Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains in general terms how Camp America protects the privacy of visitors to our website and your personal information. You are not required to tell us who you are nor reveal any information about yourself. This statement demonstrates our firm commitment to privacy.

What is personal information?

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.

How do we collect your personal information?

Where practical, we will collect information directly from you. Generally, this will be collected by us when you deal with us in either person, by telephone, letter, facsimile, email or when you visit our website. We may request information about you when you enquire about our products or services, submit completed application documents, when you enter competitions, register for promotions or when you request brochures or other information. We may also collect information when we invite you to complete surveys or provide us with feedback.

What personal information do we collect?

Camp America collects personal information and details about you necessary for the purpose of providing a cultural exchange programme and associated services. For example, we may collect details such as your name, date of birth, mailing address, telephone number, email address, educational background, work experience and other information relevant to Camp America's programme eligibility or related to the issuance of insurance policies or visas. We may also collect information that is required for use in the business activities of Camp America including financial details necessary in order to process various transactions.

How do we use personal information?

We will use your personal information necessary for us to provide our services to you. We do not share any information with unrelated third parties nor do we collect or retain any information other than is required for the provision of our products or services.

We may also use personal information for one or more of the following purposes:

• Developing, improving and marketing our products and services;
• Servicing our relationship with you by, among other things, providing program updates, information on promotional incentives, services we think may be of interest to you or to involve you in market research;
• For Internal administration, reporting or compliance;
• To regulatory bodies, health care professionals, law enforcement officials or agencies

Third parties

When we engage third party contractors to perform services for us, those third party contractors may be required to handle your personal information. Under these circumstances, those third party contractors must safeguard this information and must only use it for the purposes for which it was supplied, although we are not responsible for ensuring this. Other than the above, we will not disclose your personal information without your consent unless disclosure is either necessary to prevent a threat to life or health, authorised or required by law, reasonably necessary to enforce the law or necessary to investigate a suspected unlawful activity.

On-line application

The on-line application for Camp America may request personal and financial information. Required fields are indicated and acceptance onto the Camp America programme will depend on this information. Camp America has a secure server to handle credit card information and has implemented appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security procedures in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.

Security of information

Personal information collected by Camp America is stored in secure operating environments that are not available to the public. Camp America will protect your personal information no matter where we process or store your data.

Trans-Border Data flows

In providing our services to you, it will be necessary for us to forward personal and supportive information to relevant AIFS overseas operations and relevant entities. By submitting your personal data to AIFS, you consent to the transfer of your personal information.

Correction of personal information

Subject to the exceptions set out in the Australian Commonwealth Privacy Act (1988), we invite you to correct any personal information we may hold on you. If we deny access, we will provide you with reasons for such denial. Please call Camp America (02) 8235 7000 or write to:

The Privacy Officer
Camp America
PO Box 1319
DARLINGHURST NSW 1300
AUSTRALIA

Opt-out

Should you no longer wish to receive information or to be contacted by us, please email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You may also contact us by telephone, fax or mail. Instructions on how to remove yourself securely from our email list can also be found at the end of every email you receive from us.

External links / Contacts

Our sites contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. The inclusion of hyperlinks to such Web sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such Web sites or any association with their operators.

Public forums

The Camp America Web Site may offer blogs, forums, message boards, and/or email exchanges. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy does not cover this type of transfer of your personal information.

Information Automatically Logged

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. We may also aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information for internal research purposes only, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

Business transfers

In the unlikely event that Camp America, or its assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.

Changes to our Policy

From time to time, it may be necessary for us to review and revise this Policy. We reserve the right to change our Policy at any time and should this occur, the amendment would be posted on our website.