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ConstructionSite.com.au is committed to providing you with the highest levels of customer service. This includes protecting your privacy. ConstructionSite.com.au is bound by the Privacy Act 1988, which sets out a number of principles concerning the protection of your personal information.
Outlined below is information that ConstructionSite.com.au is required to communicate to our customers. We recommend that you keep this information for future reference. This information does not restrict ConstructionSite.com.au’s rights under the Privacy Act in any way.
ConstructionSite.com.au
ConstructionSite.com.au is responsible for industry directories and related print, electronic and online products, as well as a range of advertising, media, content, location and other business services.
Your personal information
Personal information held by ConstructionSite.com.au may include your name, current and previous business addresses, telephone/mobile phone numbers, e-mail addresses, bank account or credit card details, preferences for using our websites, occupation and your ConstructionSite password. We also hold details of your ConstructionSite services, including their status, as well as certain details about your professional interests.
If you choose not to provide us with certain personal information, we may not be able to provide you with the services you require, or the level of service on which we pride ourselves.
Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to ConstructionSite.com.au (eg about your authorised representatives). If so, we rely on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to ConstructionSite.com.au and advise them that we can be contacted for further information (see 'How to contact us' below).
How we collect personal information
ConstructionSite.com.au collects personal information in a number of ways, including:
directly from you, when you provide information by phone, e-mail, or application forms or when you submit information to us through our website;
from third parties including your representatives;
from publicly available sources of information;
from the organisations identified below under "When we disclose your personal information";
from our own records of how you use our services; or
when legally required to do so.
How we use your personal information
Your personal information may be used to:
verify your identity;
assist you to subscribe to our services;
provide the services you require, including directory services, through a number of media;
administer and manage those services, including charging, billing and collecting debts;
make changes to your profile;
respond to any queries or feedback you may have;
inform you of ways the services provided to you could be improved;
conduct appropriate checks for credit-worthiness and for fraud;
research and develop our services;
gain an understanding of your information and communication needs in order for us to provide you with a better service;
maintain and develop our business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems.
Also, your personal information is collected so ConstructionSite.com.au can promote and market its services to you. We do this to keep you informed of our products, services, special offers or products we believe you will find valuable. If you do not want us to promote and market our products, services and special offers to you please e-mail admin@constructionsite.com.au
When we disclose your personal information
In order to deliver the services you require and for the purposes set out above, ConstructionSite.com.au may disclose your personal information to organisations outside ConstructionSite.com.au. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations only in relation to ConstructionSite.com.au and related companies providing services to you. These organisations may carry out:
customer enquiries;
mailing systems;
billing and debt-recovery functions;
information technology services;
marketing, telemarketing and sales services;
market research; and
web site usage analysis.
ConstructionSite.com.au takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information to:
your authorised representatives or legal advisers (when requested by you to do so);
credit-reporting and fraud-checking agencies;
credit providers (for credit-related purposes such as creditworthiness, credit rating, credit provision and financing);
our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers; and
government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law.
Web Sites
ConstructionSite.com.au provides products and services via our web site, ConstructionSite.com.au. When you visit our site, our web servers record anonymous information such as the time, date and URL of the request. This information assists us to improve the structure of our web site and monitor its performance.
ConstructionSite.com.au may use 'cookies' on our site. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our web sites may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for our web site to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience of our web site.
In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. ConstructionSite.com.au extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources. Most Internet browsers are pre-set to accept cookies, however you can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas of our web sites or take advantage of the improved web site experience that cookies offer.
ConstructionSite.com.au also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the Internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. ConstructionSite.com.au collects and manages IP addresses as part of the service of providing Internet session management and for security purposes.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Acts in the course of journalism
ConstructionSite.com.au commits to the Australian Press Council Privacy Standards (available at http://www.presscouncil.org.au/) in relation to material prepared by ConstructionSite.com.au, its employees and its agents in the course of journalism. ConstructionSite.com.au publishes some material that is licensed to it by other organisations. ConstructionSite.com.au will take reasonable steps to ensure that each organisation which supplies it with material for publication has publicly committed to standards for the purpose of section 7B(4)(b) of the Privacy Act 1988. If ConstructionSite.com.au receives a privacy-related complaint relating to any material supplied to it by another organisation, then it will formally request that organisation to deal with the privacy complaint in a fair and efficient manner.
Third party sites
You may click-through to third party sites from our sites in which case we recommend that you refer to the privacy statement of the sites you visit. ConstructionSite.com.au’s collection statement and privacy policy apply to ConstructionSite.com.au only and ConstructionSite.com.au assumes no responsibility for information and content of third party sites.
Help us to ensure we hold accurate information
ConstructionSite.com.au takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That's why we recommend that you:
let us know if there are any errors in your personal information; and
keep us up to date with changes to personal information such as your name or address by contacting us.
How to contact us
If you have any questions in relation to privacy, please contact us between 9.00am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.
Email: admin@constructionsite.com.au.
Further information
Further information on privacy is available at the website of the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner.
Disclaimer
While care has been taken in compiling this website, ConstructionSite.com.au Pty Ltd and its contractors make no representations about the accuracy or suitability of the information or links provided on this web site. The information is provided ‘as is’, without express or implied warranty. You use the information and links at your own risk. You should make your own assessment and evaluation as to the suitability of the information. ConstructionSite.com.au takes no responsibility for the content of Internet sites that link from ConstructionSite.com.au. Except as set out below, ConstructionSite.com.au Pty. Ltd. and its contractors exclude all:
(a) warranties whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, relating in any way to this web site or your use of this web site or the information contained on this site; and
(b) liability (including for negligence) to you or anyone else in respect of any loss or damage (including special, indirect or consequential loss or damage such as loss of revenue, unavailability of systems or loss of data) arising from or in connection with your use of or reliance on the information on or accessed through this web site for any reason whatsoever (including negligence).
Where any statute implies any term into your use of or any arrangement arising out of accessing this web site and that statute prohibits exclusion of that term, then that term is included. If and to the extent permitted by the statute, however, ConstructionSite.com.au and its contractors’ liability for any breach of such term is limited to the resupply of services.
COPYRIGHT
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This site and the information published on the site are copyright © ConstructionSite.com.au Pty Ltd 2006.
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