Privacy Statement Ross Hunt
About This Privacy Statement
This policy sets out how Ross Hunt P/L generally handles your privacy and also applies to this web site which is operated by Ross Hunt P/L ( “Ross Hunt P/L” ) under the domain name “www.rosshunt.com.au” ( “Ross Hunt P/L Web Site.
This Privacy Statement may also apply to services offered by Ross Hunt P/L on Web Sites hosted by third parties. If so, express reference to this Privacy Statement will be made on those web sites.
Ross Hunt P/L understands and appreciates that you, as Ross Hunt P/L web site visitor, are concerned about your privacy and about the confidentiality and security of information we may gain about you online. Ross Hunt P/L is committed to protecting your privacy. This Ross Hunt P/L Privacy Statement explains how your personal information will be treated as you access and interact with the Ross Hunt P/L web site.
As the Ross Hunt P/L web site develops and as technology evolves, Ross- Hunt P/L will continue to strive to provide you with better and more customised services and with a more effective Web Site. Ross Hunt P/L encourages you to review the Ross Hunt P/L Privacy Statement periodically because the Privacy Statement may change from time to time.
In addition to the provisions of this Privacy Statement, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions which apply to certain sections of the Ross Hunt P/L web site. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, you should review them wherever they are accessible to you on the Ross Hunt P/L web site. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Privacy Statement and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.
Security of Information
Ross Hunt P/L takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance with the Ross Hunt P/L web site Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted). If secure transmission is indicated, Ross Hunt P/L currently uses 128 bit SSL encryption.
Ross Hunt P/L regularly reviews developments in encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although Ross Hunt P/L strives to protect such information, Ross Hunt P/L cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.
Information Collected
The information that we will collect about you will depend on how you use the facilities offered by the Ross Hunt P/L web site.
If you visit an unsecured area of the Ross Hunt P/L web site, (that is, an area where you are not required to log on) to read, browse or download information, our system will record the date and time of your visit to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. However, our systems will not record any personally identifiable information.
If you decide to complete an online form, the information that you enter into the online form will only be collected by us if you submit your online application. If at any stage you cancel your application or log out prior to submitting your application, the information you have entered up to that point will be automatically deleted.
The Ross Hunt P/L web site also contains links to the web sites of third party providers of goods and services (“Third Party Web Sites” ). If you have accessed Third Party Web Sites through the Ross Hunt-P/L web site and if those third parties collect information about you, Ross Hunt P/L may also collect or have access to that information as part of our arrangements with those third parties.
Third Party Web Sites should contain their own privacy statements and those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.
Cookies
We use “cookies” as a fundamental part of our interaction with your Internet browser. The purpose is to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective Web Site.
A “cookie” is a small text file placed on your computer by our web page server. A cookie can later be retrieved by our WebPages servers. Cookies are frequently used on Web Sites and you can choose if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring your preferences and options in your browser.
Ross Hunt P/L use cookies for two different purposes. We allocate a cookie to each Internet browser that visits the Ross Hunt P/L Web Site. This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you. We use this cookie:
to allocate a Ross Hunt P/L identification number to your Internet browser (but we cannot identify you from this number);
to determine if you have previously visited the Ross Hunt P/L web site;
to identify pages you have accessed and Third Party Web Sites you have accessed; and
for security purposes.
Most of the Ross Hunt P/L web site operates by using this type of cookie.
Accordingly, if you wish to make full use of the Ross Hunt-P/L Web Site, it is required that you accept cookies.
Ross Hunt P/L also uses cookies for secure services (that is, an area where you are required to log on) on the Ross Hunt P/L web site. These cookies are used for a variety of purposes, including for personalisation reasons. If your browser is configured to reject all cookies you will be unable to use secure services on the Ross Hunt P/L web site that require cookies in order to participate.
You may still be able to use some information-only pages even if you do not accept cookies.
Tracking
We collect information on how you utilise the Ross Hunt P/L website. We use a third party service (“Tracking Company”) that uses “cookies” to collect information such as:
the server your computer is logged onto;
your browser type; and
the date and time of your visit,
to collect information on how you utilise the Ross Hunt P/L website.
The Tracking Company uses that information to perform statistical analyses of aggregate user behaviour, but those analyses are not based on personal information. Ross Hunt P/L uses those analyses to measure advertising effectiveness and relative consumer interest in the various areas of the Ross Hunt P/L web site. As a general rule, no personal information is collected by the Tracking Company in this process. If, however, any personal information is incorporated in information that the Tracking Company automatically collects, the Company is required under its arrangements with us to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of that personal information.
We may disclose the information collected by the company, in an aggregate form only, to third parties including advertisers or potential advertisers.
How We Handle Email
We will preserve the content of any e-mail that you send us, if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Your e-mail message content may be monitored by our Ross Hunt P/L employees for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected; our response to you may be monitored for quality assurance issues.
Acceptance and Changes to this Privacy Statement
You acknowledge and accept that your use of the Ross Hunt P/L Web Site indicates your acceptance of the Ross Hunt P/L Web Site Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement.
This is the current Privacy Statement. It replaces any other Privacy Statement for the Ross Hunt P/L web site published on the Ross Hunt P/L web site to date. Ross Hunt P/L may at any time vary the Privacy Statement by publishing the varied Privacy Statement on the Ross Hunt P/L Web Site. You accept that by doing this, Ross Hunt P/L has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.