How we protect your privacy

We take personal privacy seriously.

The BNLA study is bound by Commonwealth and state privacy laws, and we will fully protect your anonymity and the confidentiality of your information, within the limits of the law.

We follow strict procedures when managing and running the study to ensure only authorised people have access to the information provided to us. All interviewers, researchers and others involved in the study comply with the Privacy Act 1988.

All providers involved in collecting the survey information adhere to the:

• Australian Market and Social Research Society (AMSRS) Code of Professional Behaviour
• ISO 20252 standards.

If the organisation responsible for collecting data for BNLA changes in the future, we will inform you.

Your personal information (such as your name, date of birth, Centrelink Customer Reference Number, Medicare number and address) will never be used together with your survey responses.

We don’t analyse your survey answers on their own either, we combine them with other participants and analyse the responses as a group. No one can identify you from your survey answers.

Learn more about privacy.

Duty of care

Providing us with your information is voluntary. We will no longer collect data from you if you decide to stop participating in the BNLA study. If you had previously provided your consent for data linkage you would need to explicitly notify the study to withdraw your consent to any further data linkage. Data previously released to researchers would continue to be used and form part of the study.