This is the Institute of Mental Health’s website. Thank you for examining our privacy statement. This privacy statement sets out how the Institute of Mental Health uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

The Institute of Mental Health is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should you provide us information by which you can be identified when using this website, we will endeavour to ensure that such information is used only in accordance with this privacy statement.

If you are only browsing this website, we do not capture data that allows us to identify you individually.

The Institute of Mental Health receives or collects personal data for the purpose of planning and administering public health policies. If you choose to make an application or send us an e-mail for which you provide us with personally identifiable data, we may share necessary data within the Group or with Government agencies, so as to serve you in a most efficient and effective way, unless such sharing is prohibited by legislation.

We will NOT share your personal data with non-Government entities, except where such entities have been authorised to carry out specific Government services.

For your convenience, we may display to you data you had previously supplied us or other Government agencies. This will speed up the transaction and save you the trouble of repeating previous submissions. Should the data be out-of-date, please supply us the latest data. We will retain your personal data only as necessary for the effective delivery of public services to you. Please contact our Quality Service Manager to get access to or update your personal data that you have supplied to us previously.

To safeguard your personal data, all electronic storage and transmission of personal data are secured with appropriate security technologies.

This site may contain links to non-Government sites whose data protection and privacy practices may differ from ours. We are not responsible for the content and privacy practices of these other websites and we encourage you to consult the privacy notices of those sites.

The Institute of Mental Health may amend, vary or modify this privacy statement from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to apprise yourself of any changes made. This privacy statement is effective from 9 July 2009.

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