National Privacy Principles – Privacy Policy

The new privacy laws came into effect 21 December 2001. The new law which is a part of the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth) includes ten National Privacy Principles that set standards for the way organisations, including health providers, handle personal information and have been adopted by the Board.

Privacy and Other Information about using this Site

Nutrition Australia acknowledges that this website has an obligation to provide accurate information to our users. Nutrition Australia also acknowledges the privacy and confidentiality of individuals. Nutrition Australia advises that:

• Our website should be used as an online knowledge and learning tool only and not a substitute for professional care. Please consult your health care provider if you require ongoing treatment or suspect you have a health problem. Nutrition Australia are not liable for loss (injury or damage) occurring from use of the information provided.
• Nutrition Australia endeavors to guide uses to links to other websites from our pages that are accurate, unbiased and credible. It is important to remember the nature of the internet as a source of information. The internet is an unregulated medium. Changes to the links that Nutrition Australia initially set, is out of Nutrition Australia's control. Users may be exposed to misinformation, commercial bias and exploitation. Information, opinions, data, statements or commercial products and services contained in web pages accessed from the Nutrition Australia website link pages are the responsibility and policy of the author(s) of those web pages and do not imply approval or support by Nutrition Australia.
• Names and e-mail addresses of all site visitors will not be used by Nutrition Australia or provided or released to a third party without the site visitor's consent.
• When a user visits our site, our Internet Service Provider logs this visit for statistical purposes. From this, Nutrition Australia can continue to update web pages and monitor errors.
• A cookie is a small file stored on the site user's computer or web server to record some operations. Cookies are used on some sections of the Nutrition Australia site to aid web page navigation and either make repeated functions easier or prevent undesirable duplication. A server cannot find out a name or email address, or anything about a user's computer by using cookies. Users who do not desire the functionality created by cookies can set up their browser to disable cookies or obtain an alert when a cookie is involved. This may prevent access to some features.