FWA decision highlights futility and destructiveness of Joyce's industrial war Today's determination, handed down by Fair Work Australia, on the industrial dispute between Qantas pilots and management, shows how futile CEO Alan Joyce's strategy of all-out industrial war has been for the airline and the national interest, with FWA rejecting management's argument that the enterprise agreement was outdated and allowing negotiations for a new agreement to begin as early as next year. Read more in the Media Room.

AIPA leadership team re-elected after tumultuous term The leadership team that guided the Australian and International Pilots Association through its first industrial campaign since 1966 has been re-elected for another two-year term. AIPA President Captain Barry Jackson along with AIPA Vice Presidents Captain Richard Woodward, Captain Brad Hodson and Captain David Backhouse were this week returned for another term at the helm of the Association.

Qantas management must face stern questions over historic loss "Obviously Qantas faces a challenging set of circumstances that have contributed to this year's disappointing financial result. However there is no denying that this airline could be doing much, much better if it had enjoyed good management over recent years,” AIPA President Captain Barry Jackson said. See Media Room for more

In the National Interest Over the years, Qantas has been a vital lifeline for Australians facing war, terrorism and natural disaster. AIPA recently produced a booklet featuring some amazing stories which you can read HERE . Please support us in keeping Qantas as a truly national airline.

Privacy Notice

Published on Friday, 20 August 2010 17:27

The Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) is committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This Website Privacy Notice explains our policy for dealing with personal information that we collect through our website www.aipa.org.au.

Throughout this Policy, we refer to your 'personal information' which means information which identifies you as an individual or from which your identity can be reasonably ascertained. Your home address and home telephone number are examples of personal information.

We will post any changes to this Website Privacy Notice on the AIPA website, so we encourage you to check this Website Privacy Notice from time to time.

In addition to the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions that apply to certain sections of the website. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, we recommend that you review them wherever they appear. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Website Privacy Notice and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.

Information collected
The information about you which we may collect through the website includes:

information collected when you register or update an online profile, which may include personal information such as your name and contact details;
the content of electronic forms you submit via the website, requesting us to provide services or information, or take actions;
any messages or comments you submit to us via the website, e.g. through an email or 'Contact Us’ form; and
information collected when you participate in an online survey.

We may not be able to provide the full range of services through the website if we are not provided with the information outlined above.

In common with many commercial websites we may also collect information which tells us about visitors to the website. For example, we may collect information about the date, time and duration of visits and which pages of the website are most commonly accessed. This information is generally not linked to the identity of visitors, except where the website is accessed via links in an email we have sent which specifically refers to the possibility that click-throughs to links may be tracked.

Use of Cookies
The AIPA website uses "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise AIPA pages, or register with the AIPA site or services, a cookie helps AIPA to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same AIPA website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customised.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the AIPA services or websites you visit.

Use and disclosure of information
We may share personal information with other service providers including organisations that assist us by providing consulting, mailhouse, delivery, technology and security services.

In addition to providing our services to you, we may use or disclose personal information that we collect about you:

for the purposes for which it was collected
where you have consented to the use or disclosure
to maintain our relationship with you
for purposes related to AIPA’s research, planning, service development, security and risk management
where a third party acquires or wishes to acquire, or makes inquiries in relation to acquiring, an interest in AIPA, or
to the extent that we are required or authorised by law to do so.

We may also use your personal information to keep you informed of our services, events and other matters. If you do not wish to be contacted for those purposes, please let us know using the contact details set out below. We aim to provide you with information and invitations that we consider may be of interest or relevance to you.

Links
The website may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of other organisations which may be of interest to you. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices and you should check those websites for their respective privacy statements.

Security
We use a number of mechanisms to protect the security and integrity of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as completely secure. So while we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once any personal information comes into our possession, we will take reasonable steps to protect that information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Some sections of the website protect your personal information by requiring you to use a password. For your own protection, we require you to keep this confidential and to change your password regularly.

Access to information
If you wish to request access to any personal information which we hold about you as a result of our information collection practices outlined in this Website Privacy Notice, please contact us using the 'Contact details' set out below.

Contact details
If you have any questions or feedback about privacy, or wish to make a complaint about the way in which we have handled your personal information, you may contact us as set out below:

Email
office[at]aipa.org.au (substitute [at] with @)

Phone
+61 2 8307 7777

Address
Executive Director
Suite 6.01, Level 6
243-249 Coward Street
Mascot NSW 2020 Australia

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