Privacy Policy

 

Your privacy is important to us. Freshwater Ecology Pty Ltd is committed to providing the highest levels of privacy protection. This Internet Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through the web site, will be dealt with. This Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes.

 

Information collected

 

Personal information about visitors to our 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.

 

In the course of providing our services, we collect personal information in a variety of ways. Information is collected when you:

• ask to be placed on one of our mailing lists,

• make an enquiry about our services,

• visit our web site, or

• become a client or debtor of the company.

 

Our website uses Google Analytics as our web monitoring service provider. Further information about how Google collects and uses information gathered over the web is available from their website www.google.com.au/analytics

 

If you visit the website to read, browse or download information, our computer system will record information about the visit such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, the previous site you visited, your server’s IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages accessed and any information downloaded. We only use this information for statistical, reporting and website administration and maintenance purposes.

 

How your personal information is used

 

Personal information that visitors submit to our sites is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection. Copies of correspondence sent from the web site, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only. You should be aware that we may use your email address to contact you in the future. We will not sell or pass on your details to third parties.

 

We may sometimes use the personal information we collect for a secondary purpose, that is, for use in a way different from the original reason for collection. We will only do this in the following circumstances:

• where you have consented,

• where the secondary purpose is directly related to the primary purpose, and you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose the information in such a way, or

• where we are permitted or required by law, or

• it is in the interests of public safety to do so.

 

Links to third party websites

 

This Internet Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this web site. However, the Freshwater Ecology Pty Ltd website may contain links to third party websites  owned or operated by our service providers. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions about the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of information contained in linked external websites.

 

Links to external websites do not constitute an endorsement or a recommendation of any material on those sites or of any third party products or services offered by, from or through those sites. Users of links provided by this website are responsible for being aware of which organisation is hosting the website they visit.

 

Correcting information

 

You can request that information about you be corrected or deleted. This is part of our commitment to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

 

Security

 

We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our site. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts 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.