Policies
RESPONSIBLE SERVICE OF ALCOHOL POLICY
Sustainability Drinks (Melbourne & Adelaide) though a “drinks” event, drinking is by no means the core focus.
Careful selection of host restaurants/venues means we choose to hold events at sustainable and responsible locations that have their own RSA policies and where alcohol is not considered the main attraction. We aim for attendees to feel comfortable networking about sustainability with or without a glass in their hand.
Melbourne and Adelaide Sustainability Drinks supports venues close to public transport for safe transport and low carbon options.
Standard responsible service of alcohol procedures are carried out by the host venue/restaurant:
- Preventing under age drinking by insisting on valid identification.
- Preventing intoxication, by recognising the signs of intoxication and avoiding serving anyone to the point of intoxication.
- Denying entry to persons already intoxicated.
- Managing intoxicated, anti-social or disruptive patrons.
Our principle focus is to ensure that attendees to Melbourne and Adelaide Drinks enjoy a comfortable, friendly, trouble free environment with brilliant sustainability conversations.
PRIVACY POLICY
Melbourne Sustainability Drinks (MSD) is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the personal information that you may submit while exploring our website. Our privacy policy outlined below follows international best practice and is aimed at simplifying the message and ensuring ease of use.
Our key privacy commitments to you are:
- Ensure privacy and security of your personal information
- Not sell/ rent/ share your personal information without your prior and explicit consent
- Provide you with an access to correct, update or delete any personal information you may submit to us
The site may contain links to third parties, which are not governed by this privacy policy, and MSD does not take responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party sites to which we link. By using this website and submitting information, you agree to MSD’s use of such information as described herein. If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy statement, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Collection of Personal Information
Melbourne Sustainability Drinks (MSD) may collect personal information which is specifically and voluntarily provided by the users while exploring the website. The type of information collected may include your name, contact details, web pages visited, documents accessed and internet address.
We do not collect any sensitive personal information such as criminal records, religious beliefs and financial details without your explicit consent to the collection and use of such information.
Use of Personal Information
This information is used to create a personal profile to customise our responses to your specific requests. This helps us better understand and meet your needs for information and services. Occasionally we may also use this information to conduct administrative tasks pertaining to the website.
MSD may occasionally add email addresses of individuals who we get in touch with through business meetings and who we feel might be interested in receiving our relevant content. If you don't wish to receive MSD communication, unsubscribe at any time automatically from the website, email or by contacting MSD. We also add the details obtained from business cards of people who have come to previous MSD events and placed their business card into the entry for the lucky door prize. If you do not wish your business card details to be used to add to the invite list for future functions and receive an email invite, please accept our apologies and send us an email to unsubscribe.
MSD Web Site
Like most web sites, when someone accesses MSD's web site, log files are generated by the web server that show the IP address of the visitor, date, time, and pages visited. MSD reviews information in our web site logs from time to time and the logs are periodically deleted. Information in web logs is used in the aggregate to generate statistics such as determining parts of our site which are the most popular.
In addition to our basic statistics, the MSD also utilises Google analytics to create website statistics to assist us to improve the MSD website. Please see Google's Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy for more information.
Our site uses "cookies". A "cookie" is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while visiting our site. For instance, by setting a cookie our site, the user would not have to log in with a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience on our site. Most commonly used browsers allow users to reject cookies, whilst still being able to explore our website. The only drawback to this is that the user will then have limited access to some areas of our website.
Disclosure of Information to Third Party
MSD does not usually disclose your personal information to third parties without the express permission of the individual concerned. However we may need to occasionally disclose this information to our service providers with your implied consent. MSD defines "implied consent" narrowly. One example is:
MSD's web pages and electronic mailing lists, like those of many other organisations and companies, are hosted by external organisations and/or individuals. Information that you provide to MSD via the Internet passes through one or more of these service providers' systems in order to be received by MSD, and/or, we may disclose information to such a service provider when necessary to provide you with a requested service such as to subscribe you to one of our mailing lists. In this regard MSD arranges hosting services only with organisations or individuals who have privacy policies/practices that are in accord with MSD's privacy policy.
Our mailing lists are managed by Campaign Monitor. Please see Campaign Monitor's Privacy Policy and Campaign Monitor's Anti-Spam Policy for more information.
Information may also be disclosed as required by law or through your prior consent to MSD alliance partners.
Security of Personal Information
MSD does not and will not sell, rent or share our database or membership mailing list. The Officers may disclose information to third parties in accordance with your consent in order to process your information requests.
MSD keeps information and mailing list subscriber details and web server logs on controlled facilities that are secured against unauthorised access. Proof of identity is required before information is released to any person.
E-mail should not generally be regarded as secure. If you wish to send confidential information to us by email, we encourage you to use encrypted email (which can be arranged through our Officers).
Updating Personal Information
We provide you with an access to correct, update or delete any personal information you may submit to us. This can usually be done by contacting MSD.
Changes to Privacy Policy
This policy may be updated from time to time, but any changes will not reduce the privacy protection set out above and will not affect information previously collected, unless required by law or otherwise beyond MSD's control, e.g. technological changes. Any such changes to this policy that adversely affect privacy protection of MSD members or MSD's other contacts will be advised by email.
