AusEquipment Privacy Policy

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Last Updated on Monday, 05 October 2009 22:58

This declares the undertakings by AusEquipment in relation to its handling of Your Data.

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Data Collection



AusEquipment undertakes to collect Your Data by means that are:
  • fair;
  • legal; and
  • transparent.
If you visit an AusEquipment web-site, your web-browser automatically discloses, and AusEquipment's web-server automatically logs, the following information: the date and time, the IP address from which you issued the request, the type of browser and operating system you are using, the URL of any page that referred you to the page, the URL you requested, and whether your request was successful. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.

Any additional data that you provide, e.g. in a web-form, may also be logged. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.

Any additional data that your web-browser automatically provides may also be logged. This will be the case, for example, if your browser has previously been requested to store data on your computer in 'cookies' and submits them each time you request a web-page within a particular domain (such as AusPowered.com). This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.

If you disclose personal data to AusEquipment in conjunction with an identifier such as your name or your credit-card details, AusEquipment will collect Your Data. Moreover, any data that becomes available to AusEquipment through any of the means described in the preceding paragraphs may be able to be associated with that identifier, and hence become Your Data.

Subject to the qualifications immediately below, AusEquipment undertakes to collect Your Data from you and not from other parties. This undertaking is qualified as follows:
  • where AusEquipment reasonably considers that the protection of its financial interests requires that it gather Your Data from other sources, or from additional sources. This applies in particular where AusEquipment has a lending exposure to you, and seeks information about your creditworthiness;
  • where AusEquipment reasonably considers that its capability to deliver quality services to you will be materially enhanced by gathering Your Data from other sources. This applies in particular to consumer profile data.
AusEquipment hereby declares that data provided by you to PayPal which is directly related to any financial transactions conducted at this web-site, will be gathered by us and used in full accordance with PayPal's Privacy Policy.

PLEASE NOTE: AusEquipment do not have access to - nor will we seek to have access to - any financial details provided by you to PayPal such as your Credit Card details.
 Where AusEquipment collects Your Data from sources other than you, it undertakes:
  • to do so only by legal means;
  • to do so only with your Consent; and
  • to declare to you what sources it uses, and under what circumstances.
AusEquipment undertakes to declare the purpose of collection in a manner which is clear and meaningful, and to avoid vague, highly inclusive statements such as 'to support our operations'.

Data Security



AusEquipment undertakes to store Your Data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.

AusEquipment undertakes to store Your Data only in jurisdictions where data protections are at least equivalent to those required under the OECD Guidelines.

AusEquipment undertakes to transmit Your Data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.

AusEquipment undertakes to implement appropriate measures to ensure security of Your Data against inappropriate behaviour by AusEquipment's staff-members and contractors. These include:
  • training for staff in relation to privacy;
  • access control, to limit access to Your Data to those staff and contractors who have legitimate reasons to access it;
  • particularly in the case of sensitive data, audit trails of accesses, including the identities of staff and contractors accessing the data;
  • reminders to staff and contractors from time to time about the importance of data privacy, and the consequences of inappropriate behaviour;
  • declaration of appropriately strong sanctions that are to be applied in the event of inappropriate behaviour;
  • clear communication of policies and sanctions; and
  • processes to audit, to investigate and to impose sanctions.

Data Use



Use refers to the application of Your Data by any part of AusEquipment, or any staff-member or contractor of AusEquipment in the course of their work.

AusEquipment undertakes to use Your Data only for:
  • the purposes for which it was collected;
  • such other purposes as are subsequently agreed between AusEquipment and You;
  • such additional purposes as may be required by law. In these circumstances, AusEquipment will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the use has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
  • such additional purposes as are authorised by law (in particular to protect AusEquipment's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfil your undertakings to AusEquipment or have committed a breach of the criminal law).
AusEquipment undertakes to use Your Data only if it has demonstrable relevance to the particular use to which it is being put.

AusEquipment undertakes to use Your Data in such a manner as to take into account the possibility that it is not of sufficient quality for the purpose, e.g. because it is inaccurate, out-of-date, incomplete, or out-of-context.

Data Disclosure



Disclosure refers to making Your Data available to any party other than AusEquipment and You. The term disclosure may include many different conditions of data transfer, including selling, renting, trading, sharing and giving.

AusEquipment undertakes to disclose Your Data only under the following circumstances:
  • in the course of business being conducted between You and AusEquipment, where disclosure is necessary to a contractor, such as a transport company. Where Your Data is disclosed in this way, AusEquipment undertakes to exercise control over AusEquipment's contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
  • in other circumstances that are directly implied by the purpose agreed between You and AusEquipment at the time of data collection or subsequently. Where Your Data is disclosed in this way, AusEquipment undertakes to exercise control over AusEquipment's contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms;
  • with your consent, or at your request;
  • where required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or sub poena. In these circumstances, AusEquipment will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the disclosure has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law;
  • where permitted by law (e.g. the reporting of suspected breach of the criminal law to a law enforcement agency; and in an emergency, where AusEquipment believes on reasonable grounds that the disclosure of Your Data will materially assist in the protection of the life of health of some person), provided that AusEquipment will apply due diligence to ensure that the exercise of the permission is justifiable.
AusEquipment hereby declares that data provided by you to PayPal which is directly related to any financial transactions conducted at this web-site, will be gathered by us and disclosed to TNT Australia Pty Ltd in order to facilitate the delivery of your product. You may download a copy of the TNT Australia Pty Ltd Privacy Policy & Guidelines in PDF format using the link provided.

