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This privacy statement includes information privacy safeguards on our web sites
and how we collect, use and disclose information gathered on our web sites,
including the use of cookies.
1. What Personal Information does aussiemen.com.au collect?
The types of personal information that aussiemen.com.au records will depend on your
usage of our site. If you carry out a transaction online or send us an email,
aussiemen.com.au will record information that may differ from the information
aussiemen.com.au collects if you simply visit our site.
Note: Membership and usage of aussiemen.com.au is totally free till late 2008. Some of the items below may not apply yet.
i) Purchasing products or services.
If you purchase products or services from aussiemen.com.au we require you to provide
certain details so that we can establish an account and provide you with the
product or service. This includes details such as your name and contact information.
aussiemen.com.au requires this information to help us process and manage your
account.
aussiemen.com.au also requests information to help us assess your credit
worthiness. If you purchase a product or service aussiemen.com.au also requires
your credit card details in order to process the purchase. aussiemen.com.au may also
request information about you in order to help you decide which product or
service would best suit your needs.
ii) Paying your account online or making other enquiries about your account.
If you pay your account online, aussiemen.com.au requires you to provide your
account details and credit card details in order to process the payment. If you
make an online query about your account you will be required to provide your
account details and contact details so that your inquiry can be resolved as
soon as possible.
iii) General requests.
You can use the website for a number of other purposes such as to request
further information about other aussiemen.com.au products and services. In order to
process your request, we will require you to provide us with certain personal
information. This includes such details as your name and contact information
and information about any existing account. If you send us an email request, we
will ask for similar information. We require this information to process your
request and to improve the services we provide to you.
When you are carrying out a transaction or simply making a query, aussiemen.com.au
may also ask for information such as details about yourself in
order that aussiemen.com.au can better tailor its services to your needs and to
provide you with information about a range of aussiemen.com.au services you might be
interested in.
aussiemen.com.au may also conduct voluntary surveys or request other voluntary
information from time to time. These surveys provide aussiemen.com.au with important
information that enables improvement in the types and quality of services
offered and the manner in which those services are offered. It will always be
clear whether the information requested is mandatory or voluntary. Our surveys may be conducted via an email, internal message or webpage link.
iv) Navigation Information
Each time you visit aussiemen.com.au web site, anonymous navigation information is
collected by our servers. This information includes:
the type of browser and operating system you are using;
the address of the referring site (ie the previous site you had visited) and
the page you leave our site;
the date and time of your visit;
your computers IP address (a number which is unique to the machine); and
the address of the pages you accessed.
This provides aussiemen.com.au with information about how the web site is used and
navigated, including the number of hits, the frequency of visits and the
duration of visits to each web page on the site. It does not personally
identify individual users.
In addition, aussiemen.com.au web site, like many others, uses cookies. A cookie is a
piece of information that the website sends to your browser and which is stored
on your hard disk. A cookie helps to identify your browser to the website when
you return to visit the site and identifies the previous requests your browser
has made. This allows the site to be tailored to you on your return visits.
Cookies cannot identify you personally. If you do not wish to receive cookies
you will not be able to use aussiemen.com.au. Your web browser might also contain a mechanism that warns you that a
site you are visiting makes use of cookies.
2. What Happens with Your Personal Information?
The personal information collected from you at this site is or may be used:
for credit verification purposes;
for billing purposes;
to maintain your account;
to notify you about other or new services or promotions from time to time by email or messages;
to provide customer support;
in order to provide you with the products, services or information you have
requested.
Aspects of these functions may be outsourced to third parties who are only
authorised by aussiemen.com.au to use this information for these purposes.
aussiemen.com.au may also use its customer database, including information provided
by you through this web site, to distribute information about other aussiemen.com.au
services and other organisations' services to you. If at any time you no longer
wish to receive email or postal communications from aussiemen.com.au or from third
parties, you can contact aussiemen.com.au customer service at any time and make an
'opt out' request, as per details at the end of this Statement.
