DAIRY CONSULTANCIES PTY LTD
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Introduction
This privacy Statement has been prepared to comply
with the National
Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988, as amended
by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000,
which came into effect on 21 December 2001 ("the
Privacy Act") it provides information on how
Bovine Inseminations collects, collates, uses, secures
and discloses personal or other information obtained
from individual Australian dairy farmers.
ABOUT
US
Dairy
Consultancies Pty Ltd is a family owned business and
operated Company. The company was established in 1994
and offers a range of on farmHerd Improvement services.
Since 1994 Dairy consultancies has offered a herd
recording service where milk samples from dairy cows
are collected and the analysed data is stored in a
database owned and managed by Dairy Consultancies
P/L. The aim is to assist dairy farmers to improve
their herds and consequent profitability, via performance
selection and improved genetic selection. The data
collected by Dairy Consultancies P/L is also provided
to dairy industry bodies such as Australian Dairy
Herd Improvement Scheme (ADHIS), for purposes that
Dairy Consultancies believes will benefit the dairy
industry.
Dairy
Consultancies also stores financial and stock inventory
details of individual dairy farmers, this information
is not disclosed under any circumstances other than
as may be required by law.
SPECIFIC
DATA collected & stored in Databases:
- name
and address of the individual herd owner
- financial
account information
- stock
inventory information
- details
of dairy milking shed; and
- herd
details including:
- cow identification details
- pedigree information
- calving details
- milk volume
- protein yields
- fat yields
- somatic cell counts
- behavioral data
- mating details
- cow health event details
- cow confirmation details Dairy
Consultancies provides this data back to individual
dairy farmers in
in the form of hard copy reports or electronically
in the form of data interchange format
files.
Dairy
Consultancies P/L also provides herd details data
to ADHIS electronically, according to a pre-arranged
schedule, Refer to ADHIs Privacy Statement for further
details.
USE
OF DATA:
The
data is solely for the following purposes:
(1)
as mentioned above, individual farmers use this data
(being their own data to make performance based selections
to improve the quality of their herds and consequent
profitability
(2)
data (excluding financial and inventory data is provided
to ADHIS for purposes relating to the calculation
of ABV's research and statistics, as detailed in the
ADHIS Privacy Statement.
(3)
Any customer who does not wish to have their data
disclosed, as described in items (2) and (3) should
contact Dairy Consultancies P/L and nominate any organisation(s)
to which data should not be disclosed. Dairy Consultancies
P/L will record such organisations as "non-disclosure"
and consequently arrange for "non-disclosure"
of data.
CONTACT:
For
any queries in respect to this Privacy Statement please
contact:
Mr
Jim Norcott
Managing
Director
Dairy Consultancies P/L
Freecall:1800
241 669
Freefax: 1800 623 631
email us: jim@pcfarm.net
OR office@dairyconsult.com
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