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Privacy Policy Statement for Disabled Wintersport Australia Inc

Disabled Wintersport Australia (DWA) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy.   The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for Disabled Wintersport Australia (DWA).

DWA assures you that the identity of all who contact us through our website or, contacted by telephone or any other means of communication, is kept confidential; we do not rent, sell or exchange our mailing lists and we will always strive to be responsible in our management, truthful in our advertising and cost effective in our fundraising.    We have been ministering to and serving the disabled sporting community,  our members and stakeholders for more than 35 years, and are continually working to ensure every dollar is used to its fullest for this purpose.     

We are committed to the highest standard of stewardship excellence.     We will exert every effort to honour any designation of preference you have stated in accordance with your donation, and funds will be used for projects approved by the Board of Directors.

As with most other Internet sites, our web servers record the IP address of each visitor to this site. We use the information we record to help diagnose problems with our servers, to administer our website more effectively and to monitor visitors and their behaviour on our site.

Those who choose to register through various features on our site may choose to give us certain contact information (such as their email address).   We may use this contact information to send you additional information about DWA and its programmes or to contact you when necessary in order to resolve issues or questions.

In some cases our site uses securely encrypted contribution response forms for visitors who choose to use these forms to provide information, request information, and make donations.   We collect your willingly submitted contact information (such as your email address), and financial information (such as a credit card type, number and expiration date).

Contact information from these response forms is used to process donations, provide receipts and other information about DWA to our donors. The contact information is also used to communicate with donors/members when necessary in order to resolve issues or questions.    Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for the donations pledged.    

Modifying Your Information

Our policy gives donors/members the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or for changing or modifying information previously provided.

  1. You can send an email via our enquiry form.
  2. You can send postal mail to Disabled WinterSport Australia, 4th Floor Ross House 247-251 Flinders lane Melbourne VIC 3000.

When contacting us to change your status, be sure to include any information that would help us identify you on our lists, such as complete contact information (name, postal address, telephone number and email address).

Changes To This Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy without advance notice.    

Contacting The Website

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact via our enquiry form.

Website Terms of Use

Conditions of Access

The DWA web site is owned and operated by Disabled Wintersport Australia Inc ("DWA"). Your access to the site is conditional upon your acceptance and compliance with the terms, conditions, notices and disclaimers outlined below. Use of and/or access to, the site constitutes your agreement to the Terms of Use, DWA reserves the right to amend the Terms of Use at any time.

DWA may at any time revise these Terms of Use by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the current Terms of Use.

Copyright Notice

Material on this site is protected by copyright. The copyright owner is Disabled Wintersport Australia Inc ("DWA"). No material from the website may, in any form or by any means, be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, without prior written permission from DWA.

Liability Disclaimer

The DWA site contains among other things, information provided by third parties. The information is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty, you should therefore use the information at your own risk.

Disabled Wintersport Australia Inc ("DWA") does not guarantee accuracy and reliability of the information contained in or the documents stored, served and accessed via this website. Unless otherwise specified, the inclusion of any information or references within this website does not amount to an endorsement of any third party goods or solutions providers. DWA, its officers, employees and agents will not be responsible or liable for any loss, however arising, from the use of, or reliance on the information accessible via this web service.

Hypertext Links Disclaimer

Except where otherwise specifically provided, DWA makes no warranty or representation in relation to the products, services or information supplied by or displayed on any linked websites. You should make your own independent inquiries in relation to any such product, service or information.

Transmission of Personal Data/User Communications

Except as required by law, DWA will maintain the confidentiality of all personal information transmitted to the website by the user. However, any other communication or material you provide to, post or transmit on this website by any means will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. DWA will have no obligation to protect such information and may use such information in any way it chooses.

Software License Agreement

Any software, which you download, is governed in accordance with the license terms accompanying the file.

Social Media, News, Events and Messages

You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose personal information (e.g., user name, email address) on a social media, News, Events or bulletin board, in a forum, or on any other user or member generated pages, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other parties.

Users of will indemnify, and continue to indemnify, Disabled Wintersport Australia ("DWA"), its officers, employees, and agents from, and against, all damage, loss, liability and costs (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) whatsoever, arising as a consequence of use of any DWA features, functions, or facilities. Such liability will extend to all damage, loss, liability and costs arising as a consequence of any user submitting material which is defamatory, prohibitive or which infringes another person's copyright.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane materials or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. DWA will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing DWA to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

Contacting The Website

If you have any questions about the conditions of access and terms of use for this web site or your dealings with this website, you can contact DWA via our enquiry form.