Commonwealth flag alerts - privacy notice

The Department collects personal contact information so they can send Commonwealth Flag Network notices and more.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (the Department) is collecting your personal information, namely your email address and name (where provided), to send you Commonwealth Flag Network notices for special occasions as well as other messages related to flag protocol.

For the same purpose, we may provide this information to an outsourced third party service provider. In particular we will provide your personal information to our third party email provider, Campaign Monitor, so that we can communicate with you for the purposes of the Commonwealth Flag Network. Personal information held by Campaign Monitor is handled in accordance with Campaign Monitor’s Privacy Policy which is available at https://www.campaignmonitor.com/policies/#privacy-policy.

Providing the requested information is voluntary. If you choose not to provide us with your email address we will not be able to provide you with Commonwealth Flag Network notices.

The Department will not provide the information collected from you to anyone other than to Campaign Monitor, unless you have given consent for us to do this, or the law requires us to.

The Department’s Privacy Policy explains how the Department handles and protects the information provided by you. Our Privacy Policy also explains how you can request access to or correct the personal information we hold about you, and who to contact if you have a privacy enquiry or complaint. If you require a copy of our Privacy Policy contact the Privacy Officer at privacy@pmc.gov.au.