Cookies and privacy policy
Protecting your personal information
World Animal Protection ("we", “our” or "us") takes the privacy and security of your personal information seriously.
At World Animal Protection we rely on kind supporters, people like you, to protect animals from cruelty and suffering around the world. Your support is so important. That’s why we are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what we will use it for. This privacy policy sets out how we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information if you live in Australia. If you visit our website(s) and social media pages, or provide us with your personal information, you consent to your personal information being used and disclosed as set out in this privacy policy.
Personal information is defined in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) as any information or an opinion about an identified individual or an individual who can be reasonably identified from the information or opinion. Information or an opinion may be personal information regardless of whether it is true.
The policy relates to World Animal Protection’s use of personal information collected on our websites that link to this privacy policy, on social media or official World Animal Protection content on other websites. It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, in letters, in person and any personal information we may collect about you indirectly.
Please contact us via the contact details below if you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or concerns about the way we process your personal information:
WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION LIMITED
Attention: Privacy Officer
Address: Level 2, 120 Christie Street, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia
Email: info@worldanimalprotection.org.au
Phone: (02) 9902 8000
Fax: (02) 9906 1166
How we use cookies
We use cookies to ensure you receive the best experience on our website. By continuing to use our site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can choose to block cookies, or be notified when they are placed, through your web browser settings but disabling this feature may prevent you from using certain parts of our website(s).
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file passed from your internet browser on to your computer's hard drive, allowing websites to remember who you are when you return. Cookies also track information such as your computer’s IP address, operating system, browser type and traffic patterns such as how you arrived on sites, your time of arrival, the pages you viewed and how long you stayed.
Find out how you can disable World Animal Protection cookies.
How do we use cookies on our website?
We may use persistent cookies (which remain on your computer even after you close your browser) to store information that may speed up your use of our website for any of your future visits to the website. We may also use session cookies (which no longer remain after you end your browsing session) to help manage the display and presentation of information on the website.
Cookies show us how and when visitors use our website, and may be used for statistical and business purposes. Cookies are stored on your computer and not on our website.
The information we collect through cookies is anonymous and not personally identifiable. We don’t match cookies to any personal information. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.
We use cookies to:
- Compile information on how our website is used, which helps improve our website and online services.
- Help users easily navigate our website.
- Check whether the website is operating effectively.
- Personalise and improve the service we offer you by understanding your preferences and establishing which areas of the website are most relevant to you.
World Animal Protection sometimes use third party advertising companies to serve adverts to visitors of our site. These companies may use cookie information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) to provide you with advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Disclosure about collection of data: Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You can opt out of the collection by visiting sites such as http://www.youronlinechoices.com.au/, and https://adssettings.google.com/. You can find more information on the OAIC website.
Cookies we use
Domain:
www.worldanimalprotection.org.au
Subdomains:
donate.worldanimalprotection.org.au
shop.worldanimalprotection.org.au
Strictly necessary:
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies (details of how to do this are below), but our website may not work if you disable them.
Performance Cookies:
Performance cookies help us to understand our visitor's behaviour and allow us to make improvements to better your experience on our website. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the website. All information collected is anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.
Targeting Cookies:
These cookies are set by our advertising partners. They may be used to understand your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience World Animal Protection’s marketing across different websites.
Additional cookies serving our online shop:
Subdomain:
shop.worldanimalprotection.org.au/
Strictly necessary:
These cookies are necessary for the functioning of the online store.
How to disable cookies
If you’re using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block World Animal Protection’s website cookies, please follow these instructions:
- On your browser tools menu, select Internet Options
- Click on the Privacy tab and then on the Sites button
- Type into the Address of website field: www.worldanimalprotection.org.au
- Click on the Block button
- Click on the OK button
On other browsers:
Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities in their preferences settings, please refer to your browser's security settings or help facility.
More detailed information on disabling cookies.
Privacy policy
We may amend this privacy policy or any part of it from time to time. Please review this privacy policy periodically for changes. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email or by displaying a notice at www.worldanimalprotection.org.au/privacy-policy.
Your continued use of our website(s), products, services or provision of further personal information to us once we’ve notified the changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised privacy policy.
You may obtain a copy of our current privacy policy from our website or by contacting us at the contact details above.