Privacy Policy

About this Policy

This web site is owned and operated by Demographic Mapping Online Pty Ltd (DMAP) and will be referred to as “We”, “our” and “us” in this Privacy Policy.

We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to this web site and web sites operated by us (“our web sites”), in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual’s (“personal information”). This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through our web sites, will be dealt with.

By using our web sites, you agree to the Privacy Policy of our web sites, which is set out on this web site page. The Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may directly supply to us or through your conduct on our web sites.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time, subject to applicable privacy laws in Australia. This Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to our web sites. We do not make any representations about third party web sites that may be linked to our web sites.

This Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes. We welcome your comments and feedback.

1. Personal Information

Personal information about visitors to our web sites is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted. For example, we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or enquiries. It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.

2. Use of Information

Personal information that visitors submit to us directly or through our web sites is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose, unless we disclose other uses in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from or to our web sites, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes.

3. Disclosure

Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.

We may engage third parties to provide goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.

4. Security

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to us directly or through our web sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

However, we will endeavour to take reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit via our offline and online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also endeavour to ensure its security on our systems.

In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.

5. Website Activity

Cookies
Our web sites uses Cookies to customise the web site to your needs. Cookies are data that a web site transfers to an individual’s web browser. Cookies, which are industry standard and are used by most web sites, including those operated by us, can facilitate a user’s ongoing access to and use of a site. If you do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the Cookie feature. But you should note that Cookies may be necessary to provide you with some features of our on-line services. In addition, to help improve our products and services, we collect de-identified information from web users, including IP addresses.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is used to monitor site usage and to compile reports on site activity. Information on your site activity, such as your IP address, when the site was accessed, how the site was arrived at, web pages accessed, information on your browser and computer operating system, etc is transmitted to and stored by Google on their servers which may reside outside of Australia. By using our web sites you consent to the transmission of your site activity to Google as described in Google’s Privacy Policy which can be viewed at the following web location http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You may opt out of Google Analytics by using the opt-out service provided by Google which can be accessed from the following web location https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. Access to Information

We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us to have the information corrected.

7. Links to other sites

We provide links to Web sites outside of our web sites, as well as to third party Web sites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that Web site and its privacy statement.

8. Problems or questions

If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our web sites, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us. For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s web site at http://www.oaic.gov.au/