Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: The New Point Magazine.

This website is maintained by Multicultural NSW. This Privacy Policy applies to all the publicly accessible pages on the New Point Magazine site. The New Point Magazine does deal with information in a different way to Multicultural NSW’s other websites and activities so please take the time to read this policy carefully.

Multicultural NSW does not have any responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of third-party sites linked to the New Point Magazine website (see our Linking policy for more).

If you have any questions about the New Point Magazine website, the application of this policy or if you want to seek access to your information or make a complaint about the handling of your informationplease contact us:

[email protected]

Multicultural NSW
Level 8, 56 Station Street East
Parramatta NSW 2150
Ph: (02) 8255 6767

What Information Do We Collect?


When you look at the information on this site, our computers automatically record the following information, for each page accessed:

● the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the machine which has accessed it;
● your top-level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc);
● the address of your server;
● the date and time of your visit to the site;
● the pages accessed and documents downloaded;
● the previous site visited; and
● the type of browser and operating system you have used.

When you interact with this site, we may collect the following personal information:

  • any personal information you submit in the “Submit your Story” form (which may include the name or image of a person in any story content you submit to us); and
  • any personal information you submit in the “Contact Us” form (which may include your name, phone number or email address.

What we do with your information

We use the information we collect from you to enable us to perform our activities and functions and to provide the best possible user experience. We collect, use and store your information for the following purposes:

  • to enable you to access and use our website and social media platforms;
  • to contact and communicate with you (including to send you material if you subscribe to an account with our website or to process your feedback);
  • for promotion and marketing (for example: media releases, internal government news circulars and social media);
  • for government record keeping and administrative purposes; and
  • to comply with our legal obligations.

We may disclose your information to:

  • where required or authorised by law, for example for law enforcement purposes of in compliance with a subpoena or court order.
  • our employees, contractors or external service providers for the operation of our websites and fulfilment of our functions; and

Submitted content

The New Point Magazine welcomes submitted content from the public (see this link for more).

If you wish to submit a story to us, we require your consent and will ask you to sign a a consent form, in which you agree to:

  • the use of your submitted content and personal information by Multicultural NSW for marketing or promotional activities;
  • the use of your submitted content and personal information by Multicultural NSW on NSW Government intranet and internet sites, presentations, print materials, video and social media pages operated by NSW Government;
  • the potential storage of your personal information outside New South Wales by our third party providers (see the heading Third Party Providers and Content below for more);
  • Multicultural NSW retaining your submitted content and personal information for display and re-use at any time and frequency, without obtaining further consent;
  • [Multicultural NSW obtaining sole and exclusive rights to use the submitted content and your personal information for the purpose of developing promotional and marketing material];
  • the fact that you will not receive any compensation or payment for our use of your submitted content or personal information; and
  • confirm your understanding that it is your responsibility to notify us if you want your submitted content or personal information removed from any of our uses and that while we will do our best to assist you with your request, in some instances this will not be possible.

Please be aware that your submitted content may be published to the public. While we will make efforts to anonymise things like names and certain locations (e.g., a residential address), third parties may be able to identify you from your submitted content. For example, visitors to the website can download and extract the location from images on the website if the images are uploaded with embedded location data included.

Third Party Providers and Content

Cookies

This website uses Google Analytics, which involves the use of ‘cookies’ to analyse and evaluate the project. The information generated by the cookie about website use (including your IP address) will be stored by Google on servers in the United States. The information is used to evaluate how users use the website, generating reports on website activity for Multicultural NSW. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Please see Google’s Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) and Terms and Conditions (https://policies.google.com/terms) for more information.

Contacting us

When you provide us with your email address, we may provide it to Gravatar for the purposes of spam detection (to ensure you are using it).

If so, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) will be disclosed to Gravatar.

Please see Gravatar’s Privacy Policy (https://automattic.com/privacy/) for more information.

Embedded content

Content on this website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc).

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Please see our Linking Policy for more information.

How to access your personal information or request correction of deletion of it

You can request to receive the personal information we hold about you, including any personal information you have provided to us. [We will use our best efforts to give you that information in the form you require it and at no cost but this may not be possible in each case]. We will be able to respond to your request most effectively if we can provide you with a digital exported file of your personal information.

You can also request that we erase or correct any personal information we hold about you. We cannot erase any personal information we are obliged to keep under applicable laws or government policies.

If you would like to make a request relating to your personal information, please contact us using the below:

[email protected]

Multicultural NSW
Level 8, 56 Station Street East
Parramatta NSW 2150
Ph: (02) 8255 6767