Privacy Statement
This policy was last updated on October 1st 2006.
Thank you for visiting australia.edu. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by australia.edu.
Since the protection of your privacy is of the greatest importance to us, we have created this privacy policy to communicate our practices regarding the collection and dissemination of personal information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as a name, address, gender, phone number, email address, or any other information provided to us by australia.edu members and email subscribers.
How we use the information
You do not have to share personal information to use australia.edu. australia.edu does not collect personal information about people without their permission. The information we gather from subscribers to our email registrations, email newsletters (including email addresses) is not shared with other organisations or third parties without your permission. australia.edu is extremely protective of the information gathered through its online membership and email subscriptions. From time to time we may send out emails on behalf of like-minded organisations, but we do not provide them with access to any personal information that you have provided.
How we protect your information
Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our web server is located in a locked, secure environment. All databases containing personal information are securely stored on a separate system that is not connected to the Internet. When you contribute to australia.edu online, we use a secure server to protect all your personal information during transmission.
How we collate and use information
We gather email contact information by means of the following methods; email name registrations, the online newsletter subscription form, australia.edu competitions, events and exhibitions and via the australia.edu Forums. Newsletters are sent out to opt in subscribers only. To subscribe to any australia.edu newsletters please click here. In order to provide you with improved, relevant content, we compile information about email response and website usage. This information helps us to better understand our members' and email subscribers site usage patterns and also what types of content and information may help improve your user experience on australia.edu.
To improve our online services australia.edu periodically performs statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of various areas on our website and to use such information to improve on our website's ability to serve you better.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors.
We care about your privacy. We will not sell your name or email address to any third party advertisers without your permission. Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
How you receive bulletins and emails from australia.edu
You will only receive email bulletins andnewsletters from australia.edu if you have expressly signed up for an email account, newsletter on australia.edu or one of our associate sites. You signed up to receive newsletters via one of our competitions or at an event or exhibition. We use "HTML-sensing" to detect whether your email service provider supports HTML-based emails or TEXT only emails. If you have any questions or would like to change the format you currently receive please email the code "Newsletter Question" or "Change Email Format" written in the subject line to newsletters@australia.edu.
How we track HTML newsletters
We make use of both "open-tracking" and "click-tracking" in our HTML newsletters (i.e. emails that contain text and images). Open-tracking allows us to find out how many people have viewed our email newsletters and click-tracking allows us to find out which links in the newsletter were clicked on. This helps us to refine and improve the editorial content of our newsletters, and to provide you with relevant information.
How to unsubscribe from the mailing list
All australia.edu communication, whether via email name registration, newsletter subscription, forums, provides information on how to unsubscribe quickly and easily. All emails sent out contain a link to unsubscribe or to modify your profile. You may update, subscribe or unsubscribe to any newsletter or email communication at any time.
To opt out of receiving communications from australia.edu please click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email newsletter. This link enables you to either update your email subscription or to unsubscribe from all email subscriptions. Alternatively, send an email with the words " unsubscribe" in the subject line to newsletters@australia.edu.
We use this information to send you targeted email newsletters on your areas of interest specified on the sign up page. We also provide opportunities to gain free membership to australia.edu via the australia.edu Forum and to take part in a number of our online competitions.
Privacy in email newsletters
In personal email communications, there has always been, and always should be, an expectation of privacy between the sender and the intended recipients of a message, enabling open communication.
The use of Cookies
To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalise your experience at australia.edu (e.g. to recognise you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on australia.edu. We also may use cookies to offer you products of potential interest in emails.
Our Commitment to security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Privacy notice updates
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about the australia.edu email policy please contact us with the code "Newsletter Question" in the subject line to newsletters@australia.edu
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