Designphase Australia Pty Ltd ("designphase australia") is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. We've structured our web site so that, in general, you can visit designphase australia on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your customer relationship with designphase australia. This statement regarding the privacy of the personally identifiable information you provide online covers the five foundation principles of fair information: Awareness, Choice, Accuracy and Access, Security, and Oversight.

Awareness

designphase australia provides this Online Privacy Statement to make you aware of our privacy policy, practices and of the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and from the bottom of every designphaseaustralia.com.au web page.

What we collect

In some areas of the designphase australia web site you may be able to order products or services, make requests, or register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are name, contact and billing information, transaction, and sometimes credit card information. In order to tailor our subsequent communications to you and continuously improve our products and services, we may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experience with our products or services, and more detailed contact preferences. Some designphaseaustralia.com.au web pages use cookies, a data analysis technique.

How we use it

designphase australia uses your information to better understand your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, we may use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on service and benefits, and to personalise our web site for you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment processing and are not retained for other purposes. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research or to provide you with marketing information we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such direct marketing or market research contact. We will also follow local requirements, such as allowing you to opt in before receiving unsolicited contact, where applicable.

Who we share it with

designphase australia will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other designphase australia entities and/or business partners who are acting on our behalf for the uses described in how we use it ". Such designphase australia entities and/or business partners, including those in Australia and/or any other countries, are governed by our privacy policies with respect to the use of this data and are bound by the appropriate confidentiality agreements.

Choice

designphase australia will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first letting you know and offering you a choice. As previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct marketing materials from us and we will do everything we can to honour such requests. Local country laws and policies are applied where they differ from those in Australia. Your permission is always secured first, should we ever share your information with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed by our privacy policy.

Accuracy and Access

designphase australia strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. We will provide you with access to your information if requested. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections. Links to third party web sites on the site are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the designphase australia site. designphase australia has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their privacy policy. Thus, designphase australia does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so at your own risk.

Security

designphase australia is committed to ensuring the security of your information. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.

Oversight

If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, please contact us.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a piece of text asking permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. If you agree, then your browser adds the text in a small file. The purpose of a cookie is to help us analyse web traffic or let us know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow a web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. For example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easy to shop by allowing you to drop things into a shopping cart; the cart itself is not the cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your cart versus others' in use at the same time. designphase australia sometimes uses traffic log cookies to identify what pages are being used and which ones aren't. This helps us aggregate and analyse data about web page traffic and make improvements to designphaseaustralia.com.au web sites to better meet customer needs. In this case, designphase australia uses this information only for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. The designphaseaustralia.com.au website may use temporary cookies as part of the customer web navigation experience, tracking unique IDs for that particular web site session only. Examples are product registration sites. This cookie, by itself, only tells us that a previous designphaseaustralia.com.au visitor has returned. If you deny the cookie, you can still use the site anonymously. Overall, cookies help us give you a better web site to use, by letting us monitor what's working and what isn't through site traffic analysis. designphase australia wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. This practice is strictly enforced. We know that a lot of people have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our customers, we believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. We value the relationships we have with our customers, so we respect these concerns. designphase australia works to continuously improve the designphaseaustralia.com.au web experience and personal data privacy policy and practices. You may set your web browser to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely. You can delete the files that contains cookies; those files are stored as part of your internet browser.