Introduction
The GLOBALARK Corporation ABN 112 923 323 respects and is
committed to protect the privacy of our customers and other
people who we deal with in our business. We are bound by the
National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. This
Privacy Statement outlines how and when personal information is
collected and managed by GLOBALARK and how we provide for
verification and correction.
Customers
If
you are a GLOBALARK customer we will have personal information
about you for the main purpose of ensuring your record keeping
practises remain compliant. This will include your name, addresses
and phone numbers. We have secure systems to keep this
information. We collect certain information to help identify you
and to assist in keeping your information secure. We may obtain
banking, credit card, email or other details as part of making
business with us easier for you.
GLOBALARK
is committed to keeping your personal information secure and
confidential. We have technology and procedures to control and
limit access to your information. Most customer information is
stored in computer databases owned and operated by GLOBALARK which
are subject to restricted access and other typical computer
systems security arrangements. If you cease to be a customer your
records will remain securely stored.
GLOBALARK
may if necessary disclose your personal information for reasons of
law enforcement, regulatory, safety and public wellbeing.
GLOBALARK may exchange personal information with credit reference
agencies when establishing your account and where an account is in
default. GLOBALARK seeks to resolve customer service and payment
problems through a range of avenues including ombudsmen and issues
resolution schemes, liaison with community and government agencies
and communication through interpreting services or other
representatives of customers. Where this might involve your
personal information you will generally be aware of the
involvement of these other parties.
GLOBALARK
provides its service to you with the assistance of related
companies, contractors, agents and suppliers. We may need to
provide these parties with some of your personal information
(typically, your name, address and contact details).
GLOBALARK
takes its obligation to protect your information seriously and we
make every effort to deal only with ethical suppliers who share
and demonstrate respect for your privacy. If we need to give a
contractor access to personal information we will require that it
be kept secure and be used for the appropriate purpose.
Examples
of contractors and suppliers or other types of parties who may,
subject to confidentiality and strict control of use, have access
to personal information include computer systems support,
marketing and business advisers, auditors and individual
contractors who assist in our business from time to time.
GLOBALARK
aims to provide our customers with a full range of options to meet
their record keeping and compliance related needs. If you want
your name and contact details removed from our contact list,
please contact
us.
If
you have any queries on how we deal with your personal information
or you want to inspect our records of your personal information
see Access and correction below.
Visiting
our web sites
If
you provide personal information to us via our web sites it will
be treated with the same attention to your privacy as other forms
of communication. GLOBALARK’s web sites do not provide systems
for secure transmission across the internet, except where
indicated. Users should be aware that there are inherent risks in
transmitting information across the internet.
Cookies
If
you use any of GLOBALARK's web site locations, we may use a
feature of your browser called a cookie. A cookie is small file
generated by our web site and stored locally on your computer.
Cookies are in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our web site.
We
use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies in order to
recognise your web site preferences. For the session ID cookie,
the cookie simply terminates once you close the browser. A
persistent cookie is a small text file stored locally on your
computer for an extended period of time. For persistent cookies,
the cookie times out after 7 days. Persistent cookies can be
removed by following internet browser help file directions.
By
setting a cookie on our site, you would not have to select your
state each time you navigate to a new page as well as fill in your
details on our enquiry and competition entry forms, thereby saving
time while on our site. If you reject the cookie, you may still
use our site. The only drawback to this is that you will be
limited in some areas of our site. For example, you will need to
select your state each time you enter a section of the site that
is state-specific. Persistent cookies enable us to track and
target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site.
Cookies,
by themselves, cannot be used to find out your identity or the
identities of any of our users, they only identify your computer
to our servers when you visit our site.
Site
auditing and log files
We
use various tools to analyse log files to summarise customer
usage. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser
type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages,
platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyse
trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the
aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
We
analyse our web site logs to understand what parts of our web site
visitors use most, so that we can look to improving our web site
and make it a more useful experience. Our web site logs are not
personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with
the individuals that actually browse the site.
Newsletters
and email subscriptions
If
you wish to subscribe to any of our newsletters, subscriptions or
promotional communications, we ask for contact information such as
name and email address. If you no longer wish to receive our
newsletters, subscriptions or promotional communications, you may
opt-out of receiving these communications at any time by replying
to the email and replacing the subject line with the word
UNSUBSCRIBE, or email us at news@globalark.net.
Other
information collection and distribution
GLOBALARK
sometimes collects other personal information in the course of its
business. This occurs in such circumstances as: investor contact
lists - potential investors and others interested in the Company
can register to receive information; business contact information
- contact details we collect and store regarding people we do
business with; marketing contact lists –
GLOBALARK
will comply with the National Privacy Principles in respect of
this personal information including notifying people that we have
collected information, the purpose of the collection and how they
can contact us about it.
Access
and correction
Key
personal information concerning you such as your name, contact
details and bank or other payment details are subject to your
routine review on your account. If any information is incorrect
you should advise us by calling the number on the relevant
correspondence.
GLOBALARK
is also committed to providing you with access to your personal
information in accordance with the National Privacy Principles.
Generally, we will be able to show you all the personal
information we hold regarding you. In some circumstances there may
be legal or commercial constraints to disclosing some information
and, as anticipated in the National Privacy Principles, we may
withhold information or subject its review to special processes.
To
seek formal access to your personal information please contact
us.
A
basic enquiry about your customer details will be at no cost.
However, where your enquiry involves a more extensive search
of our records a fee may be payable to cover our costs in
collating information and arranging access.
In
many cases we will deal with your enquiry on the telephone. If it
is more involved, we will aim to provide you with access to the
information within 15 working days. If your enquiry requires
additional searching this time may be extended.
If
we have information which you want to inspect in person, we will
normally provide you with access at a location as convenient as
possible to you. To inspect the information we will require you to
show photo identification, such as a driver's licence. This is for
your security.
We
will consider any recommendation by you to change or correct
information and advise you of the action taken.
Variations
to this Privacy Statement
GLOBALARK
Corporation may from time to time update this Privacy Statement.
The current version is accessible through GLOBALARK's web site or
can be obtained by contacting us.
Version
1.03 1/6/2005
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