Privacy Policy

Advertise.com.au respects the privacy of users. In this document, we explain how we will use the information you supply us via the Advertise.com.au web site. 

This privacy policy may be modified in the future. If it is, a new policy will be posted on our Web sites, and you will have the opportunity to modify your information on file with us as explained below.

This web site is a product of Einfo™ is a trademark of Einfo Pty Ltd. You may have arrived at this web site by following a link from a Advertise.com.au newspaper affiliate, Advertise.com.au or other affiliate, in which case that affiliate will be clearly identified at the top of the home page of this Web site. Please be aware that this web site may have been customized by Advertise.com.au for the affiliate. Advertise.com.au may share your information (as described below in the section titled “With whom do we share the information we collect?”). During your visit to this Web site, the affiliate may independently collect other information from you of which we make no representation to control the information that was collected by the affiliate.

The policy that follows is only applicable to Advertise.com.au information collection, use and disclosure practices. For information on the policy applicable to the affiliate’s information collection, use and disclosure practices, please review the privacy statement on the affiliate’s web site that you visited in order to arrive at Advertise.com.au.

Please note that this web site contains links to other web sites. Advertise.com.au and its affiliates are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of any web sites to which this site may link.

What personal information do we collect?

Visiting: You are not required to provide personally identifiable information to visit the Advertise.com.au site. We do however, collect usage data, postcodes and other information on all users, but it is not personally identifiable except as described below under the section IP Addresses (Below).

Registration, Service Requests and Web Forms: You may be asked to provide personal information in order to use certain services on Advertise.com.au which will be apparent from the forms you may be required to complete. When you sign up to join Advertise.com.au as a registered user, contact a dealer, use one of our other interactive services or enter a contest, we may request specific information about you, including your name, age, address and phone number, as well as demographic and vehicle information.

To sign up to join Advertise.com.au as a registered user, use one of our other interactive services or enter a contest, you must be 18 years of age or older and agree to the Terms and Conditions of the web site.

Premium Services: Visitors 18 years of age or older may use an order form to request optional services at some parts of Advertise.com.au. We may collect your credit card information to bill you for these optional services. All other areas of our Web site are free and may be used by visitors 18 years of age or older without a fee.

Cookies: Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by our computers (or servers) to identify your computer. Cookies are read only by the server that placed them there and are unable to execute any code or virus. We use cookies to recognize you when you visit our Web site, to personalize your experience and generally to serve you better. For example, if you enter your name, address or postcode on one of our forms, it may be stored in a cookie so you do not have to enter it again. Cookies also can tell us what advertising you have seen on our site, which allows us to offer you a more diverse selection of advertising information. Cookies also may compile data about our visitors that may be shared with other companies, such as an outside advertising company. However, no personally identifiable information stored in cookies will be shared with outside companies for any purpose without your permission. You can disable cookies or otherwise manage them through tools provided with your browser software and with third-party software packages. If you turn off cookies, many Advertise.com.au features will not work as well or at all.

IP Addresses: Advertise.com.au compiles IP addresses — the location of your computer on the Internet — for administrative and analytical purposes. Advertise.com.au does not routinely collect any personally identifiable information through its compilation of your IP address or the location of your computer on the Internet. However, in cases of suspected abuse or service problems, we may use an IP address in conjunction with other personally identifiable information to enforce our terms of service and to protect or troubleshoot the service, the site, its users or others who may be affected. No personally identifiable information associated with IP addresses will be shared with third parties for marketing purposes without your permission.

How do we use the information we collect?

Site Interaction: The information you provide when you register with Advertise.com.au or fill out other forms on our site may be stored on our servers or, in some cases, in a cookie on your computer. This information will be used to compile aggregate data that is not personally identifiable and may be used internally or shared with third parties. This information also may be used to confirm and fulfil a request you are making, to follow up on that request and to communicate with you about the Advertise.com.au service. The messages that Advertise.com.au sends for these purposes may incidentally include promotional material or other content from Advertise.com.au or its partners. In the case of these messages, we are not sharing your personally identifiable information with third parties, nor will we continue to send you promotional messages if you ask us not to, as described below in the section titled  “Accessing Changing or Deactivating information Collected by Advertise.com.au.”

Direct Promotion: Using the contact information provided by registrants 18 years of age or older, including e-mail addresses, Advertise.com.au, its affiliates or third parties to whom Advertise.com.au discloses such information in accordance with this privacy policy (including its partners or advertisers) may periodically send you promotional or informational messages. In any case where we might use your contact information for this purpose, you will be able to indicate at registration whether you wish to receive such promotional or informational messages. However, by providing us your personal contact information when you register or request specific services, you agree that Advertise.com.au may contact you regarding account status, changes to this privacy policy or other terms of service, and to confirm, fulfil and follow up on your registration, service or information request.

Visitor Behavior: Advertise.com.au may perform statistical analyses of user behaviour in order to measure interest in the various areas of our Web site, for development purposes, and to inform advertisers and partners about consumers who click on their advertising or other messages. In these analyses, we will disclose information to third parties only in aggregate form, except as specified below. We also may use personally identifiable information to improve your experience while you are visiting our Web site. This might include pre-filling your personal information into web forms so that you do not have to retype it or presenting you with editorial and advertising content that may be of interest.

With whom do we share the information we collect?