PLEASE NOTE: The information that AusEquipment will gather and disclose to TNT Australia Pty Ltd DOES NOT include any of your financial information, or any other information that is not absolutely required by that company to ensure the safe and timely delivery of your product.
 In all cases, AusEquipment undertakes to disclose only such of Your Data as is necessary in the particular circumstances.

Data Retention & Destruction



Subject to the qualifications immediately below, AusEquipment undertakes:
  • to retain Your Data only as long as is consistent with its purpose; and
  • to destroy Your Data when its purpose has expired, and to do so in such a manner that Your Data is not subsequently capable of being recovered.
This undertaking is qualified as follows:
  • Your Data may be retained in AusEquipment's logs, backups and audit trails within short-term retention cycles that are devised to protect the company's operations. In such cases, Your Data will be destroyed in accordance with those cycles;
  • Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if that is required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or sub poena, or a warning by a law enforcement agency that delivery of a court order is imminent. In these circumstances, AusEquipment:
    • will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that Your Data is being retained, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
    • will only retain Your Data while that provision is current, and will then destroy Your Data;
  • Your Data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if it is authorised by law (in particular to protect AusEquipment's interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfil your undertakings to AusEquipment or have committed a breach of the criminal law). In these circumstances, AusEquipment will only retain Your Data while that situation is current, and will then destroy Your Data.

Access by You to Your Personal Data



AusEquipment undertakes to provide you with access to Your Data, subject to only such conditions and processes as are reasonable in the circumstances. In particular, AusEquipment undertakes to enable access:
  • conveniently;
  • without unreasonable delay; and
  • without cost.
AusEquipment undertakes to establish and operate identity authentication protections for access to Your Data that are appropriate to its sensitivity, but practical. This may involve some inconvenience; for example, relatively straightforward procedures may be involved in order to provide you with access through a channel that you have previously registered with AusEquipment (such as a particular email-address), but may impose more onerous procedures if you wish to use some other channel.

In the event that you dispute some aspect of Your Data, AusEquipment undertakes to take reasonable steps in relation to the amendment, supplementation or deletion of Your Data.

You undertake:
  • not to seek access for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently;
  • to accept that deletion of some data may not be consistent with the provision of particular services by AusEquipment to you.

Information about Data-Handling Practices



AusEquipment undertakes to make information available to you about the manner in which AusEquipment handles your data:
  • in general terms, in a readily accessible manner; and
  • in more specific terms, on request.
Where Your Data is disclosed to a contractor, AusEquipment undertakes to make information available to you on request about the manner in which AusEquipment's contractors handle your data.

AusEquipment undertakes to ensure that the information provided is meaningful, and addresses your concerns.

You undertake:
  • not to seek such information for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently; and
  • to accept that the disclosure of excessive detail may harm the security of Your Data and AusEquipment's business processes, and may harm AusEquipment's commercial interests.

Handling of Enquiries, General Concerns and Complaints



If you have enquiries, general concerns, or complaints about these Terms, or about AusEquipment's behaviour in relation to these Terms, you undertake:
  • to communicate them in the first instance:
    • to AusEquipment only;
    • in sufficient detail;
    • through a channel made available by AusEquipment for that purpose;
AusEquipment undertakes:
  • to provide one or more channels for communication to AusEquipment, which are convenient to users;
  • to promptly provide acknowledgement of the receipt of communications, including the provision of a copy of the communication, the date and time it was registered, and AusEquipment's reference-code for the communication;
  • to promptly provide a response to the communication, in an appropriate and meaningful manner.
You further undertake to not pursue AusEquipment through any Regulator or the media:
  • until and unless AusEquipment has had a reasonable opportunity to respond to the initial communication; and
  • while AusEquipment and you are conducting a meaningful dialogue about the matter.

Enforcement



AusEquipment declares that its undertakings in these Terms are intended to create legal obligations, and that those obligations are intended to be enforceable under appropriate laws in appropriate jurisdictions. These include laws relating to data protection, privacy, fair trading, corporations and criminal laws.

You undertake to seek enforcement only in a jurisdiction that is relevant to the transactions that have taken place between You and AusEquipment, in particular the jurisdiction in which you live or in which you performed the relevant acts, and the jurisdiction in which AusEquipment is domiciled or performed the relevant acts.

If you wish to discover the relevant laws in any particular jurisdiction, AusEquipment draws your attention to the following resources:

Changes to These Privacy Undertakings



AusEquipment undertakes:
  • not to materially change these Terms in a manner that reduces the protections for Your Data;
  • to take all possible steps to prevent any company that acquires this company or any of its relevant assets from materially changing the Terms applicable to Your Data in a manner that reduces the protections for Your Data;
  • where it is considering making changes to these Terms, or creating more specific Terms relating to specific services, to consult with appropriate representative and advocacy organisations;
  • where it makes changes to these Terms, to ensure that the differences between successive versions are readily accessible;
  • to maintain all prior versions of these Terms in such a manner that they are dated, and readily accessible.

Definitions



Your Data means data that is capable of being associated with you, whether or not it includes an explicit identifier such as your name or customer number. In particular, it encompasses all data that AusEquipment is capable of correlating with you, using such means as server-logs and cookie-contents.

Your Data does not refer to data that can no longer be associated with you. This includes aggregated data that does not and cannot identify the individuals whose data are included in the aggregation.

Consent means your concurrence with an action to be taken by AusEquipment. Consent may be express or implicit, but in either case must be informed and freely-given.

Acknowledgement



Copyright in the Privacy Statement Template is owned by Roger Clarke's company, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd.

Roger Clarke is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of N.S.W., a Visiting Professor in the E-Commerce Programme at the University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University.

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