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CEDA POLICIES AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Safety at CEDA events: COVID-19 event advice
For the comfort, safety and enjoyment of all CEDA guests, staff and participants, CEDA has the following conditions of entry to CEDA events.
Your safety, and that of CEDA and venue staff is paramount. CEDA has worked with venues to ensure that social distancing can be maintained, and facilities and equipment have been properly sanitised. Attendance numbers adhere to government guidelines.
In line with government advice we request that people who are unwell with cough or fever, or other respiratory symptoms do not attend CEDA events. We also ask that you follow government advice in relation to rapid testing and isolation, and maintain appropriate social distancing wherever possible.
Please consider if additional bags/coats/umbrellas that would typically be placed in cloakroom facilities are necessary to reduce contact points with venue staff.
CEDA will continue to closely monitor government advice regarding public gatherings and act on relevant health advice from the Australian government and local authorities in relation to COVID-19.
Conditions of entry: In person events
Attendees may be requested to present their bags for inspection;
CEDA may require bags/coats/umbrellas to be checked into cloakroom facilities. Please consider what items you bring to CEDA events that may require cloaking, to reduce contact with venue staff;
Attendees shall not bring with them items which may have the potential to cause injury or nuisance;
Attendees cannot distribute unauthorised materials inside or outside the event room;
CEDA may require a person’s proof of identity;
CEDA may refuse entry or remove from the room any unauthorised person;
CEDA may refuse entry or remove from the room any person who is intoxicated or disorderly; and
Attendees causing a disturbance or refusing to comply with requests from CEDA staff or contractors will be removed from the room and may be denied entry to future CEDA events.
CEDA reserves the right to change the above conditions of attendance at any time. Please refer to CEDA’s website for any changes. By paying your attendance fees you have agreed to abide by CEDA’s conditions of entry.
Privacy and Data collection
In order to deliver events, we require certain information about you: this is usually limited to name, job title, company and email address, but may include your specific dietary and accessibility requirements. This information may be shared with third parties (such as venue operators) to ensure we can meet your specific needs. This information is not shared with anyone who may book on your behalf (for example, where you are a guest on corporate table).
Your information can be updated at any time via our online portal.
We may use the contact details you share to inform you about other events or CEDA content which may be of interest to you. If you wish to opt out of these communications, you can update your preferences any time via the “opt-out” option in our email footers or via your subscription page on our portal.
As we are committed to building inclusion for all Australians, we may also ask you to voluntarily provide demographic data to enable us to report on diversity, equity and inclusion. This may include cultural background, gender identification, ATSI identification and year of birth. This information can be updated at any time via the “My details” page on our portal.
We do not request information which can be used as a primary form of identification.
CEDA’s detailed privacy policy is here.
MEDIA AND CEDA EVENTS
Media attendance at CEDA in-person events
CEDA welcomes media interest and engagement in the important public policy forums and debates held by CEDA across Australia.
CEDA makes every effort to ensure media can attend its events and make use of speakers' contributions. We provide splitter boxes at events and, in most cases, we produce audio MP3 files which can be made available after the event.
Media may broadcast a segment of up to two minutes of video or up to three minutes of audio recorded at a CEDA event. No audio or video is to be broadcast live.
To gain entry to a CEDA event, media must sign in and present identification to CEDA staff at the registration desk.
Please note that CEDA reserves the right to close events to media, or to impose the Chatham House Rule (see below).
Please check the media status of events with our events team. Where possible, we ask media to pre-register so that a seat can be reserved - please email events@ceda.com.au to reserve your seat.
To be notified about CEDA events in advance, please join our mailing list here.
Media questions
Speakers may make time before or after their speech for interviews or doorstops, and CEDA will endeavour to facilitate this. Please ask us ahead of time if you would like to interview a speaker or CEDA spokesperson.
During Q&A priority is given to paying guests. However, journalists are permitted to ask questions if time permits and with speaker permission. All questions from the floor are taken at the discretion of the event Chair and must relate to the event topic.
Media access to interactive livestreams
Media must register to gain access to CEDA livestream events.
You will receive a complimentary link to the stream. This link is not to be distributed.
Media may broadcast a segment of up to two minutes of video or up to three minutes of audio from a CEDA livestream. No audio or video is to be broadcast live.
Journalists are permitted to ask questions via the Q&A portal located on the livestream page.
If media wish to interview the speakers, please include this request in your registration email.
To register for a CEDA livestream, please email your details to events@ceda.com.au.
