We are Game Workers Australia (GWA, formerly known as “Game Workers Unite Australia”). We are a volunteer group of Australian game developers, journalists, marketers, PR specialists, pro players, and everybody else in between.
Our mission is to build a better games industry in Australia. To do this, we need to collect small amounts of personal information as part of our membership and our projects.
Our website is hosted in Australia and is subject to Australian laws. Game Workers Australia complies with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles.
We respect and protect the privacy of our users and our members. This page will tell you how we collect and use your information.
Membership
If you apply to become a member of GWA, we will collect your information through a Google Form. This form will ask for two pieces of potentially identifying personal information:
- Your name
- Your email address
We require your name and email address in order to communicate with you about your membership. This communication includes but is not limited to:
- Sending you a link to join our secure, private Discord server
- Sending you information that requires your action as a member, such as voting on proposals
- Sending you newsletter communications
Both of these pieces of information can be anonymised if you wish.
Google maintains its own privacy policy and terms of service. We encourage you to read those if you have concerns.
Partnership with Professionals Australia
In late 2021 GWA announced a formal partnership with the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia, known as “Professionals Australia”.
As part of this partnership, the names and email addresses of our members will be shared with Professionals Australia on a regular basis.
This will enable the identification of members of GWA who are also members of Professionals Australia and allow us to contact those members to ensure they are on the correct membership tier.
If you do not wish to have this information provided to Professionals Australia please contact us. However, not providing your information to Professionals Australia will prevent you from becoming a financial union member and enjoying the benefits and protection of that membership.
Freelancer rates survey
If you take part in our freelancer rates survey, we will collect your information through a Google Form. This form will ask for two pieces of potentially identifying personal information:
- Your name
- Your email address
We require your name and email address as part of this survey in order to:
- Ensure that the data we are collecting is free of duplicate entries by matching results to a unique email address identifier
- Contact you if necessary with questions about the information you have provided
Both of these pieces of information can be anonymised if you wish.
Your name and email address will never be made visible to any member of the public who views the results of this survey.
Google maintains its own privacy policy and terms of service. We encourage you to read those if you have concerns.
Contact forms
If you use the contact form on our website, you will be asked to provide a name and email address.
This information is necessary so that we can quickly respond to your question.
If you choose not to provide an accurate email address we will not be able to reply to your message.
How we handle requests and complaints
You may request access to personal information about you that we hold, and you may ask us to update, change or delete your personal information if you wish. You may also make a complaint about our handling of your personal information if you feel we have acted inappropriately.
To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, we will need evidence of your identity before we can grant you access to information about you or change it. The easiest way to do this is to contact us from the email address you provided when you interacted with us.
If you wish to contact us, please email GWA at gwuaustralia@gmail.com. We will respond within 7 days. If for some reason your request would take longer than that, we will respond within 7 days, to advise you of a date by which we expect to have your request completed.
How we protect your personal information
Our website is hosted in Australia in secure facilities. Our Google Forms are hosted externally by Google in secure facilities.
The small amount of personal information that we do collect is only accessible by members of the GWU Australia moderation team. You can view these people at our About Page. The moderation team may change from time to time as new members are elected and existing members step down. Please review the About Page for the most up to date information.
All members of the GWA administration team have agreed to abide by the Game Workers Unite Code of Conduct, which forbids the posting of personally identifying information.
GWA has taken all reasonable steps to secure and lock down access to the Google account which accepts forms data.
Who we share your data with
With the exception of our Professionals Australia partnership detailed above, GWA does not sell your data to, or share your data with any external person or organisation at any time without your consent.
If you have opted in to our newsletter, your email address will be entered into our MailChimp mailing list.
MailChimp maintains its own policies around privacy and terms of use. We encourage you to read those if you have any concerns.
Contact us
If you have concerns about your privacy, please contact us using any of the methods available on the Contact page.