The Australian Medical Association Ltd ("the AMA") has developed a policy to protect your privacy in compliance with privacy legislation. Our policy is to inform you:

1. What personal information is being collected;

2. Who is collecting your personal information;

3. How your personal information is being used; and

4. To whom your personal information is being disclosed.

Information collected - Deidentified

When you access our website, the AMA's Internet Service Provider connect.com makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes:

Your server address

Your domain or top level domain name (for example practice.com, .gov, .au etc)

The date and time of your visit to the site

The pages you accessed and documents downloaded

The previous site you visited

The type of browser you are using

Our Internet Service Provider provides this information to us as daily log files.

This non-identified information is used to monitor usage patterns on this site in order to improve navigation and design features ? helping you to get information more easily.

Information collected - Identified

Access to member only services has been made possible by using information managed by Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty Ltd ("AMPCo") about AMA membership. Accordingly, we collect names and AMA membership numbers for the purposes of granting access to member only services.

The AMA collects information from members in the form of answers and scores for modules that have been attempted and/or completed as part of the SALT program. The AMA also collects information that members have satisfactorily completed the SALT program.

The AMA will only collect your e-mail address if you send a message to us via our website e-mail addresses. Your e-mail address may then be used for the purposes for which you have provided it, and may also be used to update AMPCo information.

Access to Information Collected

The AMA may attempt to identify users or their browsing activities. However, in the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency or other government agency, including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, may exercise its legal authority to inspect our Internet Service Provider's logs, and thus gain information about users and their activities.

All the identified information that the AMA has used to grant member access can be viewed and changed by members when they view your personal details within the SALT program.

Use and Disclosure of your Information

When members have satisfactorily completed the SALT program, the AMA forwards this information to the Royal Australian College of General Practice ("RACGP"), for their review and accreditation for CME purposes.

Any information that members change on this site (with the exception of their password) may be used to update their AMPCo information.

Cookies

This web site only uses session cookies and only during a search query of the web site. Our Internet Service Provider has assured us that no cookies are employed on this web site except for those associated with the search engine. The web site statistics for this site are generated from the web logs as outlined above.

Upon closing your browser the session cookie set by this web site is destroyed and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our web site at a later date.

Cookies can either be persistent or session based. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer, contain an expiry date, and may be used to track your browsing behaviour upon return to the issuing web site. Session cookies are short lived, are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser.

To view AMA Limited's Privacy Policy pleace click here