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STATEMENT
REGARDING PRIVACY POLICY
Australian 4WD Monthly/Express Publications
Pty Ltd recognises the importance of protecting
the privacy of personally identifiable information
collected about our customers. For the purposes
of this Privacy Statement, the word customers
includes visitors to our web sites, subscribers
to and users of our services, purchasers of
our products and advertising customers.
We are bound by the National Privacy Principles
in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in relation to
the handling of personal information. Where
appropriate we will handle personal information
relying on the media exemption (but complying
with the Australian Press Council Privacy Standards),
related bodies corporate exemption and the employee
exemption in the Privacy Act.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information when we provide
our services to you. Generally we will tell
you why we are collecting information when we
collect it and how we plan to use it or these
things will be obvious when we collect the information.
We usually collect personal information directly
from you although sometimes we may use agents
or service providers to do this for us. We may
also acquire lists from other sources, both
from other companies and from other public documents.
USE OF INFORMATION
We usually collect personal information such
as your name, address, telephone number. When
you are online, we collect information regarding
the pages within our network which you visit
and what you click on. As a general rule we
do not collect sensitive information. However,
if we do, it will usually be for the purposes
of providing our goods or services and if the
law requires us to, we will seek your consent
to collect it.
We use your information to provide our services
to you, to fulfill administrative functions
associated with these services, for example
billing, to enter into contracts with you or
third parties and for marketing and client relationship
purposes.
We may share your information with other companies
which are related to Australian 4WD Monthly
/Express Publications, within and outside of
Australia. We may also use your personally identifiable
information to assist us in improving our products
and services and we may also be in touch to
let you know about goods, services, or promotions
that may interest you.
When we collect your information, we will give
you the ability to indicate that you do not
want us to use your personal information for
disclosed secondary purposes. At any time, you
may notify us of your preference on this issue
by contacting us by any of the following methods:
At any time, you may notify us of your preference
on this issue by contacting our privacy officer
as set out at the end of this document. Please
allow a reasonable time for your preference
to be implemented.
USE BY THIRD PARTIES
Express may disclose your information to its
service providers and contractors from time
to time in Australia or overseas to help us
to provide and market our goods and services
to you. If we do this we generally require these
parties to protect your information in the same
way we do.
USE OF AGGRAGATE DATA
We may collect certain non-personal information
to optimise our goods and services including
our Web pages for your computer (e.g., the identity
of your Internet browser, the type of operating
system you use, your IP address and the domain
name of your Internet service provider). We
may use such non-personal information for internal
purposes, including but not limited to improving
the content of our sites.
Australian 4WD Monthly /Express Publications
may use personally identifiable information
in aggregate form to improve our goods and services
including our Web sites and make them more responsive
to the needs of our customers. This statistical
compilation and analysis of information may
also be used by Express or provided to others
as a summary report for marketing, advertising
or research purposes.
SECURITY
Australian 4WD Monthly /Express Publications
strives to ensure the security, integrity and
privacy of personally identifiable information
of our customers. We use a variety of physical
and electronic security measures including restricting
physical access to our offices and firewalls
and secure databases to keep personal information
secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised use
or disclosure. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally
secure.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have a right to access most personal information
we hold about you and if we deny access in some
circumstances we will tell you why. To request
access, please contact our privacy office as
set out at the end of this document.
PUBLIC INFORMATION
Any information posted on bulletin boards and/or
communicated in chat areas becomes public information.
While Australian 4WD Monthly /Express Publications
strives to protect and respect your privacy,
we cannot guarantee the security of any information
you disclose in a chat room or bulletin board.
COOKIES
Cookies are data that a Web site transfers to
an individual's hard drive for record-keeping
purposes. Cookies can facilitate a user's ongoing
access to and use of a site. They allow us to
track usage patterns and to compile data that
can help us improve our content and target advertising.
If you do not want information collected through
the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure
in most browsers that allows you to deny or
accept the Cookie feature. But you should note
that Cookies may be necessary to provide you
with features such as merchandise transactions
or registered services.
ONLINE LINKS TO THIRD PARTY AND CO-BRANDED SITES
Australian 4WD Monthly /Express Publications
may establish relationships with business partners
that allow visitors to our Internet sites to
link directly to sites operated by these partners.
Some of these sites may be "co-branded"
with our logo; however, these sites may not
be operated or maintained by or on our behalf.
These sites may collect personal information
from you that may be shared with us. This Privacy
Statement will apply to any personal information
we obtain in this manner.
Australian 4WD Monthly /Express Publications
is not responsible for the content or practices
of Web sites operated by third parties that
are linked to our sites. These links are meant
for the user's convenience only. Links to third
party sites do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement
or approval by Australian 4WD Monthly /Express
Publications of the content, policies or practices
of those third party sites. Once you have left
our site via such a link, you should check the
applicable privacy policy of the third party
site.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT INTERNET PRIVACY
Remember to close your browser when you have
finished your user session. This is to ensure
that others cannot access your personal information
and correspondence if you share a computer with
someone else or are using a computer in a public
place like a library or Internet café.
You as an individual are responsible for the
security of and access to your own computer.
Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information
over the Internet, this information can be collected
and used by others. In short, if you post personal
information in publicly accessible online forums,
you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
username and passwords and any account information.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you
are using the Internet.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact our Privacy Officer to ask for
access to your information or if you have a
complaint concerning your information privacy
or if you would like more information about
our approach to privacy.
+61 2 9748 0599
privacy@expresspublications.com
2 Stanley Street Silverwater NSW 2128
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