Information collected on this site may also be combined and de-identified to
provide aussiemen.com.au with anonymous demographic and usage information.
aussiemen.com.au can then use this aggregated information to develop new and/or more
appropriate services and products to offer to customers and may also be
provided to third parties.
In addition, anonymous navigation information may be used for statistical
analysis of the site, for marketing purposes and to tailor the content of the
site to the needs of aussiemen.com.au customers. Statistical information is not
disclosed in connection with your personal information.
3. Will personal information be given to anyone else?
Personal information collected at this site will only be disclosed to third
parties in accordance with this Privacy Statement and with the terms and
conditions of any relevant service. You should check the terms and conditions
of individual products and services for information about disclosures.
Information collected at this site may be disclosed to third parties where
functions are being outsourced. aussiemen.com.au may also disclose personal
information to law enforcement agencies, government agencies, courts or
external advisors where permitted or required by law.
4. Access and Correction
Once you have registered as an aussiemen.com.au customer, you can lodge an access
request with aussiemen.com.au customer service to view or ammend your personal
details or modify your details online at any time.
5. Are personal account details safe when being transmitted?
aussiemen.com.au strives to protect your personal information during its
transmission. Customer account information provided through this site is held
in a secure server environment behind aussiemen.com.au firewalls.
aussiemen.com.au secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the
best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all
of your personal information, including your name and address, so that it
cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. However, while
aussiemen.com.au maintains high standards in protecting your security, no
transmission over the Internet or storage of information on servers connected
to the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure.
6. Are personal account details stored safely
aussiemen.com.au takes reasonable steps to ensure the security of personal
information held by it from such risks as loss or unauthorised access,
destruction, use, modification or disclosure of data. aussiemen.com.au only permits
your details to be accessed by authorised personnel.
Your information is stored on dedicated aussiemen.com.au servers. These servers are not shared with anyone. We maintain full security over your personal information.
All sensitive customer details like passwords are encrypted and hashed, meaning
we cannot even decipher these details ourselves. Sensitive details can only be reset.
We will never ask you for your account password. If you loose your password you
will need to request a password reset ticket from us and reset it yourself.
7. Links to other sites
aussiemen.com.au provides links on its website to other sites. These sites may have
different privacy policies than those of aussiemen.com.au and you are advised to
check the privacy policies on those sites.
8. Contacting aussiemen.com.au
aussiemen.com.au is concerned to ensure that your Internet experience is a safe and
enjoyable one. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy
Statement you can contact aussiemen.com.au at:
online: http://aussiemen.com.au
by email: info [AT] aussiemen [DOT] com [DOT] au
9. Email
During the registration process all members provide a chosen email address for aussiemen.com.au to use as the primary point of contact with members. All members' email addresses provided will be used to forward correspondance related to their membership of aussiemen.com.au. If members close their aussiemen.com.au account their personal email address and information will no longer be used by aussiemen.com.au or any other company through aussiemen.com.au.
During the registration process members can also voluntarily opt-in to recieve occaisional emails from aussiemen.com.au related to site alterations and maintenence, new services or promotions, voluntary surveys, updates, announcements, advertisements and feedback requests. Members can unsubscribe to this email at any time and this option is clearly visible on all emails sent.
At any time members can update their email address contact details held with aussiemen.com.au through editing their email details through their personalised Home Page, where their email details are visible at all times.
All email addresses held by aussiemen.com.au, and any related personal information, are exclusively used by aussiemen.com.au and not shared or rented to any other company or entity unless for the purpose aussiemen.com.au outsources a business function. Emails sent by aussiemen.com.au to members will only originate from aussiemen.com.au or agreed aussiemen.com.au suppliers and be related to the use of aussiemen.com.au. All email content is developed by aussiemen.com.au.
10. Changes to this Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement may change from time to time particularly as new industry
codes are introduced. Any changes to aussiemen.com.au Privacy Statement will be
highlighted in this area from time to time.
This policy was last updated on 19 February 2008.
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