Privacy policy (including cookie policy).
Hello. Thanks for visiting Meaningful Dialogue online. Meaningful Dialogue (‘Meaningful Dialogue’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) respects your privacy and we want to be clear about what personal information we collect and how we use it. This policy explains what information is collected to improve how this website works and our services to you.
1. How does this Privacy Policy apply?
We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Australian Privacy Act 1988. These govern the way in which we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information. A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au.
This Privacy Policy also covers how we use cookies and other digital data associated with your use of this website, which is hosted by Squarespace.
By visiting our website you confirm you have agreed to our Terms of Use and read and understood this Privacy Policy which includes our Cookie Policy.
2. The information that we collect and why
We collect various information regarding you or the device you use to access our website, primarily to improve our services to you. This includes the following:
2.1 Personal information that we collect
Personal Information is defined as information or an opinion that identifies an individual, such as their name.
When you complete and send the contact form on this website, or subscribe to receive updates from us, we collect personal information from you, like your name and email address.
The primary purpose of collecting this data is to provide our services to you. We collect the data requested in the contact form in order to track and respond to your request for service.
We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you directly and marketing future services.
We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. For example, we may use your email address to send you updates about new services we provide, or our latest newsletter or blog post.
2.2 Sensitive information
Sensitive information is defined in the Australian Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, criminal record or health information. We do not collect sensitive information. If sensitive information is provided to us, we will only use it with your consent; or where required or authorised by law.
2.3 Digital Data
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal digital data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.
2.4 Cookies
Like most websites, this website uses cookies and similar technologies, to help it function better.
Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. Cookies help the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
As this is currently a simple website, with no e-commerce capabilities, the functional and required cookies that Squarespace uses to securely provide this website and ensure it runs well are limited.
For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
2.5 Website analytics cookies
This website also uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. These cookies collect personal data to power our website analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity, in order to improve how this website works and our service to you.
How to check your Cookies
Cookies can be reviewed by checking the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). If you decide to clear or disable cookies, you may not be able to access some areas of our website.
By continuing to use our website without changing your settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described above.
3. How we collect this information
We collect your personal and digital device information either when you provide it to us directly (e.g. via the Contact form), or automatically through website technologies such as cookies.
4. How we use your personal and digital information
We use the personal information we obtain about or from you for the following purposes:
Communicating with you. For example, once you have provided your name and email address, we will contact you to discuss how Meaningful Dialogue can assist with your communication challenges.
Marketing and promotion. For example, to promote our services and send you marketing communications about our services, or opinions.
Customising our website. For example, we use your location information to determine your language preferences or display accurate date and time information. We also use cookies and similar technologies for this purpose.
Improving our website. For example, analytics and performance cookies are used to better understand which parts of the website are connecting with our customers. We usually do this based on anonymous or aggregated information which does not focus on you individually.
5. How we share your information
We do not intentionally share your personal information (such as your name and email address) with third parties unless you consent that we do so, or if required or authorised by law.
We only share your digital information (such as information about your browser, network, and device) with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us; and with Google, who host our email services.
6. How to access your personal information
You may access the personal information we hold about you to update, delete and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your personal information, please contact us in writing. Please note that in order to protect your personal information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing via ben@meaningfuldialogue.consulting
7. How to contact us
If you have questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights and choices regarding your personal information, please email us at ben@meaningfuldialogue.consulting
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