Get Active Victoria

ide. This means that when you post a comment onto our page or even ‘like’ it, anyone may view the personal information contained in your post and any personal information displayed on your profile, such as your name, surname, Facebook email and interests.

[Acceptable Use Policy]
Here at Get Active Victoria, we want our page to be a safe place for people to share comments, thoughts and ideas, view information, provide feedback and feel part of the community. To make sure this space is safe for everyone, we need to make sure that what is published is not potentially harmful for any member. By posting on our page you agree to be solely responsible for any content you submit. We ask you to adhere to the posting guidelines of Facebook, and to understand that we reserve the right to remove posts and report to Facebook any content that:

• Uses language or express ideas that are harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, discriminatory or obscene
• Makes a personal attack on a named individual or organisation
• Is illegal
• Is deemed to be advertising or “spam” chain letters," "pyramid schemes," surveys, contests or any other form of solicitation
• Makes any false claim to represent a person or organisation
• Transmits content that contains software viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
• Contains the personal information of other individuals, including photos of other individuals.
• Interferes with another user's use and enjoyment of the page
• Uses, disseminates, copies, collects or stores personal data about other users of the page
• Makes any unauthorised commercial use of the page


[Disclaimer]
Any views expressed on the Get Active Victoria page by anyone other than us are not the views of the Victorian Government or the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (Department). The Department disclaims all liability for any such views, comments, advertising or other non-Departmental content posted onto this page. The Department reserves the right to remove comments at its sole discretion based on the Acceptable Use Policy. The Department strives to review the content posted onto this page on a regular basis. However, there may be times when offensive comments appear on the page before they can be removed. The Department does not endorse or control any advertising that may be displayed by Facebook on this page.

[Copyright]
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please let us know and we will attempt to remove the information from our page and report the infringement to Facebook. When using Get Active Victoria page you may provide us with information about yourself or other matters. Before you post any material onto our page, you must ensure that you either hold any copyright contained in this information or have obtained the permission of the copyright owner to post the information onto our page. With the information you provide, you grant us (or, if you do not hold the copyright, confirm that you have obtained permission from the copyright owner to grant us) rights to use this information on our page in order to promote the competition and also to evaluate how effective the page has been in engaging with the community. As used in this Copyright statement, information includes but is not limited to data, text, photographs, drawings, sound recordings, feedback, and any other information or data displayed or presented by you on the page.

[Privacy Statement]
By signing up to Facebook and submitting comments onto the page, your personal information will be physically stored on Facebook’s data servers which are located in the USA and may therefore be accessed by U.S authorities under the US Patriot Act 2001. By posting content onto this page you agree to transfer the jurisdiction for privacy laws to the USA. The way Facebook handle your personal information will be subject to their Privacy Statement. The statement may be altered from time to time, which may affect the way your personal information is handled and used by Facebook. Accordingly, before you post any comments onto or ‘like’ our page, we’d recommend that you read Facebook’s Privacy Statement and review the privacy settings on your profile. The comments you make on this page may be used to promote Get Active Victoria. Your comments will be de-identified unless we receive your consent to use your personal information. The comments may also be de-identified, aggregated and used to help us evaluate how effective the campaign has been in engaging with the community. If you do want to post a comment on our page, we’d strongly recommend that you do not include any personal information about yourself in it, to protect your privacy. Your postings will be extracted from this page and stored on the Department’s data server to comply with our record keeping requirements under the Public Records Act 1973. The way we handle your personal information will be subject to this Privacy Statement and the Department’s Privacy Policy. Details of how to access our Privacy Policy are available in the ‘Further Information’ section below.

[Access and correction]
The department relies upon you to ensure that any personal or health information that you provide to, or make available and the department’s Get Active Victoria web presences on Facebook and Instagram is accurate, current, complete and relevant. The department also relies upon you to advise it of any changes to such personal or health information. You can request access to your personal information directly without the need to make a formal application under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. However, there are situations where it will not be appropriate to provide such access and you will be required to make a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982, for example where providing access would compromise the privacy of another person. If you would like access to your personal information, please contact the department at [email protected]

[Operating Hours]
The Get Active Victoria page will be staffed during usual business hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday. Comments and enquiries outside these hours will be attended to on the follow business day.

[Acceptance of Terms]
By posting comments onto our page you confirm that you have read the information contained on this page and consent to your information being used as described above.

[Websites]
http://www.getactive.vic.gov.au
http://https://sport.vic.gov.au/