education.au

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain how we may collect personal information about you, and how we might use, disclose and handle that personal information.

1. Personal Information Collected when you use this Site
2. Publishing Personal Information
3. Access to the Personal Information we Collect
4. Security of your Personal Information
5. Changes to this Privacy Statement
6. How to Contact us

Personal Information Collected when you use this Site

The Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 defines Personal Information to be "information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion."

There are various ways in which we may collect personal information.

Clickstream Data and Cookies

When you visit this Site our server makes a record of your visit and logs the following Personal Information:

• Your server address;
  
• Your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .net, .edu, etc);
• The time and date of your visit to the Site;
• The pages and documents you have accessed or viewed; and
• The type of browser you are using.

This Site also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the Site analyse how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google Inc on servers in the United States.

Google Inc uses this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Site, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google Inc may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google Inc's behalf. Google Inc will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google Inc.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Site.

By using this Site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google Inc in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Emails and Electronic Forms

The Personal Information collected by education.au when you send us an email, will include your email address and may also include some of your Personal Information. In all cases and at all times, this Personal Information will only be used for the stated purpose for which it was provided.

education.au records your email address and Personal Information in the following cases:

• When you subscribe to SixtySeconds and 3C, the education.au limited newsletters
• When you use inform@educationau.edu.au, education.au's email address to contact us.

This Personal Information will not be disclosed to a third party, without your express consent.

Publication of your Personal Information

We will only publish Personal Information on this website if it has been collected for this purpose with your knowledge, or if you have otherwise consented to the disclosure.

When giving such consent you should be aware that Personal Information published on this website is accessible by multiplte users from all over the world, that it will be indexed by search engines and that it may be copied and used by any web user. This means that, once the Personal Information is published on this website, we will have no control over its subsequent use and disclosure.

All Personal Information collected by education.au limited is protected by the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 and any subsequent Federal legislation. Information on the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 can be found on the Federal Privacy Commissioner's website http://www.privacy.gov.au/.

Access to the Personal Information we Collect

If you wish to know what, if any, Personal Information we hold about you, or wish to correct any Personal Information we may hold about you, you may access and correct such Personal Information at any time by contacting us using the contact information provided below.

Security of your Personal Information

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information (including personal information) we hold in our servers is not subject to loss, misuse or unauthorised access or alteration. We will destroy or permanently remove your personal information upon your request. 

This Site does not, however, provide facilities for the secure transmission of information across the Internet. (For activities that require secure transmission over the Internet we use a third party provider. For example registrations and payments for our conferences and seminars are managed via a secure third party gateway.) You should be aware that there are inherent risks associated with the transmission of Personal Information via the Internet.

If you do not wish to use the Internet to transmit personal information you can mail or phone us. Details are provided under 'How to Contact Us'.

You should also note that if you link to a non-education.au limited web page, a different privacy and security statement is likely to apply.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

Changes may be made to this Privacy Statement from time to time. We recommend that you check this Statement every time you visit our Site.

How to Contact us

We want to develop a long and trusted relationship with you. If at any time you have any questions regarding this privacy statement please contact us at:

education.au limited
182 Fullarton Road
Dulwich
South Australia 5065
Phone: +61 8 8334 3210
Fax: +61 8 8334 3211
Email: inform@educationau.edu.au