Your privacy and the security of your personal information are very important to
us. We want you to be as comfortable as possible visiting our Website and using
our Online Products. We are dedicated to protecting the privacy of those who visit
our Website and use our Online Products. This Privacy Policy governs the website
operated by us (our "Website") and explains how we collect your personal information
on our Website, how we protect such information, and the choices you have concerning
the use of such information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Website
is in accordance with the Privacy Laws applied in Australia only. Except as disclosed
in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell, share, license, trade, or rent your personal
information to others. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "we", "us", and "our"
means Techmark Software Pty Ltd (ABN 50 088 440 224) trading as Techmark Software
Pty Ltd (“Techmark Software”, “Business Systems Manager” and “BusinessSystemsManager.com”).
For our international users, please be aware that the information you submit when
registering for our services is collected in Australia. In addition to being subject
to our privacy policy, the collection, storage, and use of your data will be subject
to Australian laws and regulations, which may be different from the laws and regulations
of your home country. By registering for this service, you are consenting to this
collection, storage, and use.
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to
this Privacy Policy here so that you may know what information we gather, how we
might use that information, and whether we will disclose that information to anyone.
Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. By using our Website
or any of our products, offerings, features, tools or resources that we provide
on our Website (collectively, our "Online Products"), you agree to the terms of
this Privacy Policy.
Please remember that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by
our Website and Online Products. We are not responsible for the privacy practices
of third parties or third party websites, even if those other websites are accessed
from this Website.
The following are links to the provisions of our Privacy Policy, which you should
read as a whole. For immediate access to a particular topic in this Privacy Policy,
click on that provision title below.
We collect two types of information: personally identifiable information and non-personally
identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Information
Personally identifiable information is information from which your identity is apparent
or can reasonably be ascertained and includes personal information under applicable
Australian privacy laws ("Personally Identifiable Information"). Such Personally
Identifiable Information may include your name, address, email address, telephone
number and billing and credit card information. We may request Personally Identifiable
Information from you when you register on our Website or in connection with Online
Products we may make available on our Website from time to time. In all of these
cases, we will collect Personally Identifiable Information from you only if you
voluntarily submit such information to us. Unless you give us permission to do so,
we will not sell, share, license, trade or rent your Personally Identifiable Information
other than as specified in this Privacy Policy.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
When you become a community user of our Website, or in connection with Online Products
we may make available on our Website from time to time, we also may collect information
that by itself cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information
(like age, profession or gender) ("Non-Personally Identifiable Information"). Non-Personally
Identifiable Information may also include user IP addresses, browser types, domain
names, and anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Website. Non-Personally
Identifiable Information is used to help us understand who uses our Website and
to improve and market our Website in general and our Online Products in particular.
Information from Other Sources
We may also supplement the information we collect with information from other sources
to assist us in evaluating and improving our Website and Online Products, to determine
your preferences so that we can tailor our Website and Online Products to your needs.
You do not have to provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information to visit
our Website.
This website is operated by Techmark Software Pty Ltd. When you provide us with
your Personally Identifiable Information, this information may be collected, stored
and processed on servers located outside of Australia.
We may collect information (including information that is Personally Identifiable
Information) from you in different manners and at different places and times on
our Website, such as when you become a community user on our Website. We also may
collect information from you in connection with, or through, other Online Products
we may make available on our Website from time to time. The following is a description
of the areas and/or manners in which we primarily collect information about you.
Becoming a Community User.
To access certain Online Products on our Website, such as our web-based software,
you must first complete certain steps to become a Community user. During these steps,
you may be required to provide us with information (including Personally Identifiable
Information) such as name and email address. This information is used to help us
understand who uses our Website, to improve our Website and our Online Products
and/or to contact users about requested Online Products.
Cookies and Action Tags.
We also collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information passively using "cookies"
and "action tags".
"Cookies" are small text files that are placed on your computer to identify your
Web browser and the activities of your computer on our Website and other websites.
Cookies are used to personalise your experience on our Website (such as dynamically
generating content on webpages specifically designed for you), to assist you in
using our Online Products (such as saving time by not having to reenter your name
upon each visit to our Website), and to allow us to statistically monitor how you
are using our Website to help us improve our online offerings. We also may use cookies
to target certain advertisements to your browser which may be of interest to you
or to determine the popularity of certain content.
In addition to cookies that we place on your computer, cookies may also be placed
on your computer by third parties that we use to display or serve advertisements
on our Website or to collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information for advertising-related
services. In the course of serving advertisements on this Website, a third party
advertiser may place or recognise a unique "cookie" on your browser. Neither these
third parties nor their cookies collect Personally Identifiable Information on our
Website, and we do not share Personally Identifiable Information with them without
your permission.
You do not have to accept cookies to use our Website. Although most browsers are
initially set to accept cookies, you may reset your browser to notify you when you
receive a cookie or to reject cookies generally. Most browsers offer instructions
on how to do so in the "Help" section of the toolbar. While you are not required
to accept our cookies to access our Website, if you reject cookies, certain products,
offerings, features, or resources of our Website (including certain Online Products)
may not work properly and you may experience some loss of convenience.
