Sugar Terminals Limited ACN 084 059 607 (“STL”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is a public company owned by shareholders in the raw sugar industry. It owns the bulk sugar terminal buildings, specified plant and equipment at each terminal and leases the bulk sugar terminal land at Cairns, Mourilyan, Lucinda, Townsville, Mackay and Bundaberg.
We respect the privacy of the personal information you may provide to us. The way we manage your personal information is governed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) established under the Privacy Act.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act , being information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable, whether the information is true or not, and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not. Examples of personal information include an individual’s name, address, telephone number and date of birth.
This Privacy Policy explains how we manage the personal information we hold about you. Please note that this Privacy Policy is to be read subject to any overriding provisions of law or contract.
STL’s relationship with its shareholders is managed by Link Market Services Limited ACN 083 214 537 (Link), who provides share registry services to STL. Link maintains STL’s share registry and in the process collects and maintains personal information belonging to STL’s shareholders. As a result, STL and Link exchange personal information about STL’s shareholders.
Like STL, Link is also regulated by the Privacy Act and the APPs.
The way Link handles your personal information is set out in its privacy policy, which can be accessed at: www.linkmarketservices.com.au/corporate/privacy.html
The types of personal information we may collect include, but are not limited to:
- your name (current and any former) and date of birth;
- your personal and/or business contact details (including your address, landline or mobile telephone numbers, fax number and e-mail address);
- your employment details (including your company name, job title and business sector);
- banking and tax details (including your tax file number and ABN if applicable);
- personal information provided when you commence a shareholder or other relationship with us;
- the capacity in which you grow sugar cane (e.g. as trustee, executor, partner in a partnership or as a party to a share farming agreement);
- contact and identification details of any third party that you have authorised to negotiate or provide your personal information on your behalf (including any attorneys appointed by you under a power of attorney);
- any correspondence between you and us; and
- any other personal information provided to us when you make an inquiry, request information, respond to marketing or lodge a complaint.
We may also collect sensitive information from you. Sensitive information is defined by the Privacy Act to be certain kinds of personal information. Examples of sensitive information that we may collect from you through providing information and other services to you include health information and member of professional or trade associations.
Sensitive information is subject to stricter controls. We will only collect sensitive information about you with your consent. If we receive any sensitive information about you, we will handle it in accordance with this Privacy Policy, the Privacy Act and the APPs.
Where possible, we will always try to collect personal information directly from you, for example when you:
- request information or contact us by telephone;
- correspond with us in writing (such as letters and emails);
- provide your identification or other documents to us; or
- meet with us in person.
We may also obtain your personal information from third parties we deal with, such as:
- Link;
- government and law enforcement agencies;
- our professional advisers;
- our contracted service providers; and
- any other organisation with whom we do business.
Where we collect personal information from third parties you refer to us, we will assume and you will ensure that you have made that third party aware of the referral and the purposes of collection, use and disclosure of the relevant personal information
We collect, use and disclose your personal information to perform our functions and activities, carry out our operations and to otherwise enable us to provide the services, products and information you request. In particular, we may collect, use and disclose your personal information for the purposes of:
- responding to your requests or inquires and providing you with any information or other services requested by you;
- your shareholder or other relationship with us;
- where necessary, updating and maintaining our records;
- making our website easier for you to use and providing you with access to all parts of our website;
- notifying you about important changes or developments to our functions, activities, services or our website;
- administering, supporting, improving and developing our business and services;
- any other purpose which relates to or arises out of requests made by you;
- if you lodge a complaint with us, processing and responding to your complaint;
- doing anything which you authorise or consent to us doing; or
- taking any action we are required or authorised by law to take.
If you do not provide us with your personal information, it may not be possible for us to carry out the above functions and activities.
We may disclose your personal information to:
- Link;
- our business partners and service providers (such as contractors who provide website, IT, marketing, administration and other services to support STL);
- any suppliers we may engage for data processing and other administrative and support functions;
- our professional advisers (for example, our insurers, accountants, auditors, lawyers and consultants);
- any entity to whom we are required or authorised by law to disclose your personal information (for example, the Australian Taxation Office, law enforcement agencies and government and regulatory authorities); and
- with your consent (express or implied) – other entities.
The above entities may in turn disclose your personal information to other entities as described in their respective privacy policies or notices.
- Cookies – Cookies are small amounts of information which we may store on your computer (after you register on our website) to enable our server to collect certain information from your web browser. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Cookies and other similar technology make it easier for you to use the website during future visits. It also allows us to monitor website traffic, to identify you when you visit our website, and to personalise the content of the website for you. Cookies themselves only record which areas of the site have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Allowing us to create a cookie does not give us access to the rest of your computer and we will not use cookies to track your online activity once you leave our site. Cookies are read only by the server that placed them, and are unable to execute any code or virus; and
- Site visit information – we may collect general information about your visit to the STL website. The information we may collect is not used to personally identify you, but instead may include your server address, the date and time of your visit, the pages you accessed and the type of internet browser you use. This information is aggregated and used for the purposes of system administration, and to prepare statistics on the use of our website.
We will take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We may store your personal information in different forms, including in hardcopy and electronic form. We have implemented policies, procedures and systems to keep your personal information secure.
We may be required by law to retain certain information for a set period of time. Once this period of time expires, or we no longer need to hold your personal information, we will take reasonable steps to destroy, delete or de-identify your personal information in a secure manner.
From time to time, STL may engage service providers located in one or more overseas countries to perform certain functions and activities. In the course of providing services to STL, we may need to disclose your personal information to these service providers.
If overseas service providers are engaged and personal information is sent overseas, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that our service providers are carefully chosen and have policies, procedures and systems in place to ensure your personal information is otherwise handled in accordance with the Privacy Act.
To effectively conduct business with you, it is important that the personal information we hold about you is complete, accurate and current. At any time while we hold your personal information, we may ask you to tell us of changes to your personal information.
If you have a complaint about how we handled your personal information, please contact us using the contact details below. Please note that we will ask you to lodge your complaint in writing.
We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint as soon as possible after receiving your complaint in writing. We will then investigate the circumstances of your complaint and provide you with a response within a reasonable timeframe.
If you are not satisfied with how your complaint is handled by us, then you may lodge a formal complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at:
Telephone 1300 363 992 (if calling from outside Australia including Norfolk Island please call: +61 2 9284 9749)
National Relay Service:
- TTY users phone 133 677 then ask for 1300 363 992
- Speak and Listen users phone 1300 555 727 then ask for 1300 363 992
- Internet relay users connect to the National Relay Service then ask for 1300 363 992
Post Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, GPO Box 5218, SYDNEY NSW 2001
Fax +61 2 9284 9666
Email enquiries@oaic.gov.au
If you wish to contact us regarding our handling of your personal information or any of the matters covered in this Privacy Policy, please contact the General Manager:
Post Sugar Terminals Limited, GPO Box 1675, BRISBANE QLD 4001
Email info@sugarterminals.com.au
Telephone (07) 3221 7017