Privacy and Confidentiality Policy
The organisation is dedicated to maintaining the right to privacy for children, families and workers as part of our commitment to providing quality education and care in an environment that is physically, emotionally and socially safe and healthy.
RREE achieves this through being a child safe organisation and by upholding the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) and complying with the Privacy Act 1988 and other regulations, law and contractual requirements related to privacy.
You can find out more information in our NQS7.60 Privacy and Confidentiality Policy
Website Privacy
River Region Early Education (RREE) collects your personal information when you interact with us online.
We collect some information automatically when you visit the RREE website via third-party vendors such as Google Analytics. This is aggregated information collected in an anonymous form and includes information such as the number, date and timing of visits to the website and the pages of the website visited frequently. This information is not personal information and collected for statistical purposes only.
You may also choose to provide us with personal information if, for example, you subscribe to our newsletter, send us questions through e-mail, or apply for a service. As an example, to apply for our services we ask for personal information, such as your child’s name and date of birth, your name, email address, telephone number and employer.
If you want to join our social media communities, we have will access to your public profile, which may include your name and photo. You should be aware that any information you post onto RREE social media is available for the public to see. You should therefore check your individual privacy settings for profiles and accounts on social media networks and their privacy policies.
Personal information that is collected by RREE will be used by RREE employees whose duties require them to use it in order to provide services to you. It will only be used for the purpose with which you have shared it.
Please note that the personal information you submit on our website will be transmitted by Wix through cloud-based services and data centres in various countries. Wix stores site content and user data in data centres located in the United States, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan, and Israel. Wix also utilizes AWS and Google Cloud Platform for some services, with Equinix providing colocation services. Once transmitted to RREE, data is stored in secure RREE networks. If you do not want your personal information being stored offshore, please do not submit personal information to us when you use any of the services on our website. You can provide us with information in person or in writing.
While RREE takes reasonable precautions to protect the information it holds from unauthorised use, the nature of the information systems is such that the security of information cannot be guaranteed. RREE relies on commercially available technologies for the security of its information systems which applies to the use of online information security systems in general. If you have any concerns, please do not submit personal information to us when you use any of the services on our website. You can provide us with information in person or in writing.
You may request access to any personal information that RREE may have collected about you. You may also request correction of your personal information if you believe that it is not accurate, complete or up to date.
You can access our Privacy Policy here, which details how we collect, store, use, secure, disclose and retain personal information.