not knowingly be used in ways not explicitly consented to by the user who supplied the information and to whom the information refers. All staff who handle such data are bound by confidentiality agreements to protect the use and security of, and access to, the information.
When users visit this web site, the Australian Prescriber site server makes a record of their visit and records the following information: server address, top-level domain name (e.g. .com, .gov, .au, .edu, etc.), date and time, geographic location and duration of the visit, the pages accessed and the documents downloaded, the type of browser and operating system used, and the site visited before the Australian Prescriber web site. Australian Prescriber staff analyse these records to monitor use of the site. ‘Cookies’ are not collected.
Australian Prescriber does not collect personal medical information, nor does it provide personal medical advice. The Australian Prescriber web site complies with the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net (HON) Foundation, which sets high standards for the presentation of useful health and medical information on the Internet.
