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Your personal information

Personal information held by Australian Prospect may include your name, username and password used to access Australian Prospect, current and previous addresses, telephone/mobile phone number, and email address. Please note that credit card information is not held on the Australian Prospect database and is verified according to standard financial transactions procedures external to the journal. Australian Prospect does hold your personal information in a number of ways, including: directly from you, when you provide information by phone or in application forms, or when you submit your personal details to us through our web site; from third parties such as kindred not-for-profit organisations, credit reporting agencies or your representatives; from publicly available sources of information.

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; administer and manage those services, including charging, billing and collecting debts; inform you of ways the services provided to you could be improved; 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; and maintain and develop our business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems. In relation to marketing and promotional material sent via email, we will send such material only if you elect to receive it and we will never sell or trade your personal details including your email address to any other organisation.

When we disclose your personal information

In order to deliver the services you require, Australian Prospect may disclose your personal information to a limited number of other organisations. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations only in relation to Australian Prospect services. These organisations carry out our: customer enquiries; mailing operations; billing and debt-recovery functions; information technology services; marketing; market research; and web site usage analysis. Australian Prospect 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 your legal advisers (e.g. when requested by you to do so); credit-reporting and fraud-checking agencies; credit providers (for credit related purposes such as credit-worthiness, credit rating, credit provision and financing); our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers; government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law; and organisations who manage our business and corporate strategies, including those involved in a transfer/sale of all or part of our assets or business (including accounts and trade receivables) and those involved in managing our corporate risk and funding functions (e.g. securitisation).

The Australian Prospect Web Site

Australian Prospect provides information products via our web site. When you visit our site, our web server may 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. Australian Prospect may use 'cookies'. 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 sites to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience of our web sites. In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. Australian Prospect extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources. 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.

Help us to ensure we hold accurate information

Australian Prospect 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 your personal information such as your name or address. If you are a subscriber to one of our online products or services, you may change your personal details by using the relevant facility on our web site.

You can access your personal information

You have a right to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please contact us on 02 4465 1665 or write to us at:

Australian Prospect
PO Box 29
Barrengarry NSW 2577

You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons. Australian Prospect reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for and providing access to your information.

How to contact us

If you have any questions in relation to privacy, please contact us on 02-44-65-1665 between 9.00am and 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.

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