Privacy & Terms

In order to provide its services to you, Fertility First (owner of donatedontwaste.com.au) needs to collect and use personal information about you. This policy explains what information we may need to collect and how it will be used, including possible disclosure to third parties, and rights you have in relation to that information.

We appreciate the sensitivity of personal health information, particularly in an area that is as important to you as fertility treatment, and undertake to keep your information confidential and use it only in accordance with this policy.

1. Collection of Personal Information for Advice and Treatment

Fertility First (owner of donatedontwaste.com.au) and its medical practitioners and staff will collect the information that is necessary for us to provide advice and treatment to you or there is a statutory requirement for collection.

This information may include:

• your contact details and occupation;
• your medical history;
• your family medical history;
• your symptoms, diagnosis and recommended treatment;
• ethnicity;
• contact details;
• Medicare/private health fund details; and
• billing/account details.

The information will normally be collected directly from you. There may be occasions when we will need to obtain information from other sources, including other medical practitioners, health funds or health providers and, with your consent, from family members.

2. Use & Disclosure

Fertility First (owner of donatedontwaste.com.au) and its medical practitioners and staff will use and disclose your personal information for a range of purposes related to your treatment.

These purposes may include:

• Disclosure of your information within the treating team for the purposes of your treatment;
• Communication with referring medical practitioners;
• Referral to another medical practitioner, hospital or health provider;
• Sending of specimens for analysis;
• Account keeping and billing, including Medicare and private health insurance claims;
• The management of our practice, including quality assurance, practice accreditation and database maintenance;
• Complaints handling and notification to our insurers;
• Disclosure to third parties where legally required to do so, such as producing documents in answer to a court subpoena or mandatory reporting of certain notifiable diseases.

Compliance with our regulatory requirements to:

• Make a small sample of case-notes available for confidential review by our auditors at annual audits to demonstrate that our practice complies with the national Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee Code of Practice.
• Submit a summary (with identifying information removed) of every treatment cycle we perform, to the Australia and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database

In addition, we may use non-identifying information taken from your medical file for data analysis and research.

3. Fertility First (owner of donatedontwaste.com.au) Fertility Forum

If you choose to comment on articles or join the Fertility First (owner of donatedontwaste.com.au) on-line Fertility Forum, we may need to obtain personal information about you as part of the website user registration process.

We may also use a feature of your browser called a cookie to assign your computer a “User ID”. However, the cookie does not contain information by which you can be personally identified.

Any information that you post on the Fertility Forum will be able to be accessed by other Forum members, subject to the Forum’s terms and conditions of use. By posting the information, you give consent for your personal information to be used in this way.

4. Access

Except in a very limited range of circumstances recognised under relevant privacy legislation, you are entitled to access the personal information we hold about you at any time convenient to both yourself and Fertility First. Your request should be forwarded via email to info@donatedontwaste.com.au.

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