National Lung Cancer Screening Program Guidelines Public Consultation

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Privacy and your personal information

The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (the Department) invites you to share your views on the Draft Program Guidelines for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (Draft Program Guidelines).

Your personal information is protected by law, including the National Cancer Screening Register Act 2016, the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles, and is being collected by the Department, via Citizen Space, for the purposes of conducting a consultation process in relation to the Draft Program Guidelines. The Department will collect your personal information at the time that you provide a submission.

If you consent, the Department will disclose your personal information to Cancer Australia and the University of Melbourne, which are working with the Department to develop the Program Guidelines. The information contained in your submission will be used to inform further development of the Draft Program Guidelines.

If you do not or are unable to provide the ‘required’ fields within your submission, you will not be able to complete the submission.

If you prefer, you can make a submission directly to Cancer Australia via post at Locked Bag 3, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012 or email at the following address: lungcancerscreening@canceraustralia.gov.au.

If you consent, the Department may, at its discretion, publish part or all of your submission on the Department’s website. If your submission is published, the Department may identify you and/or your organisation as the author of the submission, if you consent to being identified.  Please note that your email address will not be published, and responses may be moderated to remove content that is inappropriate/offensive or contains sensitive information.

The Department is seeking your consent to publish your personal information contained in your submissions on the Department’s website, such that your personal information could be accessed by any person, including a person located overseas.  The purpose of publishing the personal information is [to ensure an open and transparent process of the consultation on the guidelines.  Ordinarily, where the Department discloses personal information to an overseas recipient, Australian Privacy Principle (APP) 8.1 requires the Department to take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients do not breach the APPs. However, if you provide consent to the publication of the whole or part of your submission, APP 8.1 will not apply to this disclosure and the Department will not be accountable under the Privacy Act for any breach of the APPs by the overseas recipient, and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.

You should not include information in your submission about another individual who is identified, or reasonably identifiable. If you need to include information about another individual in your submission, you will need to inform that individual of the contents of this notice and obtain their consent to the Department collecting their personal information.

You can get more information about the way in which the Department will manage your personal information, including our privacy policy, at https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/privacy-policy. You can obtain a copy of the Department’s privacy policy by contacting the Department using the contact details set out below.  The Department’s privacy policy contains information about:

• how you may access the personal information the Department holds about you and how you can seek correction of it; and
• how you may complain about a breach of
  • the APPs; or
  • a registered APP code that binds the Department; and how the Department will deal with such a complaint.

You can contact the Department by telephone on (02) 6289 1555 or free call 1800 020 103 or by using the online enquiries form at www.health.gov.au .

• understand that Australian Privacy Principle (APP) 8.1 requires the Department to take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipients to whom personal information is disclosed in the course of publishing my submission on the Department’s website do not breach the APPs in relation to my personal information
• acknowledge that I have been expressly informed that if I consent to the publication of my personal information that is contained in my submission, that APP 8.1 will not apply to the publication and after being advised of this, I am providing my consent to the publication
• understand that the Department will not be accountable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) for any breach of the Australian Privacy Principles by an overseas recipient and I will not be able to seek redress under that Act

• the Department’s collection, use and disclosure of their personal information for the purposes outlined in the privacy notice;
• the Department’s publication of their personal information on the Department’s website and acknowledge that after bringing the following matters to their attention, that the relevant individuals have provided their consent:
  • the relevant individual understands that APP 8.1 requires the Department to take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipients to whom personal information is disclosed in the course of publishing my submission on the Department’s website do not breach the APPs in relation to their personal information
  • acknowledge that they have been expressly informed that if they consent to the publication of their personal information that is contained in my submission, that APP 8.1 will not apply to the publication and they have provided consent to this
  • they understand that the Department will not be accountable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) for any breach of the Australian Privacy Principles by an overseas recipient and they will not be able to seek redress under that Act
• have otherwise drawn their attention to the contents of this privacy notice.

• I understand that the giving of my consent is entirely voluntary;
• I am over the age of 18 years;
• I understand the purpose of the collection, use, publication or disclosure of my submission;
• I understand that copyright in the content of my submission will vest in the Commonwealth of Australia;
• I understand that, where I have provided consent to my submission being published, the Department has complete discretion as to whether my submission, in full or part, will be published.