The Trustee for The Melbourne Headshot Trust Trading as Australian Photographic Prize ABN 73798720731 in conjunction with Living Rain Pty Ltd Trading as Australian Photography Competition ABN 32123848984. This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.
We collect the following data:
Personal identification information including name, email address, and postal address.
Images entered into our competition
Information about your interaction with our site such as IP Address, and pages visited.
You directly provide us with most of the data we collect when entering our competition. We also collect data when you visit the site.
We collects your data so that we can:
Process your order and manage your account.
Run the competition
Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like.
If you agree, we will share your data with our partner companies so that they may offer you their products and services.
We may send your data to third parties including to process payments or for spam checking.
We securely store your data in Australia on servers in a data center and in offline backups
We will keep your data for 20 years. Once this time period has expired, we will delete or anonymise your data, with the exception of winning images.
We would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies.
If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.
You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to others.
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to us processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: hello@australianphotographicprize.com.au
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
Keeping you signed in
Understanding how you use our website
Processing your order
There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:
Functionality – We use these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
Advertising – We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. We sometimes share some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However some of our website features may not function as a result.
Our website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 14 April 2025.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us. Email us at: hello@australianphotographicprize.com.au
The Australian Photographic Prize is an annual all-embracing national Photography Competition for Australian and International amateur, professional and student photographers.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which the Australian Photographic Prize does business. We pay our deep respect to the Ancestors and Elders of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples where our awards are conducted. We also acknowledge all First Nations Peoples that make contributions to our photography community.
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