Privacy policy

Maintaining your privacy

Essential Media Communications Pty Ltd (EMC) owns and operates this site. We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our commitment to maintaining the privacy and accuracy of your personal information. We take all reasonable precautions to ensure the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate and current. However, the accuracy of that information depends largely on the information you provide.

Collecting Personal Information

EMC collects aggregated, non-personal statistical information on site visitors such as:

your server’s address;
your top level domain name;
the date and time of your visit to the site;
the pages you accessed and the documents downloaded;
the duration of your visit to the site;
the previous site you have visited;
and the type of web browser you are using.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information sent to your browser to authenticate, track, and maintain specific information about your interactions with a site. EMC uses cookies to remember who you are when you log-in, to tracking your browsing patterns and to customise and improve our site. The type of information we collect depends on what information and services you access and use. We may also uses cookies for anonymous profiling purposes to tailor advertising to your preferences. You may opt-out of this anonymous profiling by contacting us. You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies, although this may prevent access to or limit some of our information.

Using Personal Information

EMC does not use or disclose your personal information for a purpose other than that for which it was collected, unless such use or disclosure would be reasonably expected or you give us your consent.

Unless you contact us to indicate otherwise, you consent to your personal information being used to:

contact you for any purpose related to information contained on the site;
verify your identity; market products, services and special offers to you;
assist you to subscribe to any newsletter or other promotions we offer or may in the future offer and to manage and administer those services;
make changes to your profile;
respond to any queries or feedback you may have;
inform you of ways the information or services provided to you could be improved;
research and develop our services; maintain and develop our business systems;
and gain a better understanding of your information service requirements.

Disclosing Personal Information

We may use third-party advertising companies (such as DoubleClick and Accipiter) to serve ads on our web site. These companies may use information (not personal or contact details) about your visits to this web site to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Links to third party sites

Securing your personal information

EMC may contain links to third party sites. These linked sites are not under our control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and do not know whether cookies or other tracking devices are used on linked sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of each site you visit before disclosing your personal information. EMC may contain links to third party sites. These linked sites are not under our control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites and do not know whether cookies or other tracking devices are used on linked sites. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of each site you visit before disclosing your personal information.

Privacy changes

To keep this information current and accurate, EMC will review and update this Privacy Policy and post the changes here.

Contact us

Please contact us to find out more about our procedures and policies in relation to the collection, use, disclosure, storage and handling of personal information. If at any time you wish to know what information we are holding about you, think we may hold information about you which is incorrect / out of date, you request we delete your personal information, or you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us here