Privacy and Confidentiality Policy - Innovative Precast Group (IPGroup) www.ipgroup.com.au
Privacy
| Confidentiality
Updated 30th October 2005
1.1 We understand that the privacy of your personal details, and the security of your transactions with us, is of paramount importance to you. Innovative Precast Group has therefore adopted data protection policies with respect to your privacy and security. Innovative Precast Group's Privacy Policy sets out the rules we will abide by when dealing with personal information we collect from individuals in the course of our business. We have based our policy upon the Internet Industry of Australia's (IIA) draft Privacy Code of Practice 1988, which adopts internationally recognised Privacy protection standards (such as the 'Safe Harbour' principles required by most European countries). The IIA Code also covers the requirements of the new Australian Privacy legislation.
1.2 In order to ensure that we meet and maintain our Privacy standards, we have appointed a privacy contact. Should you wish to contact us in relation to Privacy, please contact us via our website address details
1.3 We may make alterations or additions to this policy from time to time. Should we do so, we will update the policy on our web site. We require that all our customers agree to abide by our Privacy Policy as part of our terms of trade. This policy also applies to users of our web site who are not customers of Innovative Precast Group.
1.4 Please note that we cannot and do not assume any responsibility for the privacy or security practices of any other web sites which you may be able to access through our site, or for our customers' level of compliance with our code.
2. What Information
Do We Collect?
Innovative Precast Group collects different information about you at different
times. There are four broad categories of information that we collect from you:
2.1 Information we require to supply our services.
(a) When you first
sign up or contract with Innovative Precast Group for our services, or when
you make an inquiry about our services, we request information such as your
name, address, telephone number, domain name, email details of your primary
and secondary contacts, credit card details (if you are paying online). We may
also ask for your age and gender.
(b) We may also monitor and/or record telephone conversations with you from
time to time in order to train staff and to improve our service to you.
2.2 Non personally identifying information.
(a) In addition
to the information you specifically provide above, Innovative Precast Group
operates statistics gathering software on its web site to collect information
about the number of visitors coming to the site. No identifying information
is collected by this software. The software records the IP address of the visitor
only. We use this information to improve our own technical structure and performance,
and to determine which areas of our web site are most popular.
(b) We also use 'cookies'. Cookies are pieces of information that a web site
can transfer to an individual's computer in order to allow that web site to
store information about user preferences. We use cookies which expire once the
visitor leaves our web site. Cookies are used to collect session ID's. It is
possible to adjust your Internet browser to refuse cookies, but you may find
that this reduces the functionality of this site.
2.3 Other demographic
information.
If you respond voluntarily to our surveys or other interactive communications,
we collect the responses and use the information to improve the quality and
range of Innovative Precast Group products and services.
2.4 Personal information
stored on a web site hosted by Innovative Precast Group.
Innovative Precast Group will have personal information stored on our servers
due to the fact that we host information and or images of other organisations
or persons. Any information that is submitted to or collected by these organisations
will be physically located on a Innovative Precast Group server. This information,
whether voluntarily provided or not, will not be used or released by Innovative
Precast Group in any manner, and it will be kept strictly confidential, unless
we are required to release the information by law.
3. How Do We Use Personal Information We Have Collected?
3.1
We collect and use your personal information to operate our web site and deliver
our services to you. We will use your personal information to provide you with:
technical support
billing and credit control
sales support
product
upgrades and
information.
3.2 You may stop the delivery of future promotional email from Innovative Precast Group by following the specific instructions in the email you receive. These instructions will tell you how to remove your name from our promotional email list.
3.3 We may use your personal information to:
(a) contact you
in relation to upgrading your use of our services, special offers (from us,
or on behalf of third parties), with newsletters, surveys, and individual service
audits. We may give extracts of our customer lists containing personal information
to third party contractors to do this on our behalf. We will ensure that those
contractors are bound to protect your personal information to the same standard
that we are.
(b) identify the source of new customers to Innovative Precast Group;
(c) monitor and address complaints, other feedback, and to resolve disputes;
(d) in the case of credit cards, to bill you for services;
(e) in the case of ABNs, to verify your identity;
(f) in the case of our partners who are IT professionals, to ascertain your
areas of speciality and to refer prospective customers to you; if you have attended
our Innovative Precast Group presentations or roadshows, we may have a record
of your attendance and areas of special interest;
(g) maintain a technical and account history of your dealings with us, and to
re-establish your account with us where you rejoin as a customer within six
months after having terminated your account;
(h) monitor your compliance with our Acceptable Use Policy and other terms and
conditions of supply;
(i) comply with our reporting and other obligations to third party licensees
(such as reporting to software suppliers the number and identity of software
licenses we have issued as part of our products).
3.4 We will treat all information we collect from you as strictly confidential.Innovative Precast Group does not rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. We will not reveal, disclose, sell, distribute, rent, licence, share or pass onto any third party (other than those who are contracted or supply services to Web and Print Design) any personal information that you may have provided to us unless we have your express consent to do so, other than in the circumstances set out in the next paragraph.