Advertise.com.au will share personally identifiable information with third parties in the following cases:

• With affiliated newspapers, Einfo™ is a trademark of Einfo Pty Ltd, Advertise Ltd, DirectoryAustralia.com and other affiliates for whom we provide web sites. Certain affiliates have web pages that are branded with both their trademarks and ours.
• You may visit us through a co-branded page of such a site, for example, a Advertise.com.au page that is co-branded with a Newspaper’s web site. If you entered the Advertise.com.au web site through a site maintained by one of these affiliates, then your personally identifiable information may be shared with that affiliate on the condition that the affiliate’s use of the information is consistent with this privacy policy.
• As is necessary for third parties to provide information or perform services specifically requested by you. For example, if you request a vehicle price quote from a dealership through our service, we will share the information you entered with that dealership. Similarly, if through Advertise.com.au you request additional information from a car manufacturer or financial institution, we will share your information with those companies. Personally identifiable information also may be included in reports to these third parties, but only when you have already submitted the information to the third party as described above. After the information is provided to such third parties, Advertise.com.au does not and cannot control their subsequent use or disclosure of information by affiliates.
• For direct marketing purposes, but only if you have authorized Advertise.com.au to do so and only if you are 18 years of age or older. Although Advertise.com.au will notify all third-party direct marketers that the information provided to them is confidential, Advertise.com.au does not and cannot control their subsequent use or disclosure of information.
• To perform analytical and other services as an agent of Advertise.com.au. In some cases, we may work with third parties that do analysis and development on our behalf. We may share your personally identifiable information with such a third party on the condition that the third party maintains the information as confidential and uses the information only to perform the services specified by Advertise.com.au.

Message Boards

Advertise.com.au may at any time offer message boards, or forums, on some of its web sites for use by visitors who are 18 years of age or older. Any information you disclose when posting a message in these forums becomes public. Moreover, registrants who post a message in our forums make their e-mail addresses available to others through a feature of our software, which could result in unsolicited e-mail from third parties.

E-mail a Friend

Advertise.com.au sometimes offers you the ability to send an e-mail to a friend or other third party. E-mail a Friend functionality is for informational purposes only and may not be used for any unlawful purpose. This includes all harassment or threats. Advertise.com.au expressly reserves the right to release information you provide through use of this functionality (including but not limited to e-mail addresses, names and IP addresses) to third parties in any case of suspected abuse or other problems, in order to enforce our terms of service and to protect or troubleshoot the service, the site, its users or others who may be affected. Information collected under the “E-mail a Friend” functionality is otherwise subject to the same limitations of use, access, security and disclosure described elsewhere in this privacy policy.

How do we handle changes to your information or to this policy?
Notification of Changes: Any changes to this policy will be posted on our Web site in this location. If those changes affect how we use your personally identifiable information, we will contact you at the e-mail address in our records to notify you of the change before it takes effect in regard to your information. You can then either agree to the changes, modify your personally identifiable information or deactivate your user record.

Accessing, Changing or Deactivating Information Collected by Advertise.com.au: If you wish to access, verify the accuracy of, change or deactivate your personal information on file with Advertise.com.au; change your permissions regarding use of personally identifiable information for direct promotion purposes by Advertise.com.au or its partners (including affiliates and third parties identified in this policy); or deactivate your Advertise.com.au membership, you can use the account area interface.

Deactivation of User Information: If you deactivate your user information, your account information will no longer be used by Advertise.com.au or made available to third parties except in an aggregate form or as required by law.

Security

Your personal information is one of our most valuable assets. It is kept physically secure in our data centres and is accessible only to authorized personnel as needed to perform operations governed by this policy. In addition, when we collect credit card or other highly sensitive information from you, such as a Social Security number, we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, the industry standard for ensuring privacy in Web transactions.

Children's Guidelines

We believe that it is especially important to protect children’s privacy online. We encourage parents to get involved with their children’s online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating. Note: We define “children” as minors younger than 13 years old. We do not knowingly collect or use any personally identifiable information from children, and we do not provide any personally identifiable information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our visitors younger than 13 years old. We do not knowingly allow children to register with us or to participate in any of our promotions or contests. No information should be submitted to or posted at Advertise.com.au by visitors younger than 13 years old. In the event that Advertise.com.au obtains information from an individual who indicates that he/she is younger than 13 years old, Advertise.com.au will promptly discard the personally identifiable information without collecting, using or disclosing such information to any third party. You should be aware that if your child voluntarily discloses his or her name, e-mail address or other information on any Web site, such disclosures might result in unsolicited messages.

Does this privacy statement extend to links to other sites?

This site contains links to other sites. While we encourage our business partners to adopt privacy policies that build users’ trust and confidence in the Internet, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of Web sites linked to any of our sites. We may allow third parties to sponsor promotions and sweepstakes through our site. The use of any personal information provided to such a third party will be governed by that party’s privacy policy.

Collection of Information by Third Parties

Advertise.com.au uses a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Web site. This company may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our site and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we share Web site usage information about visitors to our sites with this company for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements on our Web site and other Web sites. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages you visit on our Web site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs or single-pixel gifs). In the course of serving advertisements to this Web site, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your computer. If you would like more information about the information collection practices of this third-party advertising company and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, www.advertise.com.au

For more information, or for an information kit, please contact an Advertise Limited e-consultant on 02 6884 4638 or email solutions@advertise.com.au