Privacy and Data Use Policy
Personal data collected through your interaction with this site or my social media may be used to provide you with information and updates relevant to elected political representation.
Such data is safeguarded and is never used or shared for any commercial purpose.
Emails to you will conform to the relevant guidelines issued by ACMA for the sending of non-commercial material.
We have a legal obligation to retain donation records for the purpose of Australian Electoral Commission review. Only donations exceeding $1,000 must be made public.
All content on this page, and associated social media pages remains the intellectual property of Steven Ring.
‘Fair Use‘ rights apply.
On Council’s Media Policy
- Lithgow City Council has adopted the Model Media Policy 2022 and Section 3 states”
Section 3.1 of the Code of Conduct, states, in relation to the Media:
Councillors
3.1 As a member of the governing body and as a representative of the community, councillors are free to express their personal views to the media.
3.2 When engaging with the media councillors:
- must not purport to speak for the Council unless authorised to do so.must clarify
- when speaking to the media that they are expressing their personal views as an individual councillor and that they are not speaking for the Council (unless authorised to do so)
- must uphold and accurately represent the policies and decisions of the Council
All commentary on this website is the personal opinion of the author, Steven Ring
I seek to make a clear distinction between the stated policies of Lithgow City Council, and my opinion as an individual or elected Councillor.
On matters of Council policy, the Mayor and the General Manager remain the official spokespersons, and no material on this site or on my social media platforms purports to “speak for” Council.
I will, however, continue to speak out clearly and fairly on matters of interest and concern to the community.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.How long we retain your data
We will retain the data collected through our form for the course of the campaign, for the term of our service if elected to council and for any time frames required by law, none of which exceed 7 years.