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Privacy, disclaimer & copyright

Brisbane Economic Development Agency’s (BEDA) privacy, copyright and disclaimer statements are designed to protect your rights and govern the use of information on this website.

Brisbane Economic Development Agency’s (BEDA) privacy, copyright and disclaimer statements are designed to protect your rights and govern the use of information on this website.

Privacy statement

BEDA’s privacy procedures have been developed with your rights and needs in mind. BEDA will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the privacy of individuals having regard to the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) contained in the Privacy Act.

View BEDA’s full Privacy Policy.

Collecting your information

BEDA holds your personal information in accordance with this privacy statement and we will:

  • Tell you when and for what purpose we will be collecting the information
  • Tell you what information is necessary to access BEDA’s products and services, including payments and transactions
  • Not ask for or collect any personal or sensitive information about you unless it is necessary to meet legal, public interest or statistical requirements to complete the requested transaction
  • Take all reasonable steps to permanently remove personal identification from the information collected about you if it is no longer needed

Using your information

When you provide BEDA with your personal information we will:

  • Use the information to help you use BEDA services
  • Aggregate the data for analysis
  • Remove personally identifiable characteristics, unless you have given us specific consent to recognise your usage on an individual basis
  • Store your data on secure servers, in email databases, survey tools, event management databases and CRM

Disclosing your personal information

We will not disclose your personal information to any other person or organisation unless one of the following reasons apply:

  • You have given us your consent to do so
  • The information is needed to conduct a transaction between you and that person or organisation
  • We are required by law to do so
  • There are grounds to believe disclosure will prevent a threat to life or health
  • That person or organisation is providing a service to BEDA and is required to maintain the same or similar privacy legislation principles

Security of your information 

When handling your information, BEDA will:

  • Take reasonable steps to ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete, up to date and securely stored
  • Monitor transmissions sent to or from BEDA for quality control and systems administration
  • Strive to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access; however we cannot guarantee security
  • Operate secure servers to minimise the risk of unauthorised use of your credit card information
  • Provide a means of contacting us for accessing, correcting or updating your information

Accessing, correcting or updating your personal information

For more information on BEDA’s privacy policy or to request access to identifiable personal information, seek correction of such information, or complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, contact Brisbane Marketing’s Chief Executive Officer:  
Chief Executive Officer 
BEDA 
PO Box 12260 George St
Brisbane Q 4000 

-or- 

Email ceo@brisbane-eda.com.au with the subject line “Privacy”

Remarketing

At times, BEDA uses third-party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google Adwords tracking cookie and various social media remarketing cookies. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet such as social media platforms or the Google Content Network. As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of Google’s, or any other third party, remarketing system.

These third-party vendors will place cookies on web browsers in order to serve ads based on past visits to our website. This allows us to make special offers and continue to promote Brisbane to those who have shown interest. If you have concerns, visitors can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.

Copyright

Brisbane Economic Development Agency Pty Ltd owns or licenses all content on this website and we assert our right to be recognised as the author of original material on this website.

BEDA supports the sharing of information and the use of the website content for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under copyright legislation. However, you are not permitted to reproduce or reuse content on this website for commercial purposes.

Disclaimer

Brisbane Economic Development Agency Pty Ltd distributes the information on this website as a general reference source.

This website contains links to other websites operated by organisations other than BEDA. The other websites are outside of BEDA’s control and links are provided for your convenience.

Despite our best efforts, BEDA makes no warranties that the information in this publication is free of infection by computer viruses or other contamination.

Brisbane Economic Development Agency Pty Ltd disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including through negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages and costs you might incur as a result of the information on this website or any linked website being inaccurate or incomplete.