Privacy Policy update
With CAP-1 passing earlier in the year there has been a need to update our privacy policy (the operational one, not the political one).
The proposed updates reflect CAP-1 in that current Full Members’ details will be shared with Fusion for more purposes.
We’re also proposing some parallel updates for all members of the party for Pirate-specific activities. (It would be weird if your info could be used by Fusion for some purposes, but not by the Pirate Party, who collected it in the first place!)
The current version can be viewed here: Privacy Policy – Pirate Party Australia
We’re proposing to update the membership-info section to read as follows:
The Party Secretariat currently maintain the membership list as per the Party Constitution, and are the only people with full access to the personal information of Pirate Party Australia’s members that is collected during the membership application process.
If you are currently a Full Member of Pirate Party Australia, your contact details will be shared:
With the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) or state/territory electoral commissions, as required by the Electoral Act (or equivalent), for the purposes of registering a political party.
With our electoral coalition Fusion, as per section 14.2 of the Party Constitution, for the purpose of Fusion’s electoral registration.
With coordinators from Fusion for the purposes of conducting coalition-level membership ballots, campaigning operations and notifying members of coalition meetings, activities, and similar business. Such coordinators are vetted by Fusion’s executive council and appointed at their discretion. Fusion’s privacy policy can be found here.
Your contact details (regardless of membership type or status) may be shared:
With Pirate Party Australia coordinators in your area for the sole purpose of organising events, campaigns or other related party business such as sharing news with you relevant to our platform. Such coordinators are vetted by the National Council and appointed at their discretion.
Other trusted members for the purposes of verifying or renewing membership when other reasonable attempts to contact members have been unsuccessful.
Otherwise, Pirate Party Australia will not sell or otherwise share any information collected for the purposes of membership registration with any person, business or organisation.
The National Council values your feedback on this, so please discuss it on here or on our Discord/IRC.
Forum deprecation
This forum was once a thriving place of discussion but has now lapsed into near-disuse in the last two years, with most activity on our Discord/IRC instead.
The forum is on its own VPS and costs us a non-trivial amount of money to run, so the National Council is proposing to archive it into a static website for the public threads, while of course retaining a database copy.
However, if activity resumes then it’ll be worth keeping it.
So let us know what you think!
