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Privacy Policy
We do not rent, sell, exchange or provide personally identifiable information to any third-party organization.
The Uplift Program is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy as a visitor to our Website.
We take the issue of privacy very seriously and value the trust you place in us each time you use our services
and access this Website.
We follow a strict anti-spam policy. Our email practice complies with the US CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 legislation of January 1, 2004 and the Australian Spam Act 2003 of April 10, 2004.
Please review the following for further details. Note that details of the policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.
What Information Do We Collect?
Permission-based Collection of Information:
We collect the following information with your permission:
- Email Newsletter. The names, locations and e-mail addresses of those who subscribe to our newsletters
- Polls and Surveys. User survey information
At the Uplift Program we respect our subscribers privacy. Your email address and personal information will not be sold or traded by us or any of the third-party we use to manage our surveys and email newsletter lists.
Our newsletter subscriber details collected and stored with our list provider MailerMailer will similarly be kept in strictest confidence. Our survey provider Survey Monkey will not use the information collected from our surveys in any way, shape, or form, and details you provide will be held in the strictest confidence:
Automatic Collection of Information:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site or download information,
our system will automatically gather and store certain information about
your visit. This information does not identify you personally and is
used in an aggregate way to help us improve our web site and tell us
the number of visitors to our site each day.
Our Web server automatically collects and records the following information:
- The visitor's domain name, but not the e-mail address
- The visitor's IP address
- Aggregate information on what pages are accessed
- The name and release number of web browser software used
- The operating system used
- Date and time the site was accessed
- The address of the Web site that linked to us (referrer URL)
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How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
The information we gather on our website automatically and with your permission is used by us in the following ways:
- Monitor, review, measure, and analyze Web site utilization
- Modify and enhance the Web site, improve content and design
- Determine the need for new programs and services
- Respond to your requests
- Monitor and improve our customer service efforts
- Study general usage habits and demographic information for our own marketing research purposes
- Distribute news and other health information requested by Web visitors
- Notify visitors about updates to our Web site
- Determine the effectiveness of health promotion and marketing programs
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E-Commerce, On-line Donations, and Online Shopping
Online Payment
At this time, we do not process credit card payments for donations, merchandise, or
services on our Web site.
However we do use the services of third-party ecommerce systems Paymate and PayPal to collect personal identifying information and credit card information on our behalf so that we can accept payment for merchandise. Each time you make a purchase using one or other of these payment methods you will leave our website and be directed to a SSL encrypted secure form provided by these third-party ecommerce systems. We encourage you to review their privacy policies:
We provide links to buy our books and certain products on Amazon. We also link to our event sponsors' website, the University of South Florida (Continuing Professional Education), who facillitates course enrolment and online payment via an SSL encrypted secure form. You are welcome to review their privacy and security policies:
Offline Payment
The following information is also collected with your permission by us in person, by phone or mail-order form: - Personal information/identification and financial information gathered through registration for educational programs
- Personal information/identification and financial information gathered through shopping activity
We retain records of financial information you have supplied only in order to process payment. When payment has been finalized we delete this information from our systems.
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Our Use of Cookies
Many Web sites
now use "cookies" to provide useful features to their visitors
by providing customizable and personalized services.
A cookie is a small
amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored
on your computer's hard drive. For example, a Web site may use cookies
to store and sometimes track information about you, your preferences,
or the pages you last visited.
At present we use a cookie to ensure our popup windows do not persist once they are closed.
Cookies are also used on occassion by our survey provider to help facilitate the survey.
Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies.
Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject
cookies in the Help section of the toolbar. You should know, however,
that if you reject a cookie, certain functions and conveniences of a
site may not work properly.
Registration for Access
Visitors can
use this entire Web site anonymously, without registration.
Medical Data Collection
We do not collect medical data or details about our visitor's health on this website.
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Security of Communications
We use the following
practices on our Web site to enhance the level of security for communication
and the transmission of personal information:
- We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personally identifiable information that you may provide.
- We are not responsible for the privacy of email messages except those stored in our system.
- We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site
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Advertising Servers
We do not partner with or have special relationships with any advertising
server companies. We do not accept advertising from third parties on our website.
Links to Other Sites
Non-Affiliated Links
This website includes links to non-affiliated external Web sites. We encourage users to review
the privacy policy of each linked site, as we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites.
Affiliated Links
We sell our books and certain products via affiliate links with Amazon. We also provide links to our event sponsors' websites.
Our Children's Privacy Policy
We are especially concerned about protecting children's privacy. We hope parents and teachers
are involved in children's Internet explorations. It is particularly
important for parents to guide their children when children are asked
to provide personal information on line.
Our site does not feature information and services of special interest to children 13 and
under.
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Access and Correction of Personal Information
Opt-out of Transfer of Information
Individuals may notify us that they wish to opt-out and prevent the transfer of their
personally identifiable information by:
- Sending us email to that effect
- Calling us by telephone at: +61-2-9909-8848
- Writing to us at the contact address
Review of Personal Information
Upon request we provide site visitors with access to:
- Financial information (e.g., Credit card account information) that we have collected from their with their permission in order to process a payment
- Contact information (e.g., Name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them
How to Access and Correct Personal Information
Consumers can access and request correction to this information by:
- Sending us e-mail to that effect at
- Calling us by telephone at: +61-2-9909-8848
- Writing to us at the contact address
Requesting No Email
Communication
If you subscribed to one or more of our newsletters you may receive emails from us about health topics that may be of interest
to you, health and Website-related news, upcoming events, special promotions,
and other relevant information. If you do not wish
to receive such email messages, please let us know by the following means:
- Use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email
- Sending us email to that effect
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Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time,
we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously
disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change
at some time in the future, we have the following practices:
- We will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Website periodically.
Preference for
Future Use of Information
You may prevent
your information from being used for purposes other than those for
which it was originally collected by:
- Sending us e-mail to that effect
- Writing to us at the contact address
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Website Contact Information
If you have questions
about our privacy policy, or feel that this site is not following its
stated information policy, please contact us.
Uplift Program
30/2-12 Crws Nest Rd
Waverton
NSW, 2060, Australia
Modification Date
This privacy statement was last modified on 3 Dec 2010.
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