3.5 We will disclose your personal information, without notice or your consent, only if:
(a) we are required
to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to
conform with the laws, applicable code of conduct or legal process served on
us in relation to our business or web site;
(b) to protect and defend the rights or property of Innovative Precast Group;
(c) if we consider it necessary to do so in order to enforce or apply the terms
of any of our agreements with you;
(d) if we sell our business or part of it; and
(e) in extreme circumstances, to protect the personal safety of users of Innovative
Precast Group services, its web site, our staff or the public.
4. Security
4.1 Innovative Precast Group has implemented security features in our database to protect your personal information from unauthorised access. We maintain our servers in a controlled, secured environment. Only staff who need to have access to your personal information in order to perform their job function are authorised to access the database. Constant changes to the Internet and technology mean that we cannot guarantee that data transmission will be 100% secure, or safe from attack by unauthorised intruders.
5. Other Disclosure By You
5.1 You might provide personal information through your participation in chat sessions, message boards, or newsgroups accessed via ipgroup.com.au, or another service provided by Innovative Precast Group. This information is public and immediately available to anyone who has access to such a site; it is not private. Innovative Precast Group urges you to enter only information that you are comfortable to share with the public at large in this public domain. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such information.
5.2 You should never reveal your password to third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose control over your personal information and may be liable for actions taken on your behalf by third parties using your password and/or personal information. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change it.
5.3 If you collect personal information which you keep on servers provided by Innovative Precast Group as part of our service to you (including email), you alone are responsible for compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in respect of that information. We take no responsibility for your dealings with personal information you collect.
6. How To Access & Correct Your Personal Information
6.1 From time to time you may need to update your personal information. We keep this information in a secure environment. In order to amend any of your personal information, please email or phone use with the new information. You may asked your username and password for security.
6.2 If you contact us via telephone, you will need to answer a few security questions before any personal information is revealed or amended.
7. Children and
personal information
At Innovative Precast Group we recognise the importance of protecting children's
privacy. Web and Print Design will endeavour not to collect, use or disclose
personal information about anyone under the age of 18 unless we have the consent
of a parent or legal guardian.
8.Links to other sites
8.1 The Innovative Precast Group site contains links to other sites. In addition, some of the content appearing on the Innovative Precast Group web site may be supplied by third parties, for example, by framing third party web sites or the incorporation through "framesets" of content supplied by third party servers.
8.2 While Innovative Precast Group will always endeavour to engage in business arrangements with commercial entities of good repute and ethical business practices, we are ultimately not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. However, our contractual arrangements with these parties seek to ensure that an equivalent level of privacy protection is afforded to you. We encourage you to read and understand the privacy policies on those web sites prior to providing any information to them.
9. Searches
9.1 Search terms that you enter when using our search engine are collected, but are not associated with any other information that we collect. We use these search terms for the purpose of aggregated statistical analyses so we can ascertain what people are looking for on our web site, and to improve the services that we provide.
9.2 Also, from time to time, we may use external companies to provide us with detailed aggregate statistical analyses of our web site traffic. At no time is any personal information made available to these companies, nor is the aggregate information ever merged with personal information such as your name, address, email address or other information you would consider sensitive or would compromise your privacy.
10. Introduction
- Confidentiality Agreement
10.1 Innovative
Precast Group acknowledges that the information provided by our Clients, and
information divulged to employees/contractors of Innovative Precast Group by
outside parties in the course of business relationships is confidential: therefore,
Innovative Precast Group agrees not to disclose it without the express written
or verbal permission of Client. It is acknowledged by Innovative Precast Group
that information to be furnished is in all respects confidential in nature,
other than information that is in the public domain through other means, and
that any disclosure or use of same by Innovative Precast Group may cause serious
harm or damage to the Client.
10.2 We will treat all information we collect from you as strictly confidential. Innovative Precast Group does not rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. We will not reveal, disclose, sell, distribute, rent, licence, share or pass onto any third party (other than those who are contracted or supply services to Innovative Precast Group) any personal information that you may have provided to us unless we have your express consent to do so, other than in the circumstances set out in the next paragraph.
10.3 We will disclose your personal information, without notice or your consent, only if:
(a) we are required
to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to
conform with the laws, applicable code of conduct or legal process served on
us in relation to our business or web site;
(b) to protect and defend the rights or property of Innovative Precast Group;
(c) if we consider it necessary to do so in order to enforce or apply the terms
of any of our agreements with you;
(d) if we sell our business or part of it; and
(e) in extreme circumstances, to protect the personal safety of users of Innovative
Precast Group services, its web site, our staff or the public.
10.4 Upon request, any information pertaining to the Client is to be immediately returned to Client by Innovative Precast Group.
11. Complaints
11.1 If you have a complaint about any aspect of our Privacy procedures, please contact our Privacy Officer via our website. We will deal promptly with your complaint. If we cannot resolve the complaint to your satisfaction within a reasonable time, you or we may refer the complaint to the Privacy Commissioner.
Further
general information about privacy protection can be obtained from the Office of
the Federal Privacy Commissioner by:
calling their Privacy Hotline on 1300-363-992, or
visiting their web
site at www.privacy.gov.au,
or
by writing to:
The Federal Privacy Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
Sydney NSW 1042