Chatham House Rule
Some CEDA meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule (CEDA Trustee Boardroom Briefings, Virtual Roundtables and Power Start breakfasts are generally Chatham House Rule) which is used throughout the world as an aid to free discussion – an important aim of CEDA. These events are closed to media. Please note that very rarely CEDA public events may be closed to the media, generally on the speaker’s request.
Need a spokesperson?
CEDA's Chief Executive, Melinda Cilento and Chief Economist, Cassandra Winzar are available to speak about CEDA's research and events.
Media contact
Justine Parker | Media Manager and Content Specialist
0436 379 688
Justine.Parker@ceda.com.au
Photography at face-to-face learning courses and events
Photographs from CEDA Learning and CEDA events may be used for promotional or other purposes. Please email us at CEDALearning@ceda.com.au or events@ceda.com.au if you do not consent to having your photo used.
Event refunds and cancellations
Ticket cancellations, received by 5.00pm 10 days prior to the event, will be refunded in full.
Full payment is required for any cancellation received within 10 days of the event or for non-attendance on the day.
Attendee substitutions for the originally booked event may be made until the event commences.
CEDA does not hold registration fees in credit. Registrations can be cancelled or transferred to another event in line with the policy above.
All cancellations and changes must be via the online events portal or forwarded via email to Events@ceda.com.au
Refunds will be processed within 21 days of cancellation via the same method used for payment.
CEDA Learning refunds and cancellations
Extended learning programs (Copland Leadership Program)
All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to CEDALearning@ceda.com.au
Cancellations received more than 14 days before program commencement are eligible for a refund or transfer to an alternative course.
Enrolments are transferrable to another person at any time prior to course commencement but may be subject to an administration fee if within 14 days of commencement.
If the program is cancelled by CEDA a full refund or deferment will be provided.
CEDA Learning invoices are payable within 7 days.
Full payment is required for access to the online course materials and/or face-to-face sessions.
Blended Learning (Public Policy Dynamics)
All cancellation or deferment requests must be submitted in writing to CEDALearning@ceda.com.au
Cancellations are eligible for a full refund or transfer to a different course within 14 days of enrolment and in cases where the online learning content has not been accessed.
Participants who are unable to attend their scheduled workshop must arrange to attend an alternative workshop in order to complete the course. An administration fee will apply.
If the course is cancelled by CEDA a full refund or deferment will be provided.
CEDA Learning invoices are payable within 7 days.
Full payment is required for access to the online course materials.
Online Learning (ESG Fundamentals and Economics for Non-Economists)
All cancellation or deferment requests must be submitted in writing to CEDALearning@ceda.com.au
A full refund will be provided for cancellations received within 14 days of enrolment and where the online learning content has not been accessed.
Students have access to the learning management system for 12 months from date of enrolment. Extensions may be requested in writing and are subject to an administration fee.
If a course is unavailable or removed by CEDA a refund will be provided.
Full payment is required for access to the online course materials.
Information about using this website
This website is operated by the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). These terms govern the use of this website. If you do not agree to these terms, immediately discontinue using this website.
As you use this website, please understand that:
The site is not designed to provide the sort of answers you can absolutely rely on in running a business. We do make best efforts to keep the site's material accurate and reliable; we just don't guarantee that it's that way.
You agree not to post on the site any content that may be obscene, defamatory or posted in a manner designed to give you commercial advantage without providing information useful to the CEDA audience.
CEDA is entitled to use any content that you post to this site.
CEDA is committed to protecting your privacy while you use our website, products and services. We will keep private and secure any personal information the site gathers about you. We collect your data for internal use only, and under no circumstance will we disclose your data and email address to third parties. Read our Privacy and Data Collection Statement here.
All material on this site is copyright 2003-2021 CEDA except where otherwise noted.
CEDA may make changes to the terms and conditions of this website at its discretion.
CEDA Opinion Articles Terms and Conditions
CEDA’s founder Sir Douglas Copland set up the organisation in 1960 with a purpose to harness the ideas and influence of leading thinkers from business, government, community and academia. Its purpose remains unchanged. Today CEDA continues to deliver leading thinking, informed discourse and rigorous research to influence good public policy for Australia’s economic and social development.
CEDA encourages you to post comments, in doing so you will be contributing to an independent, informed policy debate platform. Please make sure you are considerate and respect others and their opinions.
CEDA reserves the right to moderate, edit, delete, reject or remove any comments on the CEDA opinion articles. As a general guide, comments must relate to the topic of the article otherwise they will not be approved for publishing during moderation.
If you think a comment that has been posted is offensive or breached the terms and conditions, please email us at info@ceda.com.au with a link to the comment and your reasons for objecting to it. CEDA will then consider if there are grounds for removing the comment or take appropriate action.
