Privacy Policy

1 INTRODUCTION

This document sets out the privacy policy of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA Inc) (referred to in this privacy policy as ‘TASA’,’we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’).

TASA takes its privacy obligations seriously and has created this privacy policy to explain how TASA store, maintain, use and disclose personal information.
TASA is committed to preventing serious invasions of privacy and ensuring the protection of your personal information, so you can contact us using the details below if you have any questions or concerns.

By providing personal information to us, you consent to our storage, maintenance, use and disclosing of personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

TASA may change this privacy policy from time to time by posting an updated copy on our website and we encourage you to check our website regularly to ensure that you are aware of our most current privacy policy.

2 TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TASA COLLECTS

The personal information TASA collects may include the following:
(a) Name and pronoun;
(b) mailing or street address and country of residence;
(c) email and web address;
(d) social media handles;
(e) telephone number and other contact details;
(f) profile image;
(g) employment and workplace affiliation;
(h) academic information;
(i) information about your business or personal circumstances;
(j) information in connection with client surveys, questionnaires, funding, events, and promotions;
(k) any other information provided by you to us via our website or our online presence, or otherwise required by us or provided by you.

3 PERSONAL INFORMATION OF MINORS

If TASA collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18, TASA will assess their capacity to consent on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) Guidelines. As a general principle, an individual under the age of 18 may have the capacity to consent if they demonstrate sufficient maturity to understand the nature and consequences of what is being proposed. Where it is determined that the individual does not have such capacity, TASA will seek verifiable consent from a parent or guardian.

If it is not practicable to assess capacity on a case-by-case basis, TASA will generally assume that individuals aged 15 and above have the capacity to provide consent, unless there are reasonable grounds to believe otherwise. Parents or guardians may contact us at  to review, manage, or request deletion of their child’s personal information.

4 HOW TASA COLLECTS PERSONAL INFORMATION

TASA may collect personal information either directly from you, or from third parties, including where you:

(a) contact us through our website;
(b) submit any of our online forms (including membership forms);
(c) attend a TASA event or conference;
(d) communicate with us via email, telephone, SMS, social applications (such as LinkedIn or Facebook) or otherwise;
(e) interact with our website, social applications, services, content and advertising.

5 USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

TASA collect and use personal information for the following purposes:

(a) to provide services or information to you including in relation to memberships;
(b) for record keeping and administrative purposes;
(c) to provide information about you to our contractors, employees, consultants, agents or other third parties for the purpose of providing services to you, this may include membership and payment processors (i.e Stripe);
(d) to provide information about you to our journal publisher (i.e Sage) to provide you with journals;
(e) to improve and optimise our service offering and customer experience;
(f) to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce our agreements with third parties;
(g) to send you marketing and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you and for the purpose of direct marketing (in accordance with the Spam Act). In this regard, TASA may use email, SMS, social media or mail to send you direct marketing communications. Other than renewal reminders, you can opt out of receiving marketing materials from us by using the opt-out facility provided (e.g. updating preferences on your membership profile or an unsubscribe link);
(h) to send you administrative messages, event reminders, notices, updates, security alerts, and other information requested by you; and
(i) to consider funding/award/bursary applications from you.

TASA may disclose your personal information to cloud-providers, contractors and other third parties located inside or outside of Australia. If TASA do so, TASA will take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient has similar legal safeguards and deals with such personal information in a manner consistent with how TASA deal with it.

6 SECURITY

TASA take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is secure and protected from misuse or unauthorised access. Our information technology systems are password protected, and TASA use a range of administrative and technical measures to protect these systems.

7 LINKS

Our website may contain links to other websites. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. TASA is not responsible for the privacy practices of those linked websites and TASA suggest you review the privacy policies of those websites before using them.

8 DOXXING

TASA strictly prohibits doxxing - the unauthorised collection, publication, or disclosure of personal information that could identify an individual or cause them harm. We take reasonable steps to secure personal information against misuse, interference, loss, or unauthorised access and disclosure. Any suspected or actual privacy breach, including doxxing, will be appropriately managed and where required, reported to affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

9 YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO:

- access the personal information we hold about you;
- request updates and corrections to the personal information;
- request removal from our databases;
- withdraw consent in circumstances where collection, use or disclosure was based on consent;
- make a complaint if you believe we have mishandled your personal information.

We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information we collect, use or disclose is correct, complete and up to date. From time to time we may contact / remind you to update your personal information or implement other processes by which you can update your personal information yourself. Any inaccurate personal information held will be corrected promptly when it is identified.

10 COMPLAINTS

If you wish to complain about how TASA handles your personal information or believe your privacy has been seriously invaded, please contact us using the details provided below with your name and contact details. TASA will investigate your complaint promptly and respond within a reasonable timeframe.

We will respond as quickly as possible and handle all complaints in a way that is fair and consistent. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can make a formal complaint to:

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Phone: 1300 363 992
Mail: Director of Compliance
GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001

11 CONTACT US

For further information about our privacy policy or practices, or to access or correct your personal information, or make a complaint, please contact us using the details set out below:

Name: Sally Daly
Email: admin@tasa.org.au 

Our privacy policy was last updated in September 2026.