The
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects collects and stores
information on its members as supplied by its members.The
purpose for collecting this information is to assist with delivering
against AILA’s stated objectives, in particular to supply
benefits to members:
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Advancing
the study of landscape architecture and the related arts and
sciences;
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Promoting and encouraging the development of urban and rural
areas on sound principles of landscape design;
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Bringing matters affecting landscape architecture to the notice
of government, municipal and other authorities, public bodies and associations
and the officials thereof, in all parts of the Commonwealth of Australia
and elsewhere;
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Raising the character and status, advancing and safeguarding
the interests of the profession of Landscape Architecture;
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Increasing the confidence of the community in the employment
of recognised landscape architects by admitting as Corporate Members
to the Institute only such persons who have an adequate knowledge of
both the theory and practice of landscape architecture;
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Improving the general and technical knowledge of persons engaged
or intending to engage in the profession of landscape architecture, and
for such purposes, testing by examination or other means the competence
of such persons, granting certificates and providing for the
registration by the Institute of holders of such Certificates;
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Cooperating with other Institutions or associations or other
bodies that have objects altogether or in part similar to those of this Institute;
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Affording means of adjusting professional differences and deciding
all questions of ethics, usage or courtesy in connection with the profession;
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Promoting the friendly exchange of ideas and information among
the members;
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Offering,
providing, sponsoring or contributing towards any lecture, scholarship,
prize or other award for any research, study, literary contribution or
other effort, in connection with any object of the Institute.
Uses
of Members’ contact information
In
general, membership information is not disclosed to outside
parties.
Lists
of the financial members (with no contact information) within
each state group is made available through publications and the
web site.
Particular
member’s work phone contact information may be made
available for reasonable reasons such as in matters related
to potential clients wishing to make contact with particular
members. However, this level of contact information is not
distributed for product marketing or similar reasons.
Members’ practice
information is included on the web site directories, however
each member is responsible for requesting that information
be listed, amended or removed within the Practice Directories.
In
general, the AILA passes members’ mail information to
agreed sources for Institute mail-outs such as for the mailing
out of LANDMARK, Landscape Architecture Australia, for award nights and
other established functions such as seminar series, and several
other related publications which have been identified and agreed
to as having close relations with members of the Institute. This
information is passed to these other parties for the particular
occasions of these events or mail-outs on the understanding
that the mail-out information is not stored or used
for any other marketing or mail-out purposes.