Your obligations
When posting comments to the CEDA opinion articles section, you agree to be bound to the following terms and conditions.
You will not post any comments which are:
Defamatory or offensive to any person;
Obscene, offensive, pornographic, vulgar, profane, indecent or otherwise illegal;
Not your original work or which violate copyright, a registered trademark or intellectual property rights of another person or entity;
Racially or religiously vilifying, incites violence or hatred, or is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any physical or mental disability; and
False, misleading or deceptive; and
By posting a comment you accept all material on this site is copyright to CEDA. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide licence to reproduce and deal with any material you submit to us by all means whatsoever.
You will not use the comments section of the CEDA opinion articles section for:
Advertising, promotion or selling of any goods and services or engage in trade and commerce by any means; and
Providing financial advice.
CEDA’s rights
CEDA can edit, delete, reject or remove any comment posted or to be posted in the comments areas.
CEDA has the right and discretion to terminate your access to the comments section if we believe you have breached these terms and conditions or are abusing or misusing the platform in any way.
CEDA has the right to reproduce and deal with any material you submit to the CEDA opinion articles section.
CEDA opinion articles republishing guidelines
CEDA’s founder Sir Douglas Copland set up the organisation in 1960 with a purpose to harness the ideas and influence of leading thinkers from business, government, community and academia. Its purpose remains unchanged. Today CEDA continues to deliver leading thinking, informed discourse and rigorous research to influence good public policy for Australia’s economic and social development.
Under Creative Commons, the CEDA opinion articles is an open source for people to republish, read, interact with and analyse the key issues facing Australia. CEDA welcomes you to republish our articles online and in print for free.
You can republish individual articles without CEDA’s permission. However, if you wish to republish articles on a regular basis, for example once a week or every article from a single author, please contact us.
Republishing guidelines for print and online
You can republish individual CEDA opinion articles as long as you:
Credit CEDA – the Committee for Economic Development of Australia at the top of the article and include our logo
Link back to the CEDA website www.ceda.com.au or opinion article post URL
Credit our author in the byline
Confirm that you are licenced to republish images in our articles. To check permissions, please contact us.
You cannot:
Sell CEDA opinion article content. It’s ok for the content to appear on a page with ads but it cannot be sold separately
Edit CEDA opinion article material except to reflect changes in time, location and editorial style, for example today to yesterday or Melbourne to here. If you need to edit our content, please email us.
Our articles are licensed under Creative Commons – attribution/no derivatives. For more information on Creative Commons, please visit creativecommons.org
Images and video content
In some cases you can republish images and video content depending on permissions. Please contact us to inquire about the availability of a specific video, image or infographic. Because of copyright issues related to various aspects of multimedia, not all features are available for reuse.
Need more information?
If you have further questions regards rights and permissions, please contact us.
How CEDA protects your privacy and data
CEDA is committed to protecting your privacy while you use our website, products and services. We will keep private and secure any personal information the site gathers about you. We collect personal information for internal use only, and under no circumstance will we disclose your personal information (including your email address) to third parties.
Privacy
As a membership organisation, CEDA takes privacy and information management very seriously. This privacy policy exists to protect you. It defines how user information is permitted to be used, and how it is protected.
Consent
By providing personal information to us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other arrangements that apply between us (such as a Collection Notice). We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing changes to it on our website. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy and data collection policy.
Personal information
Personal information includes information or an opinion about you that is reasonably identifiable. For example, this may include your name, age, gender, postcode and contact details, and also may include financial information, including your credit card information, if you make a purchase from us.
Some additional types of information that we may collect, include (but are not limited to):
other contact details;
age or date of birth;
details of the products and services we have provided to you or that you have enquired about, including any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and respond to your enquiries;
any additional information relating to you that you provide to us directly through our website or at an event or is provided to us in any other manner, or indirectly through your use of our website or online presence, or attendance at our events, or through other websites or accounts from which you permit us to collect information;
information you provide to CEDA through customer surveys;
your device ID, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information; or
any other personal information that may be required in order to facilitate your dealings with us.
Collection of data
We may collect types of personal information either directly from you, or from third parties. We may collect this information when you:
are communicating with us through correspondence, chats, email, or when you share information with us from other social applications, services or websites;
interact with our websites, services, content and advertising, or by entering in any raffles and/or competitions of ours either online or at an event;
make a purchase from us or for a CEDA product or service;
register as a CEDA member employee or enquire as to a potential membership or trustee status in our business;
attend any events held by us;
direct or approve your employer to nominate you as a Trustee of CEDA; or
apply for a job or position with us, we may collect certain information (including your name, contact details, working history and relevant records checks) from any recruitment consultant, your previous employers and others who may be able to provide information to us to assist us in our decision on whether or not to make you an offer of employment or engage you under a contract.
