Privacy statement for the Ross Trust

The Ross Trust is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of those who apply for our grants and others we work with.

The Ross Trust ensures all background information provided in and arising from grant applications will be kept confidential unless you agree to it being shared.

We only use your personal information for the purposes for which you gave it to us. Your personal information will not be added to a mailing list or used or disclosed for any other purpose without your consent.

How we use your information

The Trust may on occasion forward and/or discuss your application with external reviewers and/or other trusts and foundations. The Trustees use this information to inform their decision making.

The Trust may also use information included in successful grant applications for promotional purposes. The Trust will display information about each successful grant application on its website, including the name of the organisation, a brief project description, the amount and duration of the grant and which program it has been funded under.

Access to your information

We will provide you with access to personal information about you that we hold upon request. You can have us correct any errors or delete the information we have about you. You may opt out of any further contact from us.

Using our website

We collect personal information that you choose to give us (for example, your email address) if you contact us.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use our website. The information we obtain from Google Analytics is used to help us understand users' needs so that we can offer a better user experience.

Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about which pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got there (for example from a search engine, a link, an advertisement etc) and what you select. Information collected by the cookies (including your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google's Privacy Policy and for the purposes set out above. You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact

The Ross Trust
Ground Level, Suite 2,
43 Agnes Street,
East Melbourne VIC 3002

Phone: (03) 9690 6255
Email: information@rosstrust.org.au