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Our Privacy Policy was developed as
an extension of our commitment to engage users of our
website, which may lead to the collection of personal
information.
The Policy is designed to assist you
in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the
personal information you provide to us and to assist you
in making informed decisions when using our
site.
This statement will be continuously
assessed against new technologies, business practices
and our users' needs. | |
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What Information
Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you
may provide us with two types of information: personal
information you knowingly choose to disclose that is
collected on an individual basis and Web site use
information collected on an aggregate basis as you and
others browse our Web site.
1. Email
Information
In addition to providing the foregoing
information to our partners, if you choose to correspond
further with us through email, we may retain the content
of your email messages together with your email address
and our responses.
2. Web Site Use
Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites,
our Web site may utilise a standard technology called
"cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?")
and Web server logs to collect information about how our
Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies
and Web server logs may include the date and time of
visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site,
and the Web sites visited just before and just after our
Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate
basis. None of this information is associated with you
as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information That
You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use
personal information for purposes of providing you with
appropriate services or a response to a request you
make. Occasionally, we may also use the information we
collect to notify you about important changes to our Web
site. The lists used to send you such information is
managed to safeguard the security and privacy of your
personal information. As a user, you will be given the
opportunity, at least once annually, to notify us of
your desire not to receive such
information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies
are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web
servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web
site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored
by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive.
Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on
one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with
that Web site by the same user or to use the information
to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web
pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web
page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions
over the Internet. Cookies should make your online
experience easier and more personalised.
How Do We Use
Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use
Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web
server logs to gather information about our Web site
users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly
improve our Web site. This information assists us to
design and arrange our Web pages in the most
user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web
site to better meet the needs of our
users.
Cookies help us collect important
statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace
the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move
from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to
count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate
our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these
technologies to capture your individual email address or
any personally identifying information about
you.
Sharing Information with
Affiliates
We will not share any personal
information with affiliates unless you consent to such
disclosure.
How Do We Secure Information
Transmissions?
Our website is hosted by a
third party. Although associated security safeguards are
considered as very high, we nevertheless cannot
guarantee that Email that you may send to us is secure,
unless we advise you that security measures will be in
place prior to your transmitting the information. For
that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential
information to us through email.
How Do We
Protect Your Information?
1. Information
Security.
Personal information we collect will be
protected from unauthorised access or disclosure and
accidental loss, alteration or destruction in applying
appropriate information security practices. As most
information exchange will be web or email-based, we will
collect and store emails for safety and reference
purposes, at least on a monthly basis.
2.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices.
Periodically, and as appropriate, our practices will
be reviewed for compliance with policies and procedures
governing the security, confidentiality and quality of
our information.
How Can You Access and Correct
Your Information?
You may request access to
all your personally identifiable information that we
collect online and maintain in our database by emailing
the Administrator.
Do We Disclose Information to
Outside Parties?
We do not disclose personal
information to outside parties unless you consent to
such disclosure.
What About Legally Compelled
Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose
information when legally compelled to do so, in other
words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law
requires it or for the protection of our legal
rights.
What About Other Web Sites
Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible
for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or
from our Web site nor the information or content
contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are
provided solely as pointers to information on topics
that may be useful to the users of our Web
site.
Please remember that when you use a link to
go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy
Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and
interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites
which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that
Web site’s own rules and policies. Please read over
those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your
Consent
By using our Web site you consent to
our collection and use of your personal information as
described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our
privacy policies and procedures, we will post those
changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what
information we collect, how we use it and under what
circumstances we may disclose it.
Policy Version 1.0 / MAY 2002
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