Purpose
Some purposes that CEDA may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information include:
to enable you to access and use our website, events and services;
to advise you on upcoming CEDA events;
to operate, protect, improve and optimise our website, events, services, business and our users’ experience, such as to perform analytics, conduct research and for advertising and marketing;
to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information or products requested by you;
to send you information that may be of interest to you;
to send you marketing and promotional information about our services, events and products. You may opt-out of receiving marketing materials from us by emailing us or logging into the MyProfile section on the CEDA website and updating your marketing preferences;
if you attend a CEDA event, photography, video and audio recording may be taken and may be reproduced in CEDA publications, on our website, provided to our sponsors and/or provided to other attendees;
to administer rewards, surveys, contests or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by CEDA;
to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our users, and enforce our agreements with third parties; and
to consider your employment application.
Personal information is generally collected for internal uses only. Other than specified in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission, except to the extent necessary, including to: comply with our legal obligations, fulfil your requests, protect ourselves from liability, enforce our agreements with third parties and comply with the terms and conditions of our internet host provider.
Financial Information
If you are making a purchase, we will request financial information including your credit card number, expiration date and security code. Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for your purchase. This information may be forwarded to your credit card provider.
Access and correction
CEDA takes reasonable steps to ensure data is accurate, complete and up to date. Access your personal information and update your profile by logging into MyProfile. So that your personal information can remain up to date, please contact CEDA membership staff in your state or email info@ceda.com.au if your personal information needs updating.
Sometimes, CEDA may not be able to provide you with access to all of your personal information and, where this is the case, we will tell you why. We may also need to verify your identity when you request your personal information.
Security
We maintain secure data networks that are designed to protect the privacy of your personal information and security, with rigorous controls to backup data and prevent unauthorised access. Whilst we take reasonable steps to protect personal information stored in electronic and hard copies, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
Website use and cookies
This website uses third party tools such as Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site, which may result in a collection of your personal information. These tools use "cookies" which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is then used to evaluate visitors' use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for CEDA. The data collected by the use of cookies may include personal information. For example, where a cookie is linked to your account, it will be considered personal information under the Privacy Act. We will handle any personal information collected by cookies in the same way that we handle all other personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifiable information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.
You may choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically default to accept them, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings, then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our website.
Information disclosed overseas
We may disclose your personal information to recipients that are located outside of Australia, including to providers of IT services for the purposes of systems development and testing.
Opt-out right
If you receive an email from CEDA it is because you are a CEDA member employee, trustee, attend our events, or subscribe to our mailing list. Each marketing correspondence will contain an option for you to opt-out, and information on how to do this. You can also update your email preferences by logging into MyProfile.
Complaints
CEDA has a designated Privacy Officer. If you have any complaints relating to privacy issues or if you would like further information about CEDA’s Privacy Policy or how we manage your personal information, please contact CEDA.
Notice of collection of personal information
Committee for Economic Development of Australia ABN 49 008 600 922 (“we”, “our”, “us”) direct you to our Privacy Policy available on our website.
We collect personal information about you in order to (without limitation) manage your registration for, and attendance at events; maintain and administer your, or your organisations, CEDA membership; allow you to receive CEDA material and information; and for purposes otherwise set out in our Privacy Policy. We may have already collected personal information and sensitive information from you, or from third parties, as required and/or authorised under the Act or by law.
The information you provide will be collected by or on behalf of us and may be disclosed to third parties that help us deliver our services (including information technology suppliers, communication suppliers and our business partners) or as required by law. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to provide all our services and products to you. We may disclose your personal information to recipients that are located outside of Australia, including to providers of IT services for the purposes of systems development and testing.
Our Privacy Policy explains: (i) how we store and use, and how you may access and correct your personal information; (ii) how you can lodge a complaint regarding the handling of your personal information; and (iii) how we will handle any complaint. If you would like any further information about our Privacy Policy or privacy practices, please contact us at the details listed below.
By providing your personal information to us, you consent to the collection, use, storage and disclosure of that information as described in the Privacy Policy and this collection notice.
Changes to this policy
This policy was updated in May 2019. Any future changes to the privacy policy will be posted here.
CEDA's Privacy and data collection policy is also located here.
The CEDA opinion articles section is an open source for people to republish, read, interact and analyse the key issues facing Australia. CEDA welcomes you to republish our articles online and in print for free.