ARIA AWARDS Merchandise PURCHASE – PRIVACY COLLECTION STATEMENT
Australian Recording Industry Association Ltd (ABN 72 002 692 944) (ARIA) is committed to ensuring that all personal information that you provide to ARIA remains secure and is only used for the purposes for which it is collected. ARIA handles all personal information collected in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). This Privacy Collection Statement outlines how ARIA meets the obligations that are set out in the APPs.
Personal Information
In this form ARIA is requesting certain personal information about the purchaser of the ARIA Awards merchandise. This includes contact information (such as names, residential addresses, phone and email contact details), as well as banking or credit card details.
Purpose
The primary purpose for which ARIA is collecting your personal information is: (i) to process and manage your merchandise purchase order; (ii) to facilitate shipping your order; and/or (iii) to contact you about any matters relating to your order.
Use and Disclosure
If you choose to purchase ARIA Award merchandise, ARIA will use the information provided for the primary purpose set out above. Through carrying out this purpose, ARIA may disclose the personal information:
- to its staff and contractors who are engaged to facilitate the sale, management and shipping of the order;
- to Square AU Pty Ltd for the purpose of processing the payment and facilitating the order;
- to external parties such as mail couriers and postal services to deliver the order;
- for reporting purposes to be distributed to third parties and published and disseminated on an aggregated basis;
- for purposes otherwise required/permitted by law (including the Privacy Act); and
- for purposes and to organisations set out in our Privacy Policy.
Personal information provided to Square will be handled in accordance with Square AU Pty Ltd’s own policies, and may be disclosed or stored in overseas locations, including United States, Canada, Japan, Ireland, France, Spain, and the UK. You should review the Square Privacy Notice for Buyers and Users for more detail on how your information will be handled.
ARIA’s staff and contractors are bound by confidentiality constraints as a part of their engagement with ARIA. ARIA will not provide the personal information collected from you to anyone else outside of ARIA and Square AU Pty Ltd for any other purposes, unless you have given consent for us to do this, or ARIA is authorised or required to do so by law.
ARIA and Square AU Pty Ltd may from time to time disclose your personal information to third party service providers, for example IT service providers, in order to facilitate the purchase, distribution and administration of the merchandise order purchase and fulfilment.
If you don't provide ARIA with the personal information requested or the information provided is incorrect or incomplete, then ARIA and/or Square AU Pty Ltd may not be able to process and/or fulfil your merchandise purchase order.
Storage
ARIA will take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. All personal information will be stored on password protected files and any hard copy files are secured from unauthorised access.
Contact
If you wish to access or correct the personal information that has been submitted, please contact ARIA’s Privacy Officer at privacy.mail@aria.com.au.
The ARIA Privacy Policy contains our contact details and further details regarding how you can access or correct information we hold about you, how you can make a privacy related complaint, how that complaint will be dealt with and the extent to which your personal information may be handled and stored.
This was last updated on 18 September 2026.
