Carbon Down and the Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) respect the privacy of individuals’ personal information. Accordingly, whenever we collect and handle personal information, we will do so in accordance with the National Privacy Principles. Your details are collected and stored in accordance with the VECCI privacy policy. To view the VECCI privacy policy please visit: http://www.vecci.org.au/privacy1.asp.
Your information is collected for the purposes of servicing your Carbon Down website account, assessing your requirements, enabling Carbon Down/VECCI to properly run the Carbon Down program, track and record your use of Carbon Down applications and enabling relevant services or information to be provided to you. We may occasionally use your personal information to update you about new information, briefings or products or services being offered by Carbon Down or any of its related companies or business partners including VECCI, along with newsletters and any noteworthy changes to the website. You may always unsubscribe and opt out from receiving these messages. It may also be used for other purposes which you would reasonably expect, for example, for research, staff training, policy development, planning or for supply to third party service providers such as mailing houses that we use to send you material.

As a user of Carbon Down’s services, you may occasionally receive email or other updates from us about new information, briefings or products or services being offered by Carbon Down or any of its related companies or business partners including VECCI, along with newsletters and any noteworthy changes to the website. You may always unsubscribe and opt out from receiving these messages.

Unless otherwise prohibited by law or our contractual obligations, we may disclose personal information if required to do so by law, court order, or as requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable.

Such situations may include: to perform, maintain or enforce contracts with our users or suppliers; to protect the rights or properties of Carbon Down, our business affiliates, our users, or others; or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing, or who may be threatening to cause, interference with or damage to our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise; or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

Special notices
Small Business in the Carbon Jungle
For users of “Small Business in the Carbon Jungle” web-based widget (the Widget): The Widget contains functionality which allows Carbon Down to (a) track and record usage habits; (b) review usage statistics; (c) generate reports; and (d) record personal information, in relation to a user’s use and operation of the Widget. For example, Carbon Down can see how many users decide to include Carbon Down’s co-branding when re-skinning the Widget on the user’s website, and which pages of the fact sheet are generated by a user. Carbon Down handles any information collected from a user’s use of the Widget in accordance with this Privacy Statement and the VECCI privacy policy.

Compass
Upon your registration on Compass, your Compass profile will be available for viewing by the general public. This may include your full name, Compass username, company or organisation (if applicable), address and contact details (such as telephone numbers and email).

Pursuant to the Carbon Down Website Terms and Conditions (Terms), VECCI may sublicense your Content (as defined in the Terms) to third parties. VECCI may identify such Content as being provided or written by you (by using your Compass username) to any third party licensees. Your Compass username may be displayed on third party websites for the purposes of identifying the author or contributor of the Content.

What Can I Do Right Now?
The information provided by you, through whatcanidorightnow.com.au will be collected and saved by for use in managing the subscriber list for the What can I do right now Newsletter and Pledge activity.
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to third parties for other marketing purposes.
If at any point in time you would like your saved data to be deleted from our system, please contact us and will arrange to have your records deleted from our database.
Should you wish to unsubscribe from the What can I do right now Newsletter, you will have the ability to do so by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each newsletter.