"Action tags," also known as web beacons or gif tags, are a web technology used
to help track website usage information, such as how many times a specific page
has been viewed. Action tags are invisible to you, and any portion of our Website,
including advertisements, or email sent on our behalf, may contain action tags.
We may select and use from time to time different third parties to track website
usage through action tags on our Website and on our advertisements on other websites.
By using cookies and action tags together, we are able to gain valuable information
to improve our Website and our Online Products and measure the effectiveness of
our advertising and marketing campaigns. We do not disclose any of your Personally
Identifiable Information to our advertising partners.
Finally, please note that advertisers and other third parties may also use their
own cookies or action tags when you click on their advertisement or link to their
website or service, on or from our Website. This Privacy Policy does not govern
the use by such third party websites or providers of third party advertising.
Online Products.
We collect information, some of which may be Personally Identifiable Information,
that you voluntarily provide to us when you choose to use some of our Online Products.
We also collect information that you provide voluntarily through responses to special
Online Products such as surveys, questionnaires, self-assessment quizzes, contests
and the like. We collect this information in order to personalise your online experience.
Public Forums.
We feature public forums (such as our blog) where you and other users of our Website
can communicate with one another. You should be aware that any information shared
in a public forum such as a chat room, Message Board or bulletin board is public
information and may be seen or collected by third parties that do not adhere to
our Privacy Policy. You should think carefully before disclosing any information
in any public forum on our Website. If you do disclose any Personally Identifiable
Information in such a context, you consent to such collection by third parties and
release and indemnify us in respect of all collection, use and disclosure of the
Personally Identifiable Information by any third party.
Log Files.
We also collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information through our Internet log
files, which record data such as user IP addresses, browser types, domain names,
and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our Website. This information
may be used to analyse trends, to administer the Website, to monitor our Website's
use, and to gather general demographic information. We may link this information
to Personally Identifiable Information for these and other purposes such as personalising
your experience on our Website and evaluating our Online Products in general.
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our Website is not designed
for or directed to children. Our Website is directed to individuals who are 18 years
and older and is for use by such individuals only. We do not collect Personally
Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 18.
We urge all parents or guardians to participate in their children's exploration
of the Internet and to teach their children about protecting their personal information
while online.
In general, we use the information collected on our Website to help us understand
who uses our Website and how it is used, to personalise your online experience,
to assist you in using our Online Products, and to improve our Website.
If you become a Community user of our Website, we may use your information to send
you a welcoming email that may confirm your user name and password. In addition,
if you identify yourself to us by sending us an email with questions or comments,
we may use your information (including Personally Identifiable Information) to respond
to your questions or comments, and we may file your questions or comments for future
reference. We may also use the information to send you regular email correspondence
regarding our Online Products and in general, you will be able to unsubscribe from
these emails. We may also use the information collected to send you important service
announcements and updates regarding our Website or Online Products. You will not
be able to unsubscribe from these service announcements and updates as they contain
important information relevant to your use of our Website and/or our Online Products.
We may also use the information gathered on our Website to perform statistical analysis
of user behaviour to evaluate and improve our Online Products. We may link some
of this information to Personally Identifiable Information for internal purposes
only.
Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you,
we will not disclose any information we gather from you on our Website.
Affiliates
We may disclose information (including Personally Identifiable Information) about
you to our Affiliates within the United States, Australia, New Zealand or elsewhere.
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Affiliates" means any person or entity which
directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control of
Techmark Software Pty Ltd, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating
to you that we provide to our Affiliates will be treated by those Affiliates in
accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Laws and Legal Rights.
We may also disclose your information (including Personally Identifiable Information)
if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in order to comply with
an applicable statute, regulation, rule or law, a subpoena, a search warrant, a
court or regulatory order, or other valid legal process. We may disclose Personally
Identifiable Information in special circumstances when we have reason to believe
that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal
action against someone who may be violating our
Terms & Conditions, or to protect the safety and/or security
of our users, our Website or the general public.
Third Parties Generally.
We may provide to third parties information about you that does not allow you to
be identified or contacted, including where such information is combined with similar
information of other users of our Website. For example, we might inform third parties
regarding the number of unique users who visit our Website, the demographic breakdown
of our Community users of our Website, or the activities that visitors to our Website
engage in while on our Website. The third parties to which we may provide this information
may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including
website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers
and other similar parties.
Outside Contractors.
We may employ independent contractors, vendors and suppliers (collectively, "Outside
Contractors") to provide specific services and products related to our Website,
such as hosting and maintaining our chat rooms, providing credit card processing
and fraud screening, and developing applications for our Website and e-mail services.
These Outside Contractors may sometimes have limited access to information collected
on our Website, including your Personally Identifiable Information, in the course
of providing products or services to us. Access to your Personally Identifiable
Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary
in order for the Outside Contractors to perform their limited function for us. We
also require that these contractors (i) protect the privacy of your Personally Identifiable
Information consistent with this Privacy Policy, and (ii) not use or disclose your
Personally Identifiable Information for any purpose other than providing us with
products or services for which we contracted.
Third Party Sellers.
In addition, through our Website, you may be given the opportunity to purchase (or
to obtain more information regarding) certain content, products or services which
are sold through a person or company other than us or our Affiliates (collectively,
"Third Party Sellers"). We will attempt to make it clear to you when you are dealing
with a Third Party Seller by opening a new browser or otherwise notifying you that
you are leaving our Website. For example, if you see a phrase such as "powered by"
or "brought to you by" followed by the name of a person or company other than BusinessSystemsManager.com,
then you are likely on, or about to enter, a website hosted or operated by a person
or company other than us. Third Party Sellers may request that you submit certain
information to them in order to purchase their products or services or to obtain
additional information from them. You do not need to submit this information or
purchase any products or services from Third Party Sellers to access our Website.
By submitting the requested information, you affirmatively consent to have that
information collected by the Third Party Seller. This information is used by the
Third Party Seller and may be subject to a different privacy policy. We do not otherwise
share or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to Third Party Sellers.
Sale of Business.
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personally Identifiable
Information) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other transfer of
all or substantially all of the assets of Techmark Software Pty Ltd, provided that
the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Our Website contains links to other websites not owned or operated by Techmark Software
Pty Ltd (for example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement, you will likely
be taken off our Website). We will attempt to make it obvious to you when you leave
our Website and enter these websites by opening a new browser or otherwise notifying
you that you are leaving our Website. However, please be aware that we are not responsible
for the privacy practices of such websites. We encourage you to be aware when our
Website links to other websites and to read the privacy policies or statements of
each and every website. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected
by our Website and Online Products.
We want your information (including Personally Identifiable Information) to remain
as secure as reasonably possible. We strive to provide secure transmission of your
information from your computer to our servers through industry-standard techniques.
To help ensure the integrity and privacy of the Personally Identifiable Information
you provide to us via the Internet at the time you elect to become a community user,
we use Secured Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology in transmitting such Personally
Identifiable Information over the Internet to our servers. We secure the Personally
Identifiable Information you provide on servers located in controlled, secure environments,
protected from unauthorized access, use, or alteration. Only employees who need
access to your information to perform a specific task or function are granted access
to such information. In addition, all Techmark Software Pty Ltd employees must abide
by this Privacy Policy and are kept up-to-date on security practices. Any employee
who violates this Privacy Policy is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including
termination.
Notwithstanding the above commitments to protect your information (including Personally
Identifiable Information) from loss, misuse or alteration by third parties, you
should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information
over the Internet. There is also some risk that others could find a way to thwart
our security systems. As a result, while we strive to protect your information,
we cannot ensure or warrant the security and privacy of any information you transmit
to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will only use Personally
Identifiable Information for the purposes described above or as otherwise disclosed
at the time we request such information from you. You must "opt-in" and give us
permission to use your Personally Identifiable Information for any other purpose.
If you opt-in to receiving any communication, you may change your preference and
"opt-out" of receiving such communications by unsubscribing your email address from
the home page of
www.businesssystemsmanager.com,
following the directions provided in association with the communication, or by contacting
our Privacy Coordinator at the address set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Users of our Website are notified when Personally Identifiable Information is being
collected by third parties on our Website. We do this so you can make an informed
choice as to whether you should disclose information to a third party.
You can always contact us in order to (1) access your Personally Identifiable Information,
(2) update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information, (3) change your
preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from
us, or (4) delete the Personally Identifiable Information maintained about you on
our systems, by contacting our Privacy Coordinator at the address set out at the
end of this Privacy Policy. Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will
not have an effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we
have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such
update, correction, change or deletion.
You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every
record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back-up
our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your
Personally Identifiable Information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be
difficult or impossible for us to locate. We promise that promptly after receiving
your request, all Personally Identifiable Information stored in databases we actively
use and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted,
as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practicable.
If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on our Website
so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use Personally
Identifiable Information in a manner significantly different from that stated in
this Privacy Policy, or otherwise disclosed to you at the time it was collected,
we will notify you by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we
use your Personally Identifiable Information in the new manner. We may also make
non-significant changes to our Privacy Policy that generally will not affect our
use of your Personally Identifiable Information. If you do not agree to the terms
of this Privacy Policy, you should not use our Website.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or feel that we are not abiding
by the terms of our posted Privacy Policy, please contact our Privacy Coordinator
in any of the following ways:
Email our Privacy Coordinator at:
Privacy@BusinessSystemsManager.com
Or, write to our Privacy Coordinator at:
Attn: Privacy Coordinator - Australia
BusinessSystemsManager.com
7 Mellifont Street
Banyo Queensland 4014
Australia
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(Last modified 4 October, 2006)