Privacy Policy

Inspire Tomorrow Education Incorporated (ITE) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information from the students and families we support. 

This privacy policy (Privacy Policy) outlines our practices and how ITE collects, uses, discloses, handles and stores personal information. 

What is personal information?

In this policy, "personal information" means any information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable, whether true or not; and whether it is recorded in a material form or not.

What types of personal information do we collect? 

ITE may collect various types of personal information, including but not limited to: 

  • Identity information (e.g.  full name, date of birth, gender, Aboriginality or Torres Strait Islander heritage information);

  • Educational information (e.g. educational background, and academic needs);

  • For volunteer educators – employment history, educational qualifications, reference checks;

  • Demographic details (e.g. address, school address, name of school, housing status); 

  • Parent/guardian contact information (e.g. email, phone number, address);

  • Progress and performance data related to tutoring sessions; and/or

  • Any other personal information that may be required to facilitate your dealings with us (e.g. whether you are experiencing financial hardship, your family situation, whether you are on track to being the first in family to finish schooling).

In the case of donors, ITE may collect your name, billing address, email address, phone number(s), payment information and donation amount. These donations are made through PayPal and ITE follows PayPal's Privacy Policy in respect of these donations. 

Why do we collect personal information? 

The collected information is used for the following purposes: 

  • Providing educational services and personalising and improving our services to meet individual educational needs;

  • Facilitating communication with parents and guardians regarding our services;

  • Responding to enquiries and provide you with any information that you have requested;

  • Verifying a person’s subscription to protected categories of disadvantage to ensure equitable access to our services;

  • Promoting and advertising ITE (e.g. through social media, Google advertising and email, through applications for grants);

  • Providing news, updates and information about Inspire Tomorrow Education;

  • Conducting general business and management functions;

  • Investigating, managing and/or resolving queries and complaints; 

  • Receiving donations and/or grants; and

  • Disclosure to third parties (such as our agents, contractors and suppliers) to carry out the above purposes on our behalf.

You can 'opt-out' of receiving marketing and promotional materials from us, at any time, by contacting us via the contact details set out below.

How do we collect personal information? 

ITE collects personal information directly from individuals, when a person: 

  • Accesses or uses the Inspire Tomorrow Education website;

  • Applies to receive tutoring or scholarship application support, donations and/or grants;

  • Make inquiries to Inspire Tomorrow Education in communication through email, telephone, in person, through our website; or

  • Signs up to receive news about Inspire Tomorrow Education and information about initiatives or events organised or promoted by ITE.

In general, we will only collect personal information directly from you. If you provide us with personal information about a third party, you warrant that that third party consents to us collecting and using their personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Our website at Squarespace may use cookies. We do not use the information stored in this cookies to collect information about you. You may configure your web browser to refuse or disable cookies.

Where is personal information disclosed? 

We may disclose or use any personal information: 

  • For any of the purposes as stated above

  • For other purposes to which you have consented , and;

  • where we are permitted or required by law to do so. 

Personal information may be disclosed to:

  • Volunteer tutors, students and executive board members

  • Third party service providers 

  • Professional advisers

  • Potential partner organisations

  • Promoters or sponsors of our association and services 

  • Third-party not-for-profit organisations to whom our assets are transferred in the event of winding-up, and advisors of such third-party organisation 

  • Government agencies, regulatory bodies, law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law 

We maintain the storage of personal information on servers situated in Australia. There is a possibility that we may disclose your personal information to recipients located overseas, including but not limited to our IT suppliers.

How do we protect personal information? 

We take reasonable steps to securely store your personal information and protect it from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. We will generally keep personal information as long as we need it for our business purposes or as long as we are required by law to retain it, after which time we will destroy it. 

ITE implements reasonable precautions and data security measures to store your personal information and protect it from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access or disclosure. This includes, but is lot limited to, safe electronic and managerial practices. 

Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or security of your personal information on those linked websites. We cannot warrant the privacy or security of personal information during transmission to our website.If you become aware of a potential data security breach, please notify us at inspiretomorroweducation@gmail.com

Questions, queries or complaints 

If you have any questions or comments about our management of your personal information, please contact us by email at inspiretomorroweducation@gmail.com Once a complaint is made, an administrative volunteer or Executive board member will review the complaint and provide a resolution as soon as it is reasonably possible. 

Removing your data 

In the event that a member (volunteer, student, parent, or guardian) wishes to request the removal of their information upon disaffiliation with the association or seeks additional information regarding privacy controls concerning personal information, please direct such inquiries to inspiretomorroweducation@gmail.com

Changes to the Privacy Policy 

This Privacy Policy is current as at 18/05/2024. Inspire Tomorrow Education reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy, at our discretion and at any time, without notice to you. A person’s continued engagement with ITE, such as the use of websites, electronic or in-person correspondence and tutoring or scholarship services, will indicate acceptance of this Privacy Policy as revised. The date of this Privacy Policy will inform you as to whether there have been updates